First, thank you for purchasing our theme!
This guide provides instructions for installation, help on getting started and extensive documentation of features. It is recommended you read it thoroughly to fully leverage the GoodRide theme's capabilities. Please also make sure to check out our Video Tutorials as they explain everything covered in here in greater depth. We hope you enjoy building with GoodRide as much as we enjoyed developing it and continue to develop with new features!
Before beginning the installation and configuring of your new theme, you must first have WordPress already installed on a server.
If you are struggling, here is a very detailed guide at Wordpress Codex that will walk you through every step.
If you prefer something more visual, you can watch this video tutorial on how to install Wordpress by us
(Please note the video shown is from our NUVO Restaurant theme, but the same process applies)
Once you have setup a copy of WordPress, there are two ways you can go about installing the theme:
Unzip the download and upload the theme directory /GoodRide/ into your WordPress themes directory /wp-content/themes/.
This is definitely the easier route for most. Simply navigate to Appearance > Themes > Add New > Upload Theme. Click the 'browse' button and locate the still zipped theme folder. The theme will be uploaded and installed in a matter of seconds.
Here is our video tutorial to help you through the process
(Please note the video shown is from our NUVO Restaurant theme, but the same process applies)
After you have installed the theme successfully, you can optionally import the supplied dummy data in order to get a feel for things. If you're interested in importing the data, please check the Demo Data section below
Once you have installed and activated our theme you will be prompted to install required and recommended plugins. Just click the link to Begin installing plugins.
Next, check boxes to select all the plugins you want to install, select the bulk action of install from the dropdown box and then click the button to apply.
Next, just click the link to Return to Required Plugins Installer.
Select the plugins you had installed, and then apply the bulk action to activate them.
Finally, you will got a confirmation notice that your plugins were activeded.
To help you set up website with the least efforts, we include in the theme package dummy content file. After installing it, all content seen on the live demo will be imported except for images/videos.
There are two methods you can use, one is using our One-click Importer, the other is Importing manually. To go with the former option, please follow the steps below:
To be more perfect site you should install more photos .
Now you have a website just like our demo.
To imprort demo content by yourself, please follow some steps below:
Step 1 : Install Widget Importer & Exporter plugin .
Step 2 : Import XML you need deactivate plugin EF3 Import And Export.
You need to extra theme package file. And then:
1. On the CPT UI tab, click Tools
2. Open file post-type.json on the the path: goodride > inc > demo-data > goodride > post-type.json .
3. Copy all content of post-type.json file and then paste it into Import Post Type text area.
2. You need upload two files on the path below:
1. On Theme Options tab, click Import/Export
2. Click Import from File
3. Open file options.json on the the path: goodride > inc > demo-data > goodride > options.json .
4. Copy all content of options.json file and then paste it into text area.
1. Go to Widget Importer & Exporter on the Tools menu
2. Click Browse.. button and upload file widget.wie on the path goodride > inc > demo-data > goodride > widgets.wie .
To have a perfect site, you need to make sure all of photos shown.
AccessPress Social Counter is a Free WordPress plugin to display your social accounts fans, subscribers and followers number on your website!
A perfect plugin to show your social media stats and encourage more to join your network.
If you need dedicated support for this plugin, please visit: AccessPress Social Counter
This is plugin required all our themes
This plugin provides an easy to use interface to create and administer custom post types and taxonomies in WordPress. This plugin is created for WordPress 4.x.
If you need dedicated support for this plugin, please visit: Custom Post Type UI
Contact Form 7 is one of the most popular form builders for wordpress.
We have created styles ready for you to use within your GoodRide theme.
For detailed inforamtion and support on this plugin, please go to: Contact Form 7
After installation, you will be suggested to install additional plugins. To install them and activate, please navigate to Plugins, you will see a list of required and optional plugins. We recommend that you install the following to get the best of our theme:
Visual Composer is the most popular drag and drop editor for wordpress.
If you need dedicated support for this component, please visit: Visual Composer on Code Canyon
Newsletter is a real newsletter system for your WordPress blog: perfect for list building, you can easily create, send and track e-mails, headache-free.
It just works out of box!
For detailed inforamtion and support on this plugin, please go to: Newsletter
Force Regenerate Thumbnails allows you to regenerate the thumbnails for your image attachments.
For detailed inforamtion and support on this plugin, please go to: Force Regenerate Thumbnails
Contact Form 7 is one of the most popular form builders for wordpress.
We have created styles ready for you to use within your GoodRide theme.
For detailed inforamtion and support on this plugin, please go to: Contact Form 7
Widget Importer & Exporter is useful for moving widgets from one WordPress site to another, backing up widgets and for theme developers to provide users with sample widgets.
Importing is a matter of uploading an export file created by the plugin.
For detailed inforamtion and support on this plugin, please go to: Widget Importer & Exporter
With the Page Options specially built for our themes, you can easily customize General, Header, Footer of every page.
Content Margin: Enter margin top/bottom for content.
Page Title/Breadcrumbs: Enable/Disable page title/breadcrumbs.
Custom Title: Custom current page title.
Custom Sub Title: Enter sub title for page title.
Result:
Result:
To Add Widget on Sidebar, please following these steps:
The options panel is home to all of the theme's extensive configuration options. To view the panel, click on Theme Options in the left-hand menu. Here you have the ability to alter many core aspects that make up how your theme looks and behaves. Any of the options that have some ambiguity to them conviently have descriptions to explain their purpose.
Visual Composer is a powerful Wordpress page builder that allows you to create complex page layouts without touching a single line of code. To switch to Visual Composer's Backend Editor, click on this button:
When Visual Composer's editing pane comes up, click on either of these buttons to Add Element.
A shortcode selecting panel will show up, you can see all the shortcode available in the theme. Select the one you would like to use.
You will then encounter a setting panel for the shortcode (each shortcode has it own setting options), after a bit of configuration, it will show up nicely on your page.
The theme is compatible with WPML plugin, thus can be translated into multiple languages. Follow this link for guide. You can also use POEdit plugin for translation.
Our themes are optimized by with H1, H2, H3, H4, H5 tags, clean code, HTML5 but if you want to get higher ranking on search engines, you must need some help from SEO plugins and Google Pagespeed Service:
NOTICE: YOU MUST BE BACKUP YOUR DATA BEFORE UPDATE THE THEME.
You can update our theme using some ways bellow:
1. Update theme using Envato WordPress Toolkit.- If you have any troubles while using auto update ( such as permissions issue ) , and you want to update manually the theme via FTP or Cpanel.
- You download latest version of the theme on ThemeForest download page, and you rename the folder contain the old theme, then create a new folder and insert the latest theme into it.
The team at Farost are always happy to help you with any questions or recommendations you have about the GoodRide theme.
If you need any help or support please contact us through the TF Messaging system or
Support Email: farost.agency@gmail.com