1.2 Download the Theme Package

When you purchase our theme from ThemeForest, you can download the Mount Cool files via the ‘Downloads’ tab on your ThemeForest account. When you download Mount Cool , you can either choose the ‘All Files & Documentation’ option or the ‘Installable WordPress File Only’ option. The former includes the theme files and supporting documents, while the latter only includes the theme’s installable WordPress file.

Step 1 – Login to your ThemeForest account and navigate to the ‘Downloads’ tab.

Step 2 – Locate your Theme  purchase, and click the Download button. Choose between ‘All Files & Documentation’ or ‘Installable WordPress File Only’.

1.5 Requirements For Mount Cool

We have tested our theme in most standard hosting setups. Anyhow, make sure your hosting server matches the following requirements.

1. Latest version of WordPress 4.9.4 or higher installed,
2. MySQL version 5.6 or greater OR MariaDB version 10.0 or greater.
3. We recommend to enable mod_rewrite module (If not enabled sometimes pages or posts will result in bad gateway error),
4. Memory limit(memory_limit) should be atleast 512MB,
5. Maxium File Upload size(upload_max_filesize) should be atleast 256MB.

Hosting is more secure when PHP applications, like WordPress, are running using your account’s username instead of the server’s default shared username (www or www-data). The most common way for hosting companies to do this is using PHP. Just ask your potential host if they run PHP or something similar.

Recommended PHP Configuration Limits

Many issues that you may run into such as: white screen, demo content fails when importing, empty page content and other similar issues are all related to low PHP configuration limits. The solution is to increase the PHP limits. You can do this on your own, or contact your web host and ask them to increase those limits to a minimum as follows:

• Max_execution_time 900
• Memory_limit 512M
• Post_max_size 128M
• Upload_max_filesize 128M

1.6 Files Included In The Package

Below is a full list of everything that is included when you download the main files, along with a brief description of each item.

Included Files from Your Themeforest Purchase

• mountcool.zip – Located inside the Mount Cool Theme folder, this is the installable WordPress file you’ll need to install or update Mount Cool manually.
• mountcool-child.zip – Located inside the Mount Cool Theme folder, this is a child theme you can use to make changes to Mount Cool ’s core theme files.
• Slider – this folder contains exported dummy slider zip files.
• Documentation Folder – this folder contains theme documentation.

2.1 How To Install Mount Cool via WordPress

Kindly follow the steps given below for installing this theme from Wordpress.

1. Navigate to Appearance > Themes.
2. Click 'Add New' button near 'Themes' title.
3. Now 'Add Themes' page will be loaded with 'Upload Theme' button hit on it.
4. Now navigate to find the "mountcool.zip" file on your computer ("mountcool.zip" will be found inside "mountcool.zip") and click "Install Now"
5. Once uploaded go to Appearance > Themes and activate it.
6. Then you will see a notification message to activate the required & recommended plugins: 'DesignThemes Core Features Plugin','Responsive Styled Google Maps', 'Contact Form 7', 'LayerSlider WP' and 'Revolution Slider'.
7. Once required plugins are activated, navigate to Settings > Permalinks, here select 'Post name' in 'Common Settings' tab and save it.

2.2 How To Install theme via FTP

You can also install this theme through FTP server by using the following steps,

1. Log into your Hosting server space using any FTP software (applications like FileZilla) at first.
2. Extract the "mountcool.zip" (inside "mountcool.zip") file as you've downloaded.
3. Upload that extracted folder into your "wp-content / themes" directory.
4. Once if the theme is uploaded and installed, you need to activate it from Appearance > Themes then.
5. Then you will get a notification message to activate the required & recommended plugins: 'Designthemes Core Features Plugin', 'Contact Form 7', 'LayerSlider WP' and 'Revolution Slider'.
6. Once after the required plugins are activated, navigate to Settings > Permalinks, and select 'Post Name' in 'Common Settings' tab and save it finally.

Please take a look at the structure of the mountcool.zip archive you've got after purchasing.

2.3.1 Install Plugins

Step 1 – Click to Begin installing plugins the top of the page

Step 2 – Check boxes to select all the plugins you want to install and click on Install from the dropdown box and then click the button to Apply.

Step 3 – After you have installed all the plugins, click on Return to Required Plugins Installer.

Step 4 – Select the plugins you installed, and apply the bulk action to activate.

2.4Theme Update

IMPORTANT: Before you go ahead with the update please check theme changelog and make sure you backup your old theme folder. Download it to your computer locally.

It is the best practice to backup both your files and database regulary and especially before making some serious updates. We recommend using free backup plugins for WordPress like WPOnlineBackup

Update Option 1. Update using WordPress uploader

1. Log into your Themeforest account and navigate to your downloads tab. Find the theme and download "Installable WordPress file".
2. Log into your wordPress website and go to Appearance -> Themes
3. Activate a different theme. Delete the previous version of Mount Cool and re-upload the new Wordpress Installable files that you have downloaded from Themeforest in the 1st step.
4. Once it uploads, choose to activate the theme.
5. Update the included plugins if you see a notification message letting you know the plugins have a new version.

3.1Demo Content via Unyson plugin

The easiest way to import our demo content is to use Unyson plugin Demo Content Importer. Our importer will give you all pages and posts,several sample sliders, widgets, Theme Options, assigned pages, and more. This is recommended to do on fresh installs.

It will replace the content like posts, pages, portfolio, etc., . It will, replace Theme Options, Reading settings and Widget settings.To import our demo content, please see the steps below.

How To Import Demos

• Install and activate these plugins before you proceed: Revolution Slider, Layer Slider, Designtheme Core Plugin , Unyson plugin and WooCommerce. Woocommerce is only needed for an online shop
• Navigate to the Unyson > Active Extensions > Backup & Demo Content (Install)
• Navigate to the Tools > Demo Content Install > Select the demo Content > install
• Please be patient, as it may take few minutes to import everything. Once it is completed, you will receive a success message finally.

4.1 Setting up the MegaMenu

Here are some points regarding mega menu and default menu.

• By default you will have option to diable menu text and menu link option for every menu.
• To enable mega menu please check the 'Use As Mega Menu' option and you can choose the number of column layout for mega menu ( available options 2 column, 3 column and 4 column ).
• You can add any page or custom link or any availalable pages as sub menu for mega menu.
• In sub menu you will have 'Enable Fullwidth' option which will make current menu and all its submenu to display in fullwidth.
• Also for every submenu you will have option to choose custom widget area in 'Display Widget Area', which is created in buddha panel ( Dashboard -> Mount Cool Options ).
• You can also choose number of column(s) these custom widgets should occupy ( available options 2 column, 3 column and 4 column ).

4.2 Create a New Menu

To create a new menu, go to Appearance > Menus, then click Create a new menu > fill your menu name > click Create Menu. Add to menu the item you want to add on the left hand boxes, then click Save Menu.

Create a new menu

Step 1 – Start by navigating to the menu manager under Appearance → Menus.

Step 2 – Under the "Edit Menus" tab, you'll see a "create a new menu" link. Name your menu with something useful such as "Main Menu" and then click the "Create Menu" button to begin adding items.

Step 3 – Now, let's add some menu items.

Step 4 – On the left hand side of the screen you'll see a box containing all of your Pages, Categories, etc.

• First, select a few items to be included in your menu.
• Click the Add to Menu button and the items are added to your menu.

Step 5 – Go ahead and click "Save Menu" anytime you change something. If you navigate away from the menus page before saving, all your menu settings could be lost.

5.1 Create A New Page

You can create any number of pages with content. Mount Cool includes several page templates to choose from, and you will need to choose the page template that suits your needs. All of this is done in the pages section of your WordPress admin.

Step 1 – Navigate to Pages in your admin sidebar and click Add New option.

Step 2 – Input a new name for your page, then find the Page Attributes box on right side.

Step 3 – Set your Parent page. It's usually set to No Parent.

Step 4 – Set your page template from the Template dropdown list. See list of page templates below.

Step 5 – Select any number of page options in Page Options box.

Step 6 – Content for your page goes in the editing field, use the Visual or Text editor. Page content is mainly built using Shortcodes. See the Shortcodes section for how to use them. You can also use our demo content, see the corresponding section of this document for the demo code of each page.

5.2 Page Templates

Template has several specially designed Page Templates, which can be used on Pages, adding them special features.

• Default Template - Default look where you header and footer sections are included by default.
• Blog Template - This template can automatically create list that contain Blog Posts, Archives results.
• Fullwidth Template - This template create blank page. Basically on this page you can create anything you want from scratches
• Home Template -This template is used to hide breadcrumb section
• Portfolio Template - This template let you to add Portfolio for your website. You can see those entries in section "Dashboard > Portfolios ".

5.3 Setting Up Home Page

Setting up your home page is the same as setting up any other regular pages, except that you need to specify in the settings which page will be your Main Home Page. Mount Cool includes several pre-designed home Theme Page Options. Any of the layout options you see on our demo can be imported through our Demo Content Importer, or from copying the individual page content from our documentation in the How To Import Individual Pages section. However, you are not stuck with our pre-designed layouts, you can build any type of home page you desire using our shortcode elements. You can mix and match them anyway you like.

Step 1 – Navigate to Settings > Reading tab.

Step 2 – Select A Static Page option.

Step 3 – Choose the page you want as your home page from the Front Page dropdown list.

Step 4 – This is also the same spot you select the blog page as the Posts page.

6.1 Layer Slider

LayerSlider WP is a premium multi-purpose slider for creating image galleries, content sliders, and mind-blowing slideshows with must-see effects, even from your WordPress posts and pages. It uses cutting edge technologies to provide the smoothest experience that's possible, and it comes with more than 200 preset 2D and 3D slide transitions. It has a beautiful and easy-to-use admin interface with supporting modern features like drag n'drop WYSIWYG slider builder, real-time previews, timeline view, Google Fonts and transition builder for custom animations. It's device friendly by supporting responsive mode, multiple layouts, touch gestures on mobile devices, and uses techniques like lazy load and conditional script loading for optimal performance. You can add any content into sliders, including images, text, custom HTML, YouTube and Vimeo videos or HTML5 self-hosted multimedia contents. It's also SEO friendly by allowing you to build semantic markup with custom attributes that search engines can index easily. LayerSlider comes with 13 built-in skins, and it has tons of options to entirely customize the appearance and behavior of your sliders at the smallest detail.

LayerSlider is external plugin which is included into theme. Because, for each product we purchase "Extended license" and that`s why we are able to include it into theme. This plugin works fine of course and if you want current slider version, you can always get directly from us. What you need to do, to get this slider is send us a request about it via contact form on our profile's page http://themeforest.net/user/designthemes (it is in the right bottom corner) and we`ll send you the current version.

6.1.2 Create A New Layer Slider

Step 1 – Click on the Layer Slider sidebar item in your admin section, then click the "Add New" button and give the slider a name.

Step 2 – The "Slider Settings" tab will open and allow you to set the general settings for your slider such as the width, height, responsive, full width, and more. Check out each tab.

Step 3 – Once you are done, click "Save Changes" to save the slider. Next you can add slides, see the information below.

Please Note – You can get sample sliders by clicking the "Import Sample Sliders" button. It's a good way to learn and see the different types of settings.

6.1.3 How to add Slides to your slider

Step 1 – Click on the "Slides" tab.

Step 2 – Slide #1 will already be created, add a background image for the slide, set thumbnails, transitions, links and more in the settings box above the slider preview window.

Step 3 – Each slide you make can have multiple layers to it. The layers show up below the slider preview window. Click "Add New Layer" create a new layer. An editing section will display once clicked.

Step 4 – The layer editing section has 5 tabs; Content, Transition, Link, Styles, Attributes. Content tab is where you add your content, Transition tab is where you set all the timings and animations, Link tab is where you can set the content to link, Styles tab is where you set custom styles, Attributes tab is where you can add custom id's or classes.

Step 5 – Click on the Content Tab and enter your text, image or video or custom HTML content. Then set your transitions, links, styles and attributes if needed.

Step 6 – Click the "Enter Preview" button to view a preview of the slider and layers.

Step 7 – When finished, click "Save Changes" to save it. Repeat process for more slides.

6.2.1 How To Create A New Revolution Slider

Step 1 – Click on the Revolution Slider sidebar item in your admin section, then click the Create New Slider button.

Step 2 – Insert a slider name and alias. The alias text will generate a shortcode that can be used in the editing field of pages or posts.

Step 3 – Then select the Source Type. If you choose Posts or Specific Posts, please refer to the Revolution Slider Docs for information on how to set that up.

Step 4 – Then select the Slider Layout type, each type will have its own settings. Set the Grid and Responsive settings here also. View the layout example diagram below this area to understand what each section is.

Step 5 – On the right hand side are many other options you can set. All are self explanatory with descriptions. Test them out.

Step 6 – Once you are done, click Create Slider and your new slider will be made.

6.2.3 How To Import Revolution Sliders

Step 1 – Go the the Revolution Slider tab in your WP Admin, and click the Import Slider button.

Step 2 – Choose the .ZIP file of the slider you'd like to import.

Step 3 – Once you've chosen the .ZIP file, an Import Slider button will appear.

Step 4 – Click the Import Slider button, and wait for it to finish uploading.

Step 5 – Once it's finished uploading, you will now see your imported slider in the list of Revolution Sliders available.

7.2.4 How To Export Revolution Sliders

Step 1 – Go the the Revolution Slider tab in your WP Admin, and open the slider you'd like to export.

Step 2 – Switch to the Slider Settings tab on the top of the page.

Step 3 – On the right, you will find the 'Import / Export / Replace' dropdown. Click it to expand the tab and view the options.

Step 4 – Switch to the Export tab, and click the Export Slider button.

Step 5 – Once it's finished downloading, you will receive a .ZIP file of your slider.

7.1 General Options

General

In this section you can set up some general options for your site. Please check below options available in this section,

• Logo - Upload logo that fits the best for your homepage layout
• Retina Logo - Upload logo that fits the best for your homepage layout (retina logo must be 2x larger than the regular homepage logo)

The General Settings tab has options relevant to the entire site such as a logo, favicon, default intro content, breadcrumbs, mailchimp, top bar settings and more.

7.2 Appearance

Appearance Settings - Here you can change the appearance of the theme Please check below options available in this section,

• Header - To Change the Header Style option with Header 1, Header 2, and Header 3 as three choices presented as visually showing.
• Menu - To Change the Menu section appearance and behavior styles.
• Body - To customize the body portion of the theme like font, color & etc.
• Footer - To customize the footer portion of the theme like font, color & etc.
• Typography - To customize the Font color, size, type from H1 upto H6
• Layout & BG - Here you can change the layout of our theme (Boxed or FullWidth)

For Boxed layout - you can set the background by selecting the predefined patterns or upolad your custom image.

7.3 Skin Options

Skin Options - Mount Cool comes with following predefined 8 color skins [ You can add your own skin :) ]

Dashboard > Appearance > Mount Cool Options > Skin Options

Skin Options - To Change the Skin Style option with Sytle 1 and Sytle 8 as two choices presented as radio buttons.

7.4 Integration Options

General - To place any code, that will appear in header, body portion of every post or page.

We have two sections each for "Post" and "Page" to place code on top and bottom of every posts and pages.

Post - Single Post page customization

With the help of this "Post integration" section, you can do the following things,

1. Setting up the top and bottom code for individual posts
2. Enable / Disable the Most used Social Share options for individual posts
3. Enable / Disable the Most used Social Bookmark options for individual posts

Page - Single page customization

As the same way followed in Post page customization, you can setup all those things here for Pages too.

Gallery - Gallery Bookmarks

Enable / Disable the Most used Social Bookmark options for individual galleries

7.5 SEO

SEO - Drag and Drop SEO Modules

1. Title Delimiter - Please specify the symbol , will appear in title of the pages.
2. Page Title Formats - Drap and Drop option to customize the page title
   1. Single Post & Page Title Format
   2. Category, Archieve & Tag page Title Format
   3. Search & 404 page Title Format
3. Meta - To specify Meta data & other SEO elements
   1. You can generate automatic Canonical URLs for entire website
   2. You can exclude the archieve, category and tag pages from indexing to avoid duplicate content.
   3. You can generate:
      1. Automatic description
      2. Meta keywords ffrom the tag and category for posts.

7.6 Specialty Pages

Speciality Pages - Author, Category, Tag, Gallery, Search & 404 Page

Dashboard > Appearance > Mount Cool Options > Specialty Pages

Available Options:

1. You can choose page layout
2. You can choose to post a layout for Author, Category, Tag, Gallery & Search Page
3. Custom 404 Text of 404 Page
4. And Background settings for 404 Page

7.7 Footer Settings

Available Options:

1. Show / Hide Footer Section
2. Columns Layout - To choose the layout style you need in the footer.
3. Footer Copyright Settings
   1. Show / Hide Footer Copyright Text
   2. Put Copyright Content Text

7.8 Widget Area

You can create custom widget areas that can be assigned to any individual post / page and megamenu.

Go to 'Wp-admin(Dashboard) > Appearance > Widgets'. You'll see widget areas you've created on the right hand side.

7.9 Woocommerce

To get this option installed WooCommerce plugin. And the plugin bundled with dummy data which can be imported to instantly give you a working store with products to test the different features WooCommerce has to offer.

Available Options:

1. No.of Products to show in the main shop page.
2. Product Layout - 3 types of products layouts are there. (II Column, III Column & IV Column )
3. Product Details, Product Category, Product Tag page layouts.
4. Also you can easily handle widget areas for individual Product, Product Category, & Product Tag in the Role -> "Widget Area" Settings.

Following plugins used to extend the woocommerce options

1. YITH WooCommerce Zoom Magnifier is that enables you to add a zoom effect to product images.
2. YITH WooCommerce Wishlist adds all Wishlist features to your website. Needs WooCommerce to work.

7.10 Page Builder

You can enable / disable page builder for any post.

Go to 'Wp-admin(Dashboard) > Appearance > Mount Cool Options > Page Builder'.

7.11 Responsive & Mobile

You can enable a responsive option in "Appearance > Mount Cool Options > Responsive & Mobile > Make My Site Responsive"

And you can disable sliders by choosing the 'Disable Slider for Mobile Devices' option in "Appearance > Mount Cool Options > Responsive & Mobile"

7.12 Importer Options

• You can choose which demo you like to import from Demo dropdown list.
• After choosing Demo, you will get Import dropdown list with following options All, Content, Menu, Options (buddha panel options) and Widgets
• After that choose additional options like Import attachments and type of content, than click Import Demo Data
• You will get popup alert message to confirm, click ok here.
• Import may take several minutes, so please be patient while importing.
• If import fails please check this Section

7.13 Branding

Available Options:

1. Custom Buddha Panel Logo

7.14 Backup

Backup Options These options allow you to backup and restore your custom settings and options. These options also allow you to transfer Theme Options data from site to site.

7.15 Privacy & Cookies

Privacy Options

What needs to be compliant is the end user website, it is not the software/framework a website is built on. The Mount Cool WordPress theme as an entity does not violate GDPR criteria because it does not collect any data. What we as a team has done is give our We Clean userbase existing and new, the tools necessary to ensure that their websites are GDPR compliant. These new privacy tools and options were introduced in We Clean.

This new feature is highly configurable, giving you everything that you need to keep your website visitors informed of any cookies, third part embeds and/or custom implementations that may affect their data privacy.

It will handle 3rd party embeds, tracking codes, and any custom cookie contents that you may require. The settings are found in Mount Cool > Buddha Panel > Theme Options > Privacy & Cookies tab. Enabling Privacy Bar option will give access to additional options that will help in customizing the privacy bar. Continue reading below to know more about the full options available in the Privacy tab.

8.1Blog Options

No matter which method or methods you use to display your blog posts, the first thing you need to do is create the blog posts. Mount Cool Theme support all type of posts

How To Create A Blog Post

Step 1 – Navigate to Posts in your WordPress admin sidebar.

Step 2 – Click on the Add New option to make a new post. Create a title, and insert your post content in the editing field. You can use any of our shortcode builder elements inside the post.

Step 3 – Add Categories from the right side. To assign it to the post, check the box next to the Category name.

Step 4 – Add Tags from the right side. Type the name of the tag in the field, separate multiple tags with commas.

Step 5 – For a single image, click the first Featured Image Box, select an image and click the Set Featured Image button.

Step 6 – For a video post, paste the iFrame embed from either Youtube or Vimeo into the Video Embed Code field.

Step 7 – Once you are finished, click Publish to save the post.

8.2How to Assign a Post Page

Step 1 – Navigate to Settings > Reading tab.

Step 2 – Select A Post Pages option.

Step 3 – Choose the page you want as your blog post page from the blog post dropdown list.

Step 4 – Once its all done, make sure you click the Save button

8.3 Blog Single Post Options

You can configure each single blog post with following options

• You can switch between following available layouts 'Without Sidebar', 'Left Sidebar', 'Right Sidebar' and 'Both Sidebar'. You can choose the custom widget area created using 'Widget Area' tab in Buddha Panel(Appearacne -> Mount Cool ) and enable / disable the default widget area.
• Enable / Disable the Comments and Featured Image options
• You can enable / disble author, category, tag, date, comment info at any time.

How to install WooCommerce and setup the default shop pages

First go to Plugins > Add new section and type "WooCommerce" into search field. Then click "Search Plugins" button.

Once that is done, and you see the result, click on the"Install now" button next to "WooCommerce - excelling eCommerce" plugin.

Once WooCommerce is installed, click on the "Activate plugin" link.

In a few moments you will see a WooCommerce Purple Notification Bar at the top of the plugin page. Clicking the Install WooCommmerce Pages button in the purple bar will install all the default pages.

Please Note: Once you are done installing WooCommerce and the default pages, you can go to the Appearance > Menu section of your admin and add all the WooCommerce pages to your menu. They will be listed at the top under the most recent pages.

How to add new product

Go to Products > Add product section. You will see a page that looks like the one below.All you need to do is fill those fields with your own values.

Information about adding a new product will be found at on http://docs.woothemes.com/document/managing-products/

12 Page Builder

Mount Cool theme comes with page builder which makes creation of page simpler and easier. To enable / disable page builder in post, page and portfolio globally navigate to Mount Cool (Buddha Panel) -> Page Builder tab. You can switch between Page Builder and WordPress default editor in any single post or page or portfolio at any time.

• 'WordPress Editor' button 'Mount Cool Page Builder' metabox is used to switch between WordPress default editor and Page Builder.
• If you keep the 'Enable page builder' option active while saving, then everytime this page will be loaded by keeping page builder active.
• Use 'Clear All' button to completely clean the builder area
• 'Create Sample Layout' button is used to save the existing modules in builder area to separate layout. After updating the page created layout will be listed in 'Sample Layouts' tab.
• We have 8 tabs of modules consisting of columns('Columns'), modules('General', 'Unique', 'Others'), widgets('Wp Widgets', 'Mount Cool Widgets', 'Woocommerce Widgets') and sample layouts('Sample Layouts').

Options

Column Options

Every column comes with 3 types of options. They are,

1. Settings - It is used add additional CSS class for this column alone.
2. Clone - Click this button to clone the column along with every modules added inside. Those cloned column will be added immediately after current column.
3. Delete - Used to delete the column completely along with its settings.

Fullwidth Section or Fullwidth Section Video

1. Fullwidth Section - Bacground Color, Background Image, Parallax Effect, Background Repeat, Background Position, Padding Top, Padding Bottom, CSS Class, etc,.
2. Fullwidth Section Video - MP4, WEBM, OGV, Poster Image, Background Image, Padding Top, Padding Bottom and CSS Class.

Module Options

Every module comes with 5 different types of options. They are,

1. Edit - Clicking this button will open a sliding panel at very top of the builder area which contains options to configure those modules.
2. Clone - Click this button to clone the module along with its settings. Those cloned modules will be added immediately after current module.
3. Delete - Use this delete button to delete the module along with its settings.
4. Show / Hide - Use this button to enable or disable this module. If its disabled then that module will not be shown in frontend but all the settings of that module will be preserved, you can enable that module any time.
5. Resize - Its just a symbol to represent that this module can be resized to any width. Making width too smaller or too larger may collapse the modules design.

Resizable Column

Resizable Column has all options similar to normal Column options. This resizable column cannot be placed inside the Fullwidth Section

Sample Layouts

Mount Cool theme comes with few sample layouts which can be acessed simply one clicking the module. Now your builder area will be loaded with all the modules of that sample layout, now you can just update the content, images, etc, as you wish.

Setting up child theme from WordPress Dashboard:

1. Go to Appearance > Themes > Add New > Upload Theme and import the  child-theme.zip file directly into this screen of the WordPress admin area.
2. Go to Appearance > Themes and activate your Wiz child theme.

13.5 How to translate the theme

If you are running a Multi language site, you need to install the WPML plugin Or if you are running a Single language site other than English. Say for example if you are running “French” site only You can go with “poedit”.

• Download poedit

Theme Translation:

First, you need to change language, For ex: “French”

i) Go to Dashboard / Settings / General and select language(ex: French language ) then save settings.

Second, you need to create language-code.po file and translate words.

ii) Please go to wp-content / themes / designtheme / languages / – Here you can find theme pot file (In our older themes, you can see dental.pot file)

For ex, designtheme-slug-name.pot – Rename this pot file into po file.

Ex: designtheme-slug-name.pot into fr_FR.po (OR) dental.potinto fr_FR.po

iii) Open fr_FR.po file and translate the words. Finally you will get the mo file there while saving the .po file. After translating words you can check those changes in front-end.

Core Plugin translation:

i) Go to wp-content\plugins\designthemes-core-features\languages – here you can find dttheme-core.pot / dental.pot/ dt_themes-dental.pot file

ii) Rename dttheme-core.pot into dttheme-core-fr_FR.po. Open this po file and translate the words. While saving this po file automatically mo file will generated (dttheme-core-fr_FR.mo) then check front page.

Theme Translation:

1. Open Poedit and click on File -> New catalog from POT file in the main menu and select the POT file in your theme’s languages folder (remember that this will use the name of your theme i.e. dental.pot).
2. A properties box will open up where you must enter some general information. First up, in the Language field enter the language name you want to translate.
3. Click the “OK” button; you’ll be asked what you want to name your translation file. Now, usually with filenames it doesn’t matter what you call it, but translation files are a lot stricter and the file name is crucial to your translation working correctly. Each language and country has a specific code you will need to use when saving translation files; for instance, if you’re going to translate a GavickPro WordPress theme into Spanish you’ll name your file “es_ES.po”, whereas if you’re translating into German you’ll name the file “de_DE.po”. To break it down; the first lower-case letters define the language, whereas the second upper-case letter define the country. In many cases the language and country will be the same, hence “de_DE” for Germany, but what about languages like English or Portuguese, that are spoken in several countries natively? In these cases there will be a difference in the first and second letter pairs; for the UK, the code would be en_GB, whereas for the USA it will be en_US. If you’re not familiar with the codes for your native language and country you can head over to the GNU website, where they have all the codes for Language and Country. Remember, if you use the wrong naming convention WordPress won’t be able to use your translation, so double-check if necessary.
4. Something a bit easier after the rigmarole of sorting out your file naming; just save your new language file.
5. Now you can start translating the theme via the String Translation mechanism. This provides direct like-for-like translations. This is where things will take a bit of time; go through each line one-by-one, adding the translation to your native language as you go.

   If you think there’s some text that won’t require translation or you’re not sure what to translate it to you can just leave them as they are in the original language; you can always come back and translate them later if need be. To illustrate how easy the translation process is, here’s a shot from the Polish translation process:

6. Don’t forget to save your file once you finish the translation; you really don’t want to lose all you hard work now! Don’t worry about creating the .po and .mo files; Poedit will automatically create and save both of these files for you.

13.6 How To Update From The .po File After A Theme Update in POEdit

Step 1 – Open the .po file of the desired language in POEdit.

Step 2 – Choose ‘Catalogue’ from the options in the toolbar, then select ‘Update from POT file’ option.

Step 3 – In the opening file dialog, choose the theme.pot file in Theme/languages/ folder. The catalogue will then be auto updated with all the new text strings, and your custom ones will be preserved.

Step 4 – Don’t forget to Save the file once you are done updating and adding translations.