Luwix - Data Science & Analytics WordPress Theme

Luwix Introduction

This documentation will give you an understanding of how Luwix Theme is structured and guide you in performing common functions.

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First steps

To install this theme you must have a working version of WordPress already installed. If you need help installing WordPress, follow the instructions in WordPress Codex. Below are all the useful links for WordPress information.

General information about WordPress. - WordPress FAQ
A great knowledge-base for WordPress beginners. - WordPress Lessons
Detailed information on WordPress PHP functions and a lot of usage examples. - PHP Function References

Server requirements

To use the Luwix theme, you must be running WordPress 5.0 or higher, PHP 7.0 or greater, and MySQL 5 or greater on your server. We have tested it on Linux, Mac and Windows. Below is a list of items you should ensure your host can comply with.

Check to ensure that your web host has the minimum requirements to run WordPress and themes;
Always make sure they are running the latest version of WordPress;
You can download the latest release of WordPress from the official WordPress website;
Always create secure passwords for FTP and Databases.

Minimum PHP requirements

We recommend that you contact your web hosting service provider to make sure that your server PHP configuration limits are as follows:

PHP time limit - (max_execution_time) 3000
PHP memory limit - (memory_limit) 256M
Max upload size - (upload_max_filesize) 16M
File upload permission - (file_uploads) set to Available

Installation

There are two ways to install a WordPress theme: using the built-in installer or by uploading it via FTP.

Install Theme via WordPress

Log in to the WordPress Administration Panels.
Select the Appearance > Themes > Add New.
Use the Upload Theme button to upload a zipped copy of Luwix Theme.
Go to Appearance > Themes and activate the theme.

Install Theme via FTP

We recommend that you contact your web hosting service provider to make sure that your server PHP configuration limits are as follows:

Download the Theme archive and extract the files it contains;
Use an FTP client to access your hosting server;
Unzip the Luwix.zip archive, put its contents (folder called Luwix) in the /wp-content/themes directory provided by WordPress;
Go to Appearance > Themes and activate the theme.

Updating the theme

We recommend to use Envato Market plugin to update theme as it's fast and auto process. Here are steps:

Download the Envato Market plugin and install it through the WordPress Dashboard at: Appearance Widgets
Than you just need to configure "Envato Market" plugin. This is one time process. You just need to link your ThemeForest account with your "Envato Market" plugin. Just follow this for step-by-step tutorial for this.
Than just go to Admin Envato Market menu and click on "Themes" tab. Now you can see Luwix theme with update link on it.
After theme update, you may see message to update some plugins. Make sure you update all plugins too.

Plugins Installation

After you install the theme, you should see a list of suggested plugins at the top of the WordPress dashboard. If you already closed it out, you can go to Plugins folder of the Theme package instead to activate plugins.

Basic site setup

There are two ways to install a WordPress theme: using the built-in installer or by uploading it via FTP.

Import demo content

Ensure, that the Luwix Importer plugin is installed and activated;
From the dashboard go to Appearance > Import Demo Data;
Choose the demo you want to install and click on the Import Demo button

Setting a homepage

To set the demo as the homepage:

From the dashboard go to Settings > Reading;
Find the Your homepage displays option and toggle the switcher to A static page (select below);
Choose the demo homepage and save your changes.

Theme Options

The Theme Settings dashboard contains 16 menu sections.

In almost each of these you can customize a certain part of your website.

In this article we’ll briefly explain what you can do in each of these tabs.

General Setting

This tab contains such tabs as Theme cursor, sidemenu and back to top settings.

Body Backgrond

This tab contains such tabs as Body Backgrond Settings.

The Body Backgrond tab allows you to set the body layout, background and colors settings.

Site Loader

This tab contains such tabs as Loader Settings.

The Site Loader tab allows you to set the loader colors, background and other.

Site Logo

This tab contains such tabs as Logo Settings.

The Site Logo tab allows you to upload a logo image that will be used site-wide or use a text logo.

General Blogs

This tab contains tabs such as Blog Layout ,Blog Page and Blog Singal Page Settings.

In the Blog Layout tab you can set the style of your blog’s classic, grid and list that contains your posts.

The General Blogs tab allows you to set up your blog’s sidebar, custom content position, display filters and other.

WooCommerce

You can change settings related to WooCommerce from here.

Page settings

This tab contains tabs such as Page, Search and Archive Sidebar Settings

Color Option

This tab contains tabs such as Theme Colors.

These are basically handy shortcuts for all of your site’s elements that will set the color you choose here unless you set the color explicitly when editing your page/element.

Site Info

This tab contains tabs such as site information.

Typography

This tab contains tabs such as Fonts Settings.

404

This tab you can change 404 Page Contant from here.

Maintenance

This tab you can control “Maintenance” and “Coming Soon” pages.

Custom CSS/JS

This tab you can add custom CSS and JavaScript. It can be useful if you want to do any custom formatting with CSS or functionality with JavaScript

Creating a Menu

To create a menu for your site, do the following:

Step 1 : From the dashboard go to Appearance > Menus
Step 2 : Create a new menu to click on Click a new menu and Click Save Menu button.
Step 3 : On the left, Check the checkbox of every element you want to have in your menu and Click Add to Menu
Step 4 : You have to set Display location in Menu Settings Check the checkbox as Primary.
Step 5 : Click on Save Menu button. Finally, your Primary menu Ready.

Mega Menu Setting

To set up a mega menu make sure you follow the steps below:

1. Enable CSS classes :

Scroll up and find the "Screen Options" at the top right of the Menu, and click on the drop-down arrow. The screen should look like this:

2. Go back to your Menus :

Go back to your "Menus" section and click on the Drop-down arrow of the menu item icon, and when the screen opens up, find "CSS Classes" and type mega-menu. and If you want to Use Small Mega Menu then use mega-small Class.

Elementor Widget

Luwix has supported with Elementor Page Builder. the Elementor widgets shortcode are helpful and to create a dynamic website as per the requirements. Below you will see the list of the shortcode/widget that the theme provides.

Elementor is an external service and the plugin is developed by third party developers. They have already provided very good documentation.

Elementor Documentation

WooCommerce

Creating a shop

Once you activate WooCommerce plugin for the first time, you are invited to set up your shop using the WooCommerce setup wizard. It is pretty intuitive and allows you to get your shop running in no time.

Nothing can describe getting started with WooCommerce better than its original documentation. Here are links to help you get started:

If you want to get started manually, or skipped the setup wizard, then you need to get a set of shop pages.

Here is what you need to do:

From the dashboard go to WooCommerce > Status > Tools;
Find the Create default WooCommerce pages option;
Hint the Create pages button on the right.

Now you should have a set of standard shop pages and are ready to work with WooCommerce.

Disable a Cart Icon

To enable/disable the cart icon on your website without disabling a WooCommerce functionality do the following:

From the dashboard go to Finix Theme > Finix Options > Woocommerce;
Toggle the Cart Button switch to off the cart icon;

Revolution Slider

It's very easy to create a new slider. Here is a getting started video where you can learn how to create a new slider or modify your existing slider. Click here to see their document and learn basics and become pro.

You can also see video to learn basics or Slider Revolution plugin. See this video:

Child Theme

For customization of theme or addition of new features, it is always recommended to install child theme to retain your customization even after parent theme update, so blank child theme is already included in the package.

Translation

You need to download and install poEdit program from here https://poedit.net/download
Then goto ftp wp-conetent themes your theme folder languages. There you will find .pot file, open it with poEdit
After edititng you need to set correct files name for your new files that will come after editing. More info about files naming you gan find here: https://poedit.net/download
Open file wp-config.php in your Wordpress root folder and add the line define('WPLANG', ''); remember replace '' by the language you want. More details can be found here: WordPress in your language
You can also translate theme using Logo Translate plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/loco-translate/
Theme is fully compatibele with WPML Multilingual plugin, that can be used for translation and multilingual: WPML.org

Luwix Changelog

You can see the detail about the changelog here. Power-Squall always update our themes with new features, bug fixes, and improvements. We highly recommend you to read the changelog for every update.

- Theme release