Morvarid

Child Theme

A child theme is a theme that inherits the functionality and styling of another theme, called the parent theme. Child themes are the recommended way of modifying an existing theme.

Why use a Child Theme?

There are a few reasons why you would want to use a child theme:

• If you modify a theme directly and it is updated, then your modifications may be lost. By using a child theme you will ensure that your modifications are preserved.
• Using a child theme can speed up development time.
• Using a child theme is a great way to learn about WordPress theme development.

Child Theme Install

1. Log in to the WordPress Administration Panels.
2. Navigate to the Appearance > Themes menu.
3. Click the Add New button on the top of the screen.
4. On the next page, click the Upload Theme button on the top of the screen.
5. Click the Choose File button to open up a dialog to browse your computer and navigate to Child Theme folder. Select the file morvarid-child.zip and click Install Now.
6. Please wait a few seconds, WordPress will upload and extract the theme archive for you. All you need to do next is to press the Activate link under the message for successful theme installation.
7. That's it! Now you can add custom CSS code and PHP functions.

How to use the child theme

1. After install the child theme navigate to Wordpress admin panel.
2. Navigate to the Appearance > Editor menu.
3. In the section titled Templates, you will see a list of files that you can edit:
• functions.php - This lets you add additional functions, classes and hooks to WordPress theme without needing to alter the code within the functions file of the parent theme.
• style.css - This lets you add or change the theme styles (colors, sizes, fonts, backgrounds etc.) without needing to change the code within the style.css file of the parent theme.
4. Select the file you want to change and add your PHP/CSS code in the editor on the left side.
5. Click the Update File button when you're finished editing a file.

Plugin Installation

This theme requires the installation and activation of some plug-ins to add additional features and capabilities. If you want to use contact form, instagram, newsletter and demo import, you need to install the following plugins:

How to setup Contact Form

Form Code:

			                	
<div class="row">
    <div class="col-md-6">
        [text* your-name placeholder "Your Name"]
     </div>
    <div class="col-md-6">
     [text* your-email placeholder "Your Email *"]
    </div>
    <div class="col-md-12">
    [text your-subject placeholder "Subject"][textarea your-message 10x5 placeholder "Your Message"][submit id:SendMessage "Send Message"]
    </div>
</div>
			                    
			                

Create Contact Form

1. Navigate to the Contact → Add New page in the WordPress admin.
2. Enter a name for Contact Form
3. Copy the code above into contact form
4. Click the Save button.

Create Page Contact

1. After Created Contact Form, copy the shortcode
2. Navigate to the Pages → Add New page in the WordPress admin.
3. Enter a name for Page
4. Paste the shortcode in step 1 into the page content
5. Click the Pulsish button.

How to setup Mailchimp

		                	
<div class="morvarid-newsletter">
  <label>Subscribe to the Morvarid newsletter</label>
  <div class="form-newsletter">
     <input type="email" name="EMAIL" placeholder="Your email address" required="">
  	 <button type="submit" value="Sign up">Sign up</button>
  </div>
</div>
		                	
		                

Create Mailchimp Form

1. Navigate to the Mailchimp for WP → Form in the WordPress admin.
2. Copy the code above into form code
3. Click the Save Changes button.

Install Demo Content

Well, it's really simple.

If you're using the theme to build a new website which doesn't have content yet, I strongly recommend you to use the demo content files.

1. Navigate to theAppearance → Import Demo Datain the WordPress admin
2. Click the Import Demo Data button

Creating Menus

You can manage and create menus by navigating to Appearance → Menus.

1. Click the create a new menu link.
2. Enter a name for the menu (this can be anything e.g "Main Menu").
3. Click the Create Menu button.
4. Select Pages you wanted to be appeared in Menu
5. Click on Add to Menu button
6. Drag menu item left-right to make it under another menu(sub menu).
7. Click Save Menu button

Site Setting

You can manage theme options by navigating to Appearance → Customize → Site Setting.

1. Typography: Setting color and typography for text body and heading
2. Color: Setting background color, accent color
3. Background Image: Setting background image for site

Site Header

You can manage theme options by navigating to Appearance → Customize → Header.

1. Site Indentity

1. Upload Logo for site
2. Enter the information for site: Site Title, Tagline
3. Setting typography for site title and tagline
4. You may can install hidden tagline
5. Click the Published button.

2. Style Header

1. Padding main header: set the top and bottom space for header
2. Background color: set background color for header
3. Show/hide Social: Configure to show/hide social on header
4. Social color: Set color social icon for state normal and hover
5. Show/hide Search Form: Configure to show/hide search form on header
6. Color Search Form:
   • Color Text: Set color text for text field
   • Background: Set backgroud search form
   • Icon color: Set icon color for button search
7. Border width: Install it if you want more border for search form
8. Border Color Search: to change the color of border form search

3. Main Menu

1. Set backgroud color for Main menu
2. Set border color for Main menu
3. Set font, color for menu item of main menu
4. Set font, color for menu item of sub menu
5. Click the Published button.

Section Wellcome

You can manage theme options by navigating to Appearance → Customize → Section Wellcome Setting.

Welcome Content Tab

1. Show/hide Section Welcome? : Configure to show/hide Section Welcome
2. Welcome Image: Upload your image
3. Welcome Name: Enter your name
4. Welcome Title: Enter your title
5. Welcome Text: Enter your description
6. Show/hide Social Network? : Configure to show/hide social network in section welcome
7. Click Published button

Welcome Style Tab

1. Border Color Image : Set border color for image
2. Border Color Frame Image: Set color for frame image
3. Welcome Name Typography: Set font size and color for text name
4. Welcome Title Typography: Set font size,font family and color... for text title
5. Welcome Text Typography: Set font size and color... for text description
6. Click Published button

Featured Posts

You can manage theme options by navigating to Appearance → Customize → Featured Posts Slide.

1. Configure Show/hide featured posts
2. Select post for featured post slide
3. Click the Published button.

Banner Setting

You can customize the background banner in the customize as shown below

1. Set background for banner
2. Set backgroud overlay for banner
3. Set color for title in banner
4. Set color breadcrumbs in banner

Blog Configs

You can manage theme options by navigating to Appearance → Customize → Blog Setting.

Blog Layout Tab

1. Choose a layout blog style for page blog
2. Configuration hide/shows sidebar on page blog
3. Configure the number of posts on 1 page
4. Click the Published button.

Blog Archive Tab

1. Image Background Archive: if you want the banner of all page archive categories, tag... to have a separate image from other inner pages, please choose an alternative image here
2. Choose a layout blog style for page archive
3. Configuration hide/shows sidebar on page archive
4. Configure the number of posts on 1 page archive
5. Click the Published button.

Single Post Tab

1. Configure to show/hide banner for page single post
2. Set background image for page single post
3. Hide/Show sidebar for single page
4. Hide/shows relate posts
5. Click the Published button.

Social Network

You can manage theme options by navigating to Appearance → Customize → Social Networks.

1. Enter the links of your social networks if you want it to show
2. Click the Published button.

Instagram Feed

1. Install plugin Smash Balloon Instagram Feed
2. Set widget Instagram Feed

• Instagram Footer : [instagram-feed num=5 cols=5 ]
• Instagram Sidebar : [instagram-feed num=9 cols=3 imagepadding=3]

num - The number of photos to display initially. Maximum is 33.

cols - The number of columns in your feed. 1 - 10.

imagepadding - The spacing around your photos

Footer

You can manage theme options by navigating to Appearance → Customize → Footer.

1. Hide/show Instagram Feed
2. Hide/show Social Network
3. Set backgroud color for section social
4. Set color social for state link and hover
5. Enter copyright text
6. Set backgroud color for section copyright
7. Set color for copyright text
8. Click the Published button.

Source and Credits

Along the project, I've been using the following assets, even if they were images, icons or other files, as listed.

• jQuery
• jQuery FitVids
• Font Awesome
• Bootstrap
• Owl Carousel
• Unsplash