All done, now Socha Theme is installed. But if you go on your home page, you will see nothing interesting, because you should populate this theme a little. First of all make the Home page slider. MANAGE HOME PAGE SLIDER To create first slider go to Appearance -> Sliders. Here you can create a lot of sliders by clicking the Create New Slider button. These sliders you can use in you posts by adding shortcode. On the home page is used Sneak Peek Slider, he is already created. You can t create other slider for home page. You can only manage current slider. To add images in slider, click on the box (NO IMAGE Sneak Peek) After this click Add a New Slide. You can upload an image, by clicking on CLICK TO ADD IMAGE or simply put images link without upload. When you upload you image, it should be appear in this block. When You upload your image, don t forget to click Insert into Post button on Image uploader window. If you need, you can add link, title or short description. If you need to add some html code you can put it in HTML form.
To add next slide image, click Add a New Slide one more time. And repeat. After uploading images click Save Slider. IMPORTANT HOME STYLE 1. Slider image size is: 790-530px Upload only 790-530px image size if you want to take maximal visual effect. If images will be different sizes, the slider will crop and resize there, and images will look very bad.. Important Home style 2,3,4. Slider image size is: 1038-524px
SLIDERS SECTION Our theme comes with a plethora of different shortcode. One of theme is the slider shortcode. Sliders are very important, that s why we created a separate section for slider. The slider section you can find in Appearance - > Sliders Let s create our first slider. Press the Create new slider button. Type the slider name. Press the Create Slider button.
Now we created our new slider. We need to add images and data into slider. Let s press Add a new Slider button. Add an Image and Info. Create as many slides as you need. Save the slider. You can use the slider in posts, pages etc. In the editor you have the Slider Shorcode button. By pressing this button you will be able to insert your slider into post. You can use this slider on Home page, or on about pages. You need to copy the slider slug and insert in in page options (when you create a page and select a template), slug field.
WIDGETS SETTING You theme comes with custom widgets, and different sidebars on different pages. On the screen you can view that sidebars are supported by out theme.
And of course you can view what custom widgets are ready to use in our theme Managing the widgets is very easy, you just need to drag and drop elements on the sidebar section, and play with options in widgets settings. That s all. BLOG SECTION Our theme comes with a lot of different styles for blog archive, and different post formats. You can add a simple post, a gallery post, a quote post or a video post. You just need to select the post format when you create a new post. View the screen Important. When you create a post you need to select an featured Image. This image will be show as thumbnail in blog archive and as top image on single post page. View the screenshot
Create a gallery post format. Create a post. In Format Section select the gallery format. Add a title and text in content area. Save the post. Now we will upload images in our slider. Press the Add media button Upload new images as attachments
After close the modal widnow, don t press Insert into post simply close the window. Look at the screen. Save the post and you will see new images in your gallery, Gallery Images Section You gallery post format post is ready to use. If you will go on your blog archive page you will see your new post. Create a video post format Create a post. In Format Section select the video format. Add a title and text in content area. Save the post. Add your video link in link field. You can put here the links from youtube.com, vimeo.com, blip.tv, dailymotion.com, flickr.com, smugmug.com, hulu.com, viddler.com, qik.com, revision3.com, photobucket.com, scribd.com, wordpress.tv, polldaddy.com, funnyordie.com, twitter.com, soundcloud.com, slideshare.net, instagram.com
MANAGING GALLERY ARCHIVE Our Socha theme is a photography theme, that s why we created a lot of different galleries grid. Let s create our first gallery. Go to Gallery section. Press Add new Gallery. Add a title and a text in textarea area.
Select the category, add a featured image, and upload images in slider as in blog gallery format.
If you didn t read in Blog section how to upload images in slider, you can read it now. Press the Add media button Upload new images as attachments
After close the modal widnow, don t press Insert into post simply close the window. Look at the screen. Save the gallery and you will see new images in your gallery, Gallery Images Section We created our first gallery, now we can add the Socha gallery archive page in our menu, or create new style of gallery archive using gallery templates. To add the default gallery
archive in our menu, add the gallery archive item in menu MANAGING SHORTCODES Our theme comes with tons of shortcodes, and on each new update we add new shorcodes. How to use and manage shortcodes? Very simply, when you create a page or a post in the editor press the shortcode button, and select what shortcode to generate. Team shortcode Press the shortcode button and select the team item. In the modal window add data
Testimonials shortcode Press the shortcode button, select the testimonial shortcode and add data in the modal window.
Divider shortcode Columns shortcode
Toggle shortcode Tabs shortcode Buttons shortcode
Alerts shortcode Slider shortcode
MANAGE THEME OPTIONS After slider, you should manage other important parts of your future site. Let s talk about Theme Options. Here you are 5 sub menu. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Theme Home Social Advanced settings Sidebars Theme 1. Upload logo (Max-Width: 172px and Max-Height: 130px. Bigger Images will be resized) 2. Choose color. You can choose a site color. You have 9 different colors. (Default is Orange) 3. Upload Custom Background
4. Upload Custom favicon 5. Comment Style. You have 5 different comments systems. 1. Default comment system is Socha Comments. Text in comments are without formatting. When you select this option, check the form below called Ajax on comments. 2. You can choose Facebook Comments. 3. You can Install DISQUS Plugin and choose it. 4. You can Install Livefure Plugin and choose it. 5. You can select standard WordPress Comments system. Text in comments can be formatting by html tags. 6. You can close comments. Choose Disable All Comments 6. Social Sharing. You can show sharing or hide on blog post page. 7. Copyrights. You can edit footer text.
Home Here you can edit 2 modules. 1. Right menu box on home page (Put images, link, text and descriptions) or disable it. Important: Images sizes in Right Box menu are: 225-92px On this page inset 3 Titles, 3 Descriptions and 3 Links where you want to redirect. Upload 3 images with exactly size 225-92px. 2. About box on home page.
Insert box title and text about description. This block is shown on Home page. After Save Options Social On this option page put all your social accounts links, This box shows on home page. You can add links from: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Facebook Twitter Google+ Pinterest Youtube Vimeo And you can show or hide the RSS icon Advanced Settings You can: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. Put Google Analytics Add some Footer Code if needed. Add Custom CSS Styles Change Site PreLoader (Enable or Disable. We recommend to be enable) Enable Comments form on Press Blog and choose one of five comments modules. Enable Comments form on Gallery Blog and choose one of five comments modules. Enable Comments form on Video Blog and choose one of five comments modules. Enable Comments form on Inspiration Blog and choose one of five comments modules. Enable Comments form on Testimonial Blog and choose one of five comments modules. Choose Home Page Bottom (You can enable 3 posts or replace them by 3 custom boxes.) etc
Sidebars 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. Show Left Sidebar on Blog Pages Show Left Sidebar on Gallery Pages Show Left Sidebar on Video Pages Show Left Sidebar on Inspirations Pages Show Left Sidebar on Press Pages Show Left Sidebar on Testimonials Pages Show Right Sidebar on Blog Pages Show Right Sidebar on Gallery Pages Show Right Sidebar on Video Pages Show Right Sidebar on Press Pages Show Right Sidebar on Inspirations Pages Show Right Sidebar on Testimonials Pages etc Manage Homepage style 1 The theme automatically created a page called Home, if you haven t this page, create in manually. Select the template Save. Manage Homepage style 2,3,4 Select template
Save. After you will see You can change options. Manage Homepage Menu Manage menu is very simple. It s the default WordPress menu system. Go to Appearance -> Menus. Here you can create the menu and don t forgot to associate with Header Menu. Manage About page style 1 You have a custom page template for About page. Create a simple page, than choose the template to Template About and insert page title. Now you can click on Publish button.
After this on page will appear 2 additional textareas for Quote info and for Second column. The main editor area will put the content on first column. You can add a video link if you want to show video on About page. You have an option to show or hide slider. To upload images to slider, simply upload as attachments to this page by default WordPress Uploader. Manage About page style 2 Create a custom page, insert the title. Select the template Template About Two.
Save the page. After on this page will appear a box with more options. In this box insert all necessary info. Manage Contact page style 1 Contact page have a custom template. Simply create a new page, named Contact, choose template Template Contact and save the page. After you will see a new textarea called Map Code. Here you will put html code of your Google maps or other. Insert the content in main textarea and save the page. Now you can add this page in your menu. Go Appearance -> Menus. Manage Contact page style 2 Create a custom page, select template Template Contact Two, save, input all info sace one more time. That s all. Manage Gallery
To create a gallery simple go to Galeries -> Add New. Insert the Gallery title, insert text if you need and upload you images as attachments. Simply upload by default wordpress uploader. After save the post. The Gallery is ready. Go to Appearance -> Menus and put Gallery Archive in a menu. Upload images as attachments to display on slider. After you will see You have other 12 custom Gallery blog page. If you want to use one of a custom gallery layout, go to Pages -> Add New. Select Template Gallery Filter (if you want a filter) or Gallery Paginations (if you want a pagination). Insert title and Save the Page. After saving will appear a new box called Gallery Options. In this box you can choose styles. All done. Now you can add this page in your menu. Manage Post Types In this theme you have 5 different post types: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Gallery Video Press Inspiration Testimonials You can manage it very easy. Create posts in this post types, after simply put post types archive in the menu. Important: If you want to show thumbnails on site, you must select a Featured Image on posts, pages or other post types. You can check the option to hide this Featured Image from gallery, and it will be shown only as a post thumbnail.
Manage Post Format You have 5 post formats. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Gallery Standard Video Qoute Image If you want to show you attachment images in a slideshow on top of the post, choose Gallery. Else you can choose Standard, and it will be show the featured image on the top of the post. Check Final Settings Go to Settings -> Reading. Front page displays must be A static page (select below) Front page Home Posts page Blog Go to Settings -> Permalinks Must be installed Post name
Technical Details HTML The code is absolutely valid and clear. It s 100% responsive and html 5 coded. Cross browser: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Google Chrome Mozilla FireFox Safari Opera IE8+ CSS Based on LESS technic. The code is absolutely valid and clear. To make changes use LESS Files than generate CSS Files.. CSS files are divided in different colors parts. You can see the main color folder called colors JavaScript The theme used as default jquery framework. To add some custom code, edit the file script.min.js if the js folder. Used libraries html5.js, modernizr-2.5.3.min.js, plugins.min.js, scripts.min.js, jquery.nicescroll.min.js, jquery.mousewheel.js, mwheelintent.js, jquery.jscrollpane.min.js, jquery.isotope.min.js PSD
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Socha_Home.psd - Home Page Socha_gallery.psd - Gallery blog page Socha_gallery_open.psd - Gallery open page Socha_Blog.psd - Blog page Socha_Blog_Open.psd - Open blog post Socha_about.psd - About page Socha_contact.psd - Contact page You can edit this psds as you want. Changes Log 02/27/2013 / v.1.0 1. Initial Release 03/05/2013 / v.1.1 1. Added an option that help you to enable or disable the Right Menu box on Home Page. 2. Added an option to hide or show the RSS icon on site. 3. Added Pinterest to social buttons 4. Added Youtube to social buttons 5. Changed social buttons position. Added scroll. 6. Added an option to enable or disable site preloader. 7. Updated Theme Options page visual usability. 8. Press Post type pages now support comments. You can enable or disable comments on Press page in Theme Options. 9. Gallery Post type page now support comments. You can enable or disable comments on Gallery page in Theme Options. 10. Video Post type page now support comments. You can enable or disable comments on Video page in Theme Options. 11. Added "Go Back" button on single blog,press,inspiration,video,gallery pages. 12. Upgraded the design of inspiration single page. 13. You can choose different comments style to different Post Types page, for example on Press page you can enable FaceBook Comments, on Video page you can enable Socha Comments e.t.c. 14. Fixed the speed on "TOP" button 15. Upgraded the Inspiration blog post type. 16. Add option to hide bottom boxes on home page, to show custom 3 boxes or to show 3 blog posts by default, recent, most commented and most voted. 17. Fixed the home page logo position on small devices. 18. Add Title, Link, Description and Html to Home Page Slider.
19. Added new Post formats: Vide, Image, Quote and upgraded old formats Gallery and Standart. 20. Upgraded blog style and made all post formats by own style. 21. Updated single posts pages for each post format. 22. Fixed bug in post gallery by resizing small images. Now images are in original size. 23. Created Sidebars to each Post Type section. 24. Add option to show show or hide sidebar on different post types pages. 25. Created Right Sidebar and option to hide or show on different Post Types. 26. Upgraded Testimonial post type page 27. Upgraded Press post type page 28. Upgraded Widget Last Twittes 29. Upgraded Widget Tags 30. Upgraded Widget Search 03/07/2013 / v.1.2 - Optimized JavaScripts and loads only necessary files on specific pages. - Fixed bug to show video, gallery, images preview on category, author, search and archive pages. - Fixed bug with right sidebar on search, category, author and archive pages. - Created new page Gallery with filter 2 Columns, standard thumbnails. - Created new page Gallery with filter 3 Columns, standard thumbnails. - Created new page Gallery with filter 4 Columns, standard thumbnails. - Created new page Gallery with filter 2 Columns, masonry thumbnails. - Created new page Gallery with filter 3 Columns, masonry thumbnails. - Created new page Gallery with filter 4 Columns, masonry thumbnails. - Created new page Gallery with pagination 2 Columns, standard thumbnails. - Created new page Gallery with pagination 3 Columns, standard thumbnails. - Created new page Gallery with pagination 4 Columns, standard thumbnails. - Created new page Gallery with pagination 2 Columns, masonry thumbnails. - Created new page Gallery with pagination 3 Columns, masonry thumbnails. - Created new page Gallery with pagination 4 Columns, masonry thumbnails. - Single Gallery Page: added automatic slide show and added a loop to slider. - Update some elements design in the single gallery page. - Added a theme option to put custom css. - Added an option to uload custom favicon icon. - Added an option to upload custom background. 03/12/2013 / V 1.3 - Added Column Shortcode - Added Button Shortcode - Added Alert Shortcode - Aded Tabs Shortcode - Added Toggle Shortcode - Fixed bug with home page - Fixed bug with All link in single gallery page - Fixed Home Slider, if no title or description, the white space doesn't appear.
- Fixed bug with slider on Home page. If you deleted the default Sneak Peek and create other, you can change the option and put the new slug to get the new slider. - Fixed bug with sidebar on pages gallery with filter and gallery with pagination - Created full width Blog page - Created 2 columns Blog page with standard thumbnails - Created 2 columns Blog page with masonry thumbnails - Created 3 columns Blog page with standard thumbnails - Created 3 columns Blog page with masonry thumbnails - Changed gallery single page carousel position - Changed Twitter widget design (new design) - Changed Tags widget design (new design) - Updated Flikr widget. (Fixed the design) - Updated Recent Posts widget (Fixed the design) - Updated standard Archive Widget - Created new Home page style - Updated page 404 error 03/17/2013 / V 1.4 - Created new page Contact Style 2 - Created new page About Style 2 - Added an option to show or gallery posts or blog post or textarea content on Home Page Style Two - Added an option to show on category posts on Home PAge Style Two - Added an option to insert how many posts to show on Home Page Style Two - Fixed Styles on ipad and ifon - Added an option to enable or disable slider on bout Style One page - Added an option to select category when you create a custom blog page archive. - Added an option to select category when you create a custom gallery archive page. - Fixed bug with Slider shortcode and updated slider styles. - Fixed the bug with Password protected Gallery when slider was shown. - Created a color selector to preview all color schemes. - Updated Documentation. - Added new color scheme, Purple. - Added an option to upload custom background on each page separatly. 03/28/2013 / v1.5 - Fixed.Po file and added new words that can be translated. - Added new social icons an Follow Box - Flickr, Dribble, Instagram, Linked in, Picassa. - Added an option to show or hide Social icons profiles. - Added an option to support html on About box Home Page. - Added an option to support html on copyrights. - Added an option to hide Top Box with Categories and search on Blog pages. - Added an option to hide Top Box with Categories on Gallery pages. - Fixed checkbox, radio and input styles bugs. - Added an option to replace Three bottom boxes on Home Style one to Page content. - Added an option to show "open" or "close" video toggle on About page style one. - Added an option to change the site font. Available all Google Fonts. - Fixed list styles on About page - Added option to show Gallery, Blog posts, Page Content on Home Style One.
- Translated the Theme in Russian Language. - Translated the theme in Romania Language. 04/16/2013 / V 1.6 - Upgraded custom background from Theme Options. - Upgraded fonts select option in Theme Options. - Added option to change body font, style, color and size. - Added option to change H1-H6 font, style, color and size. - Updated Theme Option page style. - Optimized code. Load Facebook api only on pages where it used. - Fixed the search button style in sidebar. - Fixed bug on Gallery Categories with masonry boxes. - Fixed bug with scroll on About page after opening the video box. - Added option to enable left or right sidebars on Custom pages. - Added option to show full width or static slider on Home Page style one. - Fixed Order by attribute on Gallery,Press,Inspirations,Video and Testimonials archive page. - Fixed issue with big vertical images in gallery slider. - Fixed some widget styles - Translated in Spain - Translated in German - Translated in Italian - Translated in Freanch - Created video tutorial, the link is in the description. 06/01/2013 / v 1.7 - Fixed bug with gallery category pagination. - Fixed bug with two column on press page. - Fixed bug with drop down menu on ipad vertion. - Fixed bug with resize of featured image on sigle post on window resize. - Fixed bug with nicescroll on windows 8 mobile devices. - Added an option to enable or disable custom scrollbar from theme options. - Fixed bug on Home style 3 blogpost columns 10/19/2013 / v1.8 - Fixed child theme support. Added a child theme template. - Fixed bug with activation on PHP 5.4 servers - Fixed bugs with navigation section on PHP 5.4 - Optimized source js, css and php files - Fixed bug with single inspiration post when no images in slider. - Fixed inspiration sorting by date and Attributes order. (If no Attributes order (0), is sorting by date) - Fixed press sorting by date and Attributes order. (If no Attributes order(0), is sorting by date) - Fixed video sorting by date and Attributes order. (If no Attributes order(0), is sorting by date) - Fixed gallery sorting by date and Attributes order. (If no Attributes order(0), is sorting by date) - Updated Left Navigation style and fixed some menu bugs
- Fixed Responsive Default Home page on MacBook's 13 inch. The ipad Home version shows on screen smaller than 1120px (old value was 1300px). - Fixed bug in windows Safari with sidebars and content area width. - Removed old inactive Twitter Widget - Updated all widgets styles - Added a custom CSS field for each page. (Sometimes when you upload a custom background for page, you may need to add a custom code such as "backgroundsize:cover;") - Updated 404 error page style - Added Right and left sidebar for custom pages as About and Contact. - Added options to enable or dissable sidebars on pages as About and Contact. - Fixed Responsive Columns Shortcode - Updated button shortcode styles - Added Divider shortcode - Added Team shortcode - Added Testimonial shortcode - Added Services shortcode - Added Partners shortcode - Added Google Maps shortcode - Added new page, Blog Full Width Centered - Added 3 new Color Schemes (Green Sea Color, Nephritis Color, Asbestos Color) - Added new page template: About Us three. - Added Left and Right sidebars for Shop page. When WooCommerce is activated, sidabars will appear on your widgets page. - Added a Shop and Woocommerce Support - Added new color selector on demo site - Added new Documentation file - Added new demo xml file to inport demo data - Added sidebars on responsive pages (added sidebas on mobile version) - Other small fixes Deep theme customization (beyond theme options) can be done in CSS. If you are familiar with it, you can use FireBug (FireFox plugin for web-developers) or Chrome web developers tools to define which style should be changed and where. Here s an awesome screencast by WooThemes on how to use it: http://vimeo.com/20917974 Dynamic styles are stored in the theme folder > css/main.less. LESS CSS user guide can be found here: http://lesscss.org Once again, thank you so much for purchasing Socha Theme. As I said at the beginning, I'd be glad to help you if you have any questions relating to this theme. No guarantees, but I'll do my best to assist. If you have a more general question relating to the themes on ThemeForest, you might consider visiting the forums and asking your question in the "Item Discussion" section.