Hardware Store Pro

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Template Installation

The template installation process is very simple. The installation process can be done in two different ways.

1- By wordpress admin

Open Your wordpress dashboard.

1. open Appearance - Themes as shown in the screesnhot below.

2. Now click the "Add New" button.

3. Now click on the upload button.

4. Load the theme file hardware-store-pro_1.0.zip (Version may vary) and proceed with the installation.

5. Now WordPress will install your theme and show you the message to "Activate" the theme.

2-Via FTP

Login to your FTP and upload the the theme folder at wp-content - themes.

As soon you activate the theme you will navigate to the Theme Setup Wizard page.

Demo Importer

To get the demo content exactly like we have shown on our demo page, checkout the below steps.

Open Theme Setup Wizard present under Apparance menu.

Click on the "Start Now". It will list all the plugins required for this plugin under "More Info". You can check it by clicking on more info.

Click on the "Install Plugins". It will install all the required plugins

Then Click on the "Import Demo". It will import the demo exactly like we have shown on our live demo page.

Once you have done with this you can see all the demo content on front page.

Customize Demo

Now start customizing your site as per your requirement. open Appearance - Customize - Theme Settings

Customize Demo

Section Reordering and Typography

Global theme and color and typography will help you to to change the color and font in a single click.

Each section contains option to set the Content, Title/Text, Text, Buttons and Background Matte palettes to the linked section depending on the number of options available.

Global Color

Global color will change colors for the entire theme. Open Appearance - Customize - Theme Settings - Typography. Scroll to bottom you will see two options for color, choose both options then only it will appear on frontend as it is gradient color.

Section Reordering

Move the section according to your requirement. Check screenshot below.

Setup "Header"

Open "Header" present under "Theme Settings". Update the top bar text.

open Appearance - Customize - Site Identity and add your logo.

Header menu will be updated from the "Menus" available under the Appearance navigation in dashboard panel. Check below image for menu update.

On / OFF settings are there for the search, cart, user account, and wishlist.

Setup "Slider"

Open "Slider Settings" present under the "Theme Settings" panel in customizer. Here you can see the "Number of slides to show" settings. Which you can increase or decrease as per your needs.

Scroll to the bottom and update slide image, heading, text and button title and url.

Setup "Categories"

Checkout the below steps to change the "Categories" content

Open Categories from the Theme Settings panel in customizer.

Background color and images will be updated by "Background Color" and "Background Images" settings. Update section heading and text.

Update section heading.

These are the woocommerce categories. Open "categories" available in the dashobard navigation panel. All the demo "categories" are created.

Open one of them and update its title, slug, and image. We have shown for one do the same for others.

Scroll to the bottom you will see all the color options related to that section.

Setup "Featured Products"

Checkout the below steps to change the "Featured Products" content

Open Featured Products from the Theme Settings panel in customizer.

Background color and images will be updated by "Background Color" and "Background Images" settings. Update section heading and text.

Update section heading ant text. Increase or decrease the number of products to show in this section. You can also set the product category for the selected product.

Now open "Products" available in the dashobard navigation panel. All the demo "products" is created. As we have set the " Tape Measure" category for this section so we are editing product of those category.

Open one of them and update its title, text prices and image. We have shown for one do the same for others.

Scroll to the bottom you will see all the color options related to that section.

Setup "Latest Products"

Checkout the below steps to change the "Latest Products" content

Open Latest Products from the Theme Settings panel in customizer.

Background color and images will be updated by "Background Color" and "Background Images" settings. Update section heading and text.

Update section heading ant text. Increase or decrease the number of products to show in this section. You can also set the product category for the selected product.

Now open "Products" available in the dashobard navigation panel. All the demo "products" is created. As we have set the " Ladders" category for this section so we are editing product of those category.

Open one of them and update its title, text prices and image. We have shown for one do the same for others.

Scroll to the bottom you will see all the color options related to that section.

Setup "Offer Banner"

Checkout the below steps to change the "Offer Banner" content

Open Offer Banner from the Theme Settings panel in customizer.

Background color and images will be updated by "Background Color" and "Background Images" settings. Update section heading and text.

Update, title, text and button text along with its url.

Update the image showing on the right column.

Scroll to the bottom you will see all the color options related to that section.

Setup "Testimonials"

Checkout the below steps to change the "Testimonials" content

Open "Testimonials" from the Theme Settings panel in customizer.

Background color and images will be updated by "Background Color" and "Background Images" settings. Update section heading and text.

Update section tagline, heading. Increase or decrease the number of testimonials to show in this section. Update the image that is showing on the left column.

Now open "Testimonials" available in the dashobard navigation panel. All the demo "Testimonials" is created.

Open one of them and update its title, text and image and designation along with the review text.

Scroll to the bottom you will see all the color options related to that section.

Setup "Instagram Feed"

Checkout the below steps to change the "Instagram Feed" content

Open Instagram Feed from the Theme Settings panel in customizer.

When you run the demo importer an "Smash Balloon Instagram Feed". You will need to connect your instagram account here. After that create a feed and add the shortcode here in the customizer instagram feed section. You can learn more about this plugin on there documentation.

Footer

Open Footer present under theme settings pannel

Increase or decrease number of footer section or footer columns. Update column size for all the four boxes. You can inscrease the boxes too.

Inorder to change the footer widget content. Open Appearance -> Widgets. There are four footer columns created. Open it one by one and update its data. For the navigation menues first you need to create the menu from Appearance -> Menus then from here "Navigation Menu block will show your respective menu."

Update footer column 1.

Update footer column 2.

Update footer column 3.

Update footer column 4.

Update footer column 5.

Copyright

Open Copyright present under theme settings pannel

Update Copyright Text.

Setup Contact Page

Open Contact present under theme settings pannel

Update email, address, phone number from here.

Update fom tagline, title and the form shortcode from here.

Now open Dashboard - Contact. Contact Page form already exist. Open it and edit as per your needs. Copy the shortcode and paste it into the shortcode field at the customizer contact us section.

Update map longitude and latitude.

Page Banner

If you want to change the default page banner then open "General Settings" present under theme settings pannel scroll to the bottom and check the settings specified in below screenshot. When you chnage the image then it will change the banner of all the pages.

But if you would like add different banner to each pages then you need to add the banner indivisualy to each page. Edit the page for example. we are editing contact page, on the bottom right side column you will see the setting of page banner. Upload the image from here.

Blog Page Settings

This section contains all the settings related to blog. To access this open General Settings

Single Post Page

This section contains all the settings related to single post page. To access this open Appearance - Customize - Theme Settings - Single Post Page

Single Post Page

This section contains all the genearl settings. To access this open General Settings.

404 Page Settings

This section contains 404 page settings. To access this open 404 Page Settings

Theme Layout Settings

This section contains full and boxed layout settings. To access this open Theme Layout Settings

Responsive Settings

Here you can disable the sticky menu from the mobile or tablet view. Also you can set the width of mobile menu sidebar. To access this open Responsive Settings