Kosmic WordPress Theme Help Document

Introduction

Thank you for Purchasing our Kosmic WordPress Theme. We are very glad that you have chosen our Kosmic WordPress Theme for your website.

Kosmic Multipurpose WordPress theme is suitable for almost any type of websites. Kosmic is very simple, clean and professional multipurpose theme comes with an extensive theme options panel, packed with various options so you can easily modify the options available through the theme options panel. Kosmic can fulfill your all the needs and build your website quickly and professionally.

This document is written very carefully by keeping the mindset that it should be easy understand for Beginner to Advance user or developers. We have divided this document in 3 main sections.

1) Getting Started : This section will very help full for Quick start and understand how setup theme.
2) Detailed Document : This section explains everything about theme with every setting.
3) Other : This section provides information about miscellaneous items like theme features etc.

If you have any query that is beyond the scope of document, please feel free to contact us at support@solwininfotech.com

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Installation

To install this theme you must have a working version of WordPress already installed. For information regarding installing the WordPress platform, please see the WordPress Codex  https://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress

1. Installation Via WordPress Admin Area

  1. Step 1. Log into your WordPress admin area.
  2. Step 2. Go to Dashboard » Appearance » Themes.

  3. Add New Theme

  4. Step 3. Now, Click on Upload Theme button at top and upload kosmic.zip which you have downloaded from your Member Area at Solwin Infotech website.
  5. Step 4. Click on Activate once upload has finished.
  6. Upload New Theme
    Activate Theme


2. Installation Using FTP

  1. Step 1. Download kosmic.zip file from your Member Area at Solwin Infotech website.
  2. Step 2. Extract Zip file.
  3. Step 3. Using your FTP program, upload the non-zipped theme folder into the "/wp-content/themes/" folder on your server.
  4. Step 4. Go to Dashboard » Appearance » Themes and find Kosmic theme from list.
  5. Step 5. Click on Activate to active Kosmic theme.
Active Theme

Install & Active the Plugins

After the Kosmic theme is activated, a notification occurs on the top that will suggest which plugins are required in theme.

Activation Message

Click on Begin installing plugins for plugin installation OR Click on Begin activating plugins if plugins are already installed.


Required Plugins in Theme:

  • Contact Form 7: Manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup.
  • WooCommerce: WooCommerce is a free eCommerce plugin that allows you to sell anything, beautifully. Built to integrate seamlessly with WordPress, WooCommerce is the world’s favorite eCommerce solution that gives both store owners and developers complete control.
  • YITH WooCommerce Compare: YITH WooCommerce Compare plugin is an extension of WooCommerce plugin that allow your users to compare some products of your shop.
  • YITH WooCommerce Wishlist: What can really make the difference in conversions and amount of sales is without a doubt the freedom to share your own wishlist, even on social networks, increasing indirect sales: can you imagine the sales volume you can generate during holidays or birthdays, when relatives and friends will be looking for the wishlist of your clients to buy a gift?
  • YITH WooCommerce Zoom Magnifier: Offer to your visitors a chance to inspect in detail the quality of your products. With YITH WooCommerce Zoom Magnifier you can add a zoom effect to all your product images. The Wordpress plugin also adds a slider below the featured image with your product gallery images.

Recommended Plugin:

  • Avartan Slider: A Responsive WordPress slider that allows you to create unlimited layers with text, image and video elements.
  • MailPoet 3: Create and send newsletters, post notifications and welcome emails from your WordPress.

System Status Info

Note : Set "Max execution time" to at least "3600" and set "Max input vars" to "1500".

Above configuration will helps you to run the auto install successfully.

System Information

Auto Install Sample Data

Note: In order to import data successfully check that all required plugins are installed and activated.

Sample data provide the dummy content. By importing this data your site will look like the demo website.

To Auto Install Sample Data:

  1. Step 1. Go to your Dashboard » Kosmic » Install Demos.
  2. Step 2. Select Demo Home Page Layout.
  3. Step 3. Click on "START INSTALL" Button to start Auto Install process.
One Click Install

Remove the installed dummy content from your website.

To Remove Sample Data:

  1. Step 1. Go to your Dashboard » Kosmic » Install Demos.
  2. Step 2. Click on "UNINSTALL" Button to remove dummy content.
Remove Sample Data
Not Recommended: Do this action if you really want to remove installed sample data and want to start again from scratch.

Setting Up Home Page

This section will help you to arrange home page and other pages of your site. This will also guide to you as how to set up WordPress Menus, Create a Slider/Banner, Create Home Page, Use of Page Templates and insertion of shortcode in pages.


Home Page View
  1. Step 1: Go to Dashboard » Pages » Add New.
  2. Step 2: Enter page title.
  3. Step 3: Select template as Home Page Template for Page Attribute as shown in below image
  4. Step 4: Publish this page
  5. Home Page Setting
  6. Home Page Setting
  7. Step 5: Go to Dashboard » Settings » Reading, select home page as a front page
  8. Front Page Home

Create Slider

  1. Step 1. Go to Dashboard » Avartan Slider

  2. Step 2. Click on

    Create new slider

  3. Step 3. Add the slider name. Shortcode of the slider will be generated automatically (see image below).

    Save Settings

  4. Step 4. Click on create slide button to save your slider.

  5. Step 5. Next to that, Click on Edit slides at top of page for edit your slide details.

  6. Step 6. To add new slide click on Add slide button at right side of the slide list and add new Layer from Add New Layer

    create slide

  7. Step 7. In order to add Avartan Slider on any page, navigate to Pages » Add New

  8. Step 8. Click on add-avartan-slider-btn

    Add Avartan Slider

  9. Step 9. Select slider and click on Insert Avartan Slider button

    Select Slider

  10. Avartan Slider shortcode added successfully. Now save the page and enjoy the slider.

    slider added

Building the Menu

  1. Step 1. Go to Dashboard » Appearance » Menus.
  2. Step 2. Click on Create a new menu as show in below image.
  3. Step 3. Enter menu name and click on Create Menu as shown in below image.
  4. Create a Menu
  5. Step 4. Select Pages like Home, Typography, Tabs, Share and Follow, Progressbar etc. from left Side and click on Add to Menu button as show in below image
  6. Step 5. After selecting pages select menu location and click on Save Menu.
  7. Final Step in Menu

  8. Primary Menu Front Preview
    Final Step in Menu

Create Mega Menu

Mega menu can create with Auto or Fixed width size. It will manage automatically according to number of columns. There are other options as like Navigation label which manage to show or hide navigation label, Sub label used to represent Trending Feature with custom color.

Mega Menu Backend

Megamenu Creation

Mega Menu Front

Megamenu Front

Setting up Page Template

How to select page template:

Select a page template from Page Attributes as shown in below image.

Page Template

There are following page templates:

  • Home Page Template: This page template is used to display home page content.
  • Full Width Page Template: This page template is used to display content in a full width page.
  • Left Sidebar Page Template: This page template is used to display sidebar at the left side on a page.
  • Right Sidebar Page Template: This page template is used to display sidebar at right side in a page.
  • Contact us Page Template: This page template is used to display contact us page.

Blog Post Widget

This widget will be used to display Blog Posts of category wise and order by date, title etc.

Admin Preview

Blog Post

Front End Preview

Blog Post

Call to Action widget

This widget will be used to display a call to action button. Best suitable widget area is "Home Page Main Content" widget area.

Admin Preview

Call to Action

Front End Preview

Call to Action

Contact Information widget

This widget will be used to display your contact information like postal address, phone number, fax and contact email.

Admin Preview

Contact Information

Front End Preview

Contact Information

Contact Us Widget

This widget will be used to display Contact Information on your website.

Admin Preview

Contact Us

Front End Preview

Contact Us

Flickr Widget

This widget will be used to display your Flickr photos from your flickr account.

Admin Preview

Flickr widget

Front End Preview

Flickr widget

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Google Map widget

This widget will be used to display Google Map with your website.

Admin Preview

Google Map widget

Front End Preview

Google Map widget

Instagram Feed Widget

This widget will be used to display Instagram Feeds.

Admin Preview

Instagram Feed

Front End Preview

Instagram Feed

Our Clients Widget

This widget will be used to Showcase Client with logos and live links. Best suitable widget area is 'Home Page Main Content' widget area.

Admin Preview

Our clients

Front End Preview

Our clients

Products by Rating widget

This widget display list of product with highest rating in sidebar widget area.

Admin Preview

Products by Rating widget

Front End Preview

Products By Rating widget

Testimonial widget

This widget only for "Home Page Content Area" sidebar. This widget display end users reviews.

Admin Preview

Testimonial widget

Front End Preview

Testimonial widget

Twitter Feeds widget

This widget will be used to display the twitter feeds.

Admin Preview

Twitter Feeds

Front End Preview

Twitter Feeds

WoocCommerce Category Widget

This widget will be used to display WooCommerce Categories with beautiful designs of Patterns and Slider options.

Admin Preview

Woocommerce Category Feeds

Front End Preview

Woocommerce Category Feeds

WooCommerce Products widget

This widget will be used to display WooCommerce Products with beautiful design and other options like slider and category options and tabbing options etc. .

Admin Preview

WooCommerce Products

Front End Preview

WooCommerce Products

Our Service Widget

This widget will be used to display Provider Services.

Admin Preview

Our Service Admin

Front End Preview

Our Service Front

Create Custom Widget Area

  1. Step 1. Go to Dashboard » Appearance » Widgets

    Create Custom Widget Area

  2. Step 2. Enter Name of new widget area. Click on "Add Widget Area".

    Widget Area

  3. Step 3. After Custom Widget Area created, Drag and Drop the widgets in Custom Widget Area.

    Custom Widget Area

  4. Step 4. Custom Widget Area looks like this.

    Custom Sidebar Area

  5. Step 5. To delete Custom Widget Area click on - icon.

Custom Sidebar Option

Custom Sidebar Option

Manage Custom Sidebars with different Page templates, you can create it in Widget panel and manage it with different Pages.

Note: Custom Sidebar will not work for Full Width Template & Home page Template.

Add Portfolio

Add Portfolio

Add Testimonial

Add Testimonial

Add Client

Add Client

Add Product with Kosmic

There are some basic steps to add product with Kosmic WordPress Theme.

Add Product with Kosmic WordPress Theme

There are different types of products provided by the WooCommerce, Following are list to add different types of products with Kosmic WordPress Theme.

Add Shortcode in Page

  1. Step 1. Go to Dashboard » Pages » Add New.
  2. Step 2. Click on Default Shortcodes (as show in below left image).
  3. Step 3. Now, select the shortcode from list (as show in below right image).
Add Shortcode Button
Add Shortcode in Page

Headers Shortcodes

These shortcodes will be used for displaying h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 tags.

H1 Tag :

[sol_header type='h1' title='demo content' margin_top='5px' margin_bottom='5px']

<h1 style='margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px'>demo content</h1>

H2 Tag :

[sol_header type='h2' title='demo content' margin_top='5px' margin_bottom='5px']

<h2 style='margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px'>demo content</h2>

H3 Tag :

[sol_header type='h3' title='demo content' margin_top='5px' margin_bottom='5px']

<h3 style='margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px'>demo content</h3>

H4 Tag :

[sol_header type='h4' title='demo content' margin_top='5px' margin_bottom='5px']

<h4 style='margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px'>demo content</h4>

H5 Tag :

[sol_header type='h5' title='demo content' margin_top='5px' margin_bottom='5px']

<h5 style='margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px'>demo content</h5>

H6 Tag :

[sol_header type='h6' title='demo content' margin_top='5px' margin_bottom='5px']

<h6 style='margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px'>demo content</h6>

Dividers Shortcodes

This shortcode will be used to add a divider in content.

Solid Line Divider :

[sol_divider type='solid']
Dotted Line Divider :

[sol_divider type='dotted']
Dashed Line Divider :

[sol_divider type='dashed]
Double Line Divider :

[sol_divider type='double']

Spacer Shortcode

This shortcode will be used to put a horizontal space of a given pixel.

[sol_spacer size='30px']

Message Box Shortcodes

This shortcode will be used to display messages like success, danger, warning, info, etc.

Success Message Box :

[sol_messagebox type='success'] Well done! You successfully read this important alert message. [/sol_messagebox]

Success Message Box

Danger Message Box :

[sol_messagebox type='danger'] Oh snap! Change a few things up and try submitting again. [/sol_messagebox]

Danger Message Box

Warning Message Box :

[sol_messagebox type='warning'] Warning! Better check yourself, you're not looking too good. [/sol_messagebox]

Warning Message Box

Info Message Box :

[sol_messagebox type='info'] Heads up! This alert needs your attention, but it's not super important. [/sol_messagebox]

Info Message Box

Share & Follow Icons Shortcodes

This shortcode will be used to display share and follow icons

Share Icons :

[sol_shareicon size='small|large' shape='circle|square']

Share Icons

Follow Icons :

[sol_followicon size='small|large' shape='square|circle' facebook="https://www.facebook.com/" twitter="https://twitter.com/" pinterest="https://in.pinterest.com/" googleplus="https://plus.google.com/" rss="https://www.rss.com/" instagram="https://instagram.com/" linkedin="https://in.linkedin.com/" youtube="https://www.youtube.com/"]

Follow Icons

Tab Shortcode

This shortcode will be used to display the tabs

[sol_tabs type='vertical|horizontal' style='1|2'][sol_tab title='add title here']add content here[/sol_tab][so_ltab title='add title here']add content here[/sol_tab][sol_tab title='add title here']add content here[/sol_tab][/sol_tabs]

Tabs

Progress Bar & Pie Chart Shortcode

This shortcode will be used to display progress bar and pie chart

Progress Bar :


[sol_progressbar value='50' title_position='in' margin_top='5px' margin_bottom='5px' style='1|2|3']add title here[/sol_progressbar]

Progressbar

Pie Chart :


[sol_piechart value='80' show_percent='n' margin_top='0' margin_bottom='0' title='WordPress' style='1' thickness='0.3' width='250']add content here[/sol_piechart]

Piechart

Map Shortcodes

This shortcode will be used to display maps in content or contact us page.

1. Roadmap type :

[sol_map type='ROADMAP' address='America' width='500px' height='350px' zoom='5' map_icon='icon path']

Roadmap

2. Satellite type :

[sol_map type='SATELLITE' address='America' width='500px' height='350px' zoom='5' map_icon='icon path']

Satellite

3. Hybrid type :

[sol_map type='HYBRID' address='America' width='500px' height='350px' zoom='5' map_icon='icon path']

Hybrid

4. Terrain type :

[sol_map type='TERRAIN' address='America' width='500px' height='350px' zoom='5' map_icon='icon path']

Terrain

Accordion and Toggles Shortcodes

This shortcode will be used to display accordion & toggle.

Accordion :


[sol_accordians style='1|2|3'][sol_accordian title='add title here']add content here[/sol_accordian][sol_accordian title='add title here']add content here[/sol_accordian][sol_accordian title='add title here']add content here[/sol_accordian][/sol_accordians]

Accordion

Toggles :


[sol_toggles style='1|2|3'][sol_toggle title='add title here']add content here[/sol_toggle][sol_toggle title='add title here']add content here[/sol_toggle][sol_toggle title='add title here']add content here[/sol_toggle][/sol_toggles]

Toggles

Pricing Table Shortcode

This shortcode will be used to display pricing table.

[sol_pricingtable columns='3|4' collapsed='y|n'][sol_pricingcolumn heighlight='y|n' title='Premium' price='$50' time_period = 'per year' btn_link='#' btn_txt='Buy Now']add content here[/sol_pricingcolumn][/sol_pricingtable]

Pricing Table

Sitemap Shortcode

This shortcode will be used to display Sitemap.

[sol_sitemap site_pages='yes' site_archive='yes' site_post='yes']

Sitemap

General Settings

General Settings

Logo Icons Settings

General Settings

Header Settings

Header Settings

Top Nav Settings

Header Settings

Main Menu Settings

Header Settings

Theme Color Settings

Design

Header Design Settings

Design

Top Nav Design Settings

Design

Main Menu Design Settings

Design

Breadcrumb Design Settings

Design

Default Page Settings

Default Page Settings

Blog Page Settings

Blog page

Single Blog Page Settings

Single page

Portfolio Post Type Settings

Single page

Portfolio Archive Page Settings

Single page

Portfolio Single page Settings

Single page

WooCommerce Product Page Settings

Product page

WooCommerce Product Layout Settings

Product Layout Setting

WooCommerce Single Product Page Settings

Single Product Page

Import/Export Settings

Import/Export Setting

Kosmic Theme features

The theme comes with tons of features that you can control easily via our user-friendly theme admin panel. You can find these features below:

  • Browser Compatible
  • Mobile Friendly Responsive Theme
  • Fully Widgetized Home Page
  • Powerful Theme Options Panel
  • Smooth home page section animations
  • Inbuilt custom page templates like Home page, Contact us, Full width, Left sidebar, Right Sidebar etc.
  • Page Layouts – Full Width Page, Left Sidebar Page and Right Sidebar Page
  • Page & Post – Customize page layout options
  • 15 Very Useful Shortcodes instead of plugins
  • 8 In Build Custom Headers
  • 10+ In Build Custom widgets
  • Latest Bootstrap & Font Awesome version Support
  • Avartan Slider Plugin available in theme
  • Blog Designer PRO Plugin support for Blog page design with 33+ different layout
  • Contact Form 7 ready : A working contact form
  • WooCommerce plugin support
  • Unlimited color options
  • Ajax Shopping Minicart
  • Customizable Mega Menu
  • Sticky header menu
  • Custom Preloader
  • SEO Optimized
  • RTL Supported
  • Boxed & Wide Layout
  • Built with Less .css
  • Translation Ready (.pot files)
  • One-Click Demo Content Installer
  • Pre-made Demo
  • Google Maps integration with animated custom pin point
  • Custom Header Scripts and Footer Scripts support
  • Compatible with: WordPress 4.9
  • And much more

FAQ

1. Does this theme support any plugins?

Kosmic includes support of plugins like Avartan Slider, Blog Designer PRO, Contact Form 7, WP Super Cache, Yoast SEO, WooCommerce, YITH WooCommerce Compare, YITH WooCommerce Zoom Magnifier, YITH WooCommerce Wishlist, WC Checkout Fields Editor plugin Support.

2. For which purposes I can use your theme?

Kosmic WordPress Theme is suitable for all kind of websites because it is built as multipurpose. It supports WooCommerce plugin and so you can set up eCommerce store and also create your any business website.

Translation

Kosmic theme is language compatible, thus can be translated into multiple languages. You can use POEdit plugin for translation.

  1. Step 1. Find the .pot file in /wp-content/themes/kosmic/languages/

    .pot file
  2. Step 2. Select language from admin side, Go to Dashboard » Settings » General in that check Site Language options.

    Select language
  3. Step 3. Check language prefix in front end, view HTML.

    Language prefix
  4. Step 4. Open the .pot file with POEdit and translate the texts into your preferred language.

    translate texts
  5. Step 5. Now you will get two separate files – a .po file and a .mo file.

    Note : When you save the files, you must name them according to your language code. Find a list of language codes at WordPress in your Language. For example, the language code for English is en_EN, so you would save the translated files as en_EN.po and en_EN.mo.

  6. Step 6. Now Paste that two .po & .mo files in /wp-content/themes/kosmic/languages/ and rename to eg( en_CA.mo & en_CA.po ).

    .po and .mo files
For more about translating WordPress themes please visit the following link : https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/functionality/localization/

Update Theme

How to upgrade theme? Follow the below steps and upgrade your theme.

  1. Step 1 : Login with your WordPress admin area.
  2. Step 2 : Go to Dashboard » Kosmic » Upgrade.
  3. Step 3 : Check your installed theme version and latest available version.
    upgrade theme
  4. Step 4 : If you already installed the latest version, then ignore the following steps otherwise go through to the following steps.
  5. Step 5 : Go to solwininfotech.com
  6. Step 6 : Login with your username and password (If you are not logged in) OR Register
  7. Step 7 : Buy Kosmic theme (If you haven't purchased a theme)
  8. Step 8 : Go to My account
  9. Step 9 : Click on "Payment History" tab
  10. Step 10 : View your order
  11. Step 11 : Download kosmic.zip file

Note: Please note that with the theme update any code modifications done in the theme's code will be lost, so please make sure you have a backup copy of the theme files before you update the a theme.

Now installing an update:

  1. 1. Update Using FTP

    1. Step 1. Download kosmic.zip file from your Member Area at Solwin Infotech website.
    2. Step 2. Extract Zip file.
    3. Step 3. Using your FTP program, upload the non-zipped theme folder into the "/wp-content/themes/" folder on your server.
    4. Step 4. Go to Dashboard » Appearance » Themes and find Kosmic theme from list.
    5. Step 5. Click on Activate to active Kosmic theme.
    Active Theme

Note: Please note that with the activating of the new theme it is possible your menu setting not to be saved for the new theme. If so, you just have to go to Appearance » Menus » Theme Locations, select the menu (it will be still there) and press the "Save" button.

Thanks for using Kosmic Theme!

We would like to thank you for using our Kosmic Theme! If you have any difficulties with Kosmic Themes or need any additional service, do not hesitate to contact us. We provide priority support with our all premium WordPress themes and plugins.

Just contact us on support.solwininfotech.com

We are very happy to assist you!