## Introduction

- Theme Version: 1.2.5
- Created: 26 Aug 2023
- Latest update: 26 Aug 2023

Thank you for purchasing our theme. In this document, we provide all kinds of good information with all the details you need to use our theme. We hope you have fun and enjoy working with our theme. If you need more help, please feel free to open a ticket on our support center.

## Before Getting Started

If you are not familiar with WordPress, please get accustomed with it before proceeding to using our theme. Here are some links that will help you to become more confident with WordPress:

- First Steps with WordPress: https://wordpress.org/support/article/first-steps-with-wordpress-classic/
- WordPress Optimization: https://wordpress.org/support/article/optimization/
- We recommend that you should use CDN if you sell products on many countries

## Requirements & Compatibility

### Requirements

To run WordPress your host just needs a couple of things:

- PHP version 7.3 or greater
- MySQL version 5.6 or greater

### Compatibility

Our theme is compatible with the following browsers:

- Chrome
- Firefox
- Safari
- Microsoft Edge
- Internet Explorer 11 or later

## Installation

### WordPress Core

You download and install WordPress version 5.4 or later

### Theme Package

To download, you need to log into your ThemeForest account and go to your http://themeforest.net/downloads page. Locate the theme that you purchased in your Downloads list and click on the Download button

- All files & documentation: contains documentation, licenses, theme package, child theme package and some PSD files. So if you select this option, you need to extract the downloaded package and install the theme package inside.
- Installation WordPress file only: contains only the theme package
- License certificate & purchase code (PDF): contains your license information in a PDF file
- License certificate & purchase code (text): contains your license information in a text file

## WordPress Installation

Follow the steps below to install via WordPress:

1. In your WordPress Admin Panel, go to Appearance > Themes
2. Click on the Add New and Upload Theme buttons
3. Click on the Choose File button and navigate to find the gostore.zip file on your computer and click on the Install Now button
4. Wait while the theme is uploaded and installed
5. Activate the newly installed theme
6. Then you will get a notification about installing the required plugins. Follow the steps to install and activate the plugins

Please note that:

- Some hostings have a restriction on a size of a file that you are uploading. If you have any warning, you will contact your hosting provider. They should increase your maximum upload size. Or you can refer this article and try doing it by yourself.
- If you get the error message: "The package could not be installed. The theme is missing the style.css stylesheet.", it means that you didn't upload the theme package. You will need to extract your package and install the gostore.zip file inside.

## FTP Installation

Follow the steps below to install via FTP:

1. Log into your hosting space via a FTP software
2. Unzip the gostore.zip file and ONLY use the extracted gostore folder
3. Upload the extracted gostore folder into wp-content > themes folder
4. Go to Appearance > Themes and activate the GoStore theme
5. Then you will get a notification about installing the required plugins. Follow the steps to install and activate the plugins

## Required Plugins

After activating the theme, you will get a notification about installing the required plugins. You go to Appearance > Install Plugins to install them.

Please note that:

- You don't directly purchase the Revolution Slider plugin. So you can not update it by yourself. It is also not recommended. When it has a new version, we will be careful to test and release the new theme version.
- You should also not update other plugins without updating the theme. Please see our changelog to make sure that the current theme version is compatible with the new plugin version.

## Demo Content

Our theme includes the demo data to the One Click Demo Import plugin. In admin panel, you go to Appearance > GoStore Importer (You have to install and activate the ThemeSky plugin to see this menu item). Then you click on the Import Demo Data button and the Continue & Import button without selecting any recommended plugin from One Click Demo Import. It will take a few minutes to complete.

Please note that:

- All demo images are replaced by the placeholder images because of themeforest's policy.

- If you have any problem with import, please read the following article and check your hosting configuration https://ocdi.com/import-issues/

- If you want to install exactly the same as our demo (include the demo images), you can download and install the full demo package here http://downloads.theme-sky.com/.

## Updating The Theme

### Manual Update

Follow the steps below to manually update the theme:

1. First, you download the new theme package from themeforest. You have to log into your themeforest account and navigate to the Downloads tab. You find the GoStore theme in your purchased themes list.
2. You delete the current theme. Don't worry about this. Your data won't be lost.
3. You upload the new theme package via WordPress or FTP software.

Please ensure that you only upload the installable WordPress file. If not, you will get an error message: "The package could not be installed. The theme is missing the style.css stylesheet."

### Automatic Update

You update the theme through the Envato Market plugin. Follow the steps below to set up this plugin:

1. Download and install the Envato Market plugin
2. You go to here https://build.envato.com/create-token/ and create a token. Get it.
3. In WordPress admin panel, you find the section called Envato Market. You enter your token code in there.

Please read this tutorial https://skygroup.ticksy.com/article/15704 to get more information.

Please note that:

- If you translated the theme to another language, you should backup your translation files in the themes > gostore > languages folder before updating. You should also backup the translation files in plugins.
- After updating the theme, you should update the recommended plugins if there is a notification about updating plugins. You go to Appearance > Install Plugins to update plugins. If you can not update the recommended plugins in wp admin, you should manually update them. You can find the plugin packages in the theme folder > framework > plugins folder.
- You can not update the Revolution Slider plugin in Appearance > Install Plugins because it is a premium plugin. To update it, you need to deactivate and delete it first. Then, you go to Appearance > Install Plugins and install it again.

## Theme Options

After activating our theme, you can go to Appearance > Theme Options to configure the theme. Below will explain what you can do with Theme Options.

- General: Add your logo and some global options
- Color Scheme: manage your site color
- Typography: you can change font and font size in there
- Header: set up the Header Layout, breadcrumb and other options for header
- Footer: select Footer Blocks which you want to show
- Menu: some options for menu
- Blog: configure the Blog Layout and some options to Show/Hide some things on the blog page
- Portfolio Details: some options to Show/Hide some things on the portfolio page
- WooCommerce: some global WooCommerce options, such as Product label, Quickshop, Ajax search
- Shop/Product Category: you configure your Shop/Product Category page in there
- Product Details: you configure your Product page in there
- Custom Code: allow you to add custom css/js code
- Import/Export: backup or restore your theme options

## Widgets & Sidebars

To manage widgets, you go to Appearance > Widgets. Just drag and drop widgets over to the sidebar.

GoStore comes with 12 custom widgets and 6 sidebars. You can also easily add the custom sidebars.

## Adding A New Sidebar

To add a new sidebar:

1. In the Widgets editor, you scroll down to the bottom
2. On the right hand side, you will see a form
3. You input your sidebar name and click on the Add Sidebar button

To remove your sidebar: just click on the trash icon on your sidebar.

## Filter Widget Area

This widget area allows you to add the filter widgets into the Shop/Category page as the screenshot.

You go to Appearance > Widgets. You drag and drop the filter widgets into Filter Widget Area.

If you want to hide this section, you can disable the Filter Widget Area option in Theme Options > Shop/Product Category tab.

## Header

The header is probably one of the first thing that you will want to setup. It includes the logo, favicon, menu and other things. The following sections will explain how to set up and customize header.

## Adding The Logo & Favicon

Follow the steps below to set up the logo & favicon:

1. Navigate to Appearance > Theme Options. You select the General tab
2. Find the logo and favicon options
3. Click on the Upload button and choose a file from your library

Please note that there is also the logo option in each page (see Page Options). It will override the logo option in Theme Options.

## Setting Up Header

To set up your header, you go to Appearance > Theme Options > Header tab. In there, you can choose Header Layout, configure your breadcrumb and other options.

### Header Layout

GoStore comes with 2 different header layouts. Just choose one of our header layouts for your site.

You can also choose the header layout for individual pages (see Page Options).

### Breadcrumb

GoStore comes with 3 different breadcrumb layouts. Just choose one of our breadcrumb layouts for your site.

You can also choose the breadcrumb layout for individual pages (see Page Options).

### Other Options

- Sticky Header: Show header when scrolling down
- Store Notice: Add a notice at the top of header
- Contact Information: Add your contact information (phone, email, ...)
- Link Information: Add custom links
- Search Bar: Show the search bar
- Wishlist: Show the wishlist icon/link
- Header Currency: Show multi-currency switcher
- Header Language: Show multi-language switcher
- My Account: Show the login form/my account link
- Shopping Cart: Show cart on header
- Shopping Cart Sidebar: Show cart in a sidebar when clicking on cart
- Add To Cart Effect: Show a popup or image flies to cart after adding a product to cart

## Header Customization

If you want to customize the theme, you should create the child theme before making any changes.

You can find the sample child theme package (the gostore-child.zip file) in your downloaded file (you have to download All files & documentation).

Follow the steps below to override header template:

1. Create the templates > headers folders in the child theme folder
2. Copy the template file from the parent theme folder to the child theme folder
3. Edit the template file in the child theme folder

## Footer

GoStore allows you to create unlimited footer layouts. The following sections will explain how to set up a new footer.

### Adding Footer Content

Follow the steps below to add a new footer content:

1. In admin panel, you go to Footer Blocks
2. Add a new footer block and add content as you normally do with page
3. Then, you go to Appearance > Theme Options > Footer. You select your footer block in there

Please note that:

- You have to activate our ThemeSky plugin to see the Footer Blocks menu.
- If the Elementor editor does not show up, you will go to Elementor > Settings. You check Footer Blocks in the Post Types option.

## Menu

GoStore comes with a built-in mega menu that is perfect for displaying the large menu. You can add any widget to your menu. It also allows you to add Icon, Column and Background Image. This section will explain how to set up a new mega menu.

Follow the steps below to add a new mega menu content:

1. In admin panel, you go to Mega Menus
2. Add a new mega menu and add content as you normally do with page

Please note that:

- You have to activate our ThemeSky plugin to see the Mega Menus menu.
- If the Elementor editor does not show up, you will go to Elementor > Settings. You check Mega Menus in the Post Types option.

Follow the steps below to set up a Mega Menu:

1. Go to Appearance > Menus to create or edit a menu that you already have
2. Only the first level of menu items can enable Mega Menu. Just check Enable Mega Menu option
3. After enabling Mega Menu, it will show you the options of Mega Menu below
   - Select Mega Menu: select a mega menu which you added in Mega Menus
   - Columns: You can choose 1, 2, 3, 4 columns, Fullwidth, Stretch row or Stretch row & content
   - Set Thumbnail: Add an image next to menu item. This option does not work on Mobile Menu. If you want to add an icon, you can add a FontAwesome class into the CSS Classes field
   - Set Background: This option allows you to set a background image for Mega Menu
   - Background Repeat and Background Position: Allow you to configure the background image

- After setting up your menu, you will scroll down to bottom and assign it to the Primary Navigation location.
- If you want to show another menu on Mobile, you will create a new menu and assign to the Mobile Navigation location.
- If you assign it to the Vertical Navigation location, it will become the vertical menu.
- When you enable mega menu, it will display content of mega menu. So it won't display sub menu items which you directly add to menu
- In some cases, if you don't see the Product Categories tab or the CSS Classes field, you will click the Screen Options button on the top right corner. You find elements that you want to show and enable them.

## Pages

GoStore is built based on the Elementor plugin and powerful Page Options which help you build any kinds of pages. The following sections will explain how to create a new page and make it look like our demo. If you use our One Click Import Demo functionality, you can ignore this.

## Create A New Page

Follow the steps below to create a new page:

1. In admin panel, go to Pages and click on the Add New button
2. Input the page title and page content
3. On the Page Attributes section, choose the page template from dropdown list
4. Scroll down and find the Page Options section, make some configurations for your page

## Page Options

In the page editor, you will see the Page Options section at the bottom of editor. It will help you create many kinds of pages.

Some options will override the options in Theme Options. Select Default if you want to use your global settings.

- Layout Fullwidth: enable Fullwidth for your page layout. You can set Fullwidth for the whole page or part of page (Header, Main Content, Footer)
- Layout Style: select Boxed or Wide layout
- Page Layout: select Fullwidth, Left Sidebar, Right Sidebar or Left & Right Sidebar
- Left Sidebar: select a sidebar to display on the left sidebar
- Right Sidebar: select a sidebar to display on the right sidebar
- Header Layout: select one of Header Layouts
- Primary Menu: select a different primary menu for this page
- Vertical Menu: select a different vertical menu for this page
- Show Page Title: show or hide the page title. The page title is hidden on home page by default
- Show Breadcrumb: show or hide the breadcrumb. It is also hidden on home page by default
- Breadcrumb Layout: select a layout for your breadcrumb
- Breadcrumb Background Parallax: allow you to apply parallax in the breadcrumb background
- Breadcrumb Background Image: change the breadcrumb background image for this page
- Logo: allow you to display a different logo on this page
- Mobile Logo: show this logo on mobile. Use Logo if it is not set
- Sticky Logo: show this logo on the sticky header. Use Logo if it is not set
- Page Slider: allow you to add a slider on your page
- Page Slider Position: set Position for your slider (Before Header or Before Main Content)
- Select Revolution Slider: if you set Page Slider to Revolution Slider, you will select a slider to display
- Footer Block: select a footer block to replace the footer block which is selected in Theme Options

## Home Pages

### Setting up a home page

1. In admin panel, you go to Settings > Reading.
2. You choose the A static page(select below) option.
3. Select a page from dropdown list of the Homepage option.

## Blog

GoStore supports 5 post formats: Standard, Audio, Gallery, Quote and Video. They will help you easily make a microblogging website.

## Create A New Post

Follow the steps below to create a new post:

1. Go to Posts
2. Click on the Add New button
3. Input the post title and post content
4. Choose the post format and category on the right hand side
5. Scroll down and find the Post Options section, make some configurations for your post

## Post Options

In the post editor, you will see the Post Options section at the bottom of editor. It will help you create different layouts for different posts. Also, if you set the post format to Video or Audio, you will input your Video or Audio URL here.

If you don't see the Post Options section, you will click the Screen Options button on the top right corner. You find the Post Options option and enable it.

## Blog Page

Follow the steps below to set up a Blog page:

1. You create a new page
2. Input the page title. You don't need to input the content
3. On the Page Attributes section, set Tempate to Blog Template
4. Save your page

Please note that:

- If you use Blog Template, you will configure your blog layout in the Page Options section.
- If your homepage displays the latest posts (setup in Settings > Reading), you will configure your blog layout in Theme Options > Blog tab.
- You use the TS Blogs elementor element to display your blogs in the masonry layout.

## Elementor

Elementor will help you manage your content at the WordPress sites and build any layout you can imagine in a few minutes without coding. You can watch tutorial video to get started.

## How to add new element

To use Elementor, you click the Edit with Elementor button

It will change to the Elementor editor as below

Then, you choose an element, drag and drop it from the left panel to the right panel

## TS Elements

All our elements are in the TS Elements section (with the TS prefix). Below explains about them.

- TS Mailchimp: display a Mailchimp Subscription form. You need to install the MailChimp For WordPress plugin and add a form before using this element. You get the form html at the bottom of this section. To know how to create an API Key, you can read this article. To know how to create an Audience, you can read this article.
- TS Testimonial: display testimonials in the grid or slider layout. Go to Testimonials to add new testimonial
- TS Logos: display your partner logos in the grid or slider layout. Go to Logos to add new logo
- TS Banner: display your banner. Allow you to add content on your banner
- TS Banner 2: it is similar with TS Banner. But it allows you to add another image on your main banner
- TS Blogs: display your blogs in a grid, slider or masonry layout
- TS Portfolios: display your portfolios in a slider or masonry layout
- TS Team Members: display your team member. Go to Team Members to add new member.
- TS Countdown: display a countdown timer
- TS Products: display your products in a grid or slider layout
- TS Product Deals: display products on sale with a countdown timer. You need to set Sale price dates for your discounted products
- TS Products In Category Tabs: display products in tabs. Each tab contains products of a category
- TS Products In Product Type Tabs: display products in tabs. Each tab contains products of a type (Recent, Best Selling, Top Rated, Featured)
- TS Product Brands: display product brands in a grid or slider layout
- TS Product Categories: display product categories in a grid or slider layout
- TS List Of Product Categories: display product categories in a list

Below is html of Mailchimp form which is used for our demo

<div class="subscribe-email"> <input type="email" name="EMAIL" placeholder="Your email here..." required /> <button class="button" type="submit"><i class="fas fa-paper-plane"></i>Sign Up</button> </div>
For product, you should use our product elements instead of WooCommerce elements. Because there are many options to display your products.

## Revolution Slider

GoStore includes the popular Revolution Slider Created By ThemePunch. This slider is 100% responsive and has many amazing options. In the following sections, you will know how to add a new slider and how to show it on frontend. This is its own documentation. You can read to get more information.

Please note that you don't directly purchase the Revolution Slider plugin. So you can not update it by yourself. It is also not recommended. When it has a new version, we will be careful to test and release the new theme version. If you see the notification below, you can dismiss it.

## Create A New Revolution Slider

Follow the steps below to create a new Revolution Slider:

1. You go to the Slider Revolution page
2. Click on the New Blank Module box
3. Input the slider title and alias
4. Make some configurations

Follow the steps below to add a new slide to your sliders:

1. Hover on Slides > Add Slide(s) on the top bar
2. Choose one of the listed options below

- Blank Slide: add a new Slide without any predefined content
- Bulk Slide: add more than one Slide at a time with predefined background images
- Import from Modules: add a Slide from Modules
- Import from Template: add a Slide from the Template Library

## Using Revolution Slider

There are three ways to use Revolution Slider

### Assign a slider from the Page Options section

1. Create or edit a page
2. Find the Page Options section below
3. Set the Page Slider option to Revolution Slider
4. Finally, you choose a slider from the Select Revolution Slider option

### Add slider from Elementor editor

1. You switch to the Elementor editor
2. You find the Revolution Slider element and add it to page content
3. Finally, you choose a slider

### Use the slider shortcode

1. You go to the Slider Revolution page
2. Click to edit a slider and find the shortcode in the Module Naming box
3. Copy the shortcode and paste into the Elementor Shortcode element

## WooCommerce

GoStore theme is fully compatible with the latest version of the WooCommerce plugin. We customized and added many features, shortcodes and widgets for this plugin. In the following sections, you will know how to install and set up the WooCommerce plugin. You can also refer WooCommerce Documentation to get more information.

## Install WooCommerce

There are 2 ways to install WooCommerce

1. After activating our theme, you go to Appearance > Install Plugins. You install WooCommerce from the required plugins list.
2. Install WooCommerce from the Plugins page

You should install WooCommerce from the required plugins list. Because we tested that version and it is compatible with the current theme version. To make sure our theme is compatible with the new version of WooCommerce, you should see our changelog or contact us.

## Adding WooCommerce Pages

There are 2 ways to add WooCommerce pages

1. After activating the WooCommerce plugin, you will get a notification as the screenshot below. Simply click the Install WooCommerce Pages button to create all WooCommerce pages
2. Use the WooCommerce shortcodes. You can get them here

If you intend to import our demo content, you won't need to install WooCommerce pages.

## Setting Up WooCommerce

To set up WooCommerce, you go to WooCommerce > Settings in admin panel.

### Currency Options

1. In WooCommerce Settings page, you select the General tab
2. You find the Currency Options section and configure your currency

List of currencies that you can choose

You can also add a custom currency symbol. Please refer this article.

### Page Settings

After you create WooCommerce pages. You will go to the Settings page to assign them.

- To assign the Shop page, you select the Products tab
- To assign the My Account, Cart and Checkout pages, you select the Advanced tab

Please note that if you install WooCommerce pages by clicking on the WooCommerce notification, WooCommerce will automatically assign for you

### Registration Options

You also make sure that you allow your customers to register on your site. You select the Accounts & Privacy tab and find the Account creation section as the screenshot.

### Product Image Sizes

1. You go to Appearance > Customize > WooCommerce > Product Images. You configure your product image size in there
2. Our default demo is configured as the screenshot

## Adding Product

Follow the steps below to add a new product

1. In admin panel, you go to Products and click the Add New button
2. Input the product title and product content
3. Select Product Category, Product Tag
4. Add Featured Image and Product Gallery
5. In the Product Options section, you can override some options in Theme Options
6. Next is the Product Data section. This is where the majority of the product data is configured

### Product Options

With this section, you can:

- Override some options in Theme Options
- Set layout, breadcrumb background image for individual products
- Add a video for product
- Add images for the 360 degree feature

### Product Data

You should also read WooCommerce Documentation to get more details. We only have some notes that we think you need to know.

1. Adding a product on sale and a deal:
   - With the Simple Product, you select the General tab. You add a Sale Price and click the Schedule button to set up date.
   - With the Variable Product, after setting up Product Attributes in the Attributes tab, you go to the Variations tab and add New Variation. With each Variation, you also click the Schedule button next to the Sale Price field to set up date. Please note that product only displays the time of the first Variation.
2. Adding Additional Information: You go to the Shipping tab. You set value of Weight and Dimensions options. You can change unit by going to WooCommerce > Settings > Products tab
3. Enable/Disable Product Review: You go to the Advanced tab. You will see the Enable reviews option. Just check/uncheck it. If you want to disable the Reviews tab, you can read this article.

## Translations

GoStore is ready to translate by using the po file. If you want to build a multilingual site, you need to use the WPML plugin. Our theme does not include the WPML plugin. It is only compatible with the WPML plugin. You have to buy a license for this plugin.

## Using Po File

There are 2 ways to create and edit the po file

1. Use the Poedit software and refer this document
2. Use a translation plugin, such as Loco Translate plugin

Please note that:

- You have to generate the mo file after translating
- You have to set your language in Settings > General. It is the Site Language option

## Using WPML

In this section, you will know how to build a multilingual website by using the WPML plugin. All the information needs to get started and use it is on the WPML.org page.

Below are some reference links:

- WPML Documentation
- Translating Widgets

### Installing and Setting Up the WPML plugin

You need to install a recent version of WPML, including the String Translation, Translation Management and CMS Navigation modules. After installing these plugins, you set up Languages from WPML > Languages and translate your content.

### Showing language switcher dropdown style on header

You go to WPML > Languages. You enable the Custom language switchers option. Then, you click the Customize button. A popup will appear. You change the Language switcher style option to Dropdown or Dropdown click.

### Translating Pages and Posts

Go to Pages and pick a page for translation. Click on the plus icon. If the page is already translated, the plus icon will be replaced by the pen icon.

WPML actually creates a new WordPress page, linked to the original one. In this new page, you can add new content as you normally do. You can also keep the original content, just translate into the new language.

### Translating Categories

To translate a category, click on the language which you want to translate it and then add a new category. Make sure the new category is linked to an original category.

### Translating Menus

You go to Appearance > Menus. Just add a new menu. You select the language and the original menu which links to the new menu.

WPML can synchronize menus for you. This means that WPML can generate and keep in sync menus for other languages pointing to the translated versions of the pages, posts or categories.

### Translating the theme and other texts

You go to WPML > String Translation. Find the text in the list and translate it. Please make sure you check the Translation is complete checkbox after translating.

Sometimes, some texts can not be found. You need to go to WPML > Theme and Plugins localization. You scan Strings in the themes. Then, you go back to the String Translation page and find those texts again.

## Changelog