CoffeeKing - Like Themes WordPress Theme Documentation 1.1

1. Theme Support and Licence

Thank you for purchasing CoffeeKing WordPress Theme. If you need support you can contact us by email (like.themes.wp@gmail.com). You must provide purchase code, we'll answer you in 1-2 business days. According to item support policy it doesn't include theme customization, third party plugins integration and hosting problems.

With ThemeForest Regular License you allowed:

You are licensed to use the Item to create one single End Product for yourself or for one client (a “single application”), and the End Product can be distributed for Free
You can modify the Item and therefore delete unwanted components before creating your single End Product

You are not allowed:

You can’t Sell the End Product, except to one client. (If you or your client want to Sell the End Product, you will need the Extended License.)

For more information about license please read https://themeforest.net/licenses/faq.

2. Theme installation

To install this theme you must have a working version of WordPress already installed. Make sure you have clean WordPress setup.
This installation guide will help you to install the WordPress. If you area new in WordPress we recommend you to read WordPress Codex, FAQ and Lessons.

Requirements

You need web hosting with PHP5, mysql 5 or higher and at least WordPress 4.6 installed.
If you have troubles with theme installation or one click demo install, make sure your server configuration limits are:

post_max_size 32M
upload_max_filesize 32M
max_execution_time 600
memory_limit 128M

You can check them using plugin PHP Info. You can try to change these values by editing your .htaccess file (at root of your FTP) and adding these lines:

php_value upload_max_filesize 32M

php_value post_max_size 32M

php_value memory_limit 128M

php_value max_execution_time 600

If it still not helps - contact your hosting provider, they must help you with server configuration.

Installation

The theme files can be uploaded in two ways: Through FTP or through WordPress dashboard.

FTP
Upload the non-zipped theme folder into the /wp-content/themes/ folder on your server. You must upload folder /coffeeking/ from archive coffeeking.zip.
WordPress
Navigate to "Appearance" > "Add New Themes" -> "Upload Theme" -> "Choose file" (choose coffeeking.zip) > Install

Activate it after install.

Basic configuration

Install all required plugins (Especialy Unyson, Like-Thmes-plugins and Visual Composer) by clicking on Begin installing plugins and activate them after that.
Update permalinks for custom pages in Settings -> Permalink -> Save

Notice: if you want to use a child-theme, you can also upload the file coffeeking-child.zip in addition with the main CoffeeKing Theme. Child Theme allows you to add/modify CSS Stylesheet and functions without modifying main theme files. And you'll not lose your modifications after main theme update.

One Click Demo Content Install

We recommend you to install demo content. Go to the Tools -> Demo Content Install. Be aware - installing of demo content will delete all your current content.
Click Install, wait till it'll be downloaded. Your WordPress CoffeeKing theme now must be identical to live preview. If you have troubles with installation, plesase check minimal PHP hosting requirements from Theme installation section.

If Tools -> Demo Content Install not Available - make sure Unyson Plugin is installed and activated. Also:

Backup & Demo Content Extenstion must be active.

3. Theme Configuration

Fill all fields in Appearance -> Theme Settings

3.1 General

Logo dark and logo white - set logos for different navbar slyles
Blog and Gallery layout - default layout for /blog/ and /gallery/ pages.
Basket Icon - you can disable navbar basket icon here. It will be also disabled if WooCommerce plugin is deactivated
WooCommerce Product Hover Zoom - activated mouse over zoom in single product page
Google API Key - you must enter your Google API Key if you need Google Maps services.
Inner Header and 404 Page Background - upload background images for certain pages.
Excerpt Blog and WooCommerce - automatically cuts text on these pages.

3.2 Navbar

You can control navbar menu icons from here.

You can change order, select not default icon from FontAwesome library or even add custom social icons.

Footer block

You can control footer widgets area layout by enabling and disabling every widget column.

Hide Go Top - disables footer go top link
Footer Block Background - set background for Block Before the Footer
Copyrights - change copyright text
Hide Footer n Widget - allows you to control footer widget columns, also you can control mobile view of these columns

Favicon

Next, in Appearance -> Customize you can set Site Title, add Favicon

Color Customization

Appearance -> Customize -> CofeeKing allows you to change all main colors of the theme

Google Fonts

To change Theme Fonts go to Appearance -> Theme Settings -> Fonts:

Use https://fonts.google.com/ to find needed font family. If you building Cyrillic web-site, we recommend you these fonts:

Headers Fira Sans / 800
Paragraph Roboto or Open Sans

Common Settings

WordPress settings You can find more information in WordPress documentation, but we'll describe main options.

Settings -> General. You can set here your email, timezone, date format
Settings -> Reading. Frontpage must be set to "Homepage", but you can use any page of site as welcome page. Also you can change number of posts per page. 6, 8 or 10 will be optimal
Settings -> Discussion. You can enable/disabled premoderation of comments here.

4. Menu and Widgets

Widgets

Widgets are customizeble blocks visible in blogs, shop pages and footer of site. You can configure blog sidebar position in pages control (or disable it at all).
You can change them in Appearance -> Widgets.
You can use any of standard WordPress widgets. Also you can install and any new widget in Plugins menu, but we can't guarantee full
support for them.

5. Posts

Blogs posts

It's standard WordPress posts module. You can write articles here, create categories, set tags.

If you want to create additional Blog Page, create empty page, them set Template -> Blog

Also set Blog Layout you want (at footer of Pages)

Gallery

Among standard gallery, you can use our posts type. Main Photo with header and description will be shown in list and other photos with full-page zoom inside of gallery.

As blogs, you can change layout and create additional pages:

Testimonials

You can post clients feedback here, it will be available on /testimonials/ page. Also you can post preview of feedbacks on any page with shortcode.

Sections

Allows to edit common used on all pages blocks. In CoffeeKing theme you can control subscribe block (you can disable it by deactivating MailChimp Plugin)

6. Pages

Among posts, pages are main module where you'll create your site content. You can use Visual Composer for visually change blocks and using shortcodes. You'll find information about all CoffeeKing shortcodes in next section, here we'll describe main editor functions.

To enable Visual Composer select Backend or Frontend editor. In most cases you need only Backend.

Layout

You can add new elements be clicking on plus button.

You can read all about Visual Composer Shortcuts in official documentation.

Layout Configuraton

For every page you can configure:

Navbar. Setting mostly used for HomePages to set different Navbars
Subscribe. Can be hidden or visible. And changed in Sections Menu.
Sidebar. Can be hidden or placed to left or right of page.
Blog Layout / Gallery Layout. Different number of columns can be set. In order to show these pages correctly you must also set template.

7. Shortcodes

Here we describe our shortcodes:

Alert

You can create Warning Block:

Block with Icons

Create different information block with icons:

Set all params and create Icons list. You can choose from Font Awesome library or upload you own icon.

Blog

Insert block with last Blog Posts from archive:

You can inset certain Blog Posts by ID's, or latest posts from Category. Also you can set needed text size.

Button

Buttons are important elements of every site. You can use buttons as links to inner or external pages:

Among default Button text, URL, sizes and button aliment you can select default color state, hover color state, different text color.
Position allows you to set several button in one row.

Contact Form 7 Customized

More detailed information about using Contact Form 7 you can find in section Forms. This shortcode allows you to create customizable
form with different button color or background:

CountUp

CountUp Block is simple, but effective way to show some important information to you client.

Add several blocks, insert you information and that's all - animated block is ready.

Empty Space Responsive

Empty space is main tool to control your sections. You can create block of certain height, that will be transformed in mobile and tablet.

Google Map Styled

Create Styled Google Map

Header

Advanced Tool to create unique headers styled for CoffeeKing Theme:

Default header uses smaller subheader at the top:

Header with Shadow:

Inset header - allows you to insert header with two different colors:

Set subheader as inset background in order to get two layered header:

You can add "Text as Background" for advanced header:

Use Google Fonts to set unique header:

Image Preview Special

Allows you to add image with video link:

Products

Show latest product from WooCommerce plugin with filter and slider:

Social Icons

Use FontAwesome Icons Library to Add Social Icons block to you site:

Swiper Slider

Create slides in Sliders section:

Then insert slider to site using this Shortcode:

Tariff

Allows you to create Special Offers Block with highlighted VIP Price:

Testimonials

Insert Testimonials slider to show latest posts from Testimonials Post Type:

Zoom Slider

Create sections with Background Fade Gallery with great Ken Burns effect at header of your pages:

Add shortcode to row and set images and options:

After that create content elements inside of Zoom Slider Shortcode. You can also edit old Zoom Slider using this shortcode.

8. Forms

To add forms on your pages, first create them in required plugin. Then go to Contact -> Contact Forms

To insert form into page use CF7 Shortcode or CF7 Customized for more options.

9. Additional Plugins

Breadcrumb NavXT

Used for showing breadcrumbs in header of site

Post Views Counter

Show number of views in gallery and blog posts. If you disable it icon will be hidden.

WP Instagram Widget

You can add this widget to sidebar to show last photos of selected instagram

MailChimp

Plugin for emails subscribe lists

WooCommerce

Powerfull e-commerce plugin. Has many additional plugins. We recommend to examine it's own documentation if you have any questions:

10. Backup

You can backup your site in Tools -> Archives menu. Also you can enable Backup Schedule for automatic backup.

We strongly recommend you to do manual backups regularly, especially when you making updates or major changes on your pages.

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