Plant Garden Documentation

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Introduction

  • Theme Name : Plant Garden
  • Author : misbahwp
  • Support Forum : https://wordpress.org/support/theme/plant-garden/
  • License : GNU General Public License v3 or later
  • Discription : The Free Garden WordPress Theme is a versatile and feature-rich theme designed specifically for gardeners, landscape designers, plant enthusiasts, and related businesses. It can be used to create a business website or a gardening tips blog. The theme offers a wide range of tools and functionalities to create stunning websites that showcase plants, gardening tips, services, and products. Since this is a free theme, it is an ideal solution for small gardening businesses to create an online presence without hiring a web developer as they can install the theme and create their website all by themself. This theme doesn’t require you to have a coding or web development background to create and launch a professional-looking website. The theme comes with a fresh and nature-inspired design. It also provides a visually appealing platform to display the beauty of gardens and plants. The theme offers multiple pre-designed layouts and templates that can be easily customized to match the branding and style of the business.

How to Establish the Theme

Setup Theme

Template installation is very simple process.

You can also install your theme using WP Admin

The first task is to log in to your WordPress admin area. Next, click on

1. In dashboard click on Appearance >> Themes

2. Click on the Add New button at the top of the themes page once page is loaded.
3. Click the button labelled as 'Upload Theme'.
4. Now you need to click browse button to select your plant-garden-free.zip theme and click on install now button.
5. WordPress will now install your theme and display a success message, as well as a link to activate or to see the live preview. Congratulations on completing the installation of your theme.

Setup Home Page

The options of this page template (like sections location, disabling sections, number of posts they display) can be controlled it.

To design a home page, follow these steps.

1. Make a page to set the template: Go to Dashboard Pages >> Add New Page

Name it "home" or anything as you like. Then, from the template dropdown, pick "front page template."

The Page Attributes section provides your page a parent page and a template.

1. Make a page to set the template: Go to Dashboard Pages >> Add New Page

Design the front page as follows: Go to Dashboard Setting >> Reading >> To get the theme template select static page then select home page template.
When you're finished, you'll be able to see all of the demo content on the front page.

Necessary Plugins

When you initially activate the theme, you'll be asked to install these plugins on your Dashboard. You can ignore the message if you don't want to install these plugins on theme activation, and if you change your mind later, you can install them manually.

In the dashboard, go to Plugins >> Install Plugins.

Kirki

Plugin download link kirki


Contact Form 7

Plugin download link contact-form-7


Configure Menu

Configure Menu

In the dashboard, visit Appearance >> Menu

To access the Menu Editor, visit the Dashboard and click on the 'Appearance' menu on the left-hand side. From there, select the 'Menus' option.

To create a new menu, follow these steps:At the top of the page, select "Create a new menu".Enter a name for your new menu in the "Menu Name" box.Click on the "Create Menu" button.

Your new custom menu has been successfully created.

On the front end, the menu will appear as follows.

Plant Garden Theme Setup

Header

In order to proceed with Theme header, You can set Button, so follow the below steps.

In the dashboard, go to Appearance >> Customize >> Theme Options >> Header Settings



Logo Setup

In order to proceed with Theme Logo setup, you can set site title and tagline, follow the below steps.

In the dashboard, go to Appearance >> Customize >> Site Identity >> Set Logo, Site Title and Tagline You can also hide the tagline.

In front end, it will look like this.

Slider Section

Fetch Categories

This screen is divided into the Add New Category and category table sections.

Follow the below steps to setup Category Settings.

In the dashboard, go to Posts >> Categories >> Add New

Once you have done with this you will see the categories on your theme customize.

In this section, you have to add new category for each post.

Fetch Post

In the dashboard, go to Posts >> Add New

Now to go on with Post settings, You can set post title and content. And Select which Category you want this post to show.

Follow the below steps to setup Post Settings.

In the dashboard, go to Posts >> Add New

You can make multiple posts for category.

Once you have done with this you will see the post on your front page.

Slider Settings

In order to proceed with Theme Slider Settings , you can set slide show , follow the below steps.

In the dashboard, go to Appearance >> Customize >> Theme Options >> Slider Settings

Select number slides to show, then select the category which you have to show on slider.

You can set button text and url. You can choose from this options for each slider option.

In front end, it will look like this.

Hot Products Section

Fetch Categories

This screen is divided into the Add New Category and category table sections.

This table lists all of your categories. Categories are displayed hierarchically and alphabetically.

Follow the below steps to setup Category Settings.

In the dashboard, go to Product >> Categories >> Add New

Once you have done with this you will see the categories on your theme customize.

In this section, you have to add new category for each post.

Fetch Post

In the dashboard, go to Product >> Add New

In order to proceed with Post Settings, You can set post title and content. And Select which Category you want this post to show.

Follow the below steps to setup Post Settings.

In the dashboard, go to Product >> Add New

You can make multiple Product for category.

Once you have done with this you will see the post on your front page.

Hot Products Settings

In order to proceed with Hot Products Settings follow the below steps.

In the dashboard, go to Appearance >> Customize >> Theme Options >> Hot Products Settings

You can select number of Hot Products to show.

Select number slides to show, then select the category which you have to show on slider.

You can set button text and url. You can choose from this options for each Hot Products settings.

In front end, it will look like this.

Setup Footer Section

There are four columns in the footer. Any widget can be added there.

For Adding widgets first you have to add classic widget plugins.

1. In the dashboard, go to Appearance >> Widgets

Here is a screenshot below for adding widgets to footer.

You can add footer coloumns, for that you need to select widgets like text, image, gallery, etc which allows you to add text or image as per your choice with ease.

In order to manage content for footer and add some widgets, navigate to, follow the below steps.

2. In the dashboard, go to Appearance >> Widgets >> Footer Sidebar

Once you add widgets to the footer, your footer will look like this,

Footer Copyright Text

In order to proceed with footer Settings, You can fill the copyright content to footer copyright Settings.

5. In the dashboard, go to Appearance >> Customize >> Theme Options >> Footer Copyright Setting

In front end, it will look like this.