Samar - Creative Agency WordPress Theme

This is Samar WordPress Theme documentation version 2.4 by DexignZone team

Samar

Samar - Creative Agency WordPress Theme

This documentation is last updated on 18 July 2022.

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Introduction - #back to top


We would happily welcome feedback from you on how, if anywhere, you would like this documentation improved. If you would find anything a little bit easier and more helpful if we went into more detail, or explained something a little better - we'd be happy to hear it. We want Samar to be the best theme! If you have any comments, please mail us via the form on https://themeforest.net/user/dexignzone

Samar is a Wordpress theme to create a website for any type of Business specially for Construction Business. Samar comes with powerful features. The Samar is built with Revolution Slider, King Composer, Event Plugin and Contact From Seven the popular and flexible plugin in Wordpress. Samar a clean responsive wordpress theme comes with two header layouts. It includes premium wordpress plugins Revolution Slider ( worth $19 ) and King Composer plugins ( Worth $30 )) free with theme. The theme comes with the option of contact form to allow users to contact you.

Samar is fully compatible with latest version of plugins to allow you easy handling. The Samar comes with one click demo and also more flexible features.

Upload and Activation - #back to top




1. Navigate to Appearance → Themes in your WordPress admin dashboard.

2. Click the Add New button at the top of the page then go for the Theme Upload option.

3. For the file upload, pick Theme Install / Samar.zip in the theme package downloaded from ThemeForest and click Install Now.

4. Click Activate once the upload has finished and you're ready for the next step: Installing the Plugins.

Installing the Plugins - #back to top


Right after the theme was activated, a notification at the top of the screen will suggest to continue with the installation of the plugins recommended for getting the best our of your theme.

1. Click 'Begin installing plugins' and select all the plugins in the list.

2. Activate the Plugins you just installed.

3. After the plugins are activated, return to Dashboard.

Theme Settings - #back to top


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1. Navigate to Appearance → Themes in your WordPress admin dashboard.

2. Click the Add New button at the top of the page then go for the Theme Upload option.

3. For the file upload, pick Theme Install / Samar.zip in the theme package downloaded from ThemeForest and click Install Now.

4. Click Activate once the upload has finished and you're ready for the next step: Installing the Plugins.

Dummy Content Import - #back to top


Samar comes with one click demo installation exactly like the original demo. Just click on Import button and your demo site is ready.

1. In your Wordpress admin dashboard, navigate to Tools → Import Demo

2. From the page you can see the available options, click Import Demo button

3. Wait until you see the all importing process is completed.
       (Please wait 10 to 15 minutes in demo import process.)

4. After import completion, Select Samar Event Template in Event Settings



5. Add Page Builder in custom post type :- Go to WPbakery page builder -> Role Manager

Homepage & Blog — Setup - #back to top


To setup the blog page, in your WordPress admin panel, navigate to Settings → Reading.

Assuming you already have a page named "Blog", for the Front page display, select "A static page" and choose your "Blog" page as the Posts page. This is what you should be seeing on your screen from left side.

To setup the home page, in your WordPress admin panel, navigate to Settings → Reading.

Assuming you already have a page named "Front Page", for the Front page display, select "A static page" and choose your "Home 1" page as the home page. This is what you should be seeing on your screen from left side.

Important Tips to Use Samar - #back to top


There are many other settings that are related to Samar theme, go to Theme Options, where you will find lots of theme related settings .

You can set default general settings for the theme, go to Theme Options > Theme General Setting,

The output will look like the below

You can set default header settings for the entire theme, go to Theme Options > Header Setting,


Note: You can also customize these settings in page level

There are many widgets go to themeoption > widgets, where you will find bunddle of widgets make sure where and which widget you want to place, just click and add the widget .

You can set Trending items in footer area, go to Theme Options > Footer Settings,


Note: You can also customize these settings in page level

You can set Trending items in footer area, go to Theme Options > Footer Settings,

You can set copyright in footer area, go to Theme Options > Footer Settings,

You can show/ hide social icons on theme, go to Theme Options > Footer Settings,

You can set global page setting for the theme, go to Theme Options > Page Settings,

There are many menus on the theme, go to Appearance > Menus, where you will find lots of menus to add for header area, make sure where and which menu you want to place, just select and click 'Add to Menu', and rearrange the menus(which may in hierarchy) through drag and drop.

First you make sure after installing and activating WPBakery that these below checkboxes are checked for the theme.


You can then create VC element by inserting the following element into page editor as wp-admin > Pages > Add New/ edit page > click 'Edit with WPBakery'

This will give the output as in below image


You can find and add all the available Samar VC elements for the pages of the theme as wp-admin > Pages > Add New/ edit page > click 'Edit with WPBakery' > Elements(green button area)

The page related setting will be set here, go to wp-admin > Pages > Add New/ edit page.

The post related setting will be set here, go to wp-admin > Posts > Add New/ Edit post.

WPML - #back to top


The WPML plugin will help you to translate your website to different languages. Follow the steps described in this article to set up the plugin.

Activate the WPML plugin. Follow Dashboard > Plugins and click Activate under the WPML items.

After that click on Configure WPML to finish the plugin installation.

To manage languages, go to WPML > Languages.

The languages section allows you to make a WordPress site multilingual.

When you configure WPML for the first time, you need to choose the language of existing content. Select the language of your current website content in the Current Content Language section.

In the next step (Translation languages) add more languages to the site. Mark the languages you want to add. Then click on the Next button.

In order to let site visitors select their language, you can add a language switcher to the theme.

WPML’s standard language switchers include a drop-down languages list, a list of languages for the site’s footer, and a language switcher for the menu.

Click the “Add New Language Switcher to Menu” button to add the language switcher to the menu.

On the screen New Menu Language Switcher, select the position, style of menu items, specify what to add to the language switcher and choose the colors. Then click the "Save" button.

Here you can see a preview of your menu and position and you can manage them at any time. Click on the Next button to proceed to the further step.

Select the first option for the compatibility reporting.

Paste the site key that you can find on your wpml.org account page and click the Register button. if you don't have a site key, then click the button to generate a key for this site.

WPML String Translation

WPML’s String Translation module is part of the Multilingual CMS account type. To enable it, you first need to download and install it from your WPML.org account, under the Downloads section.

Then, navigate to WPML → String Translation.

For More Information... https://wpml.org/documentation/getting-started-guide/string-translation/.

Page Speed Options - #back to top


First you have install and activate LiteSpeed Cache and Smush plugin

Disable the lazy loading setting in Smush Plugin : smush -> lazy load -> Deactivate and click bulk smush now

Go to Smush Plugin :

1. Use bulk smush and optimize all attachements

Note: Disable the lazy loading setting in Smush Plugin, it may be create some issue. : smush -> lazy load -> Deactivate

Go to LiteSpeed Cache Plugin :

1 : General setting -> guest mode ON

2 : Cache setting -> Purge Tab -> Select the page for which you want to enable caching

3 : Cache setting -> Purge Tab -> Serve Stale ON

4 : Cache setting -> Object Tab -> Object Cache ON

5 : Image optimization -> Image optimization setting Tab -> WebP For Extra srcset ON

6 : page optimization -> css setting Tab -> CSS Minify and Load CSS Asynchronously ON and CSS Combine External and Inline Off

7 : page optimization -> js setting Tab -> JS Minify ON

8 : page optimization -> HTML setting Tab -> HTML Minify ON

9 : page optimization -> media setting Tab -> Lazy Load Images and Responsive Placeholder and Add Missing Sizes ON

MailChimp Options - #back to top


More Info: https://docs.oceanwp.org/article/520-get-your-mailchimp-api-key-and-list-id

Creating API Key and List ID

Get API Key:

1. Login to your MailChimp account.

2. Under the user menu dropdown at the top left side, click on Account link.

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3. Go to the Extras » API Keys from the top navigation menu.

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Under the Your API keys section, create an API Key by clicking on Create A Key button. Once generated, copy API key for later use in PHP script.

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Get List ID:

1. Choose a list in which all the subscriber’s information would be stored. In that case, you need to create a list in the Lists page.

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Enter into your created list and navigate to Settings » List name and campaign defaults.

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Under the List ID label you will find the List ID. Copy List ID for later use in PHP script.

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Then, you just need to click on Theme Panel, and the Integrations tab to add your API and List ID.



Blog — Writing New Posts - #back to top


To start adding posts to your blog, navigate to Posts → Add New.

1. Start filling in the blanks: enter your post title, write your actual body content in the main post editing box below it.

2. As needed, select a category, add tags, and make other selections from the sections below the post. 3. When your post is ready, click Publish.

Deep Diving: Since creating and editing pages requires basic WordPress knowledge, we won't cover it in detail. If you're new to WordPress, you may find the following resources valuable: How to Create a new Post How to Edit and Existing Post Using Categories and Tags

Setting & Setup Menu - #back to top


After installation the Samar and after dummy-content export, you need to select our main menu from WordPress admin > menus > theme locations please check below image and learn how to do.



Theme Options - #back to top


We listed below all our theme options. You can learn how we used Woodex WordPress theme options in below;

In THEME GENERAL SETTINGS; Enter Google Map Api Key, Choose Page Preloader option and date format for the theme.
In LOGO SETTINGS; You can change logo and favicon icon
In HEADER SETTINGS; This theme has 5 types of header styles according to the theme.
In FOOTER SETTINGS; Choose footer settings for trending items, copyright.
In POST SETTINGS; It has Single post page option
In PAGE SETTINGS; Choose General(default settings when no other setting applied) and other common pages like (Tag, Category, Search, Archive, Author, 404) pages settings for banner title, banner height, banner image, sidebar, page layouts and pagination by ajax or not.
In WOO COMMERCE SETTINGS; Required woo commerce settings available here.
In THEME SETTINGS; You can choose skin color or page loader.
In SOCIAL SETTINGS; Here social network links are added like facebook, google, linkdin, instagram, twitter, youtube, etc.
In CUSTOM SCRIPT; You can add custom CSS, Javascript here.
In ADVANCE OPTIONS; You can add dyanamic Sidebar here.
In IMPORT/EXPORT; Easily Import the file and url as well as export also through copy the data.

Theme Update - #back to top


General Method –

1. Log into FTP Account using FileZilla or similar program.

2. Go to wp-content/themes directory

3. Move to the theme directory that you want to update.

4. Now, download the latest version of theme from ThemeForest.net/downloads

5. If you have downloaded the zip, extract it. Find the theme folder. It generally has style.css file in it.

6. Upload all files in that folder to the directory on FTP we found in step.


Envato Market Plugin Method –

Summary – How to Update Envato ThemeForest Themes

Here’s a quick summary of steps required to update Envato ThemeForest themes.

1. Download and Install the Envato Market plugin.

2. Activate the plugin and go to the Envato Market tab to configure the plugin.

3. Click on the link to generate an Envato API Personal Token. Copy-paste the token and save changes.

4. You should now see all of your Envato purchases including ThemeForest themes that you can install and update.

Installing Envato Market Plugin to Update WordPress Themes

Unlike other WordPress plugins, the Envato Market plugin is not available to install from the official WordPress plugins repository. So, you won’t be able to search and install from your Plugins page within the WordPress dashboard.

The Envato Market Plugin is hosted on GitHub and you can download the plugin from this Envato plugin page.

Step 1 : Use the plugin download link on the this Envato Market plugin page.

Although hosted on Github, the plugin authors do not recommend downloading directly from Github repository “Download ZIP” as Github does not package the plugin correctly.

Step 2 : Save the Envato Market Plugin archive.

Step 3 : Go to Plugins > Add New > and click on Upload Plugin at the top.

Step 4 : Click on Choose File and select the envato-market.zip file from where you saved and click on Install now.

Step 5 : Click on Activate Plugin to activate the Envato Market Plugin.



You can also install the plugin by unzipping the archive and uploading the envato-market folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory using an FTP program.

Step 6 : After the plugin is active, go to Envato Market tab from your WordPress dashboard.

Step 7 : You will need to configure the plugin by adding an Envato API Personal Token. Click the suggested link in the instructions to generate a personal token. (You can find the link to generate a personal token with required instructions on this page).



Scroll down on the page with all the required permissions selected and click on Create Token at the end of the page.

Make sure you only enable the required permissions including;

  • 1. View and search Envato sites
  • 2. Download your purchased items
  • 3. List purchases you’ve made

See the screenshot below for enabling the required permissions.



You can either use a Global OAuth Personal Token or a Single Use OAuth Personal Tokens.The difference is clearly explained on the page.

Step 8 : You will see a success page with an option to copy your secret token key. Copy the key and confirm that you have copied the key from the page.

Envato will not save the secret token key and if will have to generate a new key if you lose it.

Step 9 : Enter the Envato API Secret token key and click on Save Changes.

Step 10 : You should now see all of your purchased WordPress themes from your ThemeForest account.

Click on Install Now to install any of your purchased WordPress themes from your ThemeForest account.

You can also see if any updates are available for your currently installed and active WordPress themes from this page.

Support Help - #back to top


Please remember you have purchased a very affordable theme and you have not paid for a full-time web design agency. Occasionally we will help with small tweaks, but these requests will be put on a lower priority due to their nature. Support is also 100% optional and we provide it for your connivence, so please be patient, polite and respectful.

Please visit our support forum or ask question @dexignzone

Support for my items includes:
  • * Responding to questions or problems regarding the item and its features
  • * Fixing bugs and reported issues
  • * Providing updates to ensure compatibility with new software versions
Item support does not include:
  • * Customization and installation services
  • * Support for third party software and plug-ins
Before seeking support, please...
  • * Make sure your question is a valid Theme Issue and not a customization request.
  • * Make sure you have read through the documentation and any related video guides before asking support on how to accomplish a adviso.
  • * Make sure to double check the theme FAQs.
  • * Try disabling any active plugins to make sure there isn't a conflict with a plugin. And if there is this way you can let us know.
  • * If you have customized your theme and now have an issue, back-track to make sure you didn't make a mistake. If you have made changes and can't find the issue, please provide us with your changelog.
  • * Almost 80% of the time we find that the solution to people's issues can be solved with a simple "Google Search". You might want to try that before seeking support. You might be able to fix the issue yourself much quicker than we can respond to your request.
  • * Make sure to state the name of the theme you are having issues with when requesting support via ThemeForest.

Version History - #back to top


11 April 2024

  • * Improvement: Some improvements in theme elements functionality to make easy to use
  • * Improvement: Filter functionality update in testimonial element
  • * Added: New 2 Home Pages
  • * Resolved: Resolve some bugs in theme and made compatible with WordPress 6.5.2
  • * Updated: Woo-Commerce template cart total designing issue and bug resolved
  • * Updated: Woo-Commerce Plugin 8.7.0 and made the theme compatible
  • * Contact Form 7 Plugin 5.9.3 and made the theme compatible

01 June 2023

  • * Improvement: Some improvements in theme elements functionality to make easy to use
  • * Improvement: Filter functionality update in portfolio element
  • * Updated: Woo-Commerce template cart total designing issue and bug resolved
  • * Updated: Woo-Commerce Plugin 7.7.2 and made the theme compatible
  • * Contact Form 7 Plugin 5.7.7 and made the theme compatible
  • * Resolved: Resolve some bugs in theme and made compatible with WordPress 6.2.2

19 July 2022

  • * Resolved: Gutenberg pattern design issue
  • * Update: Woo-Commerce Plugin 6.7 and made the theme compatible
  • * Resolve bugs in theme and made compatible to WordPress 6.0.1

28 May 2022

  • * Added: Team Detail Page
  • * Added: Footer enable/disable the option in page level settings
  • * Update: Woo-Commerce template cart total designing issue and bug resolved
  • * Update: Woo-Commerce Plugin 6.5.1 and made the theme compatible
  • * Resolve bugs in theme and made compatible in WordPress 6.0

03 January 2022

  • * Added: Banner custom height option
  • * Update: Manage All theme required menus in one main menu to make user friendly.
  • * Update: Coming soon template and maintenance template not restricted for login user code update
  • * Update: Woo-Commerce Plugin 6.0 and made the theme compatible
  • * Improvement: CSS and JS code to get a better response
  • * Resolve bugs in theme and made compatible in WordPress 5.8.2

01 December 2021

  • * Update WPBackery Plugin Version 6.7
  • * Resolve bugs in theme and made compatible in WordPress 5.8

30 August 2021

  • * Add Elementor page Builder
  • * Update font awesome 5 icon
  • * Add banner facility with individual CPT page
  • * Resolve short_description function error with wp_block
  • * Resolve default pages post order issue
  • * Resolve bugs in theme and made compatible in WordPress 5.8

14 April 2021

  • * Theme Release


You can find the version history (changelog.txt) file on Samar_FullPackage.zip folder or you can check changelog on theme sale page.

Once again, thank you so much for purchasing this theme. As I said at the beginning, I'd be glad to help you if you have any questions relating to this theme. No guarantees, but I'll do my best to assist. If you have a more general question relating to the themes on ThemeForest, you might consider visiting the forums and asking your question in the "Item Discussion" section.