Dream Home PRO WordPress Theme Documentation

Thank you for purchasing Dream Home 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.



Table of Contents

  1. Theme Installation
  2. Import Demo Content
  3. Homepage Setup
  4. Header
    1. Contact Info & Social Media Icons
    2. Site name / logo
    3. Setting the menu
  5. Homepage Slider
  6. Inner Page Banner
  7. Homepage Section
    1. Search Property
    2. How Can Help
    3. Latest Properties
    4. Most Popular Cities
    5. Why Choose Us
    6. Buy or sell
    7. Real Estate Marketplace
    8. Property Highlights
    9. What We Offer
    10. Current Projects
    11. Client Testimonial
    12. Join our Team
    13. Meet Our Agents
    14. Developers
    15. Contact Us
  8. Footer
  9. Footer Menu
  10. Contact Form
  11. Page Templates & Sidebars
  12. Widgets
  13. Shortcodes
  14. Multilingual
  15. Support

Free Version

  1. Homepage Setup
  2. Header Section
  3. Slider Section
  4. Services Section
  5. Footer

1. Theme Installation

a. Through WordPress Dashboard

  1. Go to the menu Appearance > Themes and click on Add New button.
  2. Click on Upload Theme button.
  3. Click on Browse button and navigate to the unzipped theme package on your computer.
  4. Look for a file called dream-home-pro.zip Click on it to select, then click OK.
  5. Click on Install Now button and wait until the installation is complete.
  6. Click on Activate link to activate the theme on your WordPress site.
  7. 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.

  1. Unzip the dream-home-pro.zip file
  2. Using an FTP client to access your host web server. Go to /wp-content/themes
  3. Upload theme to /wp-content/themes/
  4. Go to Appearance » Themes and activate theme from Dashboard.
First you have to unzip the download file, find the zip file called dream-home-pro.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 Dream Home PRO. Just click on the Activate button and your theme should get activated.



2. Import Demo Content

After activating the Dream Home theme, please import demo content using following



3. Homepage Setup

After activating the Dream Home theme, please setup homepage using following



4. The header

The header consists of three main elements:



a. Contact Info & Social Media Icons

To customize the contact information & social media links
Go to Appearance » Theme Options » Basic Settings » Header Contact Info



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 » Basic Settings » Logo
You can also increase logo image height as per your requirement.



b. Setting the menu

  1. First of all create pages from Pages >> Add new page
  2. Go to Appearance >> Menu
  3. Click on Create a new menu link
  4. Give a name to your menu in Menu name and click save menu button
  5. 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.
  6. Select menu theme locations Primary Menu from Menu Settings
  7. 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.

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



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



7. Homepage Section

a. Search Property

To manage this section

Shortcode/Content: 
[es_search_form title="Search Property" layout="horizontal" fields="es_category,es_type,bedrooms,bathrooms,price,area"]


b. How Can Help

To manage this section



c. Latest Properties

To customize this section

Shortcode/Content: 
[es_my_listing layout="3_col" limit="6" show_filter="0"]


d. Most Popular Cities

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

Shortcode/Content: 
[most-popular-cities image="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/dream-home-pro/images/most-popular-citie-1.jpg" title="Mattapan" subtitle="1 Listings" link="#"][most-popular-cities image="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/dream-home-pro/images/most-popular-citie-2.jpg" title="Philadelphia" subtitle="5 Listings" link="#"][most-popular-cities image="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/dream-home-pro/images/most-popular-citie-3.jpg" title="Washington" subtitle="7 Listings" link="#"][most-popular-cities image="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/dream-home-pro/images/most-popular-citie-4.jpg" title="Wesley Heights" subtitle="1 Listings" link="#"]

To change the images in this section



e. Why Choose Us

To manage this section go to Appearance » Theme Options » Sections » Section 3

Shortcode/Content: 
[column_content type="left-column-50"][why-choose-image image="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/dream-home-pro/images/why-choose-image.png"][/column_content][column_content type="right-column-50"][section-main-title title="We provide full service at every step" color="#242424" subtitle="Why Choose Us"][subtitle color="#161616" description="Curabitur vel est tellus. Ut elementum vehicula dictum. Aenean justo mauris, ullamcorper nec nulla quis, sodales efficitur ipsum pretium nibh ex, ac vehicula odio gravida vitae."][whychooseus icon="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/dream-home-pro/images/whychooseus-1.png" title="Renting and Selling Services" info="Curabitur vel est tellus elementu vehicula dictuenean justo mauri."][whychooseus icon="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/dream-home-pro/images/whychooseus-2.png" title="Property Management" info="Curabitur vel est tellus elementu vehicula dictuenean justo mauri."][whychooseus icon="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/dream-home-pro/images/whychooseus-3.png" title="Property Listing" info="Curabitur vel est tellus elementu vehicula dictuenean justo mauri."][/column_content][clear]

To change the image and icons in this section



f. Buy or sell

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

Shortcode/Content: 
[section-main-title title="Buy or sell your house in few seconds with Dream Home" color="#ffffff"][button name="READ MORE" link="#" target="_self"][border-button name="BROWSE PROPERTY" link="#" target="_self"]


g. Real Estate Marketplace

To manage this section go to Appearance » Theme Options » Sections » Section 5

Shortcode/Content: 
[column_content type="left-column-50"][section-main-title title="The Leading Real Estate Marketplace" color="#242424"][subtitle color="#161616" description="Curabitur vel est tellus. Ut elementum vehicula dictum. Aenean justo mauris, ullamcorper nec nulla quis, sodales efficitur ipsum pretium nibh ex, ac vehicula odio gravida vitae."][whychooseus icon="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/dream-home-pro/images/whychooseus-4.png" title="The Perfect Residency" info="Curabitur vel est tellus elementu vehicula dictuenean justo mauri."][whychooseus icon="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/dream-home-pro/images/whychooseus-5.png" title="Global Architect Experts" info="Curabitur vel est tellus elementu vehicula dictuenean justo mauri."][whychooseus icon="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/dream-home-pro/images/whychooseus-6.png" title="Total Payment Transparency" info="Curabitur vel est tellus elementu vehicula dictuenean justo mauri."][/column_content][column_content type="right-column-50"][restate-marketplace-image image_large="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/dream-home-pro/images/image_large.jpg" image_thumb="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/dream-home-pro/images/image_thumb.jpg"][/column_content][clear]

To change the icon and image in this section



h. Property Highlights

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

Shortcode/Content: 
[column_content type="left-column-45"][custom-video youtubeid="y9j-BL5ocW8" cover="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/dream-home-pro/images/video-cover.jpg"][/column_content][column_content type="right-column-50"][section-main-title title="Highlights" subtitle="Property" color="#fff"][subtitle color="#ffffff" description="Curabitur vel est tellus. Ut elementum vehicula dictum. Aenean justo mauris, ullamcorper nec nulla quis."][property-highlight icon="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/dream-home-pro/images/property-highlight-1.png" title="Quiet Neighborhood" description="Curabitur vel est telement ullamcorper nulla quis." link="#"][property-highlight icon="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/dream-home-pro/images/property-highlight-2.png" title="Great Local Community" description="Curabitur vel est telement ullamcorper nulla quis." link="#"][property-highlight icon="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/dream-home-pro/images/property-highlight-3.png" title="Fabulous Views" description="Curabitur vel est telement ullamcorper nulla quis." link="#"][property-highlight icon="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/dream-home-pro/images/property-highlight-4.png" title="Large Play Center" description="Curabitur vel est telement ullamcorper nulla quis." link="#"][clear][button name="READ MORE" link="#" target="_self"][/column_content][clear]

To display YouTube video in this section, you need YouTube video ID and Video image



i. What We Offer

To manage this section go to Appearance » Theme Options » Sections » Section 7

Shortcode/Content: 
[what-we-offer icon="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/dream-home-pro/images/what-we-offer-1.png" title="Parking" link="#"][what-we-offer icon="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/dream-home-pro/images/what-we-offer-2.png" title="Swimming Pool" link="#"][what-we-offer icon="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/dream-home-pro/images/what-we-offer-3.png" title="Fast Internet" link="#"][what-we-offer icon="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/dream-home-pro/images/what-we-offer-4.png" title="Smart Home" link="#"][what-we-offer icon="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/dream-home-pro/images/what-we-offer-5.png" title="Modern Planning" link="#"][what-we-offer icon="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/dream-home-pro/images/what-we-offer-6.png" title="Doghouse" link="#"][what-we-offer icon="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/dream-home-pro/images/what-we-offer-7.png" title="Good Location" link="#"][what-we-offer icon="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/dream-home-pro/images/what-we-offer-8.png" title="Private Territory" link="#"][what-we-offer icon="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/dream-home-pro/images/what-we-offer-9.png" title="Personal Gym" link="#"][what-we-offer icon="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/dream-home-pro/images/what-we-offer-10.png" title="Neat Lawn" link="#"]

To change the icons in this section



j. Current Projects

To manage this section go to Appearance » Theme Options » Sections » Section 8

Shortcode/Content: 
[projects image="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/dream-home-pro/images/project-1.jpg" subtitle="San Francisco" title="Mission District Area" button="View Project" link="#link1"][projects image="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/dream-home-pro/images/project-2.jpg" subtitle="New York" title="Pacific Heights Area" button="View Project" link="#link2"][projects image="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/dream-home-pro/images/project-3.jpg" subtitle="Florida" title="Noe Valley Zones" button="View Project" link="#link3"]

To change the images in this section



k. Client Testimonial

To display clients testimonials

Shortcode/Content: 
[section-main-title title="See What’s Our Client Says About Us" subtitle="Client Testimonial" color="#ffffff"]
[testimonials]


l. Join our Team

To manage this section go to Appearance » Theme Options » Sections » Section 10

Shortcode/Content: 
[services image="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/dream-home-pro/images/services-icon-1.png" title="Get a free home estimate" description="Curabitur vel est tellus elementu vehicula dictuenean justo mauri ullamcorper necnulla." button="View" link="#"][services image="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/dream-home-pro/images/services-icon-2.png" title="Join our team" description="Curabitur vel est tellus elementu vehicula dictuenean justo mauri ullamcorper necnulla." button="View" link="#"][services image="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/dream-home-pro/images/services-icon-3.png" title="Our Policy" description="Curabitur vel est tellus elementu vehicula dictuenean justo mauri ullamcorper necnulla." button="View" link="#"]


m. Meet Our Agents

To manage this section go to Appearance » Theme Options » Sections » Section 11

To display Team Members:

Shortcode: 
[subtitle color="#161616" description="Meet our team of professional agents, who will help you find your dream house"][our-team show="-1"]


n. Developers

To manage this section go to Appearance » Theme Options » Sections » Section 12

Shortcode: 
[subtitle color="#161616" description="Curabitur vel est tellus. Ut elementum vehicula dictum. Aenean justo mauris, ullamcorper nec nulla quis, sodales efficitur ipsum pretium."][our-clients show="-1"]


o. Contact Us

To manage this section go to Appearance » Theme Options » Sections » Section 13

Add your social media profile link in #

Shortcode/Content: 
[column_content type="left-column-35"][section-main-title title="Get Your New Home Today" color="#ffffff"][subtitle color="#ffffff" description="Contact us today if you’d like to know more about how we help buy, sell or rent your home"][/column_content][column_content type="right-column-55"][contact-phone icon="fas fa-phone fa-rotate-90" title="Call Us Today" info="+1-800-555-6625"][contact-mail icon="fas fa-envelope" title="Contact Us" info="info@sitename.com"][contact-address color="#ffffff" icon="fas fa-clock" title="Work Time" info="8:00 - 18:00"][contact-address icon="fas fa-map-marker-alt" title="" info="6822, Grand Ave, Chicago, EL, 63321"][/column_content]


8. Footer

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



9. Setting Footer menu

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


10. Contact Form

To display contact form, install the Contact Form 7 plugin



11. 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.



12. Widgets

The WordPress widgets are used to manage sidebars:



13. Shortcodes

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



14. 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?

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



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.



Dream Home Free Theme Documentation

Thank you for using Dream Home 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!


1. Homepage Setup

After activating the Dream Home Free theme, setup homepage using following

Go to Appearance » Customize » Select static front page



2. Header Section

To customize the header social icons and contact informatiom
Go to Appearance » Customize » Dream Home Theme Settings » Header Contact Info



3. Slider Section

Go to Appearance » Customize » Dream Home Theme Settings » Homepage Slider Sections



4. Services Section

Go to Appearance » Customize » Dream Home Theme Settings » Three Column Services





5. Footer