TaxiPark - Like Themes WordPress Theme Documentation

1. Theme installation

To install this theme you must have a working version of WordPress already installed. Make sure you have clean WordPress setup. This installation guide will help you to install the WordPress.

The theme files can be uploaded in two ways: Through FTP or through WordPress dashboard.

FTP
Upload the non-zipped theme folder into the /wp-content/themes/ folder on your server.
WordPress
Navigate to "Appearance" > "Add New Themes" -> "Upload Theme" -> "Choose file" (choose taxipark.zip) > Install

Basic configuration

Install all required plugins (Especialy LT-Core, WpBakery Page Builder and Like-Thmes-plugins) and activate them
Update permalinks for custom pages in Settings -> Permalink -> Save

Notice: if you want to use a child-theme, you can also upload the file taxipark-child.zip in addition with the main TaxiPark Theme.

Demo content

We recommend you to install demo content. Go to the Tools -> Demo Content Install.
Click Install, wait till it'll be downloaded. Your WordPress taxipark theme now must be identical to live preview.

Notice: if you want to use a child-theme, you can also upload the file taxipark-child.zip in addition with the main TaxiPark Theme.

Installation

Please watch full video tutorial. It was recorded for our Autema theme, but can be used for any theme of our development.

2. Theme Configuration

Fill all fields in Appearance -> Theme Settings

General

Upload logo here.
If you need google maps, you must enter google maps api key.
Excerpt size configures automatic cutting of blogs text for preview

Car Types

Here you add/edit car types used in Contact Forms 7 under shortcur [car_select].

Footer block

You can control footer widgets area layout by enabling and disabling every widget column.

Favicon

Next, in Appearance -> Customize you can set Site Title, add favicon

WordPress settings You can find more information in WordPress documentation, but we'll describe main options.

Settings -> General. You can set here your email, timezone, date format
Settings -> Reading. Frontpage must be set to "Homepage", but you can use any page of site as welcome page. Also you can change number of posts per page. 6, 8 or 10 will be optimal
Settings -> Discussion. You can enable/disabled premoderation of comments here.

2.1 Troubleshooting guide

Theme is missing the style.css stylesheet error

If you have error "Theme is missing the style.css stylesheet error" - make sure you uploading inner WordPress .zip file with theme, not the whole archive downloaded from ThemeForest. Unzip the archive and download only the attached *.zip file with the theme.

More information on https://help.market.envato.com/hc/en-us/articles/202821510-Theme-is-missing-the-style-css-stylesheet-error.

LiteSpeed web server

If you are using the LiteSpeed web server and got an issue during the installation, please make the following changes to the file .htaccess and wp-config.php which are located in the root folder on your FTP server:

1) .htaccess:

RewriteRule .* - [E=noabort:1]

2) wp-config.php:

define('DISABLE_WP_CRON', true);

define('ALTERNATE_WP_CRON', true);

Menu assignment

If after installation you have problems with menu and it displayed without drop down levels like on screenshot:

Make sure that Main Menu is assigned in Appearance > Menu > Menu Settings > Display Location:

Image regeneration

If during the installation of demo content you had this error:

Or after installation you notice that some images are missing, here is a guide to fix this problem:
Install the Regenerate Thumbnails plugin:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/

In the Tools menu, the entry "image regeneration" will appear.

Click on the button marked in the screenshot:

At the end of the image regeneration process, thumbnails for all images will be restored.

Requests made through the contact form do not come to the email.

The WordPress Themes doesn’t control WordPress/WooCommerce sendmail function. It is external plugin. You can enable default WordPress theme and check sendmail again.

If you have problem with smtp, it could be mail server configuration error. You can install this plugin and run Connectivity Test, it will check if the SMTP service is available on your hosting:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/post-smtp/

If you have problems with SMTP service you need to contact hosting support and ask them for help. You can also use this plugin in order to configure external SMTP service (Gmail, for example):
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/

3. Menu and Widgets

Use Appearance -> Menu to set you header menu and footer menu.
If you downloaded demo content, we set optimal pages, you can change order and level. Add new pages or remove them here. You can use different menus for header block (with multilevel menus) and footer block (one level short menu, will be hidden on mobile version of site)

Widgets

Widgets are blocks visible in blogs page. In taxipark template we use only one sidebar area on the right.
You can change them in Appearance -> Widgets.
You can use any of standard WordPress widgets. Also you can install and any new widget in Plugins menu, but we can't guarantee support for them.

4. Posts

Blogs posts

It's standart WordPress posts module. You can write articles here, create categories, set tags.

Testimonials

You can post clients feedback here. Also you can post preview of feedbacks on any page with shortcode.

Gallery

Among standard gallery, you can use our posts type. Main Photo with header and description will be shown in list and other photos with full-page zoom inside of gallery.

Sections

Allows to edit common used on all pages blocks. Topbar at header of site and Partners block.

5. Pages

Among posts, pages are main module where you'll create your site content. You can use Visual Composer for visually change blocks and using shortcodes. You'll find information about all taxipark shortcodes in next section, here we'll describe main editor functions.

To enable Visual Composer select Backend or Frontend editor. In most cases you need only Backend.

Layout

You can add new elements be clicking on plus button.

You can read all about Visual Composer Shortcuts in official documentation.

Additionally we added to section/row control Class Selection Block:

It used to set block styles (heading, margins, paddings) look exactly like we set in our style.

Layout Configuraton

For every page you can configure:

Navbar. Setting mostly used for HomePages to set different Navbars
TopBar / Partners. Can be hidden or visible. And changed in Sections Menu.
Sidebar. Can be hidden or placed to left or right of page.
Blog Layout / Gallery Layout. Different number of columns can be set. In order to show these pages correctly you must also set template.