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Arvo - A Clever & Flexible Multipurpose Wordpress Theme

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Aro of G5 plus company brings a new look to creating a website. With features include the totally new, You will discover as you browse this manual. A website are been very easy to implement by Arvo theme. Whoever you are, whatever business you are doing, Arvo is the right one for you! Do you curious? Let 's discover it !

Thank you for purchasing our theme. If you have any questions that are beyond the scope of this documentation, please feel free to us via email. Thanks so much!

Files Included

  • The theme zip file Arvo.zip(included Visual Composer and Revolution Slider plugins)
  • Child theme for easier customize in Arvo-child.zip
  • Document in Documentation.zip
  • Link download psd Arvo in psd-include.txt

Struct look like:

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Code navigation

Arvo split into 8 folders. Meaning each folder please see explain below:

  • assets: Store less, js, resource default and another plugin for theme. Besides include file for demo data.
  • core: This folder store core file to add action for header, footer, woocommerce, function breadcrumb, filter for search.
  • inc: Store all functions
  • languages: store .pot for translate to another language
  • templates:Store templates for header, footer, archive, comments, breadcrumb.
  • tribe-events: Store template that override for The Event Calendar plugin
  • vc-templates: Store template that override visual composer
  • woocommerce: Store template that override for woocommerce

System Requires

To use Arvo, you must be running WordPress 3.9 or higher, PHP5.4 or higher, and MySQL 5 or higher. We have tested it with Mac, Windows and Linux. Below is a list of items you should ensure your host can comply with.

Recommended PHP Configuration Limits

Many issues that you may run into such as: white screen, demo content fails when importing, empty page content and other similar issues are all related to low PHP configuration limits. The solution is to increase the PHP limits. You can do this on your own, or contact your web host and ask them to increase those limits to a minimum as follows:

  • max_input_vars = 3000
  • memory_limit = 128M
  • max_execution_time = 300
  • max_input_time = 300
  • upload_max_filesize = 64M
  • post_max_size = 64M

Download Arvo Theme

Get the Arvo Theme installation package from your account(after login on Themeforest.net) at downloads page and save it to your computer.

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Install Arvo Theme

Installation via Wordpress

Step 1 - Login to your Wordpress Dashboard

Step 2 - Go to Appearance > Themes. Click the Add New button or Add new theme link. (check the screenshot below)

Step 3 - Click on the Upload Theme button. Select the zipped theme folder called Arvo.zip and click on Install Now will do the rest for you..

Step 4 - Click on the Activate button to activate Arvo. Congratulations, you have now activated Arvo! You can now proceed with Arvo's Plugin Installation.

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Installation via FTP

Before completing the installation, make sure you have unpacked the entire package. This is very important! You can complete the installation with five steps

Step 1 - Log into your Hosting server using an FTP client (like FileZilla or WinSCP).

Step 2 - Locate "Arvo.zip" that you found in your ThemeForest Package and unzip it somewhere on your hard drive. Once it is unzipped it will look like a folder named Arvo with all theme files in it.

Step 3 - Locate your Wordpress installation and upload the theme directory Arvo (you unzipped in the previous step) into ../wp-content/themes/ in your Wordpress installation. Select the zipped theme folder called Arvo.zip and click on Install

Step 4 - Click on the Activate button to activate Arvo. Congratulations, you have now activated Arvo! You can now proceed with Arvo's Plugin Installation.

Install Arvo Required Plugins

All plugins required have been zipped/already into your download package, so you only need to do is click on the "Begin installing plugins".

You should be navigated to the Install Required Plugin page, which shows a plugin list similar to this:

install plugins

Next, Click on the checkbox beside "Plugin" label to select all plugins in the list.

install check list

Then,choose "Bulk Actions" choose "Install" from the drop-down list at the top and then click "Apply".

install action

The installing process status will be shown in your browser. It may takes a few minutes, so please be patient. After sucessfull, your screen like that

install plugins

When the notice "All installations have been completed" appears, click on the "Return to Required Plugins Installer" link to turn back to the plugin list.

install plugins

Next,similar to install, click on the box beside the Plugin label again to select all plugins and choose Activate this time as image below.

active all required plugins

One Click Install Demo

With Arvo, you can build a functioning website just by clicking a button and install our demo data or click 5.2.1 Create A New Page to step by step. Your Arvo installation will be set up with what we have on our demo website, and you can use it as a template to develop your own website.

Go to Appearance >> Install Demo menu

Import Demo Content in One Click

Then choose "Install" demo data you want:

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Import Demo Content in One Click02

The progressing would be displayed on import status bars so you will know when it is finished and your data is ready.

Import Status Bars

DONE. Now, you can visit your website to view demo.

Create a new page

You can create any number of pages with content. Our theme includes several page templates to choose from, and you will need to choose the page template that suits your needs. All of this is done in the pages section of your WordPress admin.

If you DID NOT One Click Install Demo, you will need to MANUALLY CREATE your Home and other pages. Here’s how to build it:

Step 1 – To get started adding a new page to your WordPress site, find the Pages menu in the WordPress Dashboard Navigation menu. Click Add new. The WordPress page editor looks nearly identical to the post editor, except for a few different boxes located on the right side of the screen..

Step 2 – Input a new name for your page, and click "BACKEND EDITOR"(must installed Visual Composer plugins).

Step 2.1 – Don't click "BACKEND EDITOR": only input content to area 3 then go to Step 3

Step 2.2 – Click "BACKEND EDITOR": the screen below

Step 3 – Input a new content for your page.

Step 4 – Set your Parent page. It’s usually set to No Parent.

Step 5 – Choose setting for this page.

Step 6 – Custom Page Title

Step 7 –Custom Page Title Background

Next, you can publish this page and set it as your frontpage(8.1. Settings a static page as Home) in the Wordpress Settings panel.

Building Homepage

Building OnePage

Recently OnePage sites has become a trend, and Arvo can help you do it easily. You just have to create a Menu with Links as items.

After that, any where want menu link to section, please edit row by Visual Composer and type id on field: Row ID

BUILD AN EXAMPLE

THIS IS STEP BY STEP HOW TO BUILD HOME PAGE "simple" MANUAL FOR http://themes.g5plus.net/Arvo/home-1/

Need Wordpress, Arvo & plugins are already

I. Overview elements area on page

II. BUILDING

1. Build & Setting header area

1.1 Upload logo

Go to ThemeOptions >> Logo Setting tab, do follow:

1.2 Create menu

Go to Apperance >> Menus, do follow:

1.3 Settings

Go to ThemeOptions >> Header tab, then setting below

2. Import slider & create home page

2.1. Import slider simple

You can reference how to import slider at Set Up Homepage Slider
And locate zip file slider to import on path: Arvo\theme-plugins\Arvo-framework\install-demo\data\main\revslider

2.2. Create A New Page

Click classic mode, add code below:

3. Setting Footer & Create content footer

3.1 Settings Footer

Go to ThemeOptions >> Footer tab, then setting below

3.2 Add widgets "G5Plus - Social Profile", "Text" to "Footer 1" area

Go to Widget Manager

Add content "G5Plus - Social Profile":

Add content "Text":

3.3 Add widgets "Text" to "Footer 2" area

Add content "Text":

3.4 Add Widget "Text" to "Footer 3" area

Add content "Text":

3.5 Add Widget "Text" to "Footer 4" area

Add content "Text":

3.6 Add text Copyright to "Bottom Bar Left" area

Import Demo Content

If you are new to WordPress and have problems with setting up the theme you might want to import the demo content file that comes with the theme. The following actions will import some dummy posts and pages from the live preview:

  • Go to menu Tools > Import
  • Select WordPress from the list
  • If you haven't installed the WordPress import plugin, a popup window will appears and ask you to install it. Just click Install Now. When the installation progress is completed, click Activate Plugin & Run Importer. If you have installed this plugin, skip to next step.
  • Click Browse and select demo-data.xml file from the download package
    (Example: simple demo on path: Arvo\assets\data-demo\simple, so the same for others)
  • Click Upload file and import
  • When you are asked to import author, you can create new author or import to existing author. You also should check the Download checkbox and import file attachments.

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Select WordPress from the list

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Continue with steps in image

Continue with steps in image

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Display asked to import author, selected and continue

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After completing all above steps, open frontend link(Home 1) to see the pages imported to make, look like below is ok

demo

If you don't want to use the demo content pack, you can read the instructions on how to work with our theme built-in Page Builder below to make your own pages.

Import Slider Home Page

After setting up the homepage, you need to setup the slider for homepage to make it display the same as in live preview.

The download package contains the exported slider (Revolution Slider) that can be used as your slider template. Please follow the steps below to import it to your shop:

  • Go to "Revolution Slider"
  • Click "Import Slider" button
  • When a popup appear, click "Browse" and select one of zip sliders(these files include in main file downloaded) file.
  • Click "Import Slider" button to start import the selected slider
  • Repeat the steps to import all

Please note that these steps are to set up slider for homepage the same as in live demo. If you want to make your own slider, please follow the official Slider Revolution document.

Contact Form

You can do step by step as image below to build contact form

Add New Contact Form

You can visit Contact Form 7 Plugin to further details.

Or copy and paste content below to Form field(see image above)

Value Content "Contact form 1"

Value Content "Homepage 5"

And a lot of our contact form created here

General Options

You can adjust WordPress settings as follows:

 

Step 1 – You can set Site Title, Tagline in Settings > General

 

Step 2 – You can set Blog pages show at most in Settings > Writing

 

Step 3 – You can select Front Page displays in Settings > Reading

 

Step 4 – You can set Discussion settings in Settings > Discussion

 

Step 5 – You can change Image sizes in Settings > Media

We used the following sizes on our demo sites:
Thumbnail size: 150 x 150
Medium size: 300 x 300
Large size: 1024 x 1024

Step 6 – You should ensure that a non-default permalink setting is selected, e.g. Month and name in Settings > Permalinks

Theme Options/Arvo Options

By clicking on the "Theme Options" menu, you'll be able to change all template specific settings.

General Settings

"General Settings" tab is divided into a few sections. A sides from the Install Demo Data section mentioned above, there are a few important sections for you to customize your layout.

You can upload this Logo on your server, or just paste an URL into the Logo box

Maintenance Mode

"Maintenance Mode" use for update/maintenance website. Can choose custom page or default(basic)

Performance

"Performance" use on/off js & css for faster loading page

Page Transition

Custom Favicon

Have many options for each devices/screen, view on image to further more details.

404 Setting

You can input information, background for 404 page with out install plugins.

Frontend display

Layout Options

Page Title

Blog setting

Top Drawer

Top Bar

Header Customize

Theme Color

User can custom and change many options color on website.

Custom Font

User can custom and upload many options font for website.

Font Options

User can choose from many font style.

Social Profiles

These options are for a box that enable people to share your blog content on various social networks which automatically shows up under the content blog posts, an important function that helps promoting your site. You can also check the options to decide which network they are allowed to share the content of your website on. You can also turn off all options if you don't want your content to be shared at all.

Frontend display

Portfolio

These opotions help you can choose and customize to have categories and layout as you want

Woocommerce

Frontend display

Resources Options

Resources options let you utilize boostrap elements to style your store quick and easily.

Custom CSS & Script

In case you want to add new CSS class or JS to your website, add it in this text box. This will add/overwrite the theme CSS,JS, so please be careful!

Import/Export

You can back up the options you chose here and restore them later, in case you want to fiddle with it. You can even swap data between different installations by pasting the text in the box under Transfer Theme Options Data and click Import Options button.

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Preset

You can also save presets and use them on other pages. The theme also has widget presets which lets you create WordPress landing pages very easily.

add new preset

add new preset

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You can set the following Options for the Preset you are currently editing:

1. Page Layout

Arvo features custom setting page layout for your pages that you can overwrite page layout settings in Theme Options

Meta Options Page Layout

You can set the following Page Layout Options for the Preset you are currently editing:

Attribute Description
Layout Style Overwrite the Default Layout Style (set in Theme Options) for page used this preset.
Layout Overwrite the Default Layout of pages settings section in Theme Options for page used this preset.
Sidebar Layout Set position for the page sidebar: none, left, right, both of left and right
Content Padding Set content top/bottom padding. Do not include units (empty to set default)
Content Padding Mobile Set content top/bottom padding mobile. Do not include units (empty to set default)
Remove Content Padding If turn on this function. It will Remove Content Padding top/bottom padding, include value default

2. Page Title

Arvo features custom setting page title for your pages that you can overwrite Page Title settings in Theme Options

Meta Options Page Title

You can set the following Page Title Options for the Preset you are currently editing:

Attribute Description
Show/Hide Page Title? Set visible of header, if selected default will take value in Theme Options
Page Title Layout Set Layout for Page Title: 'Default', 'Tile Left & Breadcrumb Right' , 'Center'
Custom Page Title Set content of page title. If leave empty will take value title of page
Custom Page Subtitle? Set custom for page subtitle, if selected Off will take value in Theme Options
Padding Set padding top/bottom for page title. If leave empty will take value in Theme Options
Custom Background Color? Set custom background color for page title. If selected Off will take value in Theme Options
Page Title Parallax Set parallax mode for page title. If selected Default will take value in Theme Options
Breadcrumbs Enable Set visible of breadcrumbs for page title. If selected Default will take value in Theme Options

4. Top Drawer

Arvo features custom setting top drawer for your pages that you can overwrite top drawer settings in Theme Options

Meta Options Top Drawer

You can set the following Top Drawer Options for the Page you are currently editing:

Top drawer padding top. Do not include units (empty to set default)
Attribute Description
Top Drawer Type Set type of top drawer: 'Disable', 'Always Show', 'Toggle'. If selected default will take value in Theme Options
Top Drawer Sidebar Set Sidebar for top drawer sidebar, if not selected will take value in Theme Options
Top Drawer Wrapper Layout Set layout wrapper for top drawer: 'Full Width', 'Container', 'Container Fluid'. If selected default will take value in Theme Options
Top Drawer hide on mobile Set visible for top drawer area on mobile. If selected default will take value in Theme Options
Top Drawer PaddingSet Padding top/bottom for Drawer area. If you not choose it will set value default

5. Top Bar

Arvo features custom setting top bar for your pages that you can overwrite top bar settings in Theme Options

Meta Options Top Bar

You can set the following Top Bar Options for the Page you are currently editing:

Attribute Description
Desktop Settings
Show/Hide Top Bar Set visible of top bar. If selected default will take value in Theme Options
Top Bar Layout Set layout for top bar: '1/2-1/2', '2/3-1/3', '1/3-2/3', 'full', if not selected will take value in Theme Options
Top Left Sidebar Set sidebar for left sidebar. If not selected will take value in Theme Options
Top Right Sidebar Set sidebar for right sidebar. If not selected will take value in Theme Options
Top Bar Border Set border for top bar area:'Default','None', 'Full Bordered', 'Container Border'. If selected default will take value in Theme Options
Mobile Settings
Show/Hide Top Bar Set visible of top bar. If selected default will take value in Theme Options
Top Bar Layout Set layout for top bar: '1/2-1/2', '2/3-1/3', '1/3-2/3', 'full', if not selected will take value in Theme Options
Top Left Sidebar Set sidebar for left sidebar. If not selected will take value in Theme Options
Top Right Sidebar Set sidebar for right sidebar. If not selected will take value in Theme Options
Top Bar Border Set border for top bar area:'Default','None', 'Full Bordered', 'Container Border'. If selected default will take value in Theme Options

6. Header

Arvo features custom setting header for your pages that you can overwrite header settings in Theme Options

Meta Options Header

You can set the following Header Options for the Page you are currently editing:

Attribute Description
Header On/Off? Set visible of header
Desktop Settings
Header Layout Set layout of header. If no selected will take value in Theme Options
Header Container Layout Set container layout for header: 'Container', 'Container Full'. If not selected will take value in Theme Options
Header Float Set float for header. If selected default will take value in Theme Options
Show/Hide Header Sticky Set sticky mode for header. If selected default will take value in Theme Options
Header padding Set Padding top/bottom for Header area. If selected default will take value in Theme Options
Navigation Height Set header navigation height (px). Do not include unit. If selected default will take value in Theme Options
Page Header Mobile
Header Mobile Layout Set layout fot header mobile. If no selected default will take value in Theme Options
Menu Drop Type Set drop type for menu mobile: 'Dropdown Menu', 'Fly Menu'. If not selected will take value in Theme Options
Header mobile sticky Set sticky mode for mobile header. If selected default will take value in Theme Options
Mobile Header Search Box Set visible for search box. If selected default will take value in Theme Options
Mobile Header Shopping Cart Set visible for shopping cart. If selected default will take value in Theme Options
Mobile header border bottom Set border bottom for mobile header: 'None', 'Bordered', 'Container Bordered'. If selected default will take value in Theme Options

7. Header Customize

Arvo features custom setting header customize area for your pages that you can overwrite header customize settings in Theme Options

Meta Options Header Customize

You can set the following Header Customize Options for the Page you are currently editing:

Attribute Description
Header Customize Navigation
Header Customize Navigation Set visible and order item for Header Navigation: 'Sidebar','Custom text content left', 'Navigation Item Spacing ','Custom CSS Class'

8. Menu

Arvo features custom setting menu for your pages that you can overwrite Menu settings

Meta Options Menu

You can set the following Menu Options for the Page you are currently editing:

Attribute Description
Page menu Optionally you can choose to override the menu that is used on the page.
Page menu mobile Optionally you can choose to override the menu mobile that is used on the page
Is One Page Set page style is One Page

10. Colors Setting

Arvo features setting page color, allow you custom different color for each page

Meta Options Colors Setting

You can set color for each area on page :

Attribute Description
General Settings
Accent Color Customize Customize color for Accent Area
Top Drawer Customize Customize color for Top Drawer Area
Header Customize Customize color for Header Area
Top Bar Customize Customize color for Top Bar
Navigation Customize Customize color for Navigation Area
Footer Customize Customize color for Footer Area
Bottom Bar Customize Customize color for Bottom Bar Area

WooCommerce Settings

How to config product image like demo

Step 1

Step 2

Mega Custom Menu

We use XMENU, please visit Document XMENU for further details.

Setting a static page as Home

If you installed the Demo Content, you don’t need to create a new Home Page, you just need to choose from the list Home Pages that were automatically created from the demo content, following these steps:

  • Go to Settings > Reading
  • For Front page displays, select A static page (select below)
  • Choose either Home 1, Home 2 from the dropdown for Front page
  • Click Save Changes

Save all your changes!

Config row / column

Content management is a breeze with Fortuna and it requires absolutely no coding skills. Using a highly customized version of the Visual Composer plugin the theme offers a user friendly Drag'n'Drop interface for easy page creation and editing. Follow these simple steps to create a Page with Arvo:

Step 1:Go to Pages > Add new in your Dashboard. Add a Title to your (top field).

Step 2:Switch to Backend Editor if you are currently under Classic Mode (button below Title field).

Step 3:Start adding page content by clicking on the Plus button or Add Element.

Step 4:The Add Element Popup appears, click on the first element in order to add a new Row to your page. A Row is a main building block of a page, you can split your Rows into Columns, place various elements into your rows, set Row Backgrounds, effects etc.

Step 5:Once you have the new Row added to your page you can split that Row into Columns in order to organize elements nicely in it. Once you split your Row into column you can start adding different Page Elements into your columns. If you want to edit your Row/Column Settings click on the small Pen icon (top right corner of the Row/Column). You can also Duplicate your Row with the Icon (duplicate icon) next to it or Remove the Row/Column with the icon to the right (trash bin icon).

Row Settings (General)

Click on the Edit Row button (Pen icon, top right of the Row). You will see the Row Settings Dialog popup.

Layout:

Full Width (overflow hidden) - Row will full width (option default)

Full Width (overflow visible) - Row will full width, visible content if overflow

Container - Max width 1170px and center.

Container Fluid - Full width, padding left and padding right 15px.

Columns gap:

In order to control gaps between columns navigate to row parameter window and change column gap option - the gap will be introduced between all columns within this row. Default value of gap is set to 0.

Important: In case of mobile stacking gap will be introduced between stacked columns as well.

Full Height Row and Video Background:

Equal height:

In order to set columns within row to be equal height you must navigate to row parameter window and check Equal height option to be active. All columns within this row will have equal height and align to the longest column.

Content position:

In order to control vertical alignment of content within rows/columns navigate to row parameter window and select position of content - top, middle or bottom. By default value is set to "Default" meaning it will use Top or any other alternative if defined within your WP theme.

Parallax:

Show background overlay (Overlay Color)

Color - Click button to select color of background overlay

Overlay Opacity - Set opacity for overlay (0 → 100)

Show background overlay (Overlay Image)

Image - Click button to select select image or set background image from Design Options

Overlay Opacity - Set opacity for overlay (0 → 100)

Row ID

Set ID of row (Note: make sure it is unique and valid according to w3c specification)

Row Settings (Design Options)

Row Settings (Animation Settings)

CSS Animation - Select type of animation if you want this element to be animated when it enters into the browsers viewport.

Animation Duration - Duration in seconds. You can use decimal points in the value. Use this field to specify the amount of time the animation plays. The default value depends on the animation, leave blank to use the default.

Animation Delay - Delay in seconds. You can use decimal points in the value. Use this field to delay the animation for a few seconds, this is helpful if you want to chain different effects one after another above the fold.

Managing Columns

Once you have the desired number of columns in a Row you can manage each Column's individual settings by clicking on the Toolbar icons of that specific Column. The Plus Icon adds an element to the top of the Column, the bottom Plus Icon adds an elemnt to the bottom of the Column. The Trash Bin icon removes the Column. Access the Column Settings by clicking on the Pen Icon.

Column Settings (General)

Access the Column Settings by clicking on the Pen Icon. The General tab provides with the option to add CSS classes to your Column if you wish to access it via CSS (can pass more than one divided by a space).

Column Settings (Design Options)

Column Settings (Responsive Options)

Add / Edit Page Elements

Adding Page Elements to your Page is pretty straightforward. First you need to have created a new page, added a Row to it and defined your Row Columns (read more in the previous section).

Step 1:Click on one of the Plus Icons within the column you want to add a new element to.

Step 2:The Page Elements dialog will appear, click on the element you want to add to your Column/Row.

Step 3:The Element Settings Dialog of the Element you are adding appears. Customize your element anyway you want, then click Save.

Step 4:Your element is now in the Column you added it to. Once you hover your newly added element you will see a small popup that let's you manage it. You can do the following with your elements:

Move - Drag your element via the Direction Icon to move it around within the Column,Row or Page.

Edit - Click on the Pen Icon to edit your Element's properties.

Clone - Click on the Copy Icon to duplicate your Element.

Delete - Click on the Trash Bin Icon to remove your Element.

Contact Forms Settings

Settings For Send Mail

You can visit WP Mail SMTP Plugin to further details.

Mail Chimp Settings

Step 1: Choose menu follow:

Step 2:

Step 3:

Step 4:

Step 5:

Step 6, the last:

Update theme to latest version

To update theme to latest version:

Please do follow here: http://support.g5plus.net/knowledge-base/how-to-update-to-latest-version/.

Update shortcode/framework plugins to latest version

To update shortcode/framework plugins to latest version:

Please do follow here: http://support.g5plus.net/knowledge-base/how-to-update-shortcodeframework-plugins-to-latest-version/.

Thank you for purchasing our theme

If you have any questions that are beyond the scope of this documentation

Please create topic here: http://support.g5plus.net. Thanks so much!