Installation
We would like to thank you for purchasing Carspot! We are very pleased you have chosen Carspot for your website,
you will not be disappointed! Before you get started, please be sure to always check out these documentation files. We outline all kinds of good information, and provide you with all the details you need to use Carspot. Carspot can only be used with WordPress and we assume that you already have WordPress installed and ready to go. If you do not, please see our section on WordPress to help you get started.
Carspot responsive, multi-purpose, corporate, business, advisor, consulting, finance HTML/CSS template. It comes with 8 home variations with all necessary pages. Carspot template filled with extra functionality of modern web technologies. The clean design with latest version of Bootstrap framework makes its fit for anywhere.
It’s fully responsive design and clean was tested on all major handheld devices.Unlimited possibilities & flexible that will easily be able to support every site development.
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When you purchase our theme from Themeforest, you need to download the Carspot files from your Themeforest account. Navigate to your downloads tab on Themeforest and find Carspot. Click the download button to see the two options. The Main Files contain everything, the Installable WordPress Theme is just the installable WordPress theme file. Below is a full list of everything that is included when you download the main files, along with a brief description of each item.
- Carspot Theme Folder – contains the carspot.zip and carspot-child.zip wordpress theme. The child theme is only for users who make code changes.
Install Theme & Import Demo Data
In this article, we’ll cover the process of getting the Scriptsbundle themes downloaded from your ThemeForest account and installed on your WordPress website, before we get started, you should make sure you already have a WordPress based website you wish to install the theme on.
Why Demo data Import Fail
You attempted to import the theme sample demo data, but it never completes the installation process or it fails with errors or stalls. there could be several reasons. Please read the following information. Causes There are two likely causes that will prevent the importation of the theme demo sample data: Your PHP memory, file upload size, and/or execution limits are set too low Your web host uses process watching software that prevents bulk processing on their web servers. .
How to Set Coming Soon Page on Website in Carspot WordPress Theme
If your website is under construction or it has some issue then You can set Coming Soon Page on your page . Coming soon page tell user when this website will come in working condition .
Bootstrap not supported in Safari for Windows
Bootstrap is built to work best in the latest desktop and mobile browsers, meaning older browsers might display differently styled, though fully functional, renderings of certain components Supported Browsers On Window Bootstrap is not compatible with Safari. So you need to.
How to change Header Setting and How to set Ad Post Profile page
You can change Header setting as your website requirement and you can also set ad Post (how a user can sell his/her car) page in this video you will also learn how to set nav-bar.
How to Set User Profile page in Carspot WordPress Theme
In This Video We will explain how a admin can set User Profile Page.
How to Change Currency setting in Carspot WordPress Theme
In Carspot WordPress Theme You can change Currency Setting as you wish To full information about Currency setting .
How To Setup Search Page
In this article we’ll take some time to discuss how we can setup Search Page. Without further ado, let’s get down to it!.
How to set Facebook API For CarSpot WordPress Theme
In This video you will learn how to generate Facebook API For Carspot WordPress Theme.
How to generate Google Plus API key in Carspot WordPress Theme
In This video you will learn how to generate Google Plus API Key in Carspot WordPress Theme.
How to do Comparision and their short codes in Carspot WordPress Theme
How Comparision of two element can be performed ? for example how two car will compair ? . how to show it on fornt page and their shorts codes . this video will explain every thing about it.
How to show Location Adds in Fornt Page and its Short Codes in Carsport WordPress Theme
This video give Complete information about How to show Location Adds in Fornt page and its Short Codes in Carsport WordPress Theme.
How to show Reviews Section and its Short Code in Carspot WordPress Theme
How to show Reviews Section and its Short Code in Carspot WordPress Theme . This Video Give complete information about Reviews section and its Short .
How a user can Post a Add and Edit his Profile in Carspot WordPress Theme
This video will explain how a user can Add Post & Edit his Profile page In Carspot WordPress Theme.
How to Setup Child Themes
If you plan on making any updates or additions to ScriptBundle Themes outside of a minor CSS adjustment or a simple script such as Google Analytics, you will definitely want to look into setting up a child theme on your site. While smaller CSS and JavaScript changes can easily be managed via the Custom section of the Customizer, a child theme will.
How to Update Visual Composer plugin
The theme includes a license for this plugin so you don’t have to buy it. You don’t have to activate the plugin license, it’s already activated. You can’t update Visual Composer directly from it’s producer. You don’t have to worry about the plugin update warnings. We provide updates on a regular basis.
Translation
This article will cover translating the Scriptsbundle Themes into any language apart from the default (en_US). This article won’t cover translating plugins, if you’d like to learn about translating plugins, here are some great articles you can check out.
How Do I Translate My Theme From A Child Theme?
All Scriptsbundle themes are translation-ready. Each theme includes a /languages directory in the root and a .pot that includes all strings that are ready for translation.
Updating your translation after a plugin upgrade
With every update of the Quform plugin, there is a strong chance there will have been changes made to some of the translated strings. The plugin will keep your .mo and .po files during plugin upgrades, so we need to update.
Category base Template setting in Carspot WordPress Theme
In This video you will let to know , how to change Category base Template setting in Carspot WordPress Theme , how to add custom category and its respective theme.
How to set Category Base Pricing in Carspot WordPress Theme
In the article you will learn how to add category base pricing in Carspot WordPress Theme.
How Admin Can Make/Remove Featured Ad
n this article we’ll take some time to discuss how Admin can make any Ad Featured Or Removed Featured.
How to add Country
It is four level steps How to add Country How to add states of Country How to add Cities of that state of relevant country How to add Towns of that City of relevant state of that country How to add Country Go to Dashboard select Classified Ads and click country as shown below
- Country name like United States
- country code like US, UK
- For more info please click here
How a User can Bid on a Ad & how to sent message to the Seller in Carspot WordPress Theme
How a user can bide ? , how admin can set bide section on backend , how a user can sent message to seller .
What do if user’s public profile and rating page redirected to home page?
Most of the times it create this problem due to SEO Yoast plugin. Solution; SEO-> Dashboard-> General -> Configuration wizard Allow multiple authors.
How to Change Sender Name in Outgoing WordPress Email
By default, WordPress uses ‘WordPress’ as the sender name for all outgoing WordPress notification emails. In this article, we will show you how to change the default sender name and email address in outgoing WordPress email.
How to add Favicon of your Website
Step1 Go to Dashboard and click at customize Step 2 Click at Site Identity Step 3 Select image , after select image save it.
How To Add Watermark To Ads
How to Install Image Watermark WP Plugin, Manually Install Image Watermark WP either via the WordPress.org plugin directory, or by uploading the files to your server Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress Go to the Watermark menu in Settings and set your watermarking options.
WordPress Info
To install this theme you must have a working version of WordPress already installed. If you need help installing WordPress, follow the instructions in WordPress Codex or you can watch the Instructional Video created by Woo Themes. Below are all the useful links for WordPress information.
- WordPress Codex general info about WordPress and how to install on your server
- First Steps With WordPress general information that covers a wide variety of topics
- FAQ New To WordPress the most popular FAQ’s regarding WordPress
- WP101 Basix Training videos some great videos from WPTuts on WordPress
Carspot Theme Requirnments
To use Carspot, you must be running WordPress 4.0 or higher, PHP5 or higher, and mysql 5 or higher. We have tested it with Mac, Windows and Linux. Below are a list of items you should ensure your host can comply with.
- Check to ensure that your web host has the minimum requirements to run WordPress.
- Always make sure they are running the latest version of WordPress
- You can download the latest release of WordPress from official WordPress website
- Always create secure passwords FTP and Database
Hosting is more secure when PHP applications, like WordPress, are run using your account’s username instead of the server’s default shared username (www or www-data). The most common way for hosting companies to do this is using suPHP. Just ask your potential host if they run suPHP or something similar.
Theme Installation
You can install the theme in two ways: through WordPress, or via FTP. The carspot.zip file is the Installable WordPress Theme and what you need to use to get the theme installed.
Downloading The Main Files Gives You All The Content Listed Below
- Carspot Theme Folder contains the carspot.zip and carspot-child.zip wordpress theme. The child theme is only for users who make code changes.
Downloading The Installalable WordPress Theme Only Gives You The carspot.zip File
- carspot.zip this is the parent wordpress theme, install this via WordPress. If you install it via FTP then unzip it first and use the extracted folder.
Follow the steps below to install via WordPress.
Step 1 Navigate to Appearance > Themes.
Step 2 Click Add New and hit the Upload Theme button.
Step 3 Navigate to find the “carspot.zip” file on your computer and click “Install Now”
Step 4 Wait while the theme is uploaded and installed.
Step 5 Activate the newly installed theme. Go to Appearance > Themes and activate it.
Step 6 Then you will get a notification to activate the required plugins: SB Framework and WP Bakery Visual Composer.
Common Install Error: Are You Sure You Want To Do This?
If you get the “Are You Sure You Want To Do This” message when installing carspot.zip file via WordPress, it means you have an upload file size limit. Install the theme via FTP if this happens, or call your hosting company and ask them to increase the limit.
Follow the steps below to install via FTP.
Step 1 – Log into your hosting space via an FTP software
Step 2 – Unzip the carspot.zip file and ONLY use the extracted Carspot theme folder
Step 3 – Upload the extracted Carspot theme folder into wp-content > themes folder
Step 4 – Activate the newly installed theme. Go to Appearance > Themes and activate it.
Theme Demo Data
When you first install any wordpress theme, it will not contain all the extra content that you might of seen in the live demo.
Go to Theme Option > Demo Importer Click in Import Demo button
*After installling the demo data you must need to set up api's in order to work the theme properly.
Child Theme
Child theme comes with this package. If you are going to make update in the theme. Then we suggest you to install the child theme and make change there. So that when you update the theme you changes don't get replaced. You can find the child theme carspot-child.zip in the installation file.
Carspot Theme Options - General
In general menu you can set the following options:
- Is Admin translated (ON/OFF).
- Turn on/off page loader.
- Trun color plate on front end.
- Theme Colors (Defualt , Purpal , Green , Blue , Gold ).
- Trun on/off Admin bar from front end.
- Show or hide scroll to top button.
- Make add post button sticky while user scrolling down.
- Default User Picture .
Carspot Theme Options - Header
In header you can set the following options
- Site header layout (Modern , Classic , Shop , Services).
- Trun on/off top bar.
- Make menu sticky or not.
- Can add pages in the top menu left side.
- Trun on/off Post Ad button in the menu.
- Upload logo both for normal header as well for sticky hader.
- You can set different pages so that user can nevigate easily. i.e. signin page, signup page. profie page and profile page.
- Other More Option .
Carspot Theme Options - Ads Settings
In Ads settings menu you can set the following options:- Allow the Country ON/OFF
- Communications Mode (Phone, email or both)
- When someone drop a message on ad then email send to concern user.
- Select Currency
- Ad Approval (auto approval or menu approval by admin).
- Ad Update Approval (auto approval or manual approval by admin).
- Feature Ad Expired in days.
- can set Ad Packages Page.
- Enable/disable Ad Share on social media.
- Ad Report Limit number of reported ads before taking ad down autometically.
- Action on Ad Report Limit - (auto inactive or send email to admin).
- email where you want to receive repoted ad.
- other more option shown in picture .
In Ads settings menu you can set the following options
In submenu Ads Post Setting you can set followings:- Ad Order Approved By Admin OR Auto Approved
- Turn on/off Free Ads.
- Set Max Free ads limit.
- Can offer free featured ads.
- Can set free fratured ads limit.
- can set free package validity.
- can set max number of upload images.
- can set max image upload size.
- option to display condition taxonomy on post ad page.
- option to display warranty taxonomy on post ad page.
- Add bad words in the filter to block words. Report ad Options.
- Replace bad words with a specific work. ie.e **Removed**
- Many other option listed below
In Ads settings menu you can set the following options
In submenu Ads View Settings (single ad page) you can set followings:- You can chose one layout from 4 differents layouts(With slider, Modern Gallery , simple Gallery , Classified ).
- Key Feature(ON, OFF)
- Trun on/off related ads widge
- option to ad Advertisment banners specially 720X90px you can place it on top and bottom of the content.
In Ads settings menu you can set the following options
In submenu Search Settings you can set followings:- Option to set a specific page.
- Listing style Feature(For Car , Classified OR Other).
- Video icon image.
- Option to set a speciffic layout from 8 different layouts 5 grid and 3 list layouts.
- Category Heading Level 5 diffent type
- Turn on/off Featured Ads.
- option to ad Advertisment banners specially 720X90px you can place it on top and bottom of the content.
- Other Option shown below.
In Users menu you can set the following options
- New User Email to Admin(On , OFF)
- Welcome Email to User (On , OFF)
- User phone number required User (On , OFF)
- You can set 2 different user profile layouts. (Simple and Modern)
- In Modern Profile you can show (Badge ,Send Email to user and Enable User Ratting)
In Email-Templates menu you can set the following options
- You can set New Ad email subject
- You can Ad FROM
- You can Ad Posted Message
- You can include New Message email subject*
- You can include New Message FROM
- You can include New Message template
- You can Ad report email subject*
- You can Ad report email FROM
- You can Ad Report template*
- You can Reset Password email subject
- You can Reset Password email FROM
- You can Reset Password template
- You can Rating email subject*
- You can include New rating email FROM
- You can include New rating template
- You can include Bid email subject
- You can include Bid email FROM
- You can include Bid email template*
- You can include New user email template subject for Admin
- You can include New user email FROM for Admin
- You can include New user email template for Admin
- You can include New user email template subject
- You can include New user email FROM
- You can include New user email template
- You can include Ad activation subject
- You can include Ad activation FROM
- You can include Ad activation message
In Bidding Settings menu you can set the following options
- Enable Bidding
- Give bidding option to user
- Email to Ad author
- Section Title
- Disclaimer note*
In Blog menu you can set the following options
- You can set 3 different layouts (Right , Left and No Sidebar).
- Blog page title.
- Single post title.
- Enable or disable social share button.
In API Settings menu you can set the following options
- Need to put apis here
Reviews Setting
In header you can set the following options
- Review Sidebar have three option ( Lef , Right , No Sidebar).
- Review Listing Default Thumbnail.
- Review Detail Default Thumbnail.
In Comng Soon menu you can set the following options
- Comming Soon Mode ON/OFF.
- You can set Comming Soon Logo.
- You can set Notify Section ON/OFF.
- Set Date.
- You can write Description*.
- Social Media
In Social Media menu you can set the following options
- Here you can put you social media links
In Footer menu you can set the following options
You can set you site footer options.- You can set Footer Style White/Dark.
- Can set footer logo.
- Can set footer text.
- Can set apps links in footer.
- Can set many other options as show in image .
In Demo Data menu you can set the following options
You can import only one demodata that you want(that meet your website requirments) the demo data with one click. (work best on new installication.)*After installling the demo data you must need to set up api's in order to work the theme properly.
In Compariosn Settings menu you can set the following options
- Comarison Page
In Shop Settings menu you can set the following options
- You can do following setting as shown
In Demo Import/Export Settings
- You can do following setting as shown
Carspot Theme Shortcodes
There are 50+ shortcodes and many of the shortcode themself has different layout so that you can set them the way you want.
Every shortcodes includes a screen shot so that you can easily find out what shotcode you are going to add.
