$themater_current_theme->Name comes with a bunch of special features!

• Featured Posts Slider
• Responsive Design (Mobole Phone & Tablet Friendly)
• Shortcodes
• Page templates (Contact Form, Archives Page, Full Width Page, Sitemap)
• WooCommerce Shopping Cart Support
• 7+ Custom Widgets

There are loads of ways to customise your theme here! You can change just about anything in the theme from the logo image to the speed of the slideshow. The options are also divided into tabs so you can easily navigate through your choices. For example, if you wanted to remove or replace the default header banner, you can click on the \"Ads\" tab and then either delete or customise the code in the \"header banner\" box. Just click save and then you're done! Easy as that.

$themater_current_theme->Name allows you to change what appears in the menu bar using a simple drag-and-drop options screen. You can access this page by clicking on the wp-admin / Appearance / Menus. You can have many different custom menus and you can assign them to either the primary or secondary menu.
Creating a custom menu is very simple. These 5 short steps will show you how:

1. You need to create a menu before you can add your links to it. To do this, enter a name for your menu in the \"Menu Name\" box and click \"Create Menu\".
2. You can now see your list of pages and categories that you have on WordPress. Each page and category has a checkbox next to it. You can select which links you want to add to your menu by selecting the box next to it and then clicking the \"Add to Menu\" button.
   (Tip: Want to add individual posts or tags to the menu too? Click the \"screen options\" button at the very top right of your screen. You'll see the option to select \"posts\" and \"tags\" appear.)
3. Once added, you can no arrange your links in the order you choose. Drag-and-drop your links up and down to change their order.
4. Did you know you can have drop-down menus? Drag your link to the right underneath another link to make that link appear in a drop-down list below the link above. For example, If I had the page \"Contact us\" and I wanted the page \"Directions\" to appear in a drop down list below it, I would place the \"Directions\" link below the \"Contact us\" link, and then drag the \"Directions\" link to the right to indent it.
5. Now you've finished organising your menu, click the \"save menu\" button on the right. You now need to assign this custom menu to one of the menus on the theme. The top left box called \"theme locations\" lists the place you can put your menu. If you want your custom menu to appear in the primary menu spot, select your custom menu from the drop-down box and then click \"save\". Your custom menu now appears on your website!

The slideshow is very easy to use. It scrolls through the posts, pages or even custom slides that you've written. You can access the options for the slideshow in the theme options under the \"Featured Posts\" tab. Let's take a quick look at what you can do:

• The first set of options let you choose where you want your slideshow to appear. Our demos show the slideshow only on the homepage but you can display it everywhere if you wanted.
• Featured post images - Although not an option, this has important information. It shows you the dimensions of the images that are shown in the slideshow and has information explaining how to set a \"featured image\" in WordPress.
  (Tip: If you need more help setting up a featured image, check out the FAQ section in the Support Forums. You can find the link in the \"support\" tab in the theme options)
• Featured Posts Source - This is where the power is! You can choose to show either custom posts which you can edit yourself, the most recent posts from a specific category, selected posts based on the post ID or selected pages based on the page ID. If you choose to show posts by category you can also select how many of the most recent posts are displayed. Remember, if you use posts or pages, you must have a featured image set for all the posts/pages in the slideshow for it to work!
• Slideshow Effect - A whole range of sliding or fading effects are available for your slideshow. You can select the one you want from this drop down box
• Misc Options - These last options are all about tweaking your slideshow to be just right. Most of the time the default options will do fine but sometimes you just want to make that tiny little adjustment to things!

$themater_current_theme->Name lets you choose what you want to put in your sidebar. Each item in a sidebar is called a widget. The theme puts its own widgets in the sidebars by default so that it doesn't look too empty when you first get it, but when you add your own widgets to the sidebar the default ones will be removed. You can set your own widgets by going to the wp-admin / Appearance / Widgets. To add your own widgets just drag and drop the widgets (shown in the middle of the screen) to the sidebars (shown on the right of the screen). Just like the menus, you can drag-and-drop them into any order you want.
This theme also comes with 7+ widgets of its own! Here's a brief summary for some widgets:

• 125X125 Banners - Allows you to add small square adverts in a grid pattern
• Recent Comments - Displays a list of the most recent comments made on your site
• Facebook Like Box - If you have facebook, you can display a \"like\" button with other cool stuff
• Info Box - Place images and text in the sidebar.
• Posts with Images - Displays a list posts with your own settings. You can add your own filters, include a thumbnail image etc.
• Social Profiles - Displays icons that link to your profiles on popular social networking sites
• Tabs Widget - A list of different widgets can be added into a tabbed widget much like the theme options page is tabbed

You can choose to display different page templates on your site if you choose! One important one is the full width template page which removes the sidebar(s) from your theme if you want to have a page which lets you put wider content in your website! The other page templates are the sitemap, which lists all the categories and pages in your site; the archive page which lists the most recent posts on your site in a simple list; and the contact form page which has a built in ready to use contact form!
A page template can be selected when on the page editing screen. On the right hand side you'll see a box called \"page attributes\" with the \"template\" drop-down box inside.

Once you've assigned a page as a contact form you'll need to set the email address that you want to receive the emails to. By default it's the admin email address you used when settings up WordPress but to change it you can go to the \"general\" tab in the theme options.

It is a great shopping cart plugin. Now you can easily open your online store. The theme supports and works very well with the plugin.

A shortcode is a WordPress-specific code that lets you do nifty things with very little effort. Shortcodes can embed files or create objects that would normally require lots of complicated, ugly code in just one line.
We added some extra options to your text editor that you use when writing posts and pages. These icons generates a shortcode for you and places it in your editor.

The custom shortcodes included in this theme are:

• Columns - Allows you to make columns of text and images
• Buttons - Allows you to create buttons
• Labels and Badges - add a label or badge to a portion of your post or page
• Tabs - Create tabbed section of content much like the theme option page uses tabs
• Icons - Display an icon on your site
• Collapse Items - this creates a list of titles that can be clicked to display more information. This is useful for things like an FAQ
• Notifications - Allows you to create notifications that appear on your page

That's it! We hope you enjoy creating your new website. Remember that if you need any more help you can come visit us in the support forum. You can find more support links in the theme options under the \"Support\" tab. Thank you!

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