Store has been built around our eCommerce framework. So before going through this guide, you should also read its main framework guide to know about installation, setup basic options and settings etc. The core features remain the same as mentioned there in the framework guide. Here we will discuss how you can set up Store theme for your website including the widgets that we have used for our demo site.

1. Home page

To set up home page, you will have to follow some chain steps like setting up options given at wp-admin -> Theme options -> Theme options and setting up widgets. To read about the back-end options, read the framework guide, it explains each options in detail. Let’s talk about the widgets here,

• Go to wp-admin -> Appearance -> Widgets,
• You will find 3 widget areas that affect Home page and they are “Front Page Sidebar Left”,”Front page Middle Content” and “Front Page Sidebar Right”.
• Placing suitable widgets in all such said widget areas, you can easily setup your homepage.

On our demo site we have set the following widgets in the said areas,

Front Page Sidebar Left

1. T – Company Logo – Insert the full URL of your logo image. E.g. http://domainname.com/images/logo.png. (To insert an image go to Media > Add New and upload the image file, take the URL from there and paste it in this field)
2. T – Login Information – Display’s the login information
3. Custom Menu – Create a custom menu and insert it here. You can use it to display any page, category, URL, etc.
4. T – Shopping cart information – Display’s shopping cart information. You can write any Title in it, like “Shopping cart”

Front Page Sidebar Right

5. T – Set Advertisement – Insert the advertisement image URL and its link
6. T – Browse by Categories – Display’s categories. You can also write the Title of the category like “Our Products”
7. T – Newsletter Subscribe – Enter the Feedburner ID, e.g. templatic. (Do not enter the full URL)

Front Page Middle Content

8. T – Latest slider Posts – Enter the category ID, number of posts you wish to include in the slider, etc settings. Category ID can be got by going to Category and hovering the mouse over the category and it would be something like id=6. This 6 is the category ID. You can also include multiple categories in the slider

Note: Appearance of the widgets placed under the widget areas like right and left sidebars for the home page depends on your selected layout. You can select your desired layout from the wp-admin -> Theme options -> Theme options, expand the section “Site Pages Layout Settings” to start setting layout for your site pages. Read more about layouts.

2. Product Listing Page

Setting up product listing page has 3 main steps as mentioned below, let’s take a look,

A) Create and place product listing page

The page where your products belonging to certain category(ies) are listed is your product listing page. Now this page gets created automatically in the theme as soon as you add some categories and products. The need here is to place that page on your website. Here are the steps for that,

• Create your required product categories from wp-admin -> Products -> Product Categories
• Start adding products from wp-admin -> Products -> Add New Product
• Select the relevant categories and publish your products. (The whole process is just like adding a WordPress page)
• Now, create a menu from wp-admin -> Appearance -> Menus and place your product categories and other required things there and save it
• Place a widget “Custom Menu” in any of the header widget area (the most suitable one is Header Main Navigation ) and refresh your browser to see the effect.

We did the above said process just to make it easy for your users to locate your product range and actually reaching the product listing page.

B) Product Listing page settings

To apply some settings like list/grid view, number of products per page, display product price there or not etc,

• Go to wp-admin -> Theme options -> Theme options
• Expand the section named “Product Listing Settings -> For ‘Archive’ or ‘Category’ Page to do the settings.

Read more about it in its framework guide

C) Setup widgets for product listing page

Product listing page has basically 2 widget areas and those are “Product Listing Sidebar Left” and “Product Listing Sidebar Right”. But there visibility depends on your selected layouts. On our demo, we have used the left sidebar layout so the widgets that we used are,

Product Listing Sidebar Left

1. T – Company Logo – Insert the full URL of your logo image. E.g. http://domainname.com/images/logo.png. To insert an image go to Media > Add New and upload the image file, take the URL from there and paste it in this field
2. Custom Menu – Create a custom menu and insert it here. You can use it to display any page, category, URL, etc.
3. T – Shopping Cart information – Display’s shopping cart information. You can write any Title in it, like “Shopping cart”

Product Listing Sidebar Right

4. T – Set Advertisement – Insert the advertisement image URL and its link
5. T – Browse By Categories – Display’s categories. You can also write the Title of the category like “Our Products”
6. T – Newsletter Subscribe –  Enter the Feedburner ID, e.g. templatic. (Do not enter the full URL)

3. Product Detail page

Product detail page is the page from where you can actually purchase the product and see all the detailed information about it. To set it up some of the options available for it are at wp-admin -> Theme options -> Theme options, expand the section “Product Details Page Settings” to setup these options. Read more about it in its framework guide

Other information such as variety of product pictures and other detailed information comes from the product that you added from the back-end from wp-admin -> Products-> Add New by filling up all the product information given there.

Product Detail Sidebar Left

1. T – Company Logo – Insert the full URL of your logo image. E.g. http://domainname.com/images/logo.png. To insert an image go to Media > Add New and upload the image file, take the URL from there and paste it in this field
2. Custom Menu – Create a custom menu and insert it here. You can use it to display any page, category, URL, etc.
3. T- Shopping Cart information –  Display’s shopping cart information. You can write any Title in it, like “Shopping cart”

Product Detail Sidebar Right

4. T – Set Advertisement – Insert the advertisement image URL and its link
5. T – Browse By Categories – Display’s categories. You can also write the Title of the category like “Our Products”
6. T – Newsletter Subscribe – Enter the Feedburner ID, e.g. templatic. (Do not enter the full URL)

4. Inner Page

Inner pages or say content pages like About Us page, Contact Us etc. The main widget areas in effect are “Inner Page Sidebar Left” and “Inner Page Sidebar Right”. For our demo site, we have selected the 2 column sidebar in left side layout so the widgets that we placed for it are,

Inner Page Sidebar Left

1 .T – Company Logo –Insert the full URL of your logo image. E.g. http://domainname.com/images/logo.png. To insert an image go to Media > Add New and upload the image file, take the URL from there and paste it in this field
2.Custom Menu – Create a custom menu and insert it here. You can use it to display any page, category, URL, etc.
3. T – Shopping cart information – Display’s shopping cart information. You can write any Title in it, like “Shopping cart”

Inner Page Sidebar Right

4. T – Set Advertisement – Insert the advertisement image URL and its link
5. T – Browse By Categories – Display’s categories. You can also write the Title of the category like “Our Products”
6. T – Newsletter Subscribe – Enter the Feedburner ID, e.g. templatic. (Do not enter the full URL)

Some other settings that you would like to do are located at wp-admin -> Theme options -> Theme options. Read more about it here

* Create pages using theme page template

Using page templates you use the ready made page made for a specific purpose like contact us page having a form with all required fields. With this theme, we provide you 4 page templates as mentioned below,

• Archives Page – Shows the posts Month wise
• Contact page – Shows a contact us form (Inquires sent using such form goes to the admin email Id as described in WP-admin -> Settings -> General) 
• Sitemap page – Lists the total posts,custom posts, pages of the site on the single page.

5. Store Page

This is the page that lists all the products available on your site irrespective of the categories. It gets created automatically by the theme and to use it or to see it you can append ?ptype=store to your site URL. For example, http://example.com/?ptype=store. So, you can use such custom link in your navigation menu as well.

For our demo site, we placed the link of store page as said above in the navigation menu and then placed widgets in the store page widget areas at wp-admin -> Appearance -> Widgets. This page only has two widget areas that has effect on it “Store Page Sidebar Left” and “Store Page Sidebar Right”. Having selected left sidebar area, we placed widgets in,

Store Page Sidebar Left

1. T – Company Logo – Insert the full URL of your logo image. E.g. http://domainname.com/images/logo.png. To insert an image go to Media > Add New and upload the image file, take the URL from there and paste it in this field
2. Custom Menu – Create a custom menu and insert it here. You can use it to display any page, category, URL, etc.
3. T – Shopping cart information – Display’s shopping cart information. You can write any Title in it, like “Shopping cart”

Store Page Sidebar Right

4. T – Set Advertisement – Insert the advertisement image URL and its link
5. T – Browse By Categories – Display’s categories. You can also write the Title of the category like “Our Products”
6. T – Newsletter Subscribe – Enter the Feedburner ID, e.g. templatic. (Do not enter the full URL)

6. My Cart Page

It is also known as shopping cart page. When user selects any product from the product detail page on your site and adds it to the cart, it shows a link “View Cart Detail” which redirects to this “Cart” page. Basically it lists all the items that user has added there while viewing the available products on your site. It has all product detail like price, quantity and if user is a registered one then shows his profile information as well.

Some of the settings that a My Cart page requires are,

• There is a whole section given for shopping cart at the back-end which you can setup according to your requirement.
• Locate it at wp-admin -> Theme options -> General Setting, Shopping Cart tab
• Add widgets to its sidebar area as mentioned below,

It has two widget areas “My Cart Sidebar Left” and “My Cart Sidebar Right” where you can place your required widgets like we did for our demo site,

My Cart Sidebar Left

1. T – Company Logo – Insert the full URL of your logo image. E.g. http://domainname.com/images/logo.png. To insert an image go to Media > Add New and upload the image file, take the URL from there and paste it in this field
2. Custom Menu – Create a custom menu and insert it here. You can use it to display any page, category, URL, etc.
3. T – Shopping cart information – Display’s shopping cart information. You can write any Title in it, like “Shopping cart”

My Cart Sidebar Right

4. T – Set Advertisement – Insert the advertisement image URL and its link
5. T – Browse By Categories – Display’s categories. You can also write the Title of the category like “Our Products”
6. T – Newsletter Subscribe – Enter the Feedburner ID, e.g. templatic. (Do not enter the full URL)

7. Blog pages

Blog is nothing but a normal WordPress post and so major operations with it remain the same. Two blog related pages that you will be having with this theme are blog listing and blog detail pages, lets understand them in detail but before understanding them just have a look at the basic blog creation process,

• Go to wp-admin -> Posts -> Categories
• Create your required categories. (As soon as you insert sample data to your site, theme auto installs a post category “Blog”)
• Create your posts from wp-admin -> Posts -> Add New and check mark the post category(ies) to apply your post to those categories
• Publish your post.

A) Blog Listing Page

The page where your posts based on categories are listed is known as blog listing page. To set up blog listing page using this theme, you need to undertake two main things, “settings” and “placing widgets”

i) Blog Listing Settings

• Go to wp-admin -> Theme options -> Theme options
• Expand the Blog section settings section
• Setup your required options and save them

To read more, refer the main framework guide.

ii) Setup widgets

Two widget areas have effect on the blog listing page and those are “Blog Listing Sidebar Left” and “Blog Listing Sidebar Right”. Let’s see which widgets we have placed on our demo site,

Blog Listing Sidebar Left

1. T – Company Logo – Insert the full URL of your logo image. E.g. http://domainname.com/images/logo.png. To insert an image go to Media > Add New and upload the image file, take the URL from there and paste it in this field
2. Custom Menu – Create a custom menu and insert it here. You can use it to display any page, category, URL, etc.
3. T – Shopping cart information – Display’s shopping cart information. You can write any Title in it, like “Shopping cart”

Blog Listing Sidebar Left

4. T – Set Advertisement – Insert the advertisement image URL and its link
5. T – Browse By Categories – Display’s categories. You can also write the Title of the category like “Our Products”
6. T – Newsletter Subscribe – Enter the Feedburner ID, e.g. templatic. (Do not enter the full URL)

The reason why we have kept widgets in both the sidebar widget areas is because we have selected “2 column sidebar in left side” layout for our demo site. However if you have selected the layouts that displays only one of the sidebar then you can place widgets accordingly.

B) Blog Detail Page

The page that shows only one post along with its whole content is known as blog detail page. Alike the blog listing page, blog detail page too has 2 main things for setting up a perfect blog detail page,

i) Blog detail settings

• Go to wp-admin -> Theme options -> Theme options
• Expand the Blog section settings section
• Setup your required options and save them

To read more, refer the main framework guide.

ii) Placing widgets

Two widget areas have effect on the blog detail page and those are “Blog Detail Sidebar Left” and “Blog Detail Sidebar Right”. Let’s see which widgets we have placed on our demo site,

Blog Detail Sidebar Left

1. T – Company Logo – Insert the full URL of your logo image. E.g. http://domainname.com/images/logo.png. To insert an image go to Media > Add New and upload the image file, take the URL from there and paste it in this field
2. Custom Menu – Create a custom menu and insert it here. You can use it to display any page, category, URL, etc.
3. T – Shopping cart information – Display’s shopping cart information. You can write any Title in it, like “Shopping cart”

Blog Detail Sidebar Right

4. T – Set Advertisement – Insert the advertisement image URL and its link
5. T – Browse By Categories – Display’s categories. You can also write the Title of the category like “Our Products”
6. T – Newsletter Subscribe – Enter the Feedburner ID, e.g. templatic. (Do not enter the full URL)

8. Setup all pages

widget areas that affect some of the common pages such as My Account, profile etc. Here are the widgets that we have set for our demo site,

All Pages Sidebar Left

1. T – Company Logo – Insert the full URL of your logo image. E.g. http://domainname.com/images/logo.png. To insert an image go to Media > Add New and upload the image file, take the URL from there and paste it in this field
2. Custom Menu – Create a custom menu and insert it here. You can use it to display any page, category, URL, etc.
3. T – Shopping cart information – Display’s shopping cart information. You can write any Title in it, like “Shopping cart”

All Pages Sidebar Right

4. T – Set Advertisement – Insert the advertisement image URL and its link
5. T – Browse By Categories – Display’s categories. You can also write the Title of the category like “Our Products”
6. T – Newsletter Subscribe – Enter the Feedburner ID, e.g. templatic. (Do not enter the full URL)

9. Remove/edit the footer credit line

To edit the footer credit lines,

• Go to your active WordPress directory ..wp-content\themes\Store_child
• Open footer_page.php file and edit the text on lines around 8 and 9.
• You should only change 3 things there the text “All rights reserved”, “Designd by” and the image that shows Templatic logos. (Note: Be cautious, If you violet any php syntax rule then your site may go blank)