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

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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

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 Solshine Theme.
• Go to Appearance > Themes and activate the theme.

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.

The Import Demo Data feature allows you to quickly set up your website with the same content, layout, and settings as shown in the theme demo. This is a one-click process that automatically imports all required pages, posts, media, menus, and theme options.

Note : This process will overwrite any existing content on your website. For this reason, we strongly recommend using this option only on a fresh WordPress installation.

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 Solshine 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.

The Theme Settings dashboard contains 17 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.

Site Loader

Logo/Branding

Site Header

Site Footer

Page Header

Color Option

Typography

Theme Cursor

Theme Button

Border Radius

Pages Sidebar

Blog Page

Single Blog Post

Woocommerce Pages

Site Contacts

Social Profiles

MailChimp ID

404 Page

Maintenance Mode

Custom CSS/JS

Import/Export

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.

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

• Step 1 : From the dashboard go to Appearance > Templates
• Step 2 : Create a new mega menu to click on Add New Tempalate
• Step 3 : After Create mega menu in Tempalate, You have to set Display location in Menu Settings.
• Step 4 : From the dashboard go to Appearance > Menus
• Step 4 : Open Menu dropdown, and Select Template Type: EL Templates and Select created Tempalate
• Step 5 : Click on Save Menu button. Finally, your Elementor Mega menu Ready.

To create a Footer with Elementor for your site, do the following:

• Step 1 : From the dashboard go to Appearance > Templates
• Step 2 : Create a new footer to click on Add New Tempalate
• Step 3 : After Create footer in Tempalate, You have to set Display location in Footer Area.
• Step 4 : From the dashboard go to  Solshine Options and Open Site Layout, and Select Site Footer Section
• Step 4 : Footer Content Type Elementor Section and Select Footer Template
• Step 5 : Click on Save Changes button. Finally, your Elementor Footer Ready.

Creating one page navigation can be done by using below simple steps. Heres is the 4 steps below:

• Step 1 : When creating the homepage using Elementor elements, Click Edit Row Settings.
• Step 2 : After Open Row Settings Click on Adcaced Option.
• Step 3 : You can add Uniq Section ID in "CSS ID" input.

• Step 4 : When creating the menu items, use the "Custom Links" box and use that row id as menu URL.

Solshine 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.

• 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