1.3 WordPress Information

To install this theme you must have a working version of WordPress already installed. Below are all the useful links for WordPress information.

• WordPress Codex – General info about WordPress and how to install on your server.
• First Steps With WordPress – General info about multiple topics about WordPress.
• FAQ New To WordPress – The most popular FAQ's regarding WordPress.

1.4 Requirements For Gardening

We have tested our theme in most standard hosting setups. Anyhow, make sure your hosting server matches the following requirements.

1. Latest version of WordPress 4.6 or higher installed,
2. PHP5 or higher and MySQL 5 or higher,
3. We recommend to enable mod_rewrite module (If not enabled sometimes pages or posts will result in bad gateway error),
4. Memory limit(memory_limit) should be atleast 128MB,
5. Maxium File Upload size(upload_max_filesize) should be atleast 32MB.

1.5 What's Included

When you purchase our theme from ThemeForest, you need to download the Gardening files from your ThemeForest account. Navigate to your downloads tab on ThemeForest and find Gardening. Click the download button to see the two options. The Main Files contain everything, the Installable WordPress Theme is just the installable WordPress theme file. Below is a full list of everything that is included when you download the main files, along with a brief description of each item.

• Gardening Theme Folder : gardening.zip
• Gardening Child Theme Folder : Gardening-Child-Theme.zip
• Slider Folder – This contains all the Layer Slider & Revolution Slider
• Documentation Folder – Contains the theme documentation.

1.5.1 Gardening Theme Support

All of our items come with 6 months of included support and free lifetime updates for your theme. Once the 6 months of included support is up, you have the opportunity to extend support coverage up to 6 or 12 months further. If you choose to not extend your support, you will still be able to submit bug reports via email or item comments and still have access to our online documentation gardening and video tutorials.

Envato clarifies item support here http://themeforest.net/page/item_support_policy

We have an advanced, secure ticket system to handle your requests. Support is limited to questions regarding the theme's features or problems with the theme. We are not able to provide support for code customizations or third-party plugins. If you need help with anything other than minor customizations of your theme, we suggest enlisting the help of a developer.

How To Start Receiving Support

Step 1 – Click Here To Create An Account, you will need your ThemeForest Purchase Code which can only be received after buying the theme from Themeforest.net.

Step 2 – Once you are signed up, you need to sign into our support center with your new account.

Step 3 – To create a new ticket, visit this page

Download Your Purchase Code From ThemeForest

Step 1 : Log into your ThemeForest account and click your username in the top right corner to access the dropdown. Select the “Downloads” link.

Step 2 : Find the Foreal Purchase in the list of items you have bought.

Step 3 : Click the “Download” button to activate the dropdown menu. Select to download the license certificate and purchase code as a PDF or Text file. Open the file to find the purchase code.

Example Purchase Code: xxxx12-YYY145-4q70-a109-C458fdtws

1.6 Installation

1. At first, after purchasing this theme, please download the package from Themeforest. All you need to do that, is move your mouse over your login name in right top corner (of course after you`re logged in Themeforest) and then click Download. Here you will find all the items that you have purchased. It looks exactly just as the diagram next to.

2. In the next step click the Download > Main File(s) button next to designthemes theme and save the package on your computer.

3. In that package you can find things like documentation, license, zipped file with theme files and folder with theme files called Gardening and Gardening-child. Please unpack the whole package after downloading it from Themeforest.

1.7 WordPress Installation

Kindly follow the steps given below for installing this theme from Wordpress.

1. Navigate to Appearance > Themes.
2. Click 'Add New' button near 'Themes' title.
3. Now 'Add Themes' page will be loaded with 'Upload Theme' button hit on it.
4. Now navigate to find the "gardening.zip" file on your computer ( "gardening.zip" will be found inside "gardening.zip" ) and click "Install Now"
5. Once uploaded go to Appearance > Themes and activate it.
6. Then you will see a notification message to activate the required & recommended plugins: 'DesignThemes Core Features Plugin', 'WPBakery Visual Composer', 'Responsive Styled Google Maps', 'Contact Form 7', 'LayerSlider WP' and 'Revolution Slider'.
7. Once required plugins are activated, navigate to Settings > Permalinks select 'Post name' in 'Common Settings' tab and save it.

1.8 FTP Installation

How To Install Gardening Via FTP

Step 1 : Log into your server installation via FTP. You can use software such as Filezilla for this.

Step 2 : If you have downloaded the Full Theme Package from ThemeForest, please unzip the master Gardening.zip file and then unzip the secondary Gardening.zip file which will give an Gardening  folder.

Step 3 : Upload the extracted Gardening  folder to the wp-content > themes folder on the server. Make sure the folder name is -> ‘Gardening ’.

Step 4 : Log in to your WordPress Dashboard and navigate to Appearance > Themes and clicking the ‘Activate’ button, for the Gardening  theme.

Step 5 : Then you will get a notification message to activate the required & recommended plugins: 'DesignThemes Core Features Plugin', 'WPBakery Visual Composer', 'Responsive Styled Google Maps', 'Contact Form 7', 'LayerSlider WP' and 'Revolution Slider'.

Step 6 : Once after the required plugins are activated, navigate to Settings > Permalinks, and select 'Post Name' in 'Common Settings' tab and save it finally.

Please take a look at the structure of the gardening.zip archive you've got after purchasing.

1.9 Plugin Installation

Once you have uploaded and activated the theme, install and activate the 'DesignThemes Core Features Plugin', 'WPBakery Visual Composer' as next step. All promoted features will work only after activating this plugin.

The Layer and Revolution Slider are recommended plugins. When you install "Gardening", you will get a notification message in your WordPress admin telling you to install the required and recommended plugins.

Included Plugins With The Gardening Theme

• DesignThemes Core Features Plugin – This is our companion plugin that is required to use Gardening. Please make sure this is always installed and activated.
• WPBakery Visual Composer – This is a premium plugin created by WPBakery.
• Ultimate Addons for Visual Composer – This is a premium plugin created by BrainstormForce.
• Layer Slider – This is a premium slider plugin created by Kreatura.
• Revolution Slider – This is a premium slider plugin created by ThemePunch.

Required Plugins Used in Various Demos

• WooCommerce Plugin – This plugin is free. If creating an online shop, we recommend using WooCommerce. Gardening has full integration with this plugin.
• bbPress Plugin – This plugin is free. If creating a forum, we recommend using bbPress. Gardening has full integration with this plugin.
• Contact Form 7 – This plugin is free. If needing to use forms on various pages, we recommend using Contact Form 7. Gardening has full integration with this plugin.

1.10 How To Update Your Theme?

Kindly follow the steps given below to update our theme with the latest version.

1. Download the theme's latest version from Themeforest downloads page.
2. If you've made any custom changes in the code, please take a backup of it first. To be in safer side, take backup of the database completely.
3. Overwrite the older theme files with latest theme files. Update the custom changes (from backup) into the new files.
4. Now goto "wp-content / plugins" folder through the FTP software.
5. Remove the folder 'designthemes-core-features' from wp-content / plugins folder. Make sure you have taken backup of custom changes if any.
6. Then get into "Dashboard -> Appearance -> Install Plugins", to install and activate the 'DesignThemes Core Features Plugin'.
7. Hereby you can update to the latest version of our Gardening theme simply.

Note: If you have already updated our theme, just follow the steps 4,5,6 to update our 'DesignThemes Core Features Plugin'

2.1 Importing the Demo Content

Before running the importer, make sure that you have installed and activated the required and recommended plugins. You will see a message at the top of your dashboard if you have not yet done so.

• First of all, make sure that you have installed and activated the "DesignThemes Core Features Plugin" on your Wordpress.
• Goto Appearance -> Gardening Options -> Buddha Panel -> Importer > Import Demo
• Please be patient, as it may take few minutes to import everything. Once it is completed, you will receive a success message finally.

2.2 Install the Demo Content via Unyson plugin

The easiest way to import our demo content is to use Unyson plugin Demo Content Importer. Our importer will give you all pages and posts, several sample sliders, widgets, Theme Options, assigned pages, and more. This is recommended to do on fresh installs.

It will replace content like posts, pages, portfolio, etc , it will not delete current menus but configure our demo menus, and it will not replace but add sliders. It will, however, replace Theme Options, Reading settings and Widget settings. To import our demo content, please see the steps below.

How To Import Demos

• Install and activate these plugins before you proceed: Revolution Slider, Layer Slider, Designtheme Core Plugin , Unyson plugin and WooCommerce. Woocommerce is only needed for an online shop
• Navigate to the Unyson > Active Extensions > Backup & Demo Content (Install)
• Navigate to the Tools > Demo Content Install > Select the demo Content > install
• Please be patient, as it may take few minutes to import everything. Once it is completed, you will receive a success message finally.

2.3 Alternate Demo Method

Installing Dummy Data through WordPress Importer Plugin.

Step 1 : In the Tools tab in your admin sidebar, click Import.

Step 2 : On the Import page, select WordPress from the list and install the WordPress Importer Plugin.

Step 3 : Click Choose File, and then choose the .xml file from your desired demo folder.

Step 4 : Once you've chosen the correct file, click the Upload File and Import button.

Step 5 : Select admin in the dropdown list, and don't forget to check the 'Download and Import File Attachment's checkbox.

Step 6 : Wait until WordPress is finished importing, then click Have Fun link to return to your dashboard.

3.1 Header layout

To setup header layout,navigate to Appearance > Buddha Options > Layout > Header and choose one of the available layouts. You can also set upuse these other options:

• Header | Style - Choose a header style (Fullwidth Header, Boxed Header, Splitted Fullwidth Header, Splitted Boxed Header, Fullwidth Menu Center, Two Color Header, Fullwidth Menu Left, Left Header, Left Header Boxed, Creative Header, Overlay Header).
• Header | Position - Choose a header position (above slider, on slider, below slider).
• Header | Transparency Choose between Semi Transparent or Transparent header Transparency.
• Header | Background - You can select and upload a custom background image, which will be applied for the selected header.
• Header | Sticky - Turn Yes/No to control the sticky navigation
• Header | Darkbg - Turn Yes/No to control the Header Dark BG

3.2 Logo & Favicon

To set up logos, navigate to Appearance > Buddha Theme Options > Layout > Logo to upload Custom, Retina & Sticky Header logos.You can also set up additional logo options. Note: Retina Logo should be always 2x larger than Custom Logo (this field is optional).

Retina Ready

Gardening is Retina Ready so the theme will look fantastic on High Resolution displays like the iPad or iPhone Retina devices. The most important thing to understand is that there are two different sets of images/graphics that can be Retina Ready. Please read below and watch our video tutorial to help understand how this process works.

To optimize your logo for retina-display devices, you'll need to follow the 3 steps below.

1. Recreate your logo image, but this time with much bigger dimensions (we recommend an image that is at least TWICE the size of the display size). For example, if your current logo in the Seasons theme is 200 x 150px, then you'll want to create a version of your logo that has dimensions of 400 x 300px, or bigger.

2. Now upload this new, bigger image. Go to Appearance > Buddha Theme Options > Layout > Logo image to upload the new image. (If you look at your site after following this step, you'll notice that your logo will appear very large. Don't worry! We'll fix that in the next step.)

3. Now all you have to do is edit our theme code to change the way your large logo is displayed.

3.3 Social icons

Gardening Theme includes a large set of social icons that can be used all throughout the theme. These social icons are a custom font icon, so it will always be super crisp and will not require any images. Using a font icon also allows us to have advanced color options. Social Icons can be used in several different areas and have multiple customization options. The following sections below will cover each of these areas and options to give you a clear understanding of our social icon integration in the Gardening theme.

To set up social icons, right top corner, navigate Appearance > Buddha Options > Layout > Social Icons and set up links for social profiles. Note: Each external link should always start with http://!

Social Media Links – The Social Media tab in Theme Options is where you will insert your custom social media links for each network you want to display. The URL's you enter on this tab will apply to the social icons in the header, footer or social sharing box.

For example, if you want to display the Facebook icon in the header, footer or social sharing box, you need to insert the URL of your Facebook page in the corresponding field. Gardening also allows one custom social icon on the social media tab. The custom social icon has to be an image, but it is beneficial because it allows you to add a network that is not included with the theme.

Gardening Offers 3 Different Menu Locations

• Main Menu – This is the Main Menu that shows in the Header area.
• Secondary Menu – This is the top Secondary Menu that can be assigned with headers 2-5.
• Shortcode Menu – This is the Menu that can be assigned to show using shortcode.

4.1 Menu Settings

Step 1 – Start by navigating to the menu manager under Appearance → Menus.

Step 2 – Under the "Edit Menus" tab, you'll see a "create a new menu" link. Name your menu with something useful such as "Main Menu" and then click the "Create Menu" button to begin adding items.

Step 3 – Now, let's add some menu items.

Step 4 – On the left hand side of the screen you'll see a box containing all of your Pages, Categories, etc.

• First, select a few items to be included in your menu.
• Click the Add to Menu button and the items are added to your menu.

Step 5 – Go ahead and click "Save Menu" anytime you change something. If you navigate away from the menus page before saving, all your menu settings could be lost.

5.1 Create A New Page

You can create any number of pages with content. Gardening includes several page templates to choose from, and you will need to choose the page template that suits your needs. All of this is done in the pages section of your WordPress admin.

Step 1 – Navigate to Pages in your admin sidebar and click Add New option.

Step 2 – Input a new name for your page, then find the Page Attributes box on right side.

Step 3 – Set your Parent page. It's usually set to No Parent.

Step 4 – Set your page template from the Template dropdown list. See list of page templates below.

Step 5 – Select any number of page options in Page Options box.

Step 6 – Content for your page goes in the editing field, use the Visual or Text editor. Page content is mainly built using Shortcodes. See the Shortcodes section for how to use them. You can also use our demo content, see the corresponding section of this document for the demo code of each page.

5.2 Page Templates

Specially designed Page Templates can be used to incorporate special features on pages. These include:

• Default Template -Showing a default page content with selected options.
• Blog Template - This template used to display blog post using selected option.
• Full Width Template - This is the 100% Width page template. This will allow your content to go 100% of the browser width.
• One Page Template - This template used to create an one page.
• Portfolio -this template enables you to add Portfolio pages to a website. to showing portfolio items, by using selected options.
• Slde Navigation template - this template used to display a defult page with "Slde Navigation".

5.3 Setting Up Home Page

Setting up your home page is the same as setting up any other regular pages, except that you need to specify in the settings which page will be your Main Home Page. Gardening includes several pre-designed home Theme Page Options. Any of the layout options you see on our demo can be imported through our Demo Content Importer, or from copying the individual page content from our documentation in the How To Import Individual Pages section. However, you are not stuck with our pre-designed layouts, you can build any type of home page you desire using our shortcode elements. You can mix and match them anyway you like.

Step 1 – Navigate to Settings > Reading tab.

Step 2 – Select A Static Page option.

Step 3 – Choose the page you want as your home page from the Front Page dropdown list.

Step 4 – This is also the same spot you select the blog page as the Posts page.

5.4.1 Default Template

Default : This is the Default page template that automatically has the sidebar with it. Choose this template for your blog.

• You can switch between following available page layouts 'Without Sidebar', 'Left Sidebar', 'Right Sidebar' and both Sidebar.
• You can choose the custom widget area using 'Widget Area' tab in Buddha Panel and here you can enable / disable the default widget area.

5.4.2 Blog Template

• Choosing 'Blog Template' in 'Page Atrributes' metabox will enable the 'Blog Options' metabox.
• You can choose the page layout, posts layout, control the excerpt length and number of posts to display per page.
• You can enable / disble author, category, tag, date, comment info at any time. You can exclude certain categories using 'Exclude Categories' dropdown.
• Click Here to watch the video on setting up blog template page

Options relating to blog pages only:

• Posts per page - specify how many posts are to be on a page
• Post Layout - choose a blog post layout (I Column,II Column, III Column,)

5.4.3 One Page Template

Gardening has the ability for you to make a one page site with a parallax scrolling menu. Most sites are traditionally setup with individual pages, each page with its own content. A one page site allows you to put all the content on one page, and the menu items will link to each different sections of the page. Think of it as a full site, but all on one page. A parallax one page site requires you to have a custom menu, a page with menu_anchors in the content, and the custom menu assigned to the page.

5.4.4 Portfolio Template

• Choosing 'Portfolio Template' in 'Page Atributes' metabox will enable the 'Portfolio Options' metabox.
• Only difference between 'Portfolio Template' is 'Portfolio Template' will have Page Layout option additionally.
• You can choose template for your page which is configured in template post type.
• You can add custom css for this page alone here.
• You can enable / disable the breadcrumb section here.
• You can switch between following available page layouts 'Without Sidebar', 'Left Sidebar', 'Right Sidebar' and 'both Sidebar'. You can choose the custom widget area created using 'Widget Area' tab in Buddha Panel(Dashboard -> Appearance -> Gardening Options) and you can enable / disable the default widget area.
• You can choose any one of the available '9 Portfolio Post Styles'
• You can enable / disable the Grid spacing that appears in between each portfolio item displays on the page.
• You can enable / disable the Filters that help you switch and to show the portfolio items of different categories
• You can enable / disable the Fullwidth style for displaying your portfolio items
• You can also limit the number of portfolio items to be displayed on your portfolio page
• You can choose only certain categories using 'Choose Categories' option, and it will display all the categories of portfolio items, if you haven't chosen any specific categories.

5.4.5 Side Navigation Template

Gardening includes a Side Navigation page template that can be used to insert large amounts of content on a single page. You can also setup second level menu items on the Side Navigation page that will collapse by default and expand when the parent level is moused over or clicked, depending on how you set it in Theme Options. You create Side Navigation pages in sets. Each set always has to have a Parent page that will show at the top. Then you create additional pages and assign them to the parent page. All the pages assigned to the parent page will make one side navigation set.

6.1 Blog Single Post Options

You can configure each single blog post with following options

• You can switch between following available layouts 'Without Sidebar', 'Left Sidebar', 'Right Sidebar' and 'Both Sidebar'. You can choose the custom widget area created using 'Widget Area' tab in Buddha Panel and here enable / disable the default widget area.
• Enable / Disable the Featured Image option

7.1 Layer Slider

LayerSlider WP is a premium multi-purpose slider for creating image galleries, content sliders, and mind-blowing slideshows with must-see effects, even from your WordPress posts and pages. It uses cutting edge technologies to provide the smoothest experience that's possible, and it comes with more than 200 preset 2D and 3D slide transitions. It has a beautiful and easy-to-use admin interface with supporting modern features like drag n'drop WYSIWYG slider builder, real-time previews, timeline view, Google Fonts and transition builder for custom animations. It's device friendly by supporting responsive mode, multiple layouts, touch gestures on mobile devices, and uses techniques like lazy load and conditional script loading for optimal performance. You can add any content into sliders, including images, text, custom HTML, YouTube and Vimeo videos or HTML5 self-hosted multimedia contents. It's also SEO friendly by allowing you to build semantic markup with custom attributes that search engines can index easily. LayerSlider comes with 13 built-in skins, and it has tons of options to entirely customize the appearance and behavior of your sliders at the smallest detail.

LayerSlider is external plugin which is included into theme. Because, for each product we purchase "Extended license" and that`s why we are able to include it into theme. This plugin works fine of course and if you want current slider version, you can always get directly from us. What you need to do, to get this slider is send us a request about it via contact form on our profile's page http://themeforest.net/user/designthemes (it is in the right bottom corner) and we`ll send you the current version.

7.1.2 Create A New Layer Slider

Step 1 – Click on the Layer Slider sidebar item in your admin section, then click the "Add New" button and give the slider a name.

Step 2 – The "Slider Settings" tab will open and allow you to set the general settings for your slider such as the width, height, responsive, full width, and more. Check out each tab.

Step 3 – Once you are done, click "Save Changes" to save the slider. Next you can add slides, see the information below.

Please Note – You can get sample sliders by clicking the "Import Sample Sliders" button. It's a good way to learn and see the different types of settings.

7.1.3 How to add Slides to your slider

Step 1 – Click on the "Slides" tab.

Step 2 – Slide #1 will already be created, add a background image for the slide, set thumbnails, transitions, links and more in the settings box above the slider preview window.

Step 3 – Each slide you make can have multiple layers to it. The layers show up below the slider preview window. Click "Add New Layer" create a new layer. An editing section will display once clicked.

Step 4 – The layer editing section has 5 tabs; Content, Transition, Link, Styles, Attributes. Content tab is where you add your content, Transition tab is where you set all the timings and animations, Link tab is where you can set the content to link, Styles tab is where you set custom styles, Attributes tab is where you can add custom id's or classes.

Step 5 – Click on the Content Tab and enter your text, image or video or custom HTML content. Then set your transitions, links, styles and attributes if needed.

Step 6 – Click the "Enter Preview" button to view a preview of the slider and layers.

Step 7 – When finished, click "Save Changes" to save it. Repeat process for more slides.

7.2.1 How To Create A New Revolution Slider

Step 1 – Click on the Revolution Slider sidebar item in your admin section, then click the Create New Slider button.

Step 2 – Insert a slider name and alias. The alias text will generate a shortcode that can be used in the editing field of pages or posts.

Step 3 – Then select the Source Type. If you choose Posts or Specific Posts, please refer to the Revolution Slider Docs for information on how to set that up.

Step 4 – Then select the Slider Layout type, each type will have its own settings. Set the Grid and Responsive settings here also. View the layout example diagram below this area to understand what each section is.

Step 5 – On the right hand side are many other options you can set. All are self explanatory with descriptions. Test them out.

Step 6 – Once you are done, click Create Slider and your new slider will be made.

7.2.3 How To Import Revolution Sliders

Step 1 – Go the the Revolution Slider tab in your WP Admin, and click the Import Slider button.

Step 2 – Choose the .ZIP file of the slider you'd like to import.

Step 3 – Once you've chosen the .ZIP file, an Import Slider button will appear.

Step 4 – Click the Import Slider button, and wait for it to finish uploading.

Step 5 – Once it's finished uploading, you will now see your imported slider in the list of Revolution Sliders available.

7.2.4 How To Export Revolution Sliders

Step 1 – Go the the Revolution Slider tab in your WP Admin, and open the slider you'd like to export.

Step 2 – Switch to the Slider Settings tab on the top of the page.

Step 3 – On the right, you will find the 'Import / Export / Replace' dropdown. Click it to expand the tab and view the options.

Step 4 – Switch to the Export tab, and click the Export Slider button.

Step 5 – Once it's finished downloading, you will receive a .ZIP file of your slider.

8.1 General Settings

General Settings

Enable Nice Scroll – Enable or Disable the nice scroll in your site.

Globally Show Page Comments - Enable or Disable to show comments on all the pages.

Show all pages in Pagination - Enable or Disable to show all the pages instead of dots near the current page.

Style Picker - Enable or Disable to show the style picker in your pages.

Loader Animation - Enable or Disable to show the loading animation in your pages.

Responsive Settings

Make My Site Responsive – Enable or Disable your site is responsive or not.

Show Slider for Mobile Devices – Enable or Disable the sliders for mobile devices.

Advanced Setting

Static CSS – Enable or Disable to use static CSS files instead of Theme Options.

Replace Buddha Panel Logo – Enable or Disable the custom admin panel logo. If YES to enable the custom admin panel logo then click on upload button to select admin logo from your media library.

8.2 Layout Settings

General Settings

• Logo - upload an appropriate logo for your homepage layout
• Retina Logo - upload an appropriate logo for your homepage layout and retina logo must be 2x larger than a regular homepage logo
• Options - additional options for logo
• Favicon - upload your custom favicon image in .ico format
• Others - Provided with the options like Enable/Disable Breadcrumb, Delimiter, Styles, etc. And also, we can make the Site as Boxed/Fullwidth from here.

Header Settings

• Header
  • Header | Position - Choose a header position (above slider, on slider, below slider).
  • Header | Transparency Choose between Semi Transparent or Transparent header Transparency.
  • Header | Background - You can select and upload a custom background image, which will be applied for the selected header.
  • Header | Sticky - Turn Yes/No to control the sticky navigation
  • Header | Darkbg - Turn Yes/No to control the Header Dark BG
• Header | Style - Choose a header style (Fullwidth Header, Boxed Header, Splitted Fullwidth Header, Splitted Boxed Header, Fullwidth Menu Center, Two Color Header, Fullwidth Menu Left, Left Header, Left Header Boxed, Creative Header, Overlay Header).
• Header | TopBar - Enable/Disable the topbar from here. And add the content shortcodes below the switch box.

Menu Settings

• Default Menu - if you want a default menu for a page, you need to first create it in Appearance > Layout > Menus, which also appears in the left-side main dashboard menu. You can then choose which one you want to use for your page. If you don`t choose any, the default menu will be used. This feature allows you to create different menus ( Highlight with Plus Icon, Highlight, Highlight Grey, Highlight with Arrow, Two Border, Double Border, Border with Arrow, Slanting Splitter ) for different pages. You are also provided with the toption for adding Serach Icon, Cart Icon (with left/right side of menu as you wish).
• Sub Menu/Mega Menu Settings Provided with the options like Menu animation, Border style ( width, style, color, radius), Box Shadow, Background (Color, Gradient BG, Image), Megamenu Column title (Default, BG, Border-radius, Border-width, Style, Color) , includes for Mega Menu and Sub Menu links too. For Submenu Links you can add border & arrow styles.

Sociable Settings

• Sociable Manage Social Network icons list to display. These social icons are a custom font icon, so it will always be super crisp and will not require any images. Using a font icon also allows us to have advanced color options. Social Icons can be used in several different areas and have multiple customization options.

Footer Settings

• Layout - select a footer layout
• Style - select a footer style
• Background Image - upload a background image if desired
• Copyright - type your own text for the copyright section, or select "Default".
• Copyright Darkbg - Enable or Disable for copyright dark bg

Custom CSS & js Settings

• Custom CSS Option - This option is where you can add CSS customizations to your website.
• Custom js Option - This option is where you can add js customizations to your website.

8.3 Widget Area

Widget Area - To create custom widget areas

A WordPress Widget is a small block that performs a unique function. Widgets can then be added to widget-ready areas of the theme called widget sections. Gardening has some pre-made widget sections and also allows you to create an unlimited amount of custom widget sections.

You can create custom widget areas and you can assign it to any post, pages,....

• Widget Title | Style - select a footer style Widget title ( 20 styles are there ).

8.4 Page Options

Post Options

Post - Single Post customization

• Post Single - Here you can show / hide 'Author Box' (contains author details) and 'Posts Comments'.
• Post Archives - Choose any one of the available layout types. Also you can choose the archive page layout (without sidebar, left sidebar, right sidebar) and post layout (1 column, 2 column, 3 column)
• Archives and Single Post Options - Here you control the displaying of 'Post Format', 'Author', 'Date', 'Comment', 'Category' and 'Tag'.

Portfolio Options

Portfolio - Single Portfolio customization

• Portfolio Single - Here you can show / hide 'Author Box' (contains author details) and 'Posts Comments'.
• Portfolio Archives - Choose any one of the available layout types. Also you can choose the archive page layout (without sidebar, left sidebar, right sidebar) and post layout (1 column, 2 column, 3 column)
• Portfolio Custom Fields -You can create custom fields like name, url and date etc.
• Permalinks - You can have or change the default link structure of archive and single portfolio pages by using this permalink settings.

404

Options relating to Error 404 page

• Enable Message - You can choose enable/disable for 404 message.
• Template Style - Choose the style of not-found template page.
• Custom Page - Choose the page for not-found content.
• Background Image - Upload an image for not-found page's background.

Hooks

Here you can add HTML content and Shortcode.

• Top - You can choose enable/disable for Top hook.
• Content Before - You can choose enable/disable for Content Before hook.
• Content After - You can choose enable/disable for Content After hook.
• Bottom - You can choose enable/disable for Bottom hook.

Under Construction

Options relating to the under construction page

• Enable Message - You can Enable/ Disable for under construction page of your website.
• Template Style - Choose the style of coming soon template..
• Custom Page - Choose the page for comingsoon content.
• Show Launch date - Enable/ Disable to show launch date text.
• Launch date - Put Format: 12/30/2016 12:00:00 month/day/year hour:minute:second
• UTC Timezone - select the appropriate timezone.
• Background Image - Upload an image for coming soon page's background.

8.5 Woocommerce Options

Gardening is compatible with WoCommerce and includes full design integration as well as custom shortcodes. To get started with creating your online shop, you need to install the free WooCommerce Plugin. This documenation on using WooCommerce is the very basic information you need to get started. Please take a look at the important links below that have additional information about using WooCommerce.

To get this option install WooCommerce plugin. And the plugin bundled with dummy data which can be imported to instantly give you a working store with products to test the different features WooCommerce has to offer.

Available Options:

• No.of Products to show in main shop page.
• Choose products style to display shop & archive pages.
• Product Layout - 3 types of products layouts are there. (II Column, III Column & IV Column )
• Product Details, Product Category, Product Tag page layouts.
• Also you can easily handle widget areas for individual Product, Product Category, & Product Tag in the Role -> "Widget Area" Settings.

Following plugins used to extend the woocommerce options

1. YITH WooCommerce Zoom Magnifier is that enables you to add a zoom effect to product images.
2. YITH WooCommerce Wishlist adds all Wishlist features to your website. Needs WooCommerce to work.

8.6 Colors

General Settings

Only two options are available in this section:

• Theme skin - Choose one of the predefined styles or set your own colors, Note: Custom color can be used only with the Custom Skin. Custom skin having 3 colors ( Default, Light, Dark Color)
• Body background - Pick a custom background color of the body.(e.g. #a314a3).

• Header - Choose a custom ( background color   Background opacity ) of the header.
• Top Bar - Choose a custom ( BG Color, Text Color, Link Color, Link Hover Color ) of the top bar.
• Menu - Choose a custom Menu BG Color   Background opacity of the menu. ( Menu Link Color, Menu Hover Color, Menu Link Active Color, Menu Link Active BG).
• Content - Choose a custom ( Text Color, Link Color, Link Hover Color ) of the Content.
• Footer - Choose a custom ( BG Color, Text Color, Link Color, Link Hover Color, Footer Heading Color ) of the Footer.
• Heading - Chhose a custom Heading color of the ( heading tag h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 ) of the Heading.

8.7 Fonts

How to set up fonts for your website. This section is divided into four blocks.

Font Family

• Content Font - this font will be used for all theme texts except headings and menu
• Main Menu Font - this font will be used for header menu
• Page Title Font - this font will be used for sub-header title
• Big Headings Font - this font will be used for all big headings, like: H1, H2, H3 and H4
• Small Headings Font - this font will be used for all small headings, like: H5 and H6
• Blockquote font - this font will be used for blockquote item
• Google Font Style & Weight - you can upload only those font styles you intend use, since this option impacts page load time. Before checking an option, make sure the font selected works with a specific font style and weight at https://www.google.com/fonts
• Google Font Subset - specify which subsets should be downloaded. Multiple subsets should be separated with commas (,)

You can choose your own font from a palette of over 600 fonts.

Custom Font

• Custom Font | Name – type custom font name that will be uploaded in 4 below fields
• Custom Font | .woff - .woff file for custom font
• Custom Font | .ttf - .ttf file for custom font
• Custom Font | .svg - .svg file for custom font
• Custom Font | .eot - .eot file for custom font
• Custom Font 2 | Name – type 2nd custom font name that will be uploaded in 4 below fields
• Custom Font 2 | .woff - .woff file for 2nd custom font
• Custom Font 2 | .ttf - .ttf file for 2nd custom font
• Custom Font 2 | .svg - .svg file for 2nd custom font
• Custom Font 2 | .eot - .eot file for 2nd custom font

IMPORTANT!!! We added fields for custom fonts. If you have your own font and don`t want to use a Google Font, you can upload your files for the font that you want to use with this theme. Each font consists of 4 files: .woff, .ttf, .svg and .eot and each of those files must be uploaded in the correct fields for your font to work properly. After uploading, you can select a custom font for a specified section.

Font Size

• Content - this font size will be used for all theme texts
• Main menu - this font size will be used for top menu only
• Heading H1 - this font size will be used for h1 headings
• Heading H2 - this font size will be used for h2 headings
• Heading H3 - this font size will be used for h3 headings
• Heading H4 - this font size will be used for h4 headings
• Heading H5 - this font size will be used for h5 headings
• Heading H6 - this font size will be used for h6 headings

You can select the font size of the range 1-70.

Font Weight

• Main menu - this font will be used for top menu only
• Heading H1 - this font weight will be used for h1 headings
• Heading H2 - this font weight will be used for h2 headings
• Heading H3 - this font weight will be used for h3 headings
• Heading H4 - this font weight will be used for h4 headings
• Heading H5 - this font weight will be used for h5 headings
• Heading H6 - this font weight will be used for h6 headings

Letter Spacing

• Main menu - this font will be used for top menu only
• Heading H1 - this letter spacing will be used for h1 headings
• Heading H2 - this letter spacing will be used for h2 headings
• Heading H3 - this letter spacing will be used for h3 headings
• Heading H4 - this letter spacing will be used for h4 headings
• Heading H5 - this letter spacing will be used for h5 headings
• Heading H6 - this letter spacing will be used for h6 headings

Letter Spacing

Line height - Adjust body line height here

Remember to click the "Save Changes" button to avoid losing your changes.

8.8 Importer

• You can choose which demo you like to import from Demo dropdown list.
• After choosing Demo, you will get Import dropdown list with following options All, Content, Menu, Options (buddha panel options) and Widgets
• After that choose additional options like Import attachments and type of content, than click Import Demo Data
• You will get popup alert message to confirm, click ok here.
• Import may take several minutes, so please be patient while importing.

8.9 Backup

Backup Options these options allow you to backup and restore your custom settings and options. These options also allow you to transfer Theme Options data from site to site.

• Backup & Restore Options - Backup Options => helps you to take backup of current buddha panel settings and Restore Options => helps you to restore buddha panel settings from last backup.
• Transfer Theme Options Data - Help you to transfer buddha panel datas from one install to another. Copy the code shown in text area and paste it in the same place of another install and click Import Options.

8.10 Gardening Version

Gardening Theme Change Log.

9.1 Creating Blog Posts

No matter which method or methods you use to display your blog posts, the first thing you need to do is create the blog posts. Gardening Theme support all type of posts

How To Create A Blog Post

Step 1 – Navigate to Posts in your WordPress admin sidebar.

Step 2 – Click on the Add New option to make a new post. Create a title, and insert your post content in the editing field. You can use any of our shortcode builder elements inside the post.

Step 3 – Add Categories from the right side. To assign it to the post, check the box next to the Category name.

Step 4 – Add Tags from the right side. Type the name of the tag in the field, separate multiple tags with commas.

Step 5 – For a single image, click the first Featured Image Box, select an image and click the Set Featured Image button.

Step 6 – For a video post, paste the iFrame embed from either Youtube or Vimeo into the Video Embed Code field.

Step 7 – Once you are finished, click Publish to save the post.

9.2 How to Assign a Post Page

Step 1 – Navigate to Settings > Reading tab.

Step 2 – Select A Post Pages option.

Step 3 – Choose the page you want as your blog post page from the blog post dropdown list.

Step 4 – Once its all done, make sure you click the Save button

10.1 Creating Portfolio Pages

To create a portfolio please start by creating a new page Pages > Add New and setting up the title eg. Portfolio. In the Template field set the option Portfolio template. In the bottom section you will find Page options such as Layout and Sidebar. You can then select whether your portfolio should be in full width or with a left or right sidebar.

How To Create A Portfolio Page

Now we have just created a category that will contain our portfilio items and display them proper way. If you add some subcategories to this main category they will inherit parent style unles you choose to override them at category options page. Lets add some portfolio items!

1. Go to Posts -> Add New, name the post accordingly
2. In the right colomn find Categories widget and select "Portfolio" category - thus we move usual post entry into portfolio section.
3. Set featured image and save the post. Please notice - this featured image will be used as a primary portfolio image so make sure it has good quality.

How to install WooCommerce and setup the default shop pages

First go to Plugins > Add new section and type "WooCommerce" into search field. Then click "Search Plugins" button.

Once that is done, and you see the result, click on the"Install now" button next to "WooCommerce - excelling eCommerce" plugin.

Once WooCommerce is installed, click on the "Activate plugin" link.

In a few moments you will see a WooCommerce Purple Notification Bar at the top of the plugin page. Clicking the Install WooCommmerce Pages button in the purple bar will install all the default pages.

Please Note: Once you are done installing WooCommerce and the default pages, you can go to the Appearance > Menu section of your admin and add all the WooCommerce pages to your menu. They will be listed at the top under the most recent pages.

How to add new product

Go to Products > Add product section. You will see a page that looks like the one below.All you need to do is fill those fields with your own values.

Information about adding a new product will be found at on http://docs.woothemes.com/document/managing-products/

How To Use RTL

Step 1 – Install an RTL version of WordPress, such as the Arabic or Hebrew version.

Step 2 – Have the proper Language files installed in the languages directory, which you can locate by following this path: wp-content > themes > languages.

Step 3 – Dashboard > Setting > General > Site Language

Step 4 – Select the Site Language

Step 5 – Go ahead and click "Save Changes".

Footer Options

Navigate to Dashboard -> Appearance -> Gardening Options -> Layout -> Footer, where you can find complete footer options.

• Enable Footer - Option to enable footer for your site.
• Column Layout Footer or Shortcode Section Footer - You can switch bewteen these 2 footers using Enable Shortcode Section
  1. Column Layout - 11 column layouts and 7 footer types are available.
  2. Shortcode Section - You can add any type of shortcode here, for your footer section.
• Background Image - Add background image for your footer, also choose background posistion and repeat option for the image.
• Copyright - You can add copyright text for your footer and also you can disable it anytime.
• Footer Menu - Show / hide footer menu here.
• Content - Content added here will be displayed along with copyright text.

How to add widgets to footer ?

• Once you have enabled Column Layout for footer using above options, than navigate to Dashboard -> Appearnce -> Widgets.
• Here you can find new widget areas created with the name of Footer Column, suffixed with columns count.
• Drag and drop the widgets from left hand side and configure widgets as per your needs.
• Now save the widgets and look at the frontend for your newly created widgets.

Frontend and Backend Page Building

The most powerful feature of the Visual Composer is that it gives you an easy drag and drop page builder that can be used from the standard WordPress page/post edit area or directly from the frontend.

Build your content on the go with WordPress frontend editing page builder plugin. No more admin panel needed to create stunning and beautiful pages. Visual Composer introduces new game changer in the world of WordPress plugins. Experience the true "What You See Is What You Get" and forget about "blind designing".

• Add and drag elements around the screen to quickly build unique layouts inside your WordPress theme.
• Visual Composer determines type of elements you add and highlight them with different colors in order to improve user experience and navigation.
• Switch between Guide modes to enable or disable VC menu elements and row/column borders.
• Create responsive pages with brand new responsive design controls.

Visual Composer frontend page builder allows you quickly switch between different devices to check how your content looks on tablet or mobile devices. Ensure that everything is according to design grid and your high expectations.

In addition to game changing frontend page builder, award winning backend editor is available. Quickly build any type of page with simple and intuitive drag and drop interface right from your WordPress dashboard. Backend editor of Visual Composer has been proven to be one of the most beloved WordPress plugins of all times and it is a no brainier for thousands of WordPress power users. Tons of features and regular updates always keep Visual Composer on top of competition and this allows users to update and manage content fast and easy.

Content Elements

Visual Composer offers all the controls you need to work with content elements – add, edit, duplicate, remove or create presets for your elements whenever you wish with just single click. And with the smart Role Manager that is included in our page builder you can control access and options available to different user roles within your WordPress site. Control your WordPress site layout like never before.

Visual Composer templates

And that's not all – if you don't want to build your WordPress website from scratch you can always use our predefined templates. There are 60+ pro looking templates covering all the website sections you may need. Use predefined templates or create your own templates to reuse content and save even more time.

Built in content elements

Frontend Page Builder and Backend Editor for WordPress

Build responsive site and manage your content easily with intuitive frontend WordPress builder. No programming knowledge required – create stunning and beautiful pages with award winning drag and drop editor. Experience the true "What You See Is What You Get" and forget about "blind designing".

• Add and drag elements around the screen to quickly build unique layouts inside your WordPress theme.
• Visual Composer determines type of elements you add and highlight them with different colors in order to improve user experience and navigation.
• Create responsive pages with brand new responsive design controls.

Visual Composer frontend editor allows you quickly switch between different devices to check how your content looks on tablet or mobile devices. Ensure that everything is according to design grid and your high expectations.

In addition to game changing frontend editor, award winning backend editor is available. Quickly build any type of page with simple and intuitive drag and drop interface right from your WordPress dashboard. Backend editor of Visual Composer has been proven to be one of the most beloved WordPress plugins of all times and it is a no brainier for thousands of WordPress power users.

Visual Composer - Gardening Options

There are 60+ pro looking templates covering all the website sections you may need. Use predefined templates or create your own templates to reuse content and save even more time.

Gardening Built in content elements