- First Steps
- Demo Data
- Plugins
- Menu
- Pages
- Widgets
- Theme Options
- Shortcode
- SEO
- Update our theme
- Support

- ## First Steps

- Get Started

  First, thank you for purchasing our theme!

  This guide provides instructions for installation, help on getting started and extensive documentation of features. It is recommended you read it thoroughly to fully leverage the Botheme theme's capabilities. Please also make sure to check out our Video Tutorials as they explain everything covered in here in greater depth. We hope you enjoy building with Botheme as much as we enjoyed developing it and continue to develop with new features!

- Server requirements

  Server requirements is one of the key factors for WordPress and Botheme theme, it is highly recommended to use a server which supports the following requirements. We explain about WordPress, Botheme, WooCommerce server requirements.

  ### WordPress requirements

  WordPress recommends following server settings.

  Setting | Description
  --- | ---
  PHP | Version 7 or greater.
  MySQL | Version 5.6 or greater.
  MariaDB | Version 10.0 or greater. Only required if you are not using MySQL.
  HTTPS | Supported by the server.

  ### Botheme requirements

  We recommends following server settings for Our WordPress Theme:

  Setting | Description
  --- | ---
  PHP | Version 5.6 or greater.
  MySQL | Version 5.6 or greater
  mod_rewrite | The Apache module needs to be activated for pretty permalinks.
  GD Library | The library needs to be installed for Captcha and Image cropping.
  cURL | Supported by the server.
  OpenSSL | Supported by the server.
  allow_url_fopen | Supported by the server.
  post_max_size | 32 MB or greater
  upload_max_filesize | 32 MB or greater
  memory_limit | 128 MB or greater
  max_execution_time | 120s or greater
  max_input_vars | The minimum value is 4000 but the recommended is 6000.

  ### WooCommerce requirements

  Botheme support WooCommerce officially so it is best to make sure your server also supports this plugin requirements if you are going to set up a shop.To learn about the plugin server requirements, read the official article.

- Installing WordPress

  WordPress is well-known for its ease of installation. Under most circumstances, installing WordPress is a very simple process and takes less that five minutes to complete.

  Before beginning the installation and configuring of your new theme, you must first have WordPress already installed on a server.

  If you are struggling, here is a very detailed guide at Wordpress Codex that will walk you through every step.

  If you prefer something more visual, you can watch this video tutorial on how to install Wordpress by us

  (Please note the video shown is from our NUVO Restaurant theme, but the same process applies)

- Installing The Theme

  Once you have setup a copy of WordPress, there are two ways you can go about installing the theme:

  - 1. FTP Upload

    Unzip the download and upload the theme directory /Botheme/ into your WordPress themes directory /wp-content/themes/.

  - 2. WordPress Upload

    This is definitely the easier route for most. Simply navigate to Appearance > Add New Themes > Upload. Click the 'browse' button and locate the still zipped theme folder. The theme will be uploaded and installed in a matter of seconds.

    Here is our video tutorial to help you through the process

    (Please note the video shown is from our NUVO Restaurant theme, but the same process applies)

  After you have installed the theme successfully, you can optionally import the supplied dummy data in order to get a feel for things. If you're interested in importing the data, please check the Demo Data section below.

- Installing plugins required

  Once you have installed and activated our theme you will be prompted to install required and recommended plugins. Just click the link to Begin installing plugins.

  Next, check boxes to select all the plugins you want to install, select the bulk action of install from the dropdown box and then click the button to apply.

  Select the plugins you had installed, and then apply the bulk action to activate them.

  Finally, you will got a confirmation notice that your plugins were activeded.

- ## Demo Data

- One-click Importer

  To help you set up website with the least efforts, we include in the theme package dummy content file. After installing it, all content seen on the live demo will be imported except for images/videos.

  There are two methods you can use, one is using our One-click Importer, the other is Importing manually. To go with the former option, please follow the steps below:

  1. Go to Install Demo on the Tools menu.

  2. The Install Demo section will show for you.

  3. Just click Install the demo you want and wait for the process to complete.

  To be perfect, you should make sure all of photos available.

  Go to Regen Thumbnails on the Tools menu.

  You just click on Regenerate All Thumbnail button and wait until the update is complete all photos.

  Now you have a website just like our demo.

- Manual Importing

  To imprort demo content by yourself, please follow some steps below:

  Install and Active Widget Importer & Exporter plugin.

  You need to extra theme package file. And then:

  ### Step-1: Import Taxonomies

  1. Go to Tools on the CPT UI menu

  2. You shoud be able to find it following the path botheme > inc > demo-data > botheme > taxonomies.json.

  3. You can copy all content in file taxonomies.json and paste in here like image below:

  ### Step-2: Import post-type

  1. Go to Post Types tab.

  2. Copy all content in file post-type.json in the path botheme > inc > demo-data > botheme > post-type.json and paste in here like image below.

  ### Step-3: Import XML

  1. Go to Tools > Import.

  2. You need upload two file:

  Select Wordpress system then browse for the .xml file. You shoud be able to find it following the path botheme > inc > demo-data > botheme > content > attachment-data.xml

  And botheme > inc > demo-data > botheme > content > content-data.xml

  3. Choose a WXR (.xml) file to upload, then click Upload file and import.

  4. You will then have the choice to import attachments, so click on the "Download and import file attachments" box.

  5. Click Submit.

  Repeat the steps with content-data.xml file.

  ### Step-4: Import Slider

  1. Go to Slider Revolution.

  2. Import slider.

  3. You shoud be able to find it following the path botheme > inc > demo-data > botheme > revslider > home1.zip. You need upload all slider inside revslider file.

  ### Step-5: Import Options

  1. Go to Botheme > Import / Export on the left menu

  2. You shoud be able to find it following the path botheme > inc > demo-data > botheme > options.json .

  3. You go to the option import / export in theme options then click on the button: "import this file" and copy all content in file options.json and paste in here like image below.

  ### Step-6: Import Widgets

  1. Go to Widget Importer & Exporter on the Tools menu.

  2. You shoud be able to find it following the path botheme > inc > demo-data > botheme > widgets.wie.

  3. You can click button browse and upload file widget.wie

  To be perfect, you should make sure all of photos available.

  Go to Regen Thumbnails on the Tools menu.

  You just click on Regenerate All Thumbnail button and wait until the update is complete all photos.

  Now you have a website just like our demo.

- ## Plugins

- Custom Post Type UI

  This is plugin required all our themes

  This plugin provides an easy to use interface to create and administer custom post types and taxonomies in WordPress. This plugin is created for WordPress 4.x.

  If you need dedicated support for this plugin, please visit: Custom Post Type UI

- Contact Form 7

  Contact Form 7 is one of the most popular form builders for wordpress.

  We have created styles ready for you to use within your Victoria theme.

  For detailed inforamtion and support on this plugin, please go to: Contact Form 7

- WPBakery Page Builder

  Drag and drop page builder for WordPress. Take full control over your WordPress site, build any layout you can imagine – no programming knowledge required

  If you need dedicated support for this component, please visit: WPBakery Page Builder

- Slider Revolution

  Slider Revolution is an innovative, responsive WordPress Slider Plugin that displays your content the beautiful way. Whether it's a Slider, Carousel, Hero Scene or even a whole Front Page, the visual, drag & drop editor will let you tell your own stories in no time!

  For detailed inforamtion and support on this plugin, please go to: Slider Revolution

- ## Pages

- Page options

  The first, please go to Page > Add new in the sidebar left to create a new page.

  Enter the Page title and content for page, example as image below:

  Click Publish and View page to see Result:

  With the Page Options specially built for our themes, you can easily customize for Header, Page Title & BC, Content and Footer of every page.

- Home Page

  To set a page as Home page, go to Settings > Reading in your WordPress Dashboard panel.

  1. Set "Front page displays" as "A Static Page"

  2. In the drop down menu for "Front Page" choose a page which will be your home page. And in the "Posts page", choose a page whick will be your blog page.

  3. Save changes.

- ## Widgets

- Adding Widgets to Sidebar

  To Add Widget on Sidebar, please following these steps:

  1. 1. Navigate to Appearance > Widgets to access the list of widgets and widget section that they can be added. The left hand side show all widgets you can use. The right hand side shows all different section you can add widgets to.

  2. 2. Simply drag and drop the widget you want into the widgets section you want to the right hand side.

  3. 3. When you finished, make sure to click “Save” in the widget editing box to save the widgets added to your sidebar.

  Go to Blog page to see Sidebar result

- ## Theme Options

- Theme Option Overview

  The options panel is home to all of the theme's extensive configuration options. To view the panel, click on Botheme in the left-hand menu. Here you have the ability to alter many core aspects that make up how your theme looks and behaves. Any of the options that have some ambiguity to them conviently have descriptions to explain their purpose.

- ## Shortcode

- Adding Shortcode in Visual Composer

  The first, please go to Page > Add new in the sidebar left to create a new page.

  Visual Composer is a powerful Wordpress page builder that allows you to create complex page layouts without touching a single line of code. To switch to Visual Composer's Backend Editor, click on this button:

  When Visual Composer's editing pane comes up, click on either of these buttons to Add Element.

  A shortcode selecting panel will show up, you can see all the shortcode available in the theme. Select the one you would like to use.

  You will then encounter a setting panel for the shortcode (each shortcode has it own setting options), after a bit of configuration, it will show up nicely on your page.

- ## SEO

- SEO

  Our themes are optimized by with H1, H2, H3, H4, H5 tags, clean code, HTML5 but if you want to get higher ranking on search engines, you must need some help from SEO plugins and Google Pagespeed Service:

  - Yoast SEO plugin
  - Google Pagespeed Service
  - Smush.it ( Optimizing Images )
  - SEO Friendly Images ( SEO Images )

- ## UPDATE OUR THEMES

- UPDATE OUR THEMES

  You can update our theme using some ways bellow

  1. Update theme using Envato WordPress Toolkit

  2. You can update manual theme

  If you have any troubles while using auto update ( It is likely to be a permissions issue ) then you may want to manually update the theme via FTP or Cpanel.

  Download the latest version of the theme on ThemeForest download page and simply replace with the old one via FTP or Cpanel.

- ## Support

- Support

  The team at SpyroPress are always happy to help you with any questions or recommendations you have about the Logzee theme. If you need any help or support please contact us through the TF Messaging system or
  Direct at Email: spyropress.info@gmail.com
  Direct at Forum: SpyroPress Forum.

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