When you first install Cartful, it won’t contain all the extra content that you might have seen in the live demo. Before importing the content make sure all the plugins are activated. You need to install and activate One Click Demo Import plugin to import the demo content.

Steps

• On WordPress left menu, go to Appearance > Import Demo Data.
• On the One Click Demo Import page. Click on the Import Demo Data button only once and wait, it can take a couple of minutes to import all the demo data.

• Please be patient while importing all the content.
• It will import pages, posts, media, menus and widgets.
Note: On demo we used navigation menu instance on the Home & Footer widgets. While importing demo it will not assign the menu to the navigation menu widget item. You need to assign the corresponding menu to navigation menu instance.

Theme Options is the main section of Cartful, which you can use to change your global settings for your website. You can access theme options on WordPress left menu, go to Appearance > Theme Options.

Basic Settings

• Logo Retina Display: This enables display your logo at half size, making it look crisp on iDevices.
Note: If you enable this option, upload double the size of logo.
• Upload Logo

• Upload a favicon for the website (Browsers that provide favicon support typically display a page's favicon in the browser's address bar, sometimes in the history as well and next to the page's name in a list of bookmarks).

• Site Layout: Left & Right layouts. Choose the layout to set.

• Products Comments:

If you choose 'Yes' Comments must be display on each post.
If you choose 'No' Comments will not display.

• Credit Where Credit Is Due: Enabling this option will give credit to the snapcase theme. It will be shows in a footer section.

Home Page Settings

This section has home page settings of the website.

• Featured Items Heading: Just a simple heading above the featured products.
• Latest Items Heading: Heading above the latest products.
• Max Number of Products to be Displayed: On the home page products are displayed 4 wide, so this number should be a multiple of 4.
• View All Products Link Text: This is the text link on the bottom of the home page that will take you to the main Products page.
• Store Link: The link to your main store page.
• First Call To Action Text: This appears just below the slider.
• First Call To Action Background: Upload the image for your first call to action background.
• Second Call To Action Text: This appears just before the footer.
• Second Call To Action Background: Upload the image for your second call to action background.

Store Settings

This section has store settings of the website.

• Affiliate Mode: Would you like to disable Cart66 Cloud support in the theme and turn on the Cartful Affiliate Mode? This will not allow you to sell products, only link to other sites.
• Max Number of Products to be Displayed Per Page: How many products would you like to display per page before pagination starts?

Style Settings

This section has basic style settings of the website.

• Post Author Box: if enabled this option, it shows "About This Author" box after post content on post's single page and the description of the author pulls from Users > Your Profile .
• Slider Background: Select the color the background of your slider and bar behind product images.
• Slide Text Color: Select the color for the text on your slides and product pages.
• Link Color: Select the color for your links.
• Button Color: Select the color for your buttons.
• Button Text Color: Select the color for the text of your buttons. This is to help it stand apart from the button.

Social Networks

The information in this section will be displayed on the Footer Section.

• We have options to add 9 Major Social Networks
• Social Networks: Twitter, Facebook, Google +, Flickr, Tumblr, YouTube, Vimeo, Pinterest and Foursquare

It shows as,

Cartful header consists of 2 items: Logo/Site Title and Menu.

• Logo/Site Title: You can add logo in Appearance > Theme Options > Basic Settings tab. If the logo is not provided Site Title will be used. Click here for more information.
• Menu: To add header menu, Assign any menu to Menu 1 Theme Location. Click here for more information.

How to Create Menu

• To create Menu, On WordPress left menu, go to Appearance > Menus and click on 'create a new menu' link.
• Enter the Menu name.
• Add pages, posts, etc from Add Menu Items.
• Finally, Click the Create Menu button to save your changes.

Menu Settings

Menu Setting has 2 function,

• Auto add pages: If the auto add page is enabled in the menu settings, all pages will get added in the header menu.
• Display locations: Display Location has 2 functions,

1. Main Menu: A Primary Menu is the main menu selected as primary menu in the WordPress Menu Editor. A WordPress theme may support single or multiple navigational menus at different locations in theme. These menus can be edited using the built in WordPress Menu Editor located at Appearance » Menu.

2. Footer Menu: If enable the footer navigation in the menu setting, the menus are available in footer section. A footer menu helps your visitors to navigate to more content on your site.

Header Menu

• The Header Menu is placed on the top of the header.
• They are usually presented as a horizontal bar of links at the top of every page on a website.
• Setup Header Menu: On WordPress left menu, go to Appearance > Menus
• You can create a menu or if you downloaded the demo content, It has the menu named 'Primary'. Select the menu. On the Edit Menus tab, below the Menu Structure. It has Menu Settings, Tick the checkbox 'Main Menu'. Finally save the changes.

• Alternatively, on Manage Locations tab, Assign the Menu to Primary Theme Location.

• Header menu supports 2-level sub menus.

• On Menu Structure, Drag a menu item towards right under another menu item to make it as sub item.

Menu Features

• Default Wordpress has 'Pages, Posts, Custom Links & Categories Menu items.

Footer is the Bottom section of the website, in which you may add your Menus, Social networks and other functions available in WordPress widgets. It normally appears on all pages on your website.

Credit Section

• Footer Credit display a copyright symbol, the current year, and the name of the site.
• Copyright notice on the bottom of a site states that the material displayed is not to be used without permission of the owner.
• Credit text will appear only when the option 'Credit Where Credit Is Due' on Basic Settings of the Theme Options ( Appearance > Theme Options > Basic Settings tab) is enabled.

Social Network

• The Social networks are available in the footer section. Click here to know more about the social networks.

How to Add Widgets

• On WordPress left menu, go to Appearance > Widgets. You can see available widgets on the left and widget areas on the right.
• Choose a Widget and either drag it to the sidebar where you wish it to appear, or click the widget, (select a destination sidebar) and click the Add Widget button.

Available Widgets

• WordPress has lots of widgets available to add in widget areas. Click here to know more about WordPress widgets.

Widget Areas

A widget is a pre-built module that adds a specific feature to your site, such as a search bar or a list of recent posts. It can be placed into one of your site's 'widget areas', which are defined by your theme and are usually located in the sidebars and/or footer.

Cartful provides Two widget areas: Sidebar & Footer.

Sidebar

• This Sidebar widgets will show all Pages and Posts.
• Choose a Widget and drag it into the sidebar from left side widgets area.


It displays as,

• To view/access all available pages on the website, on WordPress left menu, go to Pages. It will list all the available pages.
• If you downloaded the demo content, you can see demo pages.
• When hover on the available page on the list, you can see the options for each page.

How to Create a Page

• To create a page, on WordPress left menu, go to Pages > Add New.
• Cartful supports Block (Gutenburg) Editor. Click here to see how to add content using Block (Gutenburg) Editor.
• Add Page title, content, choose 'page template' (if required), choose 'parent page' (if required) and publish it.

How to setup Homepage

• To setup homepage, Create a page, name it, choose 'Home' page template and publish the page. Click here to know how to create a page.
Note: If you imported the demo content, We have created a page named 'Home'. You can assign this page as Homepage.
• Then on WordPress left menu, go to Settings > Reading.
• On Reading Settings page, Choose 'A static page' option and select the page from the list to set as home page.

Page Templates

A Page Template is a pre-designed page layout that can be used for creating different pages such as Homepage, Store, Blog, etc. Page templates are a specific type of template file that can be applied to a specific page or groups of pages. page templates support all post types.
Cartful provides 4 page templates. They are Default, full width templates, Cart66 Checkout Template, Home Page & Store.

How to setup Page Template

• While creating a page, you can choose the page template or you can change the page template anytime while editing the page.
• It is important to choose correct page template for each page.

Default Page Template

• This is the default template for pages & posts.

Full Width Page Template

• This template has no sidebar. The content of the page is stretched to the full width of the page container.

Cart66 Checkout Template

• This is the default template for pages & posts.

Home Page Template

• The home page template refers to the Main Page of a Website. There are several ways to modify your homepage or create a static front page.

Store Template

Version 2.0.0 (September 2020)

Bug fix:

• Theme bug and Wordpress bug updated.