When you first install Haute, it won’t contain all the demo 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, Products, Featured tiles, 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 Haute, 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.


• Sticky Header

If you choose 'yes' Header menu is stick to the top of the header as the user scroll down the site.

If you choose 'No' Header menu is not stick on the top of the header.

• Products Comments

  If you choose 'yes' Comments will appear on each product below

  If you choose 'No' Comments will not appear on the product.

• Credit Where credit is Due

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

Home Page

This section has Home page settings of the website.

• Subheading Text

  This is used for subheading. Just a line to separate the slider and the rest of the products.

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• Max Number of products to be Displayed

  On the home page products are displayed 5 wide, so this number should be a multiple of 5.

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• View All Products to be Displayed

  This is the text link on the bottom of the home page that will take you to the main Products page. Leave this blank if you wish not to display it.

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Store Setting

This section has Store settings of the website.

Affiliate Mode: Would you like to disable Cart66 support in the theme and turn on the Haute Affiliate Mode?

• select Yes - This will not allow you to sell products. It displays only a store link.

Store Link: It is the Link to the store home page. Where we see all products of a single company. URL including the http://. If your permalinks structure is Post name (recommended), it will be http://www.yourdomain.com/store.

• Select No - This will allow you to sell products. It display store link, Cart link, Member login link, Account link.

Cart Link: It is the link of "Your cart" page (created by Cart66). Enter the complete URL including the http://. If your permalinks structure is Post name (recommended) it will be http://www.yourdomain.com/store/cart.

Member Login Link: This link will be used in the header, if you have a membership item or a page that requires users to login. You must create this page and have the login form on it using "Cart66" shortcode [account_login]. Enter the complete URL including the http://. Note: this is not required unless you have member login page.

Account Link: This link will be used in the header if you have an account page (Available after logging in). You must create this page, and enter the complete URL including the http://. Note: this is not required unless you have member login page.

Styles 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.

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• Link Color: Select the color for your link.
• Button Color: Select the color for the button from option.
• Button Text Color: Select dark or light, 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 11 Major Social Networks
• Social Networks: Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Dribble, Flickr, Tumblr, Forrst, Vimeo, YouTube, Pinterest and Foursquare

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Haute Header consists of 5 items: Logo/Site Title, Menus. Login, Cart & Search Bar

• 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 Primary Theme Location.
• Login Link: To add header login link, Go to Appearance > Customize > Theme Options > Store Settings and add login link. Click here for more information.
• Cart: The cart will appear when Cart66 plugin is installed and activated.
• Search Bar: Search Bar is used for searching the products

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, (categories) 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.

Menu Features

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

Note: If any Menu items are missing, Click on Screen Options on top right corner and tick the required items.

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.

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

Overall Sidebar

• Overall Sidebar widgets will show upon every page and post.
• Choose a Widget and either drag it into the sidebar from left side widgets area.


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Page Sidebar

• This Page will show up only on pages.


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