Carbon Documentation vs1.1

Getting started

We assume you have your own WordPress installation, so let's get started! if not, and if you don't know how to do that, check this link

1. Installing the themetop

There are 2 ways to install wordpress theme: upload unzipped theme via FTP or use the zipped file directly by on the wordpress theme installer .
You have to setup Wordpress first. (download it at : link)

1.1 Upload via FTP

• Log into your site via FTP (if you don't have any FTP program you can use FileZilla ).
• Browse to your folder located at yoursite.com/wp-content/themes
• Upload the unzipped theme folder
• Login to Wordpress, and on Left Menu go to Appearance -> Themes
• Find & Activate the theme

1.2 Upload via Wordpress

• Login to Wordpress
• Go to Appearance -> Themes
• You will see Install Theme tabs. Click Upload right below the tab
• Click choose file, browse to theme folder and choose the file carbon.zip, click Install and wait for a second.
• Activate the theme

2. Import Demostop

2.1 Import Via One Click Feature

The theme comes with Awesome Demo pages, just like the theme preview that allow you to have some dummy content into your site to help you get started with the theme.

All demos are available with our Demo importer.What you need to do? Just 1 click on the demo that you love more. Nice and easy!

2.2 Import Demo Manually

If you encountered any issue installing the demo via one click feature, or if you want to import more than one demo into your wordpress installation, You neet to install them manually. For that, inside the Carbon Download package, you just need to choose the demo from the folder Preview Demo Contents -> 15 Carbon Demos

Follow the next steps. It's important follow this order!

• Choose your Demo from the folder Preview Demo Contents -> 15 Carbon Demos
• First Setup contents.xml file. Login to Wordpress, in Left Menu go to Tools -> Import
• Choose Wordpress, if the plugin haven't not been installed , the popup window will show up and just click Install Now.
• Click Activate Plugin & Run Importer
• Now go Carbon Options and Import options.xml file
• Now go Carbon Style Options and Import styel_options.xml file
• Time to import all portfolios. For that go to Cube Portfolio -> Import/export
• All done! Enjoy

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3. Carbon Optionstop

Carbon comes with a very powerful options panel. After the theme is installed you can access the options panel by logging into the Wordpress dashboard and clicking Carbon Options. Go to menu Appearance -> Carbon Options and discover it!

Carbon Options panel is meant for the empowering of your theme with some visual enhancements described below.

Some cool stuff over our powerfull Options Panel:

• Adding logos;
• Header types;
• Widgets;
• Seo Options;
• Newsletter options;
• Language Settings;
• Social Icons;
• Custom css;
• Etc...

4. Carbon Style Optionstop

Carbon allows you to create different styles in this new Style Options Panel. You will be able to make your own styles with lots of features and options for customizing your website.

6. Carbon Included Pluginstop

In this theme you can find the most featured plugins:

• Ultimate Addons
• Cube Portfolio
• Revolution Slider
• Visual Composer
• Master Slider
• Contact Form 7(with Captcha)
• WPML (compatible) *

7. Visual Composertop

Carbon comes with the awesome Visual Composer plugin.

Visual Composer page builder plugin for WordPress on CodeCanyon – take full control over your WordPress site with Frontend and Backend editors. Build any layout you can imagine with drag and drop page builder plugin – no programming knowledge required.

Popular Links

• Getting Started
• FAQ
• Knowledge Base
• Video Academy

8. Ultimate Addonstop

Visual Composer is a basic drag and drop page builder plugin and a modeling tool that enables code-free composition of UI elements, Enterprise Services, and reusable components to rapidly create and adapt rich user interfaces on your WordPress website.Carbon comes with the Ultimate Addons plugin, that comes like a feature to enhance Visual Composer plugin with more awesome skills, for getting your website top-noch.

8.1 Set up Google Fonts

• 1. Go to BrainStorm Custom post type
• 2. Click Google Fonts
• 3. Add the font you want to the collection
• 4. DONE! Now you can use them inside the Carbon Style Editor Panel.

9. Upper Visual Composer Shortcodestop

As Visual Composer comes as a basic drag and drop page builder plugin and a modeling tool Upperthemes also got down to work and implemented some nice plugin addon features like:

• Upper Newsletter
• Upper Vertical Tabs
• Upper Testimonials
• Upper Twitter Scroller
• Upper Partners
• Upper Team

10. Using Page templatestop

Carbon come with 6 templates

• One Page Template
• Blog Masonry Template
• Blog Template
• Home Page Template
• Multipage Template
• Under Construction Template



To use the page templates, simply create a new page in Pages -> Add new and choose the template you want to use for that page in Page Attributes box.




You can also select the Page Layout for your page. You can select the Options Fullwidth, Left Sidebar and Right Sidebar.

10.1 Homepage Template

You'll find three ways of setting up your Homepage template:

Slider

1. Select Homepage Template.

2. Scroll a bit down to the end of the page, and go to Homepage Style and select your previous created Slider (Revolution Slider).

3. Set Publish / Update.

Now you'll have your slider on your Homepage.

Image

1. Select Homepage Template.

2. Scroll a bit down to the end of the page, and go to Homepage Style and select your Image Settings.

3. You can set the options you want to that page.

4. Set Publish / Update.

Now you'll have the image with your settings as your Homepage.

Video

1. Select Homepage Template.

2. Scroll a bit down to the end of the page, and go to Homepage Style and select your Video Settings.

3. You can set the options you want to that page.

4. Set Publish / Update.

Now you'll have the Video on your Homepage running on the with your settings.

10.2 Blog Template & Blog Masonry Template

The options you'll find below works for the two kind of blog templates.

1. Select Blog Template or Blog Masonry Template.

2. Scroll a bit down to the end of the page, and go to Blog Style and set your options relative to the Blog Template or Blog Masonry Template.

3. Click Publish / Update.

10.3 One Page Template

This is how you can implement your One page website:

1. Create a new page.

2. Select One Page Template.

3. IMPORTANT NOTE: The page you've created will work as a section for your One Page website.

4. Now go to Appearance > Menus and select the pages you've created previously as One Page Template and order the menu according to the way you want to display your pages (sections of the One Page Template) and save the Menu.

This is how you will get your One Page website. Easy!!!

10.4 MultiPage Template

This is the same as the One Page Template, but with this template you'll have a default style website with the pages each one for each link.

10.5 Under Construction Template

1. Select Under Construction Template.

2. Scroll a bit down to the end of the page, and go to Homepage style and select your settings.

3. You can set the options you want to that page.

4. Set Update.

5. Now that you've created the page for the Under Construction Page, now you should go to Appearance > Carbon Options > General > Under Construction Page and set the Under Construction Mode to ON.

6. Under this same section select the Under Construction Page you created previously, and click Save Changes Button.

Now you'll have an Under Construction page running on the with your settings, without having the need of installing a plugin.

11. Creating Carbon Menustop

11.1 Wordpress Menus

This theme uses WordPress 3.5.2 Custom Menus.

Go to Appearance > Menus and you will see a panel where you can create new menus.

Create one, add your created pages to it (from the left side panels) and save it.

After this, in the left side you have a Theme Locations drop down box where you can select the Menu.

Choose your newly created menu, click Save and your menu is ready.

NOTE : You also can create a menu, and set it as a Widget with the "Custom Menus".

• Go to Appearance > Menus and create new menus.
• Create a new Sidebar.
• Create a new page, and set the sidebar you've created inside of it.
• Use the Custom Menu widget inside of the sidebar you've created, and call the Shortcodes Menu.

11.2 Mega Menu

Setting a Mega Menu, is easy as this:

• 1. Go to Appearance > Menus and you will see a panel where you can create new menus.
• 2. Create one, add your created pages to it (from the left side panels) and save it.
• 3. Select the Mega Menu checkbox so it assumes it as a Mega Menu item.







• 4. If you selected the parent menu as Mega Menu, you'll be set the following b and c options.
  

  

  
  
  • b - Hide Title?

  As it describes above, this should hide the title for dislaying over the Mega Menu area.

  
  
  • c - Just Label (Without Link)?

  This will only show the page created as Sub-Menu Page item from the Mega Menu without having it with a link to a page.

  
  
• 5. Now you'll only need to set the pages under the sub menu items so that they become menu items from the sub-menu items from the Mega Menu.







• • 5.1. Mega Menu menu;
  • 5.2. Mega Menu Item (Title or Label);
  • 5.3. Mega Menu Sub-Item (The pages linked to each Title or Label);
• 6. The style for these item can be set over Appearance > Carbon Style Options > Menu and select the Just Label (Without Link) section.

11.3 Sidebar Menus

This theme uses WordPress 3.5.2 Custom Menus.

Go to Appearance > Menus and you will see a panel where you can create new menus.

Create one, add your created pages to it (from the left side panels) and save it.

Choose your newly created menu, click Save and your menu is ready.

• Go to Appearance > Widgets.
• Create a new Sidebar.
• Click on the Custom Menu Widget and add a menu widget to that sidebar.
• Now, select the menu that you created previously, and click the Save button.
• Now, just create a new page, and set the sidebar you've created inside of it, or set it inside any page that you want.

12. Setting Sliderstop

12.1 Revolution Slider

• Upload the Plugin via Wordpress Plugins and Activate it. You can find the revslider.zip inside the folder "Plugins"
• Import rev slider contents if you want it like our demo. You can find the txt files on the download folder > Preview Demo Contents > Revolution Slider
• Create a page with an Homepage-Template
• Select the slider in the page options -> Home Page Settings -> Main Slider
• Hit Publish.


NOTE: You can use the Revolution Slider documentation to learn how to manage this awesome plugin. Find it here.


IMPORTANT : An error can occur when using this slider. So you can fix this issue, you'll have to take the following steps:


• 1. Create New Revolution Slider or Edit existing created Slider.
• 2. Select existing slider.
• 3. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and go to Troubleshooting, and set "Jquery No Conflict Mode" off.

13. Creating Sidebarstop

Carbon allow you add sidebars in two different ways.

Creating the Sidebar in the Admin Panel

• Go to Appearance > Carbon Options.
• Now on Widgets Area > Sidebars.
• Enter a Name for the sidebar.
• Hit Add Sidebar.
• Hit SAVE CHANGES.

Add Widgets to the Sidebar

• Go to Appearance > Widgets.
• 1. and 2. Drag-and-drop widgets you'd like to use into "Your Sidebar" widget area, here's an example:

12.1 Use Page Layouts

• Go to Pages > Add New.
• Go to Page Attributes > Page Layout.
• Choose the page layout that you want.
• Choose the sidebar

14. Setting Twittertop

• 1. New twitter API requires you to setup the application before pulling the feed out. To do this, go to https://dev.twitter.com/apps/
• 2. Logging in with your twitter account.
• 3. Click to create the access token, then refresh the page.
• 4. Fill the data into the Admin Panel > Twitter & Social Icons > Twitter







• You can activate / deactivate the twitter scroller on Widgets Area > Footer > Twitter Scroller
• Hit SAVE CHANGES.

NOTE : You can also use this feature, just by using it as a widget, and setting it where you want in your website!
Also, just by using the Upper Twitter Scroller from inside Visual Composer plugin, this means that you have the possibility to place it inside any page or wherever place you want on your website.

• 1. Open Visual Composer plugin from inside any page you are creating, and select Upper Twitter Scroller.
• 2. Fill up the fields relative to the Twitter section and place it wherever you want. Simple as this!

15. Setting Portfolio Pagestop

Create and edit portfolios

• 1. Go to Cube Portfolio.
• 2. Create a New Portfolio
• 3. Select which Portfolio you want to use.
  

  You will have the following types:

  
  
  • Juicy Projects
  • LightBox Gallery
  • Meet the Team
  • Full Box
  • Masonry
  • Blog Posts

Create and edit Projects

• 1. Go to Projects.
• 2. Create a New Project

Now on the cube portfolio items, and depending of the type of project, Single Page, Single Page Inline or Simple link. Add the full project link in the field "Link"

Add the Portfolio in your Pages

• 1. Open Visual Composer plugin from inside any page you are creating, and select Cube Portfolio shortcode.
• 2.Choose your portfolio and Done!! Your Cube portfolio is set up on your page!



For further information check the documentation here!

16. Setting Blog Pagetop

How we've explained on the 10. Using Page templates under the 10.2 step, you can set your Blog Page easily and you can have two ways of doing so.

Blog Template

• These posts should be created by the default Posts from wordpress.
• Create the categories and just add them to the created post.
• Now over the page you've created, just scroll a bit down to the end of the page, and go to Blog Style and set your options relative to the Blog Template.
• Click Update button.

Blog Masonry Template

• These posts should be created by the default Posts from wordpress.
• Create the categories and just add them to the created post.
• Now over the page you've created, just scroll a bit down to the end of the page, and go to Blog Style and set your options relative to the Blog Masonry Template.
• Click Update button.

17. Setting Contact Formstop

For setting up new contact pages, we use Contact form 7 plugin. This is an awesome way of setting up contact forms in a simple way and for a few clicks.

Create a Contact Form:

• 1. Go to forms and create a New Form.
• 2. Set the fields with your information.
• 3. Fill up the message fields.

NOTE: Now that you've created the forms, you'll need to go to the page where you want to display it, and just go to Visual Composer and select the Contact Form 7 item, and select which one you want to use.

18. Setting Testimonialstop

This are the steps you need to take for adding testimonials:

How to create them:

• Go to Testimonials > Add New.






1. Add your testimonial menu name.

2. Add the testimonial message.

3. Go to Testimonial Author and set the authors name.

4. Go to Testimonial Author Company and set the authors company name.

5. After you have all of this set up, just add your testimonial featured image, and then just save changes.





How to set it up:

• Go to the page where you want to use it and under Visual Composer, just select the Upper Testimonials.
• You will be prompted which style you intend to use. You'll have the Slider and the fixed option for it.
• This will generate your shortcode, that can be used wherever you want to.

19. Setting Partnerstop

How to create them:



• Go to partners > Add New.
• 1. Enter the partners name.
• 2. Enter the partners website link.
• 3. Enter the partners category to which he is related.
• 4. Enter the partners image / logo.
• 5. After you have all of this set up, just add your testimonial featured image, and then just save changes.

20. Setting Team Memberstop

How to create them:

• Go to Team > Add New.



1. Add your team member name.

2. Add your personal info.

3. After you have all of this set up, just add your team member featured image.









How to set it up:

• Go to the page where you want to use it and under Visual Composer, just select the Upper Team.
• This will generate your shortcode, that can be used wherever you want to.

21. Setting MailChimp Newslettertop

Check out all the step you need to take so you can have your newsletter on your website:






How to create it:

1. Open your MailChimp account and select Lists.

2. Select your favorite email listing.

3. Select Signup Forms.

4. Select Embedded Forms.

5. Select from Embedded Form Code, the Naked one.

6. Copy your generated code.

7. Go to Appearance > Carbon Options > Newsletter.

8. Paste your generated code.




You have two ways on how to set it up:

• 1. Go to the page where you want to use it and under Visual Composer, just select the Upper Newsletter.
• 2. You can use it within the Widgets Area. You only need to drag / drop it into the widget area you want to use. This means that you are able to use it on every place you desire to show your newsletter form.

22. Translation Ready

So you can replace the theme language to your defined language, follow the next steps:

• Edit the carbon.pot file (/wp-content/themes/carbon/languages folder) using the Poedit software.
• Save the file with the name of your language (for example: fr_FR.po for French) on the /wp-content/themes/carbon/languages folder.
• Edit the wp-config.php file, on the root of your wordpress theme, and change the line 72 to the name of the file you created. For example: "define('WPLANG', 'fr_FR');"