Documentation 1.0.0
An overview of SevenStars, how to install and use, theme options and examples, and more.
An overview of SevenStars, how to install and use, theme options and examples, and more.
We would like to thank you for purchasing SevenStars!
This documentation file helps you to understand the whole theme concept and how it works. You should read all sections of the file before start your work. Here have multiple detailed explain of elements, theme sections and included video tutorials.
If you have any questions that are beyond the scope of this help file, please check out Knowledge base and search for Forum page.
After that you still can't find the solution yet, please leave a ticket on Support system then support agents help your issue.
Surely you have already installed WordPress on your server. If you don't installed it yet and you are new to WP and have problems installing it, you might want to check out following tips.
You need to download theme files after you've purchased the it. Following image describes downloads section of the item and you have 2 download choices.
Downloading All Files gives you a all-files.zip file with all the content listed below
Downloading the installalable WordPress theme only gives you the SevenStars.zip file.
You can either choose to upload the theme to your server via WordPress upload function or your server via ftp.
Appearance -> Themes
Install Themes
tabSevenStars.zip
file (it is located in the folder you've downloaded from ThemeForest).Install Now
buttonwp-content -> themes
directoryAppearance -> Themes
of your dashboard and Activate the theme.After the activation you see this notice at top of your dashboard. This theme requires those two plugins and you need to install it.
Please click on Begin insalling plugins.
Please select all or desired plugins then select Install option on dropdown and click on Apply button.
You will see this page after activated plugins.
Envato Toolkit plugin requires MarketPlace username and API Key. You can get API key from your Settings tab of ThemeForest account. Lets provide those infomation and get theme update everytime and easily.
Theme had dedicated data option on Theme Options panel.
You have to select your desired page and click on Import button.
LayerSlider content included on the theme and it will include automatically when you insert one of the demo data.
You can add multiple pages with multiple button clicks.
XML data imports only page and post content. Therefore we need to set following few simple options on your site again.
Please go to the Appearance => Menus and select your custom menu on Primary menu location.
Please go to the Setting => Reading and select your custom page as Front Page on Static pages section of FrontPageDisplays.
Please go to the Theme Options => Footer and enable Footer area and select your layout.
Then go to the Appearance => Widgets and include your widgets into Footer sidebar areas.
Please make sure you backup your existing theme folder before updating. Additionally we recommend performing the update on a development site before making it on your live site.
Hope you have provided your account information in Envato Toolkit plugin. If you go to the plugin page, you'll see similar to following image. Let's click on Update automatically link at right bottom. This is a most efficienat and easy way to integrate latest verion on your site.
After clicking to auto-update, you’ll see the confirmation that everything worked correctly.
Go to the Appearance => Themes and activate another theme than SevenStars such as TwentyTwelve, TwentyThirteen or SevenStars child theme. Delete the old version of the theme because folder name existing error comes up when we try to install it without deletion. Then install the theme again as you see early in this documentation.
Usually updating a theme means replacing the old files with the new ones. You can see changelog.txt file from the new download archive and you can get updated files list as modified/added and deleted. Upload and overwrite those files on your theme directory.
If theme changed lots of files and you really hard to collect changed files, there is a better way to do it when it comes to WordPress themes.
WordPress treats two version of the same theme as different themes. That is, if you have SevenStars v1.2 and v1.3 in your wp-content/themes folder they are treated as two different themes independent of each other.
That means you can have multiple version of the same theme installed on your blog. So whenever there is a new version of your theme available, instead of replacing or deleting the files of the older version follow this procedure.
The main advantage of following the above procedure is you can quickly switch back to the old version of the theme if you find any problems with the new version or if it clashes with any plugins you are using.
Theme Options panel has many options those help you to control your site. You have to know only where your desired options exist and how to use them. Please take some time to navigate through each tab and read option's description.
Theme Options Panel
The theme has detailed color options which builtin WP Customize functions. Please click on Color Options link from the WordPress admin bar and use the dedicated color options for your specific parts.
Color Options
Activate Page Builder
Starting Page Builder
Add Element and Control buttons
Choose an Element. All elements are based on WP shortcode.
All elements have common controls such as Edit, Clone and Remove. Also you can order and arrange elements with Drag and Drop.
You can save current layout as a Template. Then you can apply it on another pages.
Short video about Page Builder
A Post Format is a piece of meta information that can be used by a theme to customize its presentation of a post.
SevenStars supports WP 3.6 post format and this style is inherited by 3.6. But it doesn't matter and works equally if you are using previous version of WordPress core.
More about Post Format here http://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Formats
You'll find Page options at bottom of your main editor. Then you can control your page with that. Please read the option name and description and use them :)
Yeah, I hope you like One Page design already. Here you can see how to accept One Page with this theme. Prepare you pages as you want there and follow the steps in this image.
You see background image moves different apparent position when you scroll you page down. That parallax effect can apply for background images of Page and Row element.
You can set up this beautiful option like following. Lets edit your Row element and set video options.
Most of themes provide portfolio single layouts. But we don't because our theme has Page Builder. You can build any custom layout and use it with Template for all of your portfolio items.
You can show your portfolio items as Gallery and Video posts. Please use following options for your need.
You need to do following steps for your menu.
If you need to use your custom menu icons there, you should upload them on Icon field as above image. You need to resize and upload there proper image and control your image icons with this css selector.
img.nav-custom-icon { width:14px; height:12px; }
If you need sub menu treasures (only for sub elements of mega menu), you should make following changes on your sub menu elements.
Theme has 27 page builder elements. And all those elements can introduce by shortcodes.
Theme includes shotcode selector which provides simple shortcodes for your editor. But if you need all elements by shortcode, you should get it from following details.
Next 3 attributes are common in all shortcodes.
Its based on Bootstrap grid system. Just like bootstrap "row" class. But it's improved row element.
blox_column
Column with [1/1, 1/2, 1/3, 2/3, 1/4, 3/4, 1/6, 5/6]
[blox_row fullwidth="true" color="#2980b9" image="{image_url}" bg_repeat="cover" bg_position="top left" bg_attach="parallax" extra_class="{extra_class}"]
[blox_column width="1/2"]content[/blox_column]
[blox_column width="1/2"]content[/blox_column]
[/blox_row]
Text Element is core element of PageBuilder. You can use anywhere.
[blox_text title="title" animation="top-to-bottom" extra_class="extra_class"]content[/blox_text]
This is an accordion element. It will only one section open at a time
blox_accordion_item
It's title of sectionblox_accordion_item
It's icon of sectionblox_accordion_item
If you check this option, it will opened when appear. [0|1]
[blox_accordion title="Accordion Title" animation="none" border="1"]
[blox_accordion_item icon="icon-user" collapse="1" title="Section1"]content[/blox_accordion_item]
[blox_accordion_item icon="icon-user" title="Section2"]content[/blox_accordion_item]
[blox_accordion_item icon="icon-user" title="Section3"]content[/blox_accordion_item]
[/blox_accordion]
Audio player. It works 2 ways. Self hosted audio or audio embed code.
[blox_audio title="title" type="url" url="url" color="#27ae60" animation="none" extra_class=""]
Audio player. It works 2 ways. Self hosted audio or audio embed code.
[blox_blog title="title" style="regular" categories="categories" blog_filter="15" content="both" readmore="read_more_text" count="10" pager="1" filter="1" overlay="permalink" exclude="0,1" order="default"/]
This is button. Button has too many options. You can build too many different buttons.
[blox_button text="Button" link="#" target="1" style="flat" border="bordered" color="#2980b9" icon="icon-camera" size="medium" align="left" animation="top-to-bottom"/]
Callout has big title with description and call to action buttons. You can customize all options
[blox_callout title="title" box_style="blox_elem_callout_clean" bgcolor="#ffffff" margin="0" animation="" extra_class=""]content[/blox_callout]
It's boxed content.
[blox_contentbox title="ContentBoxTitle" color="#d35400" icon="icon-camera" widget_title="Element title" animation="" extra_class=""]content[/blox_contentbox]
It's post carousel. You can use all of post types.
[blox_carousel title="title" post_type="post" category="15" count="6" animation=""]
Divider element. It's like spacer
[blox_divider style="style1" color="#2980b9" height="5" extra_class=""/]
Galleries. It has 6 styles.
[blox_gallery title="title" images="295,235" layout="1" animation=""]
Google Map Element. You can use google map 2 ways. Embed code or coordinates.
[blox_gmap select="embed" type="ROADMAP" zoom="14" height="400"]embed code[/blox_gmap]
[blox_gmap select="custom" lat="0.0" long="0.0" type="ROADMAP" zoom="14" height="400"][/blox_gmap]
It's simple image with caption
[blox_image style="blox_elem_image_frame_border" image="{image_url}" caption="Image Caption" color="#27ae60" link="#" target="1" /]
Heading Element is big title with description text
[blox_heading title="title" color="#27ae60" icon="icon-camera-retro" style="default" animation="top-to-bottom"]description[/blox_heading]
Simple list with icons
[blox_list title="Title" icon="icon-camera-retro" color="#c0392b" animation="top-to-bottom"]
<li>list item 1</li>
<li>list item 2</li>
[/blox_list]
It's like Notification box.
[blox_notification text="Message" icon="icon-ban-circle" color="#d35400" animation="top-to-bottom"]
Portfolio element. You can use 7 different portfolio layouts.
[blox_portfolio title="element title" style="masonry2" categories="203,202" count="8" height="200" pager="no" filter="yes" overlay="both" exclude="0,1" order="default"/]
[blox_progress text="Progress 1" percent="40" style="style1" color="#2980b9" icon="icon-cloud-upload"]
[blox_service title="Title" icon="icon-camera" color="#27ae60" bgcolor="#2980b9" layout="style1" animation="top-to-bottom"]description[/blox_service]
[blox_social fbshare="1" tweet="1" gplus="1" pinterest="1" align="left" animation="none"]
[blox_slider slider="layerslider-1"/]
blox_table_row
- Row type [default | header | price | button]blox_table_cell
- Column type [default | highlight | description | center]
[blox_table title="Element title" button_icon="icon-camera-retro" animation="top-to-bottom"]
[blox_table_row type="header"]
[blox_table_cell type="highlight"]row1-1[/blox_table_cell]
[blox_table_cell type="default"]row1-2[/blox_table_cell]
[/blox_table_row]
[blox_table_row type="default"]
[blox_table_cell type="highlight"]row2-1[/blox_table_cell]
[blox_table_cell type="default"]row2-2[/blox_table_cell]
[/blox_table_row]
[blox_table_row type="button"]
[blox_table_cell type="highlight"]row3-1[/blox_table_cell]
[blox_table_cell type="default"]row3-2[/blox_table_cell]
[/blox_table_row]
[/blox_table]
blox_tab_item
- Title icon of Tab itemblox_tab_item
- Title of Tab tem
[blox_tab title="Element title" vertical_tab="1" border="1" animation="top-to-bottom"]
[blox_tab_item icon="" title="Item 1"]content[/blox_tab_item]
[blox_tab_item icon="" title="Item 2"]content[/blox_tab_item]
[/blox_tab]
[blox_toggle title="Blox Toggle" toggle_state="1" animation="top-to-bottom"]
content
[/blox_toggle]
[blox_team title="Title" style="style1" image="image_url" name="Name" position="Position" color="#27ae60" social="facebook:#,twitter:#" animation="top-to-bottom"]
Bio text
[/blox_team]
blox_testimonial_item
Author nameblox_testimonial_item
Author's Job positionblox_testimonial_item
Company nameblox_testimonial_item
Author's image url. starting with http://...
[blox_testimonial title="Element title" type="single_color" color="#2980b9" animation="top-to-bottom"]
[blox_testimonial_item author="Author" position="Position" company="Company" image="image_url"]
Testimonial
[/blox_testimonial_item]
[blox_testimonial_item author="Author" position="Position" company="Company" image="image_url"]
Testimonial
[/blox_testimonial_item]
[/blox_testimonial]
[blox_video title="Element title" type="url" url="video_url" poster="video_poster_url" color="#27ae60" /]
[blox_video title="Element title" type="embed" embed="embed%20code" /]
[blox_woo title="Element title" type="recent_products" per_page="12" columns="4" orderby="1"]
[blox_sidebar sidebar="post-sidebar" /]
Automatic installation is the easiest option as WordPress handles the file transfers itself and you don’t even need to leave your web browser. To do an automatic install of WooCommerce log in to your WordPress admin panel and go to: Plugins > Add New.
In the search field type “WooCommerce” and click Search Plugins. Once you’ve found the plugin you can view details about it such as the the point release, rating and description. Most importantly of course, you can install it by simply clicking Install Now. After clicking that link you will be asked if you’re sure you want to install the plugin. Click “yes” and WordPress will automatically complete the installation.
It’s possible at this stage that you will be taken to a page requesting the FTP details of your webserver. This will be the case if you’ve not installed a plugin on this particular installation of WordPress before. If so, simply fill in your details to complete the installation.
The manual installation involves downloading the plugin and uploading it to your webserver via your favourite FTP application.
After you’ve installed and activated the plugin, be sure to select ‘Install WooCommerce Pages‘ to get started.
If you need more detailed documentation of WooCommerce usage, you should visit this link and get your information.
Very first we need to select Footer layout on Theme Options => Footer.
Then we need to add widgets into Footer Sidebar area on Appearance => Widgets.
Thank you all of you guys for your amazing works. We always appreciated for you!
Open source projects
Licensed projects
jQuery & Plugins
Demo Graphics from Photodune site (didn't included in download)
If you have question beyond scope of this documentation, you can ask that on support forum.