Car Fix Theme Documentation

Car Fix WordPress Theme Documentation

Thank you for purchasing Car Fix WordPress Theme. This documentation consists of several parts and shows you the entire process of setting up and customizing a WordPress theme. If you have any questions that are beyond the scope of this help file, please refer to the Support section. Thanks so much!

WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and a content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL. It enables you to build Websites and powerful on-line applications and requires almost no technical skills or knowledge to manage. Many aspects, including its ease of use and extensibility, have made WordPress the most popular Web site software available.

Creating a website with WordPress is significantly much easier than coding it by yourself. if you are a beginner, even working with WordPress may be difficult to you. That's why, in this section we will provide some useful links and also will explain how to get oriented in the documentation and what pattern to follow when building your website with our theme. Please note that this documentation covers all the main settings for the theme, but it doesn't cover instructions about working with WordPress, as this is a very extensive topic. If you are new to WordPress, we would recommend to first get familiar with the WordPress system, so you can have at least basic knowledge about how it works and then proceed with setting the theme.

1. Theme Installation

a. Through WordPress Dashboard

Go to the menu Appearance > Themes and click on Add New button.
Click on Upload Theme button.
Click on Browse button and navigate to the unzipped theme package on your computer.
Look for a file called car-fix.zip Click on it to select, then click OK.
Click on Install Now button and wait until the installation is complete.
Click on Activate link to activate the theme on your WordPress site.
Go to Appearance >> Theme Options >> Restore Default.

Note: Some servers have limited folder access settings applied and wouldn't allow uploading the theme trough the admin - in these case you have to upload the theme via FTP.

b. Manual Installation using FTP client

If you know the FTP login details of the server where your site is hosted and you have a FTP client installed (such as FileZilla), you might consider using this way of uploading your theme.

Unzip the car-fix.zip file
Using an FTP client to access your host web server. Go to /wp-content/themes
Upload theme to /wp-content/themes/
Go to Appearance -> Themes and activate theme from Dashboard.

First you have to unzip the download file, find the zip file called car-fix.zip, unzip it and upload the folder to the main WordPress installation folder » wp-content » themes. Please note that if you prefer this way of installation, you have to make sure that the main files of the theme are contained just within one folder of the themes folder.

You can activate the theme after it is uploaded on the server. In order to activate this theme you have to go to the admin panel » Appearance » Themes. In this section you should see the theme with a title Car Fix . Just click on the Activate button and your theme should get activated.

2. Import Demo Content

After activating the Car Fix theme, please import demo content using following

Download the Demo Content zip file
The demo content is inside a .zip file. You must extract this archive on your computer.
(Right click on carfix-sample-data.zip to extract)
Go to Tools -> Import
Install and run WordPress importer
Click on browse, select carfix-sample-data.xml file and click on Upload file and import
You will be asked to map the authors in this export file to users on the blog. For each author, you may choose to map to an existing user on the blog or to create a new user.
You will then have the choice to import attachments, so click on the "Download and import file attachments" box.
Please be patient while WordPress imports all the content. Posts, Pages, Projects, and Menus are imported. You will need assign the menu a theme location & you'll need to configure widgets. This is a limitation of WordPress import system.

3. Homepage Setup

After activating the Car Fix theme, please setup homepage using following

Go to Settings -> Reading -> Front page displays
Click on radio button of Your latest posts
Go to Appearance -> Theme Options and click on Restore Defaults in bottom side

4. The header

The header consists of three main elements:

Contact info & Social media
Site Name / Logo
Menu

a. Social media & Email

To customize the top header bar of contact information social media links
Go to Appearance » Theme Options » Basic Settings » Header Top Social Icons

b. Changing the site name / logo

If you don't have your logo image then you can use site name and tagline. To change site name and tagline
Go to Settings » General » Site Title

OR if you want to uplaod logo for your website go to Appearance » Theme Options » Header » Logo
You can also increase logo image height as per your requirement.

c. Setting the menu

First of all create pages from Pages >> Add new page
Go to Appearance >> Menu
Click on Create a new menu link
Give a name to your menu in Menu name and click save menu button
Once you have create menu. You need to add pages by selecting with checkboxes. After adding menu list you can arrange it by drag and drop.
Select menu theme locations Primary Menu from Menu Settings
Click Save Menu after adding required pages, categories in the menu

5. Homepage Slider

In order to add slides to homepage slider: Go to Appearance » Theme Options » Homepage Slider
For each slide there are different options that you can apply.

You can change Slider Effects and Timing.
You can change Slider Animation speed, pause time
You can change Slider Hide/Show Direction Naviagtion of slider.
You can change Slider Hide/Show pager of slider.
You can change Slider Pause Slide on Hover.
Default image for slider is 1400 × 700 pixels

If you don't want to use this default image slider, you can use any image slider WordPress plugin

Go to Appearance » Theme Options » Homepage Slider » Custom Slider Shortcode Area For Home Page
Enter your slider shortcode which is provided by plugin without php tag

6. Inner Page Banner

To change inner page banner image: Go to Appearance » Theme Options » Homepage Slider » Inner Page Banner

To set different banner image for each individual page

Edit that page and set Featured Image
Default image size for inner page banner image is 1400 x 350 pixels

7. Homepage Section

a. Get Free Apointment

To display Apointment form section

Install Contact Form 7 WordPress plugin

Create new Appointment Form using below HTML form fields

<div class="homecontact">
<div class="leftcon lastborder">
<h3>GET FREE APPOINTMENT</h3>
</div>
<div class="leftcon">
<label>Name</label>
[text* your-name class:namefield placeholder 'NAME']
</div>
<div class="leftcon">
<label>Email</label>
[email* your-email class:namefield placeholder 'EMAIL']
</div>
<div class="leftcon">
<label>Contact Number</label>
[tel your-contact class:namefield placeholder "CONTACT NUMBER"]
</div>
<div class="leftcon">
<label>Car Model</label>
[text car-model class:namefield placeholder 'CAR MODEL']
</div>
<div class="leftcon">
<label>Services</label>
[select your-services class:webfield " " "Services 1" "Services 2" "Services 3" "Services 4" "Services 5"]</div>
[submit value="SUBMIT"]
<div class="clear"></div>
</div>

Add below code in Message Body of Mail Tab

From: [your-name] <[your-email]>
Subject: [your-subject]
Contact Number:[your-contact]
Car Model:[car-model]
Your Services:[your-services]

Message Body:
[your-message]

Copy the Appointment Form shortcode
Go to Appearance » Theme Options » Sections » Get Free Apointment Form » Add Appointment Form Shortcode

b. Our Services

To manage this section

Create page from Page » Add New
Add Title and Description of the page
Go to Appearance » Theme Options » Sections » Our Services Section
Select Page and upload image

c. Our Features

To manage this section

Create page from Page » Add New
Add Title and Description of the page
Go to Appearance » Theme Options » Sections » Our Features Section
Select Page and upload image

d. Welcome to Car Fix

To manage this section

Create page from Page » Add New
Add Title and Description of the page
Go to Appearance » Theme Options » Sections » Welcome Section
Select Page and Upload your image
Change text content and image icon

To change the image icon in Welcome Text shortcode

First upload image from Media Library. Go to Media » Add New
Copy full path of uploaded image
Add image URL in image=""

e. Popular Services

To manage this section go to Appearance » Theme Options » Sections » Section 1

Change the text content and image

Shortcode:

[tabs tabstitle="POPULAR SERVICES"]
[tab title="WHEEL WORKS" titleicon="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/car-fix/images/titleicon1.png"]
[innertitle size="40px" color="#ffffff" fontweight="700" description="WHEEL WORKS"]
<img src="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/car-fix/images/work-wheel.jpg" />
<h5>The trusted experts will to keep you safe on the road.</h5>
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Vivamus eu pharetra ex. Etiam eget diam ligula. Sed at blandit ante. Vivamus feugiat, lacus eu suscipit mattis, tortor mi aliquam leo, quis laoreet ante sem sed sapien. Phasellus id convallis ligula. Aliquam erat volutpat. Aliquam erat volutpat. Quisque posuere elit ut efficitur hendrerit. Vestibulum aliquet enim ac eros mattis.
<ul><li>Wheel Installation </li><li>Wheel Allignment </li><li>Wheel Refinishing </li><li>Wheel Air Filling</li><li>Wheel Straightning </li><li>Wheel Balancing </li><li>Wheel Changing </li><li>Punchure Repair </li></ul>[/tab]

[tab title="AIR CONDITIONER" titleicon="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/car-fix/images/titleicon2.png"]
[innertitle size="40px" color="#ffffff" fontweight="700" description="AIR CONDITIONER"]
<img src="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/car-fix/images/welcome.jpg" />
<h5>The trusted experts will to keep you safe on the road.</h5>
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Vivamus eu pharetra ex. Etiam eget diam ligula. Sed at blandit ante. Vivamus feugiat, lacus eu suscipit mattis, tortor mi aliquam leo, quis laoreet ante sem sed sapien. Phasellus id convallis ligula. Aliquam erat volutpat. Aliquam erat volutpat. Quisque posuere elit ut efficitur hendrerit. Vestibulum aliquet enim ac eros mattis.<ul><li>Wheel Installation </li><li>Wheel Allignment </li><li>Wheel Refinishing </li><li>Wheel Air Filling</li><li>Wheel Straightning </li><li>Wheel Balancing </li><li>Wheel Changing </li><li>Punchure Repair </li></ul>[/tab]

[tab title="PAINTING WORKS" titleicon="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/car-fix/images/titleicon3.png"]
[innertitle size="40px" color="#ffffff" fontweight="700" description="PAINTING WORKS"]
<img src="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/car-fix/images/work-wheel.jpg" />
<h5>The trusted experts will to keep you safe on the road.</h5>
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Vivamus eu pharetra ex. Etiam eget diam ligula. Sed at blandit ante. Vivamus feugiat, lacus eu suscipit mattis, tortor mi aliquam leo, quis laoreet ante sem sed sapien. Phasellus id convallis ligula. Aliquam erat volutpat. Aliquam erat volutpat. Quisque posuere elit ut efficitur hendrerit. Vestibulum aliquet enim ac eros mattis.<ul><li>Wheel Installation </li><li>Wheel Allignment </li><li>Wheel Refinishing </li><li>Wheel Air Filling</li><li>Wheel Straightning </li><li>Wheel Balancing </li><li>Wheel Changing </li><li>Punchure Repair </li></ul>[/tab]

[tab title="WATER SERVICE" titleicon="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/car-fix/images/titleicon4.png"]
[innertitle size="40px" color="#ffffff" fontweight="700" description="WATER SERVICE"]
<img src="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/car-fix/images/welcome.jpg" />
<h5>The trusted experts will to keep you safe on the road.</h5>
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Vivamus eu pharetra ex. Etiam eget diam ligula. Sed at blandit ante. Vivamus feugiat, lacus eu suscipit mattis, tortor mi aliquam leo, quis laoreet ante sem sed sapien. Phasellus id convallis ligula. Aliquam erat volutpat. Aliquam erat volutpat. Quisque posuere elit ut efficitur hendrerit. Vestibulum aliquet enim ac eros mattis.<ul><li>Wheel Installation </li><li>Wheel Allignment </li><li>Wheel Refinishing </li><li>Wheel Air Filling</li><li>Wheel Straightning </li><li>Wheel Balancing </li><li>Wheel Changing </li><li>Punchure Repair </li></ul>[/tab]

[tab title="ENGINE WORKS" titleicon="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/car-fix/images/titleicon5.png"]
[innertitle size="40px" color="#ffffff" fontweight="700" description="ENGINE WORKS"]
<img src="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/car-fix/images/work-wheel.jpg" />
<h5>The trusted experts will to keep you safe on the road.</h5>
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Vivamus eu pharetra ex. Etiam eget diam ligula. Sed at blandit ante. Vivamus feugiat, lacus eu suscipit mattis, tortor mi aliquam leo, quis laoreet ante sem sed sapien. Phasellus id convallis ligula. Aliquam erat volutpat. Aliquam erat volutpat. Quisque posuere elit ut efficitur hendrerit. Vestibulum aliquet enim ac eros mattis.<ul><li>Wheel Installation </li><li>Wheel Allignment </li><li>Wheel Refinishing </li><li>Wheel Air Filling</li><li>Wheel Straightning </li><li>Wheel Balancing </li><li>Wheel Changing </li><li>Punchure Repair </li></ul>
[/tab][/tabs]

f. Why Choose Us

To manage this section go to Appearance » Theme Options » Sections » Section 2

Shortcode/Content:

[row_area][services_box icon="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/car-fix/images/whychoosus1.png" title="Secured services" description="Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dold do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et."][services_box icon="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/car-fix/images/whychoosus2.png" title="Affordable prices" description="Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dold do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et."][services_box icon="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/car-fix/images/whychoosus3.png" title="Qualitative car parts" description="Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dold do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et."][/row_area]

g. Excellent Workers

Create new team member from Our Team -> Add New
Add Title, Description, Member Information and set Featured Image
To manage this section go to Appearance » Theme Options » Sections » Section 3

Shortcode/Content:

[subtitle size="16px" color="#252525" align="center" description="Aliquam erat volutpat. Quisque posuere elit ut efficitur hendrerit. Vestibulum aliquet enim ac eros mattis facilisis. Donec ultrices, diam sed efficitur semper, diam lectus malesuada nisl, eget congue nisl ligula non purus."][our-team show="-1"]

h. Latest News

To manage this section go to Appearance » Theme Options » Sections » Section 4

Shortcode:

[latest-news showposts="-1" date="show" comment="show" author="show" excerpt="22"]

i. Satisfied Customers

This section is used to display clients testimonials

Create new posts from Testimonials -> Add Testimonials
Add Title, Description, Testimonials Info and set Featured Image
To manage this section go to Appearance » Theme Options » Sections » Section 5

Shortcode:

[subtitle size="16px" color="#252525" align="center" description="Aliquam erat volutpat. Quisque posuere elit ut efficitur hendrerit. Vestibulum aliquet enim ac eros mattis facilisis. Donec ultrices, diam sed efficitur semper, diam lectus malesuada nisl, eget congue nisl ligula non purus."][testimonials]

j. CAR A/C Inspection

To manage this section go to Appearance » Theme Options » Sections » Section 6

Shortcode:

[innertitle size="28px" color="#191818" fontweight="700" description="CAR A/C INSPECTION"][subtitle color="#191818" size="16px" align="left" description="Check high & low side Freon pressures with A/C machine. Check & record vent temperatures. Run complete <br />performance test."][button align="right" name="GET A QUOTE" link="#" target="_self"]

k. Work Gallery

To manage this photo gallery section

First of all add some photo from Photo Gallery -> Add New
To create gallery category: Go to Photo Gallery -> Gallery Category (Category is optional)
Add Title, select category and set Featured Image (This Featured image will display in photo gallery)
To manage this section go to Appearance » Theme Options » Sections » Section 7
Use this shortcode to display project gallery: [photogallery filter="false" show="8"]
Set filter="true" to display category filter in gallery

Shortcode/content:

[photogallery filter="false" show="8"]

l. Brand & Partners

To change brand logo image

First upload logo image from Media Library. Go to Media -> Add New
Copy full path of uploaded image
Go to Appearance -> Theme Options -> Sections -> Section 8
Add image URL in image="" and link in link="" like below
[client image="http://...." link="#"]

Shortcode:

[client_lists][client image="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/car-fix/images/client-logo-1.jpg" title="BRAND LOGO" description="Aliquam erat volutpat. Quisque posuere elit ut efficitur" detail="DETAIL" link="#" ][client image="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/car-fix/images/client-logo-2.jpg" title="BRAND LOGO" description="Aliquam erat volutpat. Quisque posuere elit ut efficitur" detail="DETAIL" link="#"][client image="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/car-fix/images/client-logo-3.jpg" title="BRAND LOGO" description="Aliquam erat volutpat. Quisque posuere elit ut efficitur" detail="DETAIL" link="#"][client image="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/car-fix/images/client-logo-4.jpg" title="BRAND LOGO" description="Aliquam erat volutpat. Quisque posuere elit ut efficitur" detail="DETAIL" link="#"][client image="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/car-fix/images/client-logo-2.jpg" title="BRAND LOGO" description="Aliquam erat volutpat. Quisque posuere elit ut efficitur" detail="DETAIL" link="#"][/client_lists]

m. Contact Details

To manage this section go to Appearance » Theme Options » Sections » Section 9

Shortcode:

[contact-details icon="fas fa-map-marker-alt" title="ADDRESS" info="10 Nr. Street Road, Ohio, USA"][contact-details icon="fas fa-phone-volume" title="PHONE" info="+91 123 852 7854"][contact-details icon="fas fa-envelope" title="EMAIL" info="info@sitename.com"]

8. Footer

The Footer section consists of four main elements:

About Us
Quick Links
Latest Posts
Working Hours
Copyright Text

To manage footer section go to the Appearance » Theme Options » Footer

9. Setting footer menu

Go to Appearance >> Menu
Click on Create a new menu link to create footer menu
Give a name to your menu (Footer Menu / Support Menu) in Menu name and click save menu button
Add pages by selecting with checkboxes.
Select Display location Footer Menu from Menu Settings
Click Save Menu after adding required pages, categories in the menu

10. Photo Gallery

To display Photo Gallery in any of your page

First of all add some photo from Photo Gallery -> Add New
To create gallery category: Go to Photo Gallery -> Gallery Category (Category is optional)
Add Title, select category and set Featured Image (This Featured image will display in photo gallery)
Use this shortcode to display project gallery: [photogallery filter="true" show="6"]
Set filter="false" to remove category filter in gallery

11. Contact Form

To display contact form in your website

Create contact page from Pages » Add new page
Select Contact Us Template from Page Attribute section
To manage contact form, Go to Appearance » Theme Options » Contact Us Page
Click here to get Google map iframe code

12. Page Templates & Sidebars

When you create a new page from the Pages » Add New section, the "Default Template" is assigned to the page by default. The default page template is a standard page template that can be with a sidebar or full-width layout and can contain custom content.

Default Template
- Used to setting up the content on any page with Right Sidebar
Left Sidebar
- Used to setting up the content on any page with Left Sidebar
Full Width
- Used to setting up the content on any page without Sidebar
No Sidebar
- Used to setting up the content in center on any page without Sidebar
Contact Us
- Used to setting up the contact page.

13. Widgets

The WordPress widgets are used to manage sidebars:

Can manage sidebar from widgets (exa. blog sidebar and main sidebar)
Footer section can manage from footer widgets 1,2.3,4

14. Shortcodes

To view all shortcodes go to Appearance » Theme Options » Short Codes:

Photo Gallery:
[photogallery filter="true" show="8"]
Testimonials:
[testimonials]
Testimonials Listing:
[testimonials-listing show="10"]
Contact Form:
[contactform to_email="test@example.com" title="Contact Form"]

15. Multilingual

This theme is ready for translation - it comes with a .po file that contains all the embedded into the theme strings.
It supports multiple languages. The qTranslate X WordPress plugin offers a way to maintain dynamic multilingual content on a WordPress site.

How to make your website translate ready?

Install qTranslate X WordPress plugin
Used following code for making text translate ready - [:en]English Text[:de]Deutsch Text[:]
Viewing in Dutch used website url : http://www.yourwebsiteurl.com/de/
Viewing in English used website url : http://www.yourwebsiteurl.com/en/

To translate Homepage sections Title, Content, Button texts, Read more texts

Go to Appearance » Theme Options » Basic Settings
Go to Appearance » Theme Options » Sections -> Section 1 » Section Title / Content
and use below code for making text translate ready
[:en]English Text[:de]Deutsch Text[:]

15. Support

If you have any questions regarding our WordPress themes, you can contact us through our support forum or you can mail us at support@gracethemes.com Our support team is always ready to help you with any problems of customization or compatibility you may encounter.

Car Fix Lite Theme Documentation

Thank you for using Car Fix Lite Free WordPress Theme. This documentation consists of several parts and shows you the entire process of setting up and customizing a free WordPress theme. If you have any questions that are beyond the scope of this help file, please refer to the Support section. Thanks so much!

Create the page for slider from WordPress dashboard
Slider Title managed from page title
Slider image managed from page featured image (slider image size 1400 × 700 pixels)
Then select the pages from dropdown for slider

4. Our Services

Go to Appearance » Customize » Theme Options Panel » Our Services Section

Create the pages with Featured Image from Pages » Add New
Title is managed from page title
Image icon is managed from page featured image
Select the pages from dropdown

5. Our Features

Go to Appearance » Customize » Theme Options Panel » Our Features Section

Create the pages with Featured Image from Pages » Add New
Title is managed from page title
Image is managed from page featured image
Select the pages from dropdown

6. Welcome to Car Fix

Go to Appearance » Customize » Theme Options Panel » Welcome Section

Create the page with Featured Image from Pages » Add New
Title is managed from page title
Image is managed from page featured image
Select the page from dropdown

7. Footer

To customize footer setion go to Appearance » Widgets » Footer Widget 1, 2, 3, 4
To activate a widget, drag it to a Footer Widget.
To deactivate a widget and delete its settings, drag it back

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If you have any questions regarding our WordPress themes, you can contact us through our support forum or you can mail us at support@gracethemes.com Our support team is always ready to help you with any problems of customization or compatibility you may encounter.