Installation and activation
Installation and activation
- Goto Themes > Add new > Upload theme
- Click Activate on Shelf Thumbnail
Required plugins
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
Import demo contents
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
Custom widgets
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
Installation video tutorial
Here’s a quick video on how to set up Shelf Multi-purpose WordPress Theme.
Shelf WordPress Theme Installation