Installation and activation

  • Goto Themes > Add new > Upload theme
  • Click Activate on Shelf Thumbnail

There are few plugins that is required for Shelf to work perfectly. Here is the list of the required plugins:

  • Slider Revolution: To add awesome slideshows
  • Visual Composer: For you to edit your pages visually without having to work with codes.
  • Envato wordpress toolkit: To easily access the updates and upgrade the theme.
  • Better WordPress Minify: for minified JS and CSS files to optimize the website speed.
  • Meta Box: for page options.
  • Contact Form 7: to easily setup contact forms.

Install and activate all the required plugins

  • Click on “Begin installing plugin”
  • Select all and select “Install” from “Bulk actions” Drop down
  • Select all and select “Activate” from “Bulk actions” Drop down

You can start adding your own contents. But demo contents will help you start off quickly

  • Goto Tools > Import > Click WordPress
  • Goto Theme folder > Demo contents > Select demo-contents.xml

Along with WordPress’s default widgets we have following custom widgets to enhance website experience:

  • Shelf Recent Posts Widget: Display recent posts
  • Shelf Popular Posts Widget: Display popular posts
  • Shelf Flickr Widget: Display flickr feed
  • Shelf Contact Info Widget: Display contact details
  • Shelf Tag Cloud Widget: Display tag cloud
  • Shelf Social Networks Widget: Display your social networks
  • Shelf Latest Tweets Widget: Display your latest tweets

Here’s a quick video on how to set up Shelf Multi-purpose WordPress Theme.

Shelf WordPress Theme Installation