Farvis Documentation

Farvis Documentation


Thank you very much for purchasing our Farvis – Multipurpose WordPress Theme. We’ve put a lot of hard work into it, and we hope you love it as much as we do. As far as the documentation is concerned, we have tried to cover as much as possible to help you get your new template up and running and to help you customise it.

VIDEO GUIDE

Full video guide to install the theme and import demo content .

BEFORE YOU START CUSTOMIZING

If you plan to make some modifications to the code of the theme, will be better to make them via the child theme. If you make modifications directly to the parent theme, you will lose them when the theme is updated. When you make modifications inside of the child theme instead, you can update the parent theme without losing any change you have made.

Child theme you’ll find in a “theme/farvis-child.zip”.

More information about child themes you can find in WordPress Codex- Child_Themes.

Please enable a child theme before importing the demo content so as not to lose settings Customizer or import the demo content again to update the Customizer settings for the child theme

Install Theme

To install this theme it is essential to have a working version of WordPress already installed. For the information about WordPress platform installing, please see the WordPress Codex. After you download the “farvis.zip” file from Themeforest you will have all the necessary files . Then you should extract the “farvis.zip” file and you will find the theme zip file called “farvis.zip”inside. You need to install this file.

  • documentationOfline documentation
  • theme

    • farvis.zipTheme file
    • farvis-child.zipChild Theme file
  • README FIRST.html

You can install the theme in two ways: via WordPress, or via FTP. If you have trouble installing the theme via WordPress, please proceed with installing it via FTP and the problem will be solved. Follow the steps below to install via WordPress.

 

  • Log in to the WordPress Administration
  • Go to “Appearance › Themes › Add New › Upload Theme”
  • Browse and select theme zip folder called “farvis.zip” (is located inside of downloaded zip package)
  • Press INSTALL NOW button
  • Activate theme with Activate link

Install via FTP

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  • Log into your hosting space via an FTP software
  • Unzip the theme/farvis.zip file and use the extracted farvis theme folder
  • Upload the extracted farvis theme folder into wp-content themes in your wordpress installation
  • Activate the newly installed theme. Go to Appearance Themes and activate the installed theme.
  • ftp folder
    • wp-includes
    • wp-admin
    • wp-content
      • themes
        • farvis

Required Installation

TO ADD THE NEEDED FUNCTIONALITY TO THE THEME IS NECESSARY TO ACTIVATE THE REQUIRED PLUGINS.

  • Go to “Appearance › Install Plugins”
  • Install and activate required plugins


One click import

You can either start building your site from scratch, or import one of our demo sites and then modify it to fit your needs. We will now explain how to do the latter.

farvis comes with one-click import module. Here’s what you need to do:

  • Login to WordPress admin
  • Go into admin panel > Apperance > Import Demo Data
  • Choose the demo site that you wish to import and click on the “Import Demo” button.

Default import

What you need to do is follow the instructions that are taken from the Importing Content page from the WordPress website. To import from a WordPress export file into your blog follow these steps.

How to Use the XML File to Import the Demo Site’s Content

  • Log into your site as an administrator.
  • Make sure you activated your new theme before proceeding.
  • Go to Tools → Import
  • Choose “WordPress” from the list.
  • Download farvis.xml here
  • Upload the farvis.xml using the form provided on that page.
  • You will be asked to map the authors in this export file to users on the blog. For each author, you may choose to map to an existing user on the blog or to create a new user.
  • You will then have the choice to import attachments, so click on the “Download and import file attachments” box.

Please be patient while WordPress imports all the content. Posts, Pages, Projects, and Menus are imported. You will need assign the menu a theme location & you’ll need to configure widgets. This is a limitation of WordPress’ import system. Enjoy!

Import troubleshooting

Many issues that you may run into such as; white screen, demo content fails when importing, empty page and other similar issues are all related to low PHP configuration limits.

If you cannot change these settings, use the next migration method .

The solution is to increase the PHP limits.

You can do this on your own .

  • Find the php.ini file in your Server config files.
  • For WAMP, its in apache2/bin/apache2.2.22/bin/php.ini
  • Go to the line “max_execution_time=30” .
  • Change it to 360 or any other large value.

Or contact your web host and ask them to increase those limits to a minimum as follows

  • max_execution_time 360
  • memory_limit 128M
  • post_max_size 32M
  • upload_max_filesize 32M

Please go to Apperance – Customizer – General Settings .

Here you can upload two types of logo depending on your heder . To create Retin logo, you must load image twice large (example width:412px) and specify normal logo width in the Customizer (example width:206px) .

Please check this video tutorial.

Page Loader

Please go to Apperance – Customizer – Page Loader .

Here you can configure the page loader .
Please upload your picture in GIF or JPG format and specify its width and height for proper centering .

Then you can adjust the animation effect .

Style settings

Please go to Apperance – Customizer – Style settings .

Here you can configure theme font and color styles .

You can change the color globally but you will still need to change it in some elements individually using page builder .

If you need to make some changes to the styles that are not provided in our settings then you can use the yellow pencil .

Please go to Apperance – Customizer – Header .

Here you can configure page header .

If you want to set up an individual header for a separate page, activate this feature on the page using Apperance – Customizer – Header – Advanced Options on Page – On

You can use this feature on the page now.

You can disable some elements for the correct display of the header elements on mobile devices using
Apperance – Customizing – Responsive

Please go to Apperance – Customizer – Search .

Here you can configure Search text.

Page heading

Please go to Apperance – Customizer – Page Title and Breadcrumbs.

Here you can configure page heading .

Please make sure you do not use the home template to see your Page heading .

Static Blocks

To setup and edit custom footer and Megamenu please use static blocks but set the necessary settings for this in the WPBakery Page Builder (formerly Visual Composer) .

 

 

 

 

Specify the primary menu in Apperance – Menu

 

Please before make sure that you have activated the operation of WPBakery Page Builder (formerly Visual Composer) for static blocks

You can create mega menus with using static blocks . For this activate Static block in Screen options and add Static block .

In menu link select Full width.

 

Then you can edit the menu in static blocks using WPBakery Page Builder (formerly Visual Composer) .

Edit Static block

Please before make sure that you have activated the operation of WPBakery Page Builder (formerly Visual Composer) for static blocks

First please edit and choose footer in Apperance – Customizer- Footer .

 

 

Now you can create unique footer and add them to your footer in theme customizer using static blocks.

 

 

Also you can create and specify unique footer for each page in page settings

Widgets settings

Our theme comes with Custom widget created specially for the theme.
To set the Widget go to Appearance > Widgets.

Newsletter – MailChimp for WordPress plugin

To display the form please use this code in mailchump plugin.

 
  

You can also configure a variety of forms using contact form 7 and Mailchimp extension .

Web font icon loader

Please use plugin font icon loader for add new icon sets .
Apperance – Font Icons Loader

After upload nothing has happened?
Please use the correct zip structure .
You must set permission 777 on the folder wp-content/plugins/font-icons-loader .
You can manually add in folder wp-content/plugins/font-icons-loader/fonts/newicons

Plugins Activation

You can use these plugins with the farvis theme and you are fully compliant with the Envato’s policy, but you cannot activate them as the owner (so don’t try to use the farvis purchase code to activate one of these plugins).

When you purchase a theme from ThemeForest that bundles WPBakery Page Builder (formerly Visual Composer) and Revolution Slider, you are free to use these Premium plugins with the theme. However, your farvis purchase does not give you individual WPBakery Page Builder (formerly Visual Composer) and Revolution Slider licenses that allow you to activate or download these plugins as you wish. Activation doesn’t mean the plugin will not work but only that you cannot receive direct updates. Please don’t worry if you see warning messages about the plugin license activation.

To update you need:

 

  • Navigate to the Plugins menu in your WordPress admin area.
  • Deactivate revolution slider, delete it
  • Go to Install Required Plugins
  • Upload and install the new version
  • Activate WPBakery Page Builder (formerly Visual Composer).

WPbakery

WPbakery gives you instant access to built in content elements. Each content element has been carefully crafted and offers multiple options that will enable you to build any layout you desire. You can build complex layouts based on these content elements within minutes, and without requiring a single line of code. Please check this video tutorial:

You can use these plugins with the farvis theme and you are fully compliant with the Envato’s policy, but you cannot activate them as the owner (so don’t try to use the farvis purchase code to activate one of these plugins).

When you purchase a theme from ThemeForest that bundles WPbakery and Revolution Slider, you are free to use these Premium plugins with the theme. However, your farvis purchase does not give you individual WPbakery and Revolution Slider licenses that allow you to activate or download these plugins as you wish. Activation doesn’t mean the plugin will not work but only that you cannot receive direct updates. Please don’t worry if you see warning messages about the plugin license activation.

To update you need:

  • Navigate to the Plugins menu in your WordPress admin area.
  • Deactivate revolution slider, delete it
  • Go to Install Required Plugins
  • Upload and install the new version
  • Activate WPbakery.

Kaswara plugins

For the construction of our template, we use Kaswara module . This add-on for WPBakery Page Builder (formerly Visual Composer) . With this module you can create different pages without any limits .

Theme elements

In WPBakery Page Builder (formerly Visual Composer) we added a custom Theme elements . You can use it for create your own unique style.

Step 1 – Log in to your WordPress Administration Panel.

Step 2 – Click on Pages > Add New.

Step 3 – Click on farvis.


Row Settings

To create a new unique section use default row settings and also theme row options .

Step 1 – Log in to your WordPress Administration Panel.

Step 2 – Click on Pages > Add New.

Step 3 – Click on Backend Editor.

Step 4

Add and modify Row Layout

Step 1 – Go to your page / post, first activate the backend editor and click Add Element

Step 2 – Select the Row Module

Step 3 – Click on the Edit This Row (pencil icon) to Edit the Row element ( in our example we use row with 3 columns filled with text block )

Step 4 – To change the Row layout ( number of columns ) you need to click the second Icon from the left then select a layout or custom to make your own

Edit Element

Pencil Icon – To Edit Row, Column or Module you need to click the Pencil icon.

Duplicate Element

Pages Icon – To Duplicate Row or Module you need to click the Pages icon.

Remove Element

Trash Box Icon – To Remove Row, Column or Module you need to click the Trash Box icon.

About Row / Column / Custom heading / Text Block Design options

Design Options – When you edit row / column / custom heading / text block module, you can edit the design options . Row / Custom Heading / Text Block element have a default Bottom Margin of 35 pixel, you may want to set it to 0 if you don’t want to have bottom space It is Good to add bottom Padding to your Column, so they will looks good on mobile Left and Right Margin should NEVER be modified, please left blank For Row module the Left and Right Padding should also NEVER be modified, please left blank

Row full width

To create a new unique section use default row settings and also theme row options .

We will explain how to create a full width content section.

Full Width Section should only be used on pages without sidebars!

Step 1 – Go to your page / post, first activate the backend editor and click Add Element

Step 2 – Select the Row Module

Step 3 – Click on the Edit This Row (pencil icon)

Step 4 – Change the Type setting to Full width content then click Save changes

Row background

Step 1 – Go to your page / post, first activate the backend editor and click Add Element

Step 2 – Select the Row Module

Step 3 – Click on the Edit This Row (pencil icon)

Step 4 – Click on Design Options ADD padding and REMOVE margin for better result, add a Background Image change to Cover and then Saves changes

Step 5 – Seclect background overlay and Enable background fixed in this row.

Step 6Update or Publish your page and you should now have a section with background fixed

Parallax Section

Full Width Section should only be used on pages without sidebars!

Step 1 – Go to your page / post, first activate the backend editor and click Add Element

Step 2 – Select the Row Module

Step 3 – Click on the Edit This Row (pencil icon)

Step 4 – Add parallax type background for row (Note: If no image is specified, parallax will use background image from Design Options).
You can also use advanced parallax in the options theme
Step 5 – Click on Design Options ADD padding and REMOVE margin for better result, add a Background Image change to Cover and then Saves changes

Step 6Update or Publish your page and you should now have a section with parallax background

Video Section

Full Width Section should only be used on pages without sidebars!

Step 1 – Go to your page / post, first activate the backend editor and click Add Element

Step 2 – Select the Row Module

Step 3 – Click on the Edit This Row (pencil icon)

Step 4 – If checked, video will be used as row background.

Step 5 – You can edit the Design options ( remove margin and add padding “optional” ) and then Saves Changes and Update / Publish your page. You should now have a Full width Section with Video

Jivo Chat

You can add your chat using Jivochat service . To do this, register on site Jivochat and get the code that you need to add to Kaswara-Settings .

Revolution slider

First please import all the slides from a folder DemoContent/Revoslides using Revoslider import

Documentation: https://templines.com/go/revslider-doc/ Video tutorials: available on YouTube

If you are unfamiliar with this awesome plugin, we recommend that you use the online documentation

You can use these plugins with the farvis theme and you are fully compliant with the Envato’s policy, but you cannot activate them as the owner (so don’t try to use the farvis purchase code to activate one of these plugins).

When you purchase a theme from ThemeForest that bundles WPbakery and Revolution Slider, you are free to use these Premium plugins with the theme. However, your farvis purchase does not give you individual WPbakery and Revolution Slider licenses that allow you to activate or download these plugins as you wish. Activation doesn’t mean the plugin will not work but only that you cannot receive direct updates. Please don’t worry if you see warning messages about the plugin license activation.

To update you need:

  • Navigate to the Plugins menu in your WordPress admin area.
  • Deactivate revolution slider, delete it
  • Go to Install Required Plugins
  • Upload and install the new version
  • Activate slider.

Auto-Updating

The Envato Market plugin can install WordPress themes and plugins purchased from ThemeForest & CodeCanyon by connecting with the Envato Market API using a secure OAuth personal token. Once your themes & plugins are installed WordPress will periodically check for updates, so keeping your items up to date is as simple as a few clicks.

You can add a global token to connect all your items from your account, and/or connect directly with a specific item using a singe-use token & item ID. When the global token and single-use token are set for the same item, the single-use token will be used to communicate with the API.


Manual Updating

You can update your theme manually by performing the following steps:

  • Download the latest theme zip file from ThemeForest
  • Extract it and locate farvis.zip
  • Extract farvis.zip and locate the farvis folder
  • Copy/Replace content of the farvis folder to the /wp-content/themes/farvis folder of your web site.

Speed and Optimization

Enable – Compress pages so they’re served more quickly to visitors. (Recommended)

    • Added in .htaccess this code

ExpiresActive On
ExpiresDefault "access plus 6 month"
ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 6 month"
ExpiresByType text/plain "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType text/woff "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType application/x-javascript "access plus 6 month"
ExpiresByType application/javascript "access plus 6 month"
ExpiresByType application/x-icon "access plus 1 year"
  • 6. Enable NGINX caching
  • 7. Configure the server to display correctly WEBP images (you can use Shortpixel for generate this type of images)

Changelogs

All information about updates here Appearance – About theme