Cake Documentation

We would like to thank you for purchasing Cake!

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 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.

About WordPress: Detailed instruction about WordPress
Installing Tutorials: Installation tutorial by WordPress
Instructional Video: Video lessons by Woo Themes
Getting Started: WordPress Tips for Beginners
WP101 Basix Training: Some great videos from WPTuts on WordPress

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

Documentation: This is costumer's handbook. Obviously, If you can reading this file, you're open this file :)
DummyData: You have an One Click option for import demo data. But if you need detailed xml files please pick up those here. You should read about how to use it from Demo Data part of this document.
Cake.zip: You can use this file for install function of built in WordPress.
Cake-Child.zip: Child theme. Please make your file changes in it. And this child theme helps you to keep your changes in it even updated main theme continually. You should read more details about child theme here.
Changelog.txt: Contains changes history, change descriptions, date and modified files list.
PSD: In addition, we attached the PSD file.

Downloading the installable WordPress theme only gives you the Cake.zip file.

You can either choose to upload the theme via WordPress upload function or via ftp to your site.

1. Via WordPress theme uploader (recommended)

Step 1: Login to your website
Step 2: Go to Appearance -> Themes
Step 3: Click on Install Themes tab
Step 4: Click on Upload link and Browse to the Cake.zip file (it is located in the folder you've downloaded from ThemeForest).
Step 5: Click Install Now button
Step 6: Then you see Cake settings page right side on Dashboard menu section.
Step 7: Now you are ready to go. Create your new site and control it.

2. Via FTP client

Step 1: Login to your hosting via FTP client application (such as FileZilla and CuteFTP)
Step 2: Go to wp-content -> themes directory
Step 3: Upload Cake folder (uncompressed) into this directory
Step 4: Refresh Appearance -> Themes of your dashboard and Activate the theme.

After the activation you see this notice at top of your dashboard. This theme requires those three additional plugins and you need to install those.

Please click on Begin installing plugins.

Envato Toolkit: The Envato WordPress Toolkit enables you to access your Envato WordPress purchases from within your WordPress Dashboard. It allows you to not only install themes, but also to receive update notifications and update automatically, just like regular WordPress themes.
Visual Composer: The most advanced PageBuilder Plugin that is drag and drop frontend and backend page builder plugin that will save you tons of time working on the site content. You will be able to take full control over your WordPress site, build any layout you can imagine – no programming knowledge required

Configure Envato Toolkit Plugin

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 anytime and easily.

One Click Demo Data Options

Theme has dedicated data option. You should click one of those link and select your desired home page layout. Action will set few important tasks including selection of Home page, Main navigation setting and Sidebar widgets when you click on Import Demo Data button.

Demo data

Please wait for a while until imports all the content.

Full content Demo site setup

Previous option helps you to include minimized demo content on your site reason for quick include. But you can have full demo data with regular XML data imports.

Go to Tools → Import
Choose WordPress from the list.
Upload the demo content.xml using the form provided on download.
You will be asked to map the authors in this export file to users on the blog. For each author, you may choose to map to an existing user on the blog or to create a new user.
You will then have the choice to import attachments, so click on the “Download and import file attachments” box.
Please be patient while WordPress imports all the content. Posts, Pages, Projects, and Menus are imported. You will need assign the menu a theme location & you’ll need to configure widgets. This is a limitation of WordPress’ import system.

Note

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.

Via Envato Toolkit Plugin (recommended)

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.

Via WordPress theme uploader

Go to the Appearance => Themes and activate another theme than Cake such as TwentyTwelve, TwentyThirteen or Cake 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.

Via FTP client application

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 Cake 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.

Try to upload new theme archive to the site
If the folder name of the new version clashes with the old version, rename the folder of new version.
Upload the new version to your wp-content/themes folder via FTP or through the interface provided by your web host or by using the upload feature in WordPress.
Activate the new version from your dashboard.

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.

Live Customize panel has many options those help you to control your site. You have to know only where your desired options exist and how they are capable of. Please take some time to navigate through each tab and read options' description.

Group	Class	Description
`Theme Control`	Header--Upload logo	Choose you logo image and see live result. If you think your logo image bigger at top, you can edit directly the image from media library popup..

	Header--Upload a Vintage Image	Please select your Vintage inage from library.
	Header--Upload a Menu Background Image	Upload your a menu background image.
	Header--Upload a Image For header background	Upload a header background image
	Footer Information--Social link	Add your social link profile here.
	Footer Information--RSS feed	Add RSs feed here.
	Footer Information--Copyright	Edit copyright text here.
	Footer contact-- contact control switch.	Show or Hide footer contact section.

	Footer contact--Upload a image for contact background.	Select image for contact background.

	Footer contact--Contact shortcode	Add contact form shortcode here.

	Footer contact--Contact Unformation	Add footer text here.

	Blog Style--Post content	Change post content layout to right & left side..

	Font Settings--Fancy font and Size	Customize fancy font and size.

	Font Settings--Menu font and Size	Customize menu font and size.

	Font Settings-Title font and Size	Customize title font and size.
	Font Settings-Text font and Size	Customize text font and size.
	Color option--Brand color	The color that styles active menu, links & hover, pagination and much. But if the color doesn't fit for your area, you can set correct one at specific areas. Those customizations won't be overwritten by this.
	Color option--Body text color	You can select body color here.

	Color option--Title color

	Color option--Menu color..

	Color option--Menu hover color.

	Color option--Content background color.
	Color option--Footer contact form background color.

	Color option--Footer background color.
	Color option--Footer background opacity.	Change footer background color opacity


`Additional CSS`	`You can add your own CSS here.`
`Widgets`		You can add your widgets here to sidebars and footer columns.

You can Reset all your changes back to default with bottom corner icon. Don't forget to backup your settings if you think some of them are important to you.

After the installation, you can configure something on following place for Visual Composer. You might want to allow VC for your custom post types initially.

Please read more about Visual Composer page builder from separate documentation file.

Visual composer has tons of elements that presents content view. But our theme has more advanced elements that enriches this beautiful theme. Please hit on the tab and find elements and use them for your need. Every element has a purpose and detailed options. You can see their live result on the demo pages. Enjoy :)

Group	Description
`Cake address`	Show your address with icon and text.
`Cake button`	Insert custom URL for button.
`Cake counter`	Customize counter text background color and digits etc.
`Cake contact form shortcode`	Add your custom contact form shortcode here
`Cake text heading`	Here you can edit title font, description and image.
`Cake map`	The element allows options for you to fill google map longitute and latitude and custom map marker image.
`Cake price table`	Add your image,title and pricetag for price element.
`Cake product`	Here you can insert image and text for products.
`Cake team`	Add your teammate's information here.
`Cake testimonial`	Add testimonial information for carousel.

Menu system works through WordPress core functions. Then I hope you don't have any trouble with it. We extended menu options with a few options such as Menu Icon and Mega menu options. Please look at next images and follow the steps for your menu.

Our theme is compatible with Contact form 7 and please put following markup on the Form field of your form. Then your form turns similar into our style that presents on Contact page.

                            <div class="form-group">
                            <div class="row">
 <div class="col-md-6 res-mrg-b-20">[text* username class:form-control class:bg-gray placeholder "Your Name"]</div>
 <div class="col-md-6">[email* email class:form-control class:bg-gray placeholder "Your Email"]</div>
                            </div>
                            </div>
                            <div class="form-group">
                            [text* subject class:form-control class:bg-gray placeholder "Subject"]
                            </div>
                            <div class="form-group">
                            [textarea* textarea-194 class:bg-gray placeholder "Message"]
                            </div>
                            <div class="form-group text-right">
                            [submit class:btn class:btn-default "SEND MESSAGE"]
                            </div>

Subscribe form

You can have subscribe form by MailChimp for WordPress plugin. Install the plugin and add a widget instance on footer sidebar area.

Sometimes hard to implement small css features by predefined options. Then we've prepared some helpful classes those can used on any custom places and style your content. Most of page builder elements have Extra class field and you can allow following classes on them.

Class name	Description
`.alignleft`	Align the content to left.
`.alignright`	Align the content to right.
`.aligncenter`	Align the content to center.
`blockquote.alignleft, .wp-caption.alignleft, img.alignleft`	Align blockquote content to the left.
`blockquote.alignright, .wp-caption.alignright, img.alignright`	Align blockquote content to the right.
`blockquote.aligncenter, .wp-caption.aligncenter, img.aligncenter`	Align blockquote content to the center.
`.wp-caption.alignleft`	Align caption content to the left.
`.wp-caption.alignright`	Align caption content to the right.
`.wp-caption.aligncenter`	Align caption content to the center.

Thank you to all who developed following projects/products. We really appreciate your support and time. We definitely couldn't do this template without you. We wish you all the best.

Special thanks to:

Images

PhotoDune.net - Team images, some slider backgrounds
PublicDomainArchive.com - Background images, portfolio image & gallery images
Joshua Jadon - Book cover images on Home7, didn't included on download
KLM - Be My Guest collection by Julian Burford
IconFinder.com - Free social logo PNGs
SubtlePatterns.com - A couple of transparent background textures

Open Source Projects

Premium Projects

Visual Composer by WPBakery
Revolution Slider by ThemePunch

Documentation

General Information

WordPress Information

What’s Included In Package

Installation

1. Via WordPress theme uploader (recommended)

2. Via FTP client

Initial Settings

Configure Envato Toolkit Plugin

Demo Data

One Click Demo Data Options

Full content Demo site setup

Update Instructions

Note

Via Envato Toolkit Plugin (recommended)

Via WordPress theme uploader

Via FTP client application

Live Customize Panel

Page Builder : Visual Composer

Additional VC Elements those comes with the theme

Menu & Navigation controls

Contact Form

Subscribe form

CSS helper classes

Sources and Credits

Images

Open Source Projects

Premium Projects