Responsive E-commerce WordPress Theme: Musica

INSTALLATION OF WPML PLUGIN (for extra languages)

SETTING UP THE HOME PAGE

First you will have to select which page is the front page. Go to Settings / Reading and check the Static Page Tab. Then select the home page you wish to have ( Home, Home nivo, etc.). So the procedure should be:

1. First add a page  (Pages / Add New) and choose the appropriate Template
2. Go to Settings / Reading and add the Static Page Tab that you just created

SETTING UP PORTFOLIO ITEMS ON THE FRONT PAGE

1. Go to portfolio -> Portfolio categories
2. Add some Categories
3. Add portfolio items (it is the same as adding posts) and set the featured image
4. Add the page and set the portfolio as the template for the page (2 column portfolio,  3 column portfolio or 4 column portfolio)

Setting up the Navigation

When going to Appearance / Menus you will see the structure of the templates navigation. You can easily edit menu labels, and move them using drag and drop. On the left column you have the possibility to add menu items using “custom links”, “pages” or “categories”. The newly added item will appear at the bottom of the menu structure and can be moved to its desired location. Make sure to always save the menu after making changes.

SETTING UP PRODUCTS

After you install WooCommerce plugin you will see a new tab called Products. Click Add New to start adding a new product. Adding content is similar to adding content to a normal post with a few exceptions which are a part of our Theme.

You can add audio sample to the product page by checking the option Show Audio Player. After you check it, two more parameters will appear. In first one (AUDIO Url) you have to enter the full path to the audio file (like http://musica.premiumcoding.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/wm_rock_the_show.mp3). Second parameter defines the title of the song.

If you wish to have video presentation instead of an image on the shop and product page, simply check the option. Use video insted of image. After checking it a field for URL will appear. Add the ID of the video, for youtube it looks like: WhBoR_tgXCI and for vimeo it looks like 29017795.

On some products you can see a special text on hover (in shop page), like playlist or plain text. You can add that by adding content to the Custom Hover Text field. You can add the HTML text also, so you can style it in any way you want.

SETTING UP POSTS (VIDEO, LINK, GALLERY)

Musica supports the latest feature of WordPress that allows you to add specific posts that contain video, links or gallery. Videos and Gallery will appear on the front of the Blog page so visitors can run the video or look at the gallery without clicking on the post itself. Below are instructions of how to set it up:

Video Post - you have to add at the top of the post the following shortcode [video][/video]. The rest of the content is added in a standard way. Choose Video from the Format list on the right.

Link Post -  you have to add at the top of the post the following shortcode  [pmc_link]http://premiumcoding.com[/pmc_link]. The rest of the content is added in a standard way. Choose Link from the Format list on the right.

Audio Post - This post will enable you to have a small audio player in the blog and post. Simply select Audio post and input the link to the audio file and set the Title of the song.

Gallery Post - Gallery is added via WordPress native media upload form. Simply add the images and then insert the gallery into the post. Choose Gallery from the Format list on the right.

Standard Post - Choose Standard from the Format list on the right and add the content.

SETTING UP PAGES (SHOP PAGE PORTFOLIOS, FULL WIDTH PAGES, CONTACT PAGE,…)

We have prepared several premade settings for manipulation with pages.

Shop and Woocommerce Pages are added with shortcodes and can be found on their site and on our support portal so please do check it out first for more help on this.

Portfolio Pages enable you to add different portfolios with a breeze. Just Add new Page and select which portfolio page you wish to create (2,3 or 4 columns) and publish the Page. Items that have been added to the portfolio will be populated automaticlly.

Contact Page is a simple page that will display your contact form. Just set the title and text and choose the template Contact sidebar.

Full Width Pages are pages that have no sidebar. You have 2 possibilites:

• Full width Page with Full Slider (page that looks like the front page with a Slideshow)
• Full width Page with ios Slider and featured products
• Full width Page with ios Slider and new products
• Full width Page with Nivo Slider (page that looks like the front page with a Nivo Slideshow)
• Full width Page (a normal full width page)

Simply add the content and choose the appropriate template from a dropdown list.

Page with Sidebar is a page that looks similar to the blog post as it has a sidebar on the right. Add the content and choose the Page with Sidebar template.

You have several other layouts (the same that the ones for front page).

SETTING UP PORTFOLIO

Go to Portfolio and add the items / images. Now go to Pages / Add New Page and choose one of the portfolio templates (2 column, 3 column or 4 column). Publish the page and your portfolio is up and ready.

At single portfolio page you have several options of how to display images. You can set separate images for first featured image (the one seen on the portfolio pages where all items are displayed) and second featured image (the image in the single portfolio page). If you wish to have a slideshow from images simply upload all the images that you want in the gallery with native wordpress uploader. Images that are then placed in the default WordPress Gallery will then be used in the slideshow on the single portfolio page. In this case it is better to upload the first featured image via Media / Add image so that this image doesn’t get placed in the WordPress default gallery in the portfolio post.

CUSTOM WIDGETS

After installing the theme and loading the demo data you will find that one thing is still missing in the sidebars: widgets! Just go to Appearance / Widgets to get an overview of the standard widgets and the Musica WordPress theme custom widgets. On the right you will see 5 sidebar tabs, “Sidebar widget” which is shown in the blog and all pages with sidebars. Other 4 widget sidebars are for footer that is split into 4 columns. These sidebars can be populated with widgets individually via dragging a widget to one of them.

The following widgets are available and specifically styled for the Musica Wordpress theme:

• Musica Popular Posts - A popular post widget styled specificlly for both the sidebar and the footer. Just set the title and how many posts should be displayed.
• Tag Cloud - a widget that will display your tags, it has been designed to fit within the overall look of the theme. Just set the title and whether to show tags or categories.
• Musica Recent Posts - A popular post widget styled specificlly for both the sidebar and the footer. Just set the title and how many posts should be displayed.
• Musica Archive, Links and Categories - widgets have been redesigned to fit with the overall design of the Theme.

THEME OPTIONS

HOME SETTINGS

Here you can set which elements should be displayed. You can choose between quote text, featured items, recent products, featured products,  recent portfolios, recent posts and your major brands / advertisers. Also select how many recent products, posts and portfolio items you wish to display on the front page. You will notice that you can set this for either just posts, just portfolio items or both at the same time. Settings will be valid automatically for each setting accordingly, based on which template for the front page you select.

Here you can also set which category type to display for your shop. Default is the standard blog with sidebar on the right. A full width will implement a full width shop without a sidebar.

HOME CONTENT SETTINGS

First tab in Theme settings enables/disables certain elements that are found on the front page of our Theme. Four main elements of the front page are featured boxes that contain your premium services or products.

Next tab is used to set the content of the four elements described above.

Quote text is the text that is displayed just below the slideshow of the website. Simply enter any text that you want (for instance your latest news). The text that you enter within the <span> tags will be colored in the theme’s main color.

Featured boxes are displayed just under the quote text and will allow you to post your discounts and actions. All aspects of the box can be set from administration. You can set the title, content text, URL link and an image that can be uploaded via upload form. Set all three elements for each of the featured boxes. To add text under the 3 featured items you have to edit the Home Page and add 3 columns with a shortcode (one_third tag is used for the first three circles and one_third_last is used for the last circle). This gives you the possibility to have any shape of text or even images beneath the four circles (it gives you the freedom to add anything).

Brands can be added in the last section of home content settings. You can add images with native wordpress media uploader. Then simply enter the link to which the image should point and you are all set. This way you can show which brands are for sale in your Shop.

GENERAL SETTINGS

There are only two elements that can be set in main settings. Upload your Logo and favicon. You can use the upload form or simply enter the URL to the image. Here is also the place to enter the Google Analytics code to track your traffic. When you create a Google Analytics account you will get a code that you need to add to your website. Copy and paste it here under the Google Analytics text field.

STYLING OPTIONS

Styling options will allow you to add and edit your background and select the Theme’s leading color.

The most important setting in the styling area is the Theme’s leading color. This is the color that will consistently repeat throughout the whole Theme. Simply enter the color in hexadecimal format or select it with the color picker.

Shadow Color is the color of the shadow used on fonts. If you have dark font on a light background color then a white shadow will look good. If you have white font on darker background then a black shadow will look good.

Shadow opacity defines how transparent the shadow is.

BODY BACKGROUND

It can be a simple color (be sure to uncheck the Enable Background Image parameter if you wish to use only color).

Check Enable Background Image if you wish to use a custom background pattern instead of a plain color. After you have checked this settings simply click on the background pattern that you wish to use.

If none of the background patterns is suitable you can also upload your own. Simply upload your own pattern and the Theme will override the settings above and use your custom background pattern.

Footer background patterns can also be changed. It can be a color or a pattern. To add more patterns upload them to your Theme’s /images/bg-header folder and they will instantly appear in the admin.

SLIDER OPTIONS

Main slideshow is IOS Slider. Simply add images via upload and add title and description text. If you do not wish a description text to be opened on hover simply leave the description text empty and only enter the Title. You can add HTML text into the description which means you can style it up nicely.

Images for the main slideshow (ios slideshow, full width and nivo) are added and edited in this section. Recommended size of the images is 1650px width for Full width slideshow, height can be of any size since the slider is dynamic and will adjust the height accordingly (can be seen in live preview). Optimal images are those that are transparent which will also make the main color look great. Recommended size for Nivo Slideshow is 940px x 380px.

Click on Add New Slide to start adding images to the Slideshow. Now set the title, content text and URL. Image can be uploaded via upload form or simply enter the URL to the image. After you have finished adding the images you can sort them with a convenient drag and drop feature. Simply click on the image tab and drag it to the desired position.

Images are now added and sorted and it is time to set the size and color of the fonts. Simply set the size and color with the color picker.

Background color defines the color of the text holder. Simply pick the desired color with the color picker.

Background transparency is a parameter that defines how transparent is the text holder (0 – invisible, 1 – fully visible).

Border color of text  holder defines the color of the thin border around the text holder. If you wish the border to be invisible simply set it to the same color as the text holder.

Transition Time defines how long the animation between images takes on transition. Time is set in miliseconds (default is 1000ms).

Time of Appearance defines how long each image is shown. Time is set in miliseconds (normal value is something between 5000ms and 10000 ms).

As learning is best from examples, we prepared HTML code for all our three examples for full width Slideshow on our support portal. You will find examples for the 4 CD’s that animates down and the 3 computer devices. Check out:

http://themesupport.premiumcoding.com/

for all examples.

SETTING UP IOS SLIDESHOW

IOS Slideshow is a premium slideshow with drag and drop feature. Setting it up is simple. First go to theme’s options and choose Slider options. Add new slide and set up the title and upload the image to it. Recommended size of the images is 925px X 420px. If you wish to add the description also (like in the first slide in our live preview) where it moves up on hover, you need to also add the Description. You can use HTML code so styling is up to you. Our example uses the following code:

Event will start at 8pm. If you have any questions about the Event or this Template, you can ask us at <strong>support@premiumcoding.com</strong>

TYPOGRAPHY SETTINGS

You can set all main typography settings in this section. First define the font family, size, color and style of the body font. All body font (content text, links, paragraphs,…) will now use this settings unless specified otherwise in style.css file.

Now define the font family and color for the headings. Sizes are defined for each heading seperately (H1, H2, H3 and H4, H5, H6).

TEAM PAGE SETTINGS

Adding team members is similar like adding images to Slideshow. Upload the image via tha native wordpress media uploader and then enter the member’s name and role. Icon that represents the profession of the member can also be uploaded for each member separately. Recommended size of the icons is 40px X 40px. Social networking is added by simply entering appropriate links to the fields. If you leave a certain field empty, the social link will not be added.

PORTFOLIO AND BLOG OPTIONS

Portfolio Title is the title that appears at the top of your portfolio, just under the menu. Simply enter the title that you wish.

Parameter Number of items to be displayed will set how many portfolio items appear on the page at once.

To achieve the colored word effect simply put the words that you wish to color (in theme’s leading color) in <span> tags. So it would look like: Related <span>Posts</span> and the word Posts would be colored (for instance in blue color).

SOCIAL OPTIONS

Social options section allows you to add and edit your social icons. Currently there is support for Facebook, Twitter, Vimeo and Dribble and email. First you need to check which ones you want on your Theme. After that simply enter the links to your social profiles.

CONTACT OPTIONS

This section contains the settings for your contact form. First set the short description that is found under the main title (parameter Contact description under title). Under email address simply enter your valid email address. Error and success messages are there to tell your visitors that email was succesfully sent or if there was an error.

To set the Google maps you have to install the free plugin called Comprehensive Google Map Plugin. You can download it here.

404 ERROR PAGE

This is the page which will show everytime your visitor writes a wrong URL or if simply the page that should be on your website doesn’t exist. Enter the title and description text and you are ready to go.

FOOTER OPTIONS

Footer settings section allows you to enter a short sentence about copyright or some other notice.

TRANSLATION OPTIONS

Theme allows you to translate all the main aspects of the Theme (buttons, social icons,…). Simply enter your translation and save.

SHORTCODES

Musica comes with over 70 premade shortcodes. To add them while writing a post or a page simply click on the yellow folder icon that says Theme Shortcodes. To see all available shortcodes please check our live preview.

SOURCES AND CREDITS

I’ve used the following images, icons or other resources as listed.

• JQuery
• Google Web Fonts
• Nivo Slider by dev7studios
• Timthumb
• Icons by icons.mysitemyway

SUPPORT

For support please visit our support portal and register as described above.