Thanks for Buying

First of all, thank you for buying this theme. To make your experience pleasant, we've added as much info as needed in this documentation. If you're stuck with anything, please refer to support forums.

There are two methods to install the theme. If the normal installation method (a) is not supported by your web host, you will have to use the alternate option (b).

a. Normal Installation

  1. Log into your WordPress admin panel and go to Appearance » Themes
  2. Click the Add New button at the top.
  3. Click the Upload Theme button at the top.
  4. Click the Choose File button and navigate to the location of the theme zip file.
  5. Click Install Now to begin the installation.
  6. Wait for the success message, then click Activate.

b. FTP Installation (alternate method)

  1. Unzip the theme zip file.
  2. Using an FTP client to access your host web server. Go to /wp-content/themes/ and place the theme folder inside it.
  3. Log in to your WordPress admin panel and go to Appearance » Themes
  4. Locate the theme thumbnail and click the Activate link.

WordPress child theme allows you change the functionality of the theme without having to edit the original/parent theme template files. If you plan to making any customization, we recommend to create a child theme instead of editing the theme template files. Since the child theme is stored separately, you don't need to redo the changes next time you upgrade the theme.

Creating a Child Theme

There's a plugin you can use that will create a child theme from within the WordPress dashboard: http://wordpress.org/plugins/child-theme-configurator/ or you can download Shopy blank child theme.

Download it here.

More About Child Theme

You can read more about Child theme on WordPress Codex →

If you use this theme for existing website, we recommended you to install Force Regenerate Thumbnails plugin to fix the image sizes. Every theme has different image dimensions, so this is important step to do.

How To Use It?

  1. After you install it, go to Tools > Forge Regenerate Thumbnails
  2. Click the Regenerate All Thumbnails button
  3. The process depends on how many images on your website. If you only have 10-30 images then process only takes a few minues.
  4. After the process done, you can deactivate and delete the plugin.

There are several plugins we recommended you to install. Some of this plugins will extend the theme so you'll get the maximum feature in this theme.

Recommended Plugins

  • WooCommerce

    Adds a store functionality to your website.

  • WooCommerce Grid / List toggle

    Adds a grid or list views to your store.

  • WooCommerce Product Image Flipper

    Adds a product images flip effect.

  • YITH WooCommerce Wishlist

    Adds a wishlist button and custom page to manage it.

  • Polylang

    Adds a multi language functionality to your website.

  • TJ Shortcodes

    If you need some custom content like columns, button or tabbed content, please install this plugin.

  • TJ Custom CSS

    If you need to add custom styles to your website, you can use this plugin.

How to Install the Plugins

  1. Log into your Dashboard page.
  2. Go to Appearance » Install Plugins.
  3. Click install link below the plugin you want to install.

All of our themes include a language file to make translating to a different language easy. Inside the theme folder /wp-content/themes/themename/languages, you'll find a language file named themename.pot. Or in this theme file named leda.pot

Configure WordPress

Before translating the theme, you'll need to make sure WordPress is setup correctly with your locale. Open wp-config.php and modify the line below.

 
/**
* WordPress Localized Language, defaults to English.
*
* Change this to localize WordPress. A corresponding MO file for the chosen
* language must be installed to wp-content/languages. For example, install
* de_DE.mo to wp-content/languages and set WPLANG to "de_DE" to enable German
* language support.
*/
define("WPLANG", "");

Translating the Theme

  1. Download and install Poedit.
  2. Open leda.pot in Poedit. Translate as needed.
  3. Save the file with the locale. For example, if you translate the theme to German language then you would save your files as de_DE.po.
  4. Copy both these files(de_DE.po and de_DE.mo) under the languages folder of leda.

You should make sure, you are happy with the image sizes setting, the image above are the default settings. If you happy with it, do not forget to regenerate your thumbnails size. Please follow this guide.

How to Change the setting

  1. Log into your Dashboard page.
  2. Go to Settings » Media

To make sure your product image fit with the theme layout, please change the WooCommerce image size like the image above.

How to Change the setting

  1. Log into your Dashboard page.
  2. Go to WooCommerce » Settings
  3. Click the Product tab.
  4. Click the Display link.

Creating front-page is important part, because Shopy front-page is widgets based which means you can customize the front-page using widgets. We proview 3 custom widgets to customize the front-page.

1. Create Front-page

  1. Assuming you're at new page screen (Pages > Add New)
  2. Add the title with Home Page or anything.
  3. Under Page Attributes switch the Template to Front Page Template
  4. Click publish button

2. Setting Up Front-page

Once you created a page for your front-page, follow these next steps:

  1. Go to Settings > Reading.
  2. Choose "A static page" option for Front page displays.
  3. Next to Front Page, select the page you created to be used as the front-page.
  4. Save Changes.

3. Front-page Widgets

Please take a look at the picture above, you can ONLY use them, only 3 widgets like the picture above and please use them on Front Page Sidebar . You can add any widgets actually, but we are not guarantee your website will not broken.

Our theme options are powered by WordPress Customizer. WordPress Customizer is a new and exciting feature that combines theme options with the ability to live preview those changes before saving them!

How To Access it?

  • Select Appearance
  • Then Click Customize
  • We provide a lot of options for you to customize your website easily and with live preview!

In the General panel you can setup some options such as:

  • Change your default RSS feed url to something like feedburner.
  • Hide a comment on all pages.
  • Add a payment method picture.
  • Customize the footer text.

This customizer is one of the coolest feature of this theme. You can change the colors to almost all sections of the theme!

We package Leda with Google Fonts option, you can easily change the font family of the text content and the heading (h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6).

Content layout is set of options to customize the content of your site it contains following options:

  • Add custom slider
  • Add custom banner
  • Add spotlight area
  • Posts customization
  • Page customization

You can setup the post or page layout when add or edit the post or page. There are 3 types layout you can choose:

Layouts Type

  1. Full Width layout : Display the content in a full width mode or without sidebar.
  2. Left Sidebar layout : Display the content with sidebar on the left.
  3. Right Sidebar layout : Display the content with sidebar on the right.

Per Page/Post Basis Layout

  1. Assuming you're at the new post or page screen (Posts > Add New) or (Pages > Add New)
  2. After you create the post or page, scroll down and find Layout meta box.
  3. Choose the layout.

You can use these shortcodes by installing our Shortcodes plugin which available for free! You can see the shortcodes in action here.

  1. Please download on http://wordpress.org/plugins/theme-junkie-shortcodes/
  2. Or you can go to Appearance » Install Plugins. Click install under Theme Junkie Shortcodes.
  3. Then go to the post or page editing screen.
  4. You should see Add Shortcode button(see image below) beside the Add Media button.
  5. Click on it, then you will see a selectbox to choose the shortcodes you wish to use.
  6. Finally, click the Insert Shortcode button.