Book Store

Book Store Woocommerce Wordpress theme

• created: 04/06/2016
• by: AcmeeDesign
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Thank You for purchasing Book Store Theme. This document will help you how to use and customize the theme. If you have any questions that are beyond the scope of this help file, please feel free to please a open ticket at http://acmeedesign.com/support/. Please provide us your admin login details for faster support. Thank you!

Hope you are familiar with WordPress and Woocommerce. If you're not, please check the following links for more details.

• Wordpress first steps http://codex.wordpress.org/First_Steps_With_WordPress
• Wordpress install requirements  https://wordpress.org/about/requirements/
• What is theme?  https://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Themes
• Woocommerce  https://www.woothemes.com/woocommerce/
• Woocommerce for store owners  https://www.woothemes.com/woocommerce/store-owners/

Installing Book Store theme will take few minutes with simple steps.

1. Download your purchased theme from your themeforest account's downloads page. If you download "All files & documentation", you will need to unzip it and find the installable theme file inside. You can also download the "Installable Wordpress file".
2. Login to your WordPress Admin Panel, go to Appearance > Themes Click on the Add New and Upload Theme. Click on the Choose File button and navigate to find the bookstore.zip file on your computer and click on the "Install Now" button
3. Once the theme get installed, Activate the theme by clicking "Activate" button.
4. After theme installation, you will get notification about required plugins to be installed. Just click on the "Install plugins" from the notification. Once the plugins installed "Activate" all plugins.

That's it! You can start customizing the theme and adding contents to your web site.

Bookstore theme requires some must have plugins to be installaed in order to have complete functionalities as displayed in our theme demo.

You can install the required plugins after activating the theme by clicking on the "Install plugins" from the notification.

Or if you missed to install at theme activation, go to Appearance > Install Plugins, then select all plugins listed on the page and Bulk Activate.

That's it.

What is Woocommerce?

WooCommerce is a free eCommerce plugin that allows you to sell anything, beautifully. Built to integrate seamlessly with WordPress, WooCommerce is the world's favorite eCommerce solution that gives both store owners and developers complete control.

How to install?

You can install Woocommerce in 2 ways. 

• Install manually from Wordpress plugins repository.
• Install automatically from "Install required plugins" by bookstore theme in-built feature.

Configure Woocommerce

After Woocommerce installation, it will take you to configure the plugin. Otherwise click the Run the setup wizard button

As the first step, it will ask you to setup woocommerce pages. If you want to import Bookstore demo content, just skip the first step by clicking "Skip this step" as the demo content will import woocommerce pages for you otherwise you get duplicate pages.

Setup Store locale and click Continue.

Setup Tax information and click Continue.

Setup Payment options and Click  Continue.

That's it. Your store is Ready to get started with creating your products.

Please check the following documentation to learn about how to setup your products https://docs.woothemes.com/documentation/plugins/woocommerce/getting-started/setup-products/

BookStore theme comes with One Click Demo importer feature. This will lhelp you start your online business quickly and easily.

• Navigate to Bookstore > Demo Importer
• Click Import Demo button.
• Wait for the importer to complete the content import fully. This may take few minutes depending on your server speed.
  Don't click browser back button until the import finishes.
• Choose Heading font style, font size, color, etc.

After the demo content is installed, you will get success notification.

Book Store theme comes with many theme customization options for your convinience. 

Click on BookStore link from the admin menu. You will see a lot of options there. All options are self explanatory and easy to use.

Main Settings you have to configure are

General Settings

• Choose the Layout style as Wide or Boxed.
• Choose the background color and/or image.
• Choose body font style, font size, color, etc.
• Choose Heading font style, font size, color, etc.

Page Settings

You can set separate header background color and background image for all the pages.

Color Settings

Choose the Primary colors and secondary colors for your theme. You can also set separate colors for some elements in other theme options pages.

Header Settings

From Header settings you can customize Top bar elements and Main header elements. Like uploading Logo, enable or disable curreny switcher, etc.

Slider Settings

Book Store theme comes with Slider Revolution WordPress plugin at free of cost. You can show Slider revolution slider under the header by specifying the Slider Alias in the text box. For more details check http://www.themepunch.com/revslider-doc/first-steps/

Menu Settings

From menu settings, you can customize the Top menu styles like menu background, font type, font size, etc.

Shop Settings

What is a Shop page. It is page created by the Woocommerce plugin to list all woocommerce products in one place.

You can customize the shop page settings under Shop settings like Shop page title, shop header image, side bar position specific to shop page, etc.

Blog Settings

Same like Shop page you can customize Blog page styling in the Blog settings page.

You can customize the blog page settings under Blog settings like blog header image, side bar position specific to blog page, etc.

Promo Content

Social Icons

Social icons will be shown at the footer section. Actually you should set which social icons to be displayed from WordPress widget. And you can set colors for it here.

To add your logo, Go to Bookstore > Header Settings > Header click upload button and select and upload your logo from your local computer.

That's it.

1. Blank Template
2. Full Width
3. Left Sidebar
4. Right Sidebar

You can create pages with these pre-defined template designs at your convenience. 

Check the below video to learn how to build your pages within minutes using Visual Composer

Creating menu for your website is also super easy as the theme comes with VC mega menu premium plugin. 

Special with this plugin is you can create menu items and any content like images, text content or WordPress widgets using Visual Composer plugin. It is will super easy as you're familiar with Visual Composer.

Interesting right?

Yeah. You can build simple drop down menu to mega menu with ease.

To create a simple drop down menu, you can build it in the same way as you do with wordpress menu page.

To create a mega menu for the particular menu group, select Enable mega menu option under the Menu settings at the bottom of the page.
Then click on the "Mega" icon on the menu item that you want to enable mega menu. That will open Visual composer in the pop up.

Enable mega menu by clicking the toggle option as specified in the below image.

Then insert a Row and split columns as required and finally drag and drop VC elements in to the columns as how you do usually with Visual Composer for pages and posts.

Widgets

To create/manage widgets navigate to Appearance > Widgets

The bookstore theme consists of different widget locaions which will be listed on the right side of the widgets page. You can simply drag and drop the required widgets from left to the widget location at right.

To create a blog page, simply create blank page and then navigate to Settings > Reading and select the newly created Blog page next to Posts page label.

Bookstore the support 4 post formats namely,

1. Standard
2. Quote
3. Audio
4. Video

To create a post simply follow the below steps

• Go to Posts > Add New
• Enter the post title and post content.
• Choose the post format, category and tags on the right hand side.
• Scroll down and find the Audio/Video URL section which will used for Audio/Video post formats.
• If it is a Audio post, paste the audio url in the Audio url field. This audio will be displayed on the blog posts list page (Note: not in the post detail page but only in the blog posts list).
• If it is a Video post, paste the video url in the Video url field. This video will be displayed on the blog posts list page (Note: not in the post detail page but only in the blog posts list).
• Finally publish the post.

Bookstore theme comes with Slider revolution premium plugin which is Top selling slider plugin for wordpress at Codecanyon.net

You can find the dedicated documentation for Slider Revolution in the documentation folder.

Automatic Update via Envato Toolkit plugin

• Download and install the Envato Toolkit plugin
• Login to your Themeforest account Under Settings > API Keys, generate an API key and copy it.
• Now login to your wordpress admin panel and navigate to Envato Toolkit page.
• Fill in your username and API key in the respective fields.
• Once you save, you can then update your theme automatically.
• Here is a good tutorial will let you know how Envato Toolkit plugin works http://www.wpexplorer.com/envato-wordpress-toolkit-guide/

Export

You can export all theme options to your local computer for making a backup. You can do that by navigating to
Bookstore > Import/Export click "Download Data file" under Export options which will download the settings in json format.

Import

To import saved options from your local computer, navigate to Bookstore > Import/Export and click Import from File button. It will open a text box, copy the contents of your back up file and paste it and click Import.

That's it.

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