Maestro - Fantastic WP Theme - 20Script

# Maestro

## Fantastic WP Theme

- Created: 03/31/2013
- By: Crumina
- Email: info@crumina.net

This is documentation on Maestro theme, which will help you to install and configure your theme right.

### Maestro Theme Installation

After theme purchase, download theme package from your Themeforest account.

Extract it and find installable “maestro.zip” in it

Log in your domain, where you have previously installed Wordpress.
Go to Appearance>Themes>Add new>Upload theme and upload installable maestro.zip archive.
Activate the theme and begin installing and activating plugins.
If you want to import demo data, go to Appearance>Installer panel
From the Import drop down select "Content with attachments" and click "Import" button.
After that don't do anything. Simply wait till the import process is completed and you see “Import is completed.” messages.
IMPORTANT NOTE! If you are going to customize theme files, we strongly recommend to install child theme at once after theme installation. Child theme is located in “Child Theme” folder of theme archive.
More information about child theme you can find here http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

### Page Builder Tutorial

The new Page Builder enables you to create any page you want.

It consists of a great many of widgets, from which you build your page. You can also make so many columns, as you want, to be displayed on your page.

To create a page with Page Builder, go to Pages>Add new>Page Builder tab.

Now you can add any widgets, from which your page will consist. For this click “+” button

and start choosing the widgets for your page.

You can also make several columns on your page, the number of which you specify yourself.

For this click “III” button

and put the number of columns you want to have on your page.

To put some widgets to the columns, you have to click on any of them, and after that click “+” button.

The template types recommended for pages created with Page Builder are “Default Template” and “For custom layout”. The only difference between them is that the page title won’t be displayed on page with “For custom layout” template.

### Home Page Setup

To set up your home page go to Settings>Reading. Check “static page” and select any page you want to be your home page.

### How to Create Menu

Go to Appearance>Menus. In the right section of the page click “+”, write the name of you menu in the field “Menu Name” and click “Save Menu”.

After that you have to create items for your menu. You can create them in the section “Custom Links”. In the field “Label” write the title of the menu item, in the field “URL” you insert the link of the page location. After that click “Add to Menu”.

You can also add the menu items from the sections “Pages”, “Forums”, “Products” etc, which you can see on the right side of the page. Simply add the items from the list in any section and click “Add to menu”.

You can also create submenus for each item. For this you just have to drag the elements a bit to the right. You can also replace the menu items as well as submenus by dragging them up and down on your own way.

After you have created all the items of your menu, click “Save Menu”.

After the menu is created, you have to customize it. For this you have to go to Appearance>Crumina Menu customizer.

First of all select the menu you want to customize from the list in the top of the page.

When you have selected the menu, you can start to customize it. Each menu item has its own parameters.

You can select a menu icon, which will be displayed on the menu item.

You can select the menu icon, which will be displayed on the menu item, when one hovers over it.

You can also check “Use Mega Menu?” if you want your menu items to have a mega menu appearing under it on hovering. It is possible to specify the width of the mega menu in the field “Mega Menu Width” too.

When you have finished customizing your menu, click “Save”.

### How to Add Price Tables

If you want to create a page with the price tables, you have to go to Price Tables>all price tables>click edit on one of the existing. On the right side of the page in the section “Shortcode” copy the shortcode

And insert it to the large field in Pages>add new

Give the name to the page and click “Publish”.

Or you can add the price table to the layout you create in Page Builder in Pages>add new>”Page Builder” tab>widget “Theme: Do Shortcode”

Give the title and subtitle for the price table and click “Done”.

That’s all!

### How to Add Testimonials

If you want to have testimonials on your template, you can create them in Testimonials>add new. Give the title to the testimonial, in the large field write the text of it and in the section “Featured image” upload the image which will be displayed underneath the text.

In the section testimonial info write the information about the author of the testimonial, his name and additional information.

Click “Publish”. The same way you can create a lot of other testimonials.

After that you have to add them to your template. Go to Pages>Add new or Pages>all pages>edit the needed one> in the “Page Builder” tab> select the widget called “Theme: Testimonial display”.

The following window appears on the screen

There you can type the title and subtitle of the testimonials.

In the field “Number of posts” you can put the number of the testimonials, which will be displayed on the current template.

In the field “Link to full page” you may insert the link to the page, where all your testimonials are displayed.

Accordingly, in the field “Link label” you may give the title to the link given above.

You can also choose the order, in which your testimonials will be displayed, offered in the options “Order posts” and “Order posts by”.

### Theme Options

Theme options are a panel of the main options of the theme, which enables you to adjust your theme the way you want. Theme options panel consists of nine sections. Let’s take a look at each of them.

1. Main options

- With these options you can add favicon of your website, header logo and footer logo.

- There is also a top address panel, where you can add the corporate address, phone number and email address in there.

- In main options you can also choose the language of the site by adding the the language shortcode to the language shortcode section (when the corresponding translation plugin is installed).

- In Main options you can activate or deactivate responsive mode.

- Main options enable you to add your tracking codes, for which there is a Custom JS field, and custom css codes, for which there is a Custom Css field.

2. Top panel options are the new options, which serve to customize the top panel right above the menu. Here you can enable or disable the option “display login panel”. You can browse the icon for the panel text if needed. Also you can type title, subtitle and text for the top panel.

3. Social accounts enable you to add the links to the social share accounts and to place them in header of the theme, if needed.

4. Inner page options are the options for single pages. They enable you

- To activate or deactivate the social share buttons on single pages

- To add your own social share buttons to the field “Custom share code” (from e.g. https://www.addthis.com)

- To enable or disable such functions as author info, links in author info, thumbnail on inner page, post info

5. Portfolio options are a panel of options to control the view on the portfolio pages. It enables you

- To select a main portfolio page to have a proper link

- To activate or deactivate option “Sorting items”, which means you can have the portfolio sorted by categories

- To choose number of columns for portfolio display

- To enable or disable date on portfolio

- To choose the type of text location on single portfolio

- To enable or disable featured image

- To select display type of images, either slider, or separate items

- To select sorting type of images in portfolio single

- To select the order of images being displayed (ascending or descending)

6. Unlimited sidebars option is for creating custom sidebars, which you create for displaying on single pages.

7. Styling options are the options for adjusting the display of body and footer of the website

8. Contact page options are options for

9. Layouts settings are used for setting the layouts for different pages.

10. Icon customization panel enables you to select the icons for different blocks/widgets. You may browse any icons you want as well as change them whenever you want.

### Crumina slider (News slider)

The new Crumina slider is a fantastic slider, which you can add to your template in a few minutes.

First of all, go to Crumina slider section and copy a shortcode of the slider

After that go to Pages>add new/all pages>edit the needed one> in “page builder” tab select the widget “Theme: do shortcode”

And paste the slider shortcode into it.

Click “Done”

That’s all!

### Woocommerce Plugin Installation

There are two WooCommerce installation options: Automatic or Manual.

Automatic installation

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.

If you are using a third-party theme and are having issues with WooCommerce page display, please see our developer documentation here to learn more: Third-party Custom Theme Compatibility

Manual installation

The manual installation involves downloading the plugin and uploading it to your webserver via your favourite FTP application.

1. Download the plugin to your computer.

2. Unzip the file.

3. Using an FTP program, or your hosting control panel, upload the unzipped plugin folder to your WordPress installation’s wp-content/plugins directory.

4. Activate the plugin from the Plugins menu within the WordPress admin.

After you’ve installed and activated the plugin, be sure to select ‘Install WooCommerce Pages‘ to get started.

Woocommerce settings

To adjust the settings for Woocommerce you have to go to a the section “Woocommerce”>“Settings”. There are 9 tabs with the options, which you can set according to your preferences.

How to set the Shop page

To set the shop page to your site, you have to go to ”Pages” tab>Shop base page> and select the page you want to be as your shop page.

To set the settings for the product images go to “Catalog” tab, in the section “Image Options” set the following values (recommended)

Catalog Images Width 150 Height 150

Single Product Image Width 300 Height 300

Product Thumbnail Width 90 Height 90