DayCare Documentation

Before using Daycare, please meet the following requirements:

• essentials to run WordPress – here you can find more information – in case any doubts regarding the server, contact your host provider,
• latest version of WordPress, which you can download here,
• create secure FTP and Database.

All of our items come with free support. For some help you can reach to our dedicated support forum. Free support is limited to questions regarding the themes features or problems. We provide premium support for code customizations or third-party plugins. If you need help with anything other than minor customizations of your theme, feel free to contact us on premium@createit.pl.

For free support, follow the steps below

• Step 1 – Click Here to create a free forum account. You’ll need your Themeforest purchase code, which can only be received when purchasing the theme from Themeforest.net.
• Step 2 – Enter your Themeforest Purchase Code, an e-mail and a password.
• Step 3 – Once you have an account, sign in to the forum and get started.
• Step 4 – Find your theme on a forum home page.
• Step 5 – Create new issue by clicking on a button at the right.

Before You Post On a Forum

We urge you to follow the steps below, before you post a new topic on the forum, to speed up your request. It’s in everyones interest and will benefit in making the entire forum more efficient:

• Step 1 – Always check the Documentation and the Knowledgebase Section. Most questions are already answered in those areas.
• Step 2 – Always use our Forum Search before you post, it’s possible that your issue has already been brought up and answered.
• Step 3 – If your question hasn’t been brought up, please post a new topic. Always be as specific as possible. Creating a topic requires entering the live URL to your home page or page that shows the issue in question. It also has bars for WP and FTP login info, which aren’t required, however, providing us with your login information can save a lot of time for both of us. Login credentials are securely stored and accessible only by our support staff.
• Step 4 – We usually answer questions in 24 hours on working days. However if you don’t get any answer in 72 hours bump up your question or send us an e-mail.

Our support hours: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM UTC +1 on Monday to Friday.

Premium Support

We can create your website from scratch, redesign it or just extend the current ones. For more information, please take a look at our website.

Typical issues covered by Premium Support:

• Custom CSS
• Support for third party software and plug-ins
• WordPress Installation with Theme configuration
• Server configuration
• Site structure modifications
• Graphic adjustments, etc.
• WordPress general howto’s

When purchasing our theme from Themeforest, you need to download the Daycare files from your Themeforest account. Navigate to downloads tab on Themeforest and find Daycare. Below you’ll find a full list of what is included the .zip file, along with a brief description of each item.
Daycare Folder contains:

• daycare.zip – main installation folder

The fastest and easiest way to import our demo content is to use Theme Options 1-click Demo Importer. It will import all pages and posts, several sample sliders, widgets, theme options, assigned pages, and more. We recommend this approach on a newly installed WordPress. It will not replace content such as posts, pages, portfolio, etc. and delete current menus, but configure them and replace theme options. By that, if you have created some posts, pages or portfolio content before an import, you won’t loose them.

To import our demo content, please follow the steps below:

• Step 1 – install and activate plugins listed in Recommended Plugins message {warning}
  

  Recommended plugins

  and WooCoomerce plugin, if you’d like to use shop functionalities.

• Step 2 – setup Media thumbnails sizes in Settings > Media to recommended values:
  • Thumbnail size: 150 x 150px
  • Medium size: 300 x 300px
  • Large size: 1024 x 1024px

If you’re using WooCommerce product images sizes in WooCoomerce > Settings > Products

• Step 3 – navigate to Appearance > Theme Options > General – 1-click Demo Import
• Step 4 – click the Import demo content button with multipage or onepager version.
  (WARNING:The image below is only an example of how the 1-Click Demo section might look like. Depending on the theme, the amount of images and/or tabs of the import demo contents, this option might look different.)

   

  

  1 click to import demo content

• Step 5 – importing can take a few minutes. Please be patient and wait for it to complete. Once it will be loading, you will see message with indicating progress.

Learn more:

Common errors with “1-Click Demo Import”

If Daycare files are downloaded from your Themeforest account, you can start an installation by using WordPress administration panel.

Once you’ve logged in to your administration panel go to Appearance > Themes. Depending on your version of WordPress you’ll see Add New or two other tabs: Manage Themes and Install Themes.

Themes section

Here you’ll find instructions how to proceed with 3.9.0 and lower versions of WordPress.

If you’re using newer version, follow steps below to install the theme:

• Step 1 – click on Install Themes tab
  

  Install Themes tab

• Step 2 – choose Upload option to upload .zip file
  

  Upload theme

• Step 3 – choose daycare.zip from you computer.
• Step 4 – once the file is chosen click Install Now
  

  Install theme

Common Install Error: Are You Sure You Want To Do This?

If you get the following question message when installing Daycare.zip file via WordPress, it means, that you have an upload file size limit. Install the theme via FTP or call your hosting company and ask them to increase the limit.

To install Daycare via FTP, follow steps below:

• Step 1 – Unarchive daycare.zip file
• Step 2 – Access your host web server using FTP client
• Step 3 – Find directory wp-content > themes
• Step 4 – Put folder Daycare in directory wp-content > themes

Installation directory

Learn more:

WordPress codex – FTP clients

As you can see on our Demo page Daycare comes with 3 variations: Water, Grass, Dessert.

Daycare is a main theme, which always needs to be installed if you want your website to work correctly. Styles such as Grass and Dessert are child themes, which can be installed additionally (once Daycare is installed) if you want to use Grass or Dessert style on your website.

Child Theme installation is analogous process to Main Theme installation. Every child theme has its own zip package with installation files, which you will find in downloaded package.

Example:

You downloaded .zip package with theme files from ThemeForest and want to use on you website Dessert version of Daycare.

STEP BY STEP

• STEP 1: Unarchive downloaded package from ThemeForest
• STEP 2: Install daycare.zip file via Administration Panel or FTP
• STEP 3: install Dessert.zip package via Administration Panel or FTP
• STEP 4: go to Appearance > Themes and activate  Dessert
• STEP 5: Import demo content for Dessert Theme

And it’s ready to customize! In analogous way you can install every child theme.

To create a new Page follow the steps below:

• Step 1 – select Pages > Add New
• Step 2 – add Title
• Step 3 – add content – we recommend you to create page content using shortcode generator or by modifying demo content
• Step 4 – choose page attributes:
  • Parent – if you want to create subpage
  • Template – you can choose one of defined page templates: Activities Index, Archives, Faq Template, News, Onepager Template, Programs Index, Right Sidebar Template, Testimonial and Default Template
  • Page order
• Step 5 – choose template settings
• Step 6 – click Publish to make your page public.

Page attributes

Template settings

Learn more:

WordPress Pages

If you have added some pages via Pages > Add new you can choose one and set it up as a homepage. Use Static front page tool in Settings > Reading and choose from the list your homepage. Remember to click Save changes at the end of editing.

Static front page

Daycare has the ability to make one page site with a scrolling to sections menu. Most sites are traditionally setup with individual pages, each page with its own content. One page site allows you to put all the content on one page, and the menu items will link to each different section of the page. Think of it as a full site but all on one page. Please read below for information on how to set this up.

Create A New Page With Your Content And Anchor Points

• Step 1 – Navigate to the Pages section of your admin and click Add New.
• Step 2 – Create page with all sections. Each section should begin with [chapter] shortcode or any other html element with unique id, for example :
  
  CSS

  [chapter id="work"] (...) content (...) [chapter id="services"] (...) content (...) [chapter id="about"] (...) content (...)

  1 2 3 4 5 6

  [chapter id="work"] (...) content (...) [chapter id="services"] (...) content (...) [chapter id="about"] (...) content (...)

• Step 3 – 2. In Appearance > Menus create new main menu (using Custom Links option), where URL will be section id with “/#” sign, for example : /#services or /#about.

Add new menu item

Item details

And your onepager menu is ready. Remember to choose Theme Location Primary Navigation to your menu.

To create a standardized template for each page some of the settings you can set globally. You need to go to Appearance > Theme Options > Pages and choose from several options:

Pages Theme Options

You can change the following settings:

• show title on pages
• show breadcrumbs on pages
• show comments
• show comment form

The most popular way of displaying blog posts is to setup blog index page. There all of your posts will be displayed and ordered by publish date.
To set the page as your post page, navigate to Posts page tool in Settings > Reading and choose Blog index page from the ones you created.

Blog index page

Notice:
On Blog index page you will see only your posts, so don’t add any other content to it.

When using the assigned blog page as described above, all the options you can select are located in Appearance > Theme Options on the Posts tab. There are dozens of options to choose from such as layout, categories, dates, etc. There are general blog options and single post page options. Each one has a title and descriptions to help you understand what they do. Any type of blog options you need to set will be set here in theme options when using the assigned blog page.

• Index – these are mainly for the assigned blog page, you change here:
  

  Blog index theme options

• Single – these options all apply to the single post page, not the main archive page.
  

  Single Post Theme Options

No matter which method you use to display your blog posts, first thing you need to do is create them.

Daycare offers several blog post types:

• Standard
• Aside
• Image
• Video
• Audio
• Quote
• Link
• Gallery

Post formats

Follow the steps below to create a blog post

• Step 1 – navigate to Posts in your WordPress admin.
• Step 2 – click on Add New to make a new post. Create a title and insert your post content in the editing field. You can use any of our VisualComposer elements inside the post.
  

  Add new post

  If you want to use some additional fields, choose them from screen options at the top of the screen.

  

  Screen options

• Step 3 – add Categories from the right side. To assign it to the post, check the box next to the Category name.
• Step 4 – add Tags from the right side. Type the name of the tag in the field, separate multiple tags with commas.
• Step 5 – for a single image, click the Featured Image box, select an image and click Set Featured Image.
• Step 6 – for a Gallery, insert more than one Featured Image, each image will be a slide in the gallery slideshow. Slides will be order by the date when the images was added to Media
• Step 7 – for a video post, paste the iFrame embed into the Video Embed Code field, file url to M4V file url or OGV File URL or Direct video url from Youtube, Vimeo or Dailymotion
• Step 8 – create an excerpt – Excerpts are optional hand-crafted summaries of your content that can be used in your theme. Learn more about manual excerpts
  

  Excerpt

• Step 9 – once you finished, click Publish to save the post.

In Daycare you can use Excerpt text option, which can be displayed on Blog Index page as every post introduction.

Post with excerpt

To display your blog post like above please navigate to Appearance > Theme Options – Posts and in Index tab select the following options:

• Post excerpt – Show
• Full text – Hide

Additionally you need to mark which part of your post should be an excerpt. You can did it with more divider. Just put the following code after your excerpt:

Excerpt divider

Daycare allows you to create menu items, which are components of Weekly Meal Plans. You can add here single products, for example: Oranges, Potatos, Chicken Breast. In that way every single menu item can be used in several meals of your meal plan, so it’s more universal. However your menu item base might be larger.

But single menu item can also exist as a whole meal – you can add a description what’s inside. That way, you can add a whole meal to your plan with a single click while creating the Weekly Meal plan.

To create Menu Item – navigate to Menu > Add New

How to add menu item?

Here you can define a Menu item Title and Description. You can also add featured image to the Menu item. It will be visible after hovering the product in Weekly Meal Plan.

After your menu item is created – remember to click “Publish” to save your changes. Also, after every modification you need to click “Update” to save changes.

Daycare comes with custom post types dedicated to create and publish on website Weekly Meal Plans. From previously created Menu items you can build meal plans for as many weeks as you want to. Every meal plan by default contains areas for every four meal on five days a week, but number of meals, days and their labels can be easily edited in Theme Options.
Just navigate to Appearance > Theme Options > Meal Plan and define you options.

On the image above you can check how to edit days and mealtimes in your meal plans. You can easily edit both here.

Examples

Example 1

Your Weekly Meal Plans should contain areas for the following mealtimes: Morning Snack, Lunch, Afternoon Snack, Fruit Snack, for every day since Monday till Friday. Options should look like the following:

How to define mealtimes and days?

Effect:

Meals for 5 days.

Example 2

If you want to add additional mealtime: Dinner, you need to edit Theme Options (new mealtime always has to be in separate line):

Theme Options configuration for additional mealtime

Effect:

Additional mealtime – Dinner

Example 3

If you want to add one more day with meals to Meal Plans. Navigate to Theme Options, and add new line in Days section.

Theme Options configuration for additional day.

Effect:

Six days meal plan

Theme Options

In Theme Options you can also choose, which created Menu Plan should be displayed strightaway and which one next week. Here you can choose two options:
Repeat current – to have the same Meal Plan displayed also next week, or Loop all menus – if you created more than one Menu Plan you can display all of them, one by one.

To create new acitivity, navigate to Activities > Add New.

How to add new activity?

1. Title
2. Description
3. Activity Summary
4. Socials – add usernames/nicks to social, that you want to display wih this testimonial
5. Tags
6. Categories
7. Featured image

Remember to click Publish to save your testimonial or Update after every item modification.

Theme Options

In Appearance > Theme Options – Activities – Index you can set global options for all Activities index page:

1. Choose the index page
2. Define label for More button
3. Show or hide pagination
4. Define number of displayed activities
5. Define labels for meta options

Theme Options for Activities index page

In Appearance > Theme Options > Activities – Single you can set options for every Activity single page:

1. Page title
2. Show or hide breadcrumbs
3. Show Tweet button
4. Show Facebook Share button
5. Show socials icons?
6. Default tweet share message
7. Image displayed on the page top and its’ position

Theme Options for Activity single page

Remember to always click Save Changes when you finish your changes in Theme Options.

To create new Gallery, navigate to Galleries > Add New

How to add new gallery?

In every gallery, you can define:

1. Title
2. Description
3. Tags
4. Gallery Images:
   • Click on Set featured image
   • Click Upload files to upload images for the gallery

Remember to click Publish to save your Gallery or Update after every item modification.

Theme Options

In Appearance > Theme Options – Gallery you can set global options for all Galleries:

1. Galleries index page
2. Gallery index thumbs limit – Number of images displayed in single gallery section on gallery index page
3. Gallery single page title
4. Image displayed on the top of the page and it’s position

Remember to always click Save Changes when you finish your changes in Theme Options.

To create new Testimonial, navigate to Testimonials > Add New

How to add new testimonial?

In every testimonial, you can define:

1. Title
2. Description
3. Author
4. Socials – add usernames/nicks to social, that you want to display wih this testimonial
5. Featured image

Remember to click Publish to save your testimonial or Update after every item modification.

Theme Options

In Appearance > Theme Options – Testimonials you can set global options for all Testimonials:

1. Show or hide Tweet button
2. Show or hide Facebook Share button
3. Show socials icons
4. Default tweet share message
5. Add post permalink to tweet message?

Theme Options for testimonials

Remember to always click Save Changes when you finish your changes in Theme Options.

Daycare is build with shortcodes. Shortcode is a WordPress-specific code that lets you do nifty things with very little effort. Shortcodes can embed files or create objects in just one line, that would normally require lots of complicated and ugly code. Shortcode = shortcut.

You don’t have to know Shortcodes list, syntax or available parameters, if you decide to create your website content using shortcode generator, which you can find in your window toolbar. Generator allows you to simply put your images, text and other content to input fields and choose display options from self-explanatory boxes.

In shortcode generator you will find shortcodes for any page content element that you can see on the demo page.

Below you will find description for a few basic shortcodes types, which should give you an idea of ​​the shortcodes possibilities.

Structure

Page structure elements: columns, rows, spacers are shortcodes – check Structure section with shortcodes, which help you to create your page grid. Layout generator can be very useful here.

Layout generator

Typography

Do you want to add to your page sections headers, blockquotes, a list or simply a link? In section Typography you will find all options available in Daycare to format text elements.

Contact

If you want to put any element to let your users contact or follow you or your profile inside your page content, you will find that in Contact shortcode section. You can easily configure elements like: Google Map, Contact form, Newsletter Form, Social buttons and put them anywhere on your page.

Sliders

Our themes come with several types of sliders. You can see preview for them on demo page. All available sliders are always in Sliders the section of shortcode generator.

In the shortcode generator you can find also several types for buttons, boxes, portfolio items, bars and other elements. We encourage you to experiment with all available options.

Widgets are small blocks of content, which you can find in theme footer or sidebar. They were originally designed to provide a simple and easy-to-use way of giving design and structure control of the WordPress Theme to the user, which is now available on WordPress Themes to include the header, footer, and elsewhere in the WordPress design and structure. Widgets require no code experience or expertise. They can be added, removed, and rearranged on the WordPress Administration Appearance > Widgets panel.

Just drag and drop the widgets you want, into the right hand side where your sidebars and footer widgets are listed. Simply drag your widgets over to the sidebar or footer column, and then populate the content.
There are various fields and settings you can choose for each individual widget and all are self explanatory. You can also use multiple widgets per footer column, just drag and drop them into place. And you can put as many widgets as you want inside sidebar. Once you have finished populating the widgets, always make sure to hit the Save button to save the settings.

Just drag widget from the left hand side and drop it on the right

Installation

1. Activate plugin “WooCommerce”
   After activation you will see notification about installing WooCommerce pages:
   
   

   WooCommerce pages

   Click on Install to import following WooCommerce pages:
   • My Account
   • Checkout
   • Cart
   • Shop
2. Configure WooCommerce settings
3. Learn more about WooCommerce
   • Step 1 – add products
   • Step 2 – setup your products
   • Step 3 – sell what you’ve got
   • Step 4 – setup shipping options
   • Step 5 – manage your orders

Translation

WooCommerce plugin can be translated to any language. Here you can find instructions how to do that.

Daycare can be easily customized with Visual Composer.

Simply drag and drop elements to build your page content. We prepared components which will help you determine main structure of the webpage – easily set up backgrounds, colors and styles for whole sections as well as lots of various smaller components which you can freely put wherever you want.

How to start?

We recommend you to use row as essential element of page structure.

Row

You can edit following row attributes:

Click pen to open edition tools

1. Header text
2. Level of header
3. Header alignment
4. Header font style
5. Section type – determines section background, you can choose from predefined color styles: white, grey, dark grey, dark blue, motive or effects: pattern, parallax, kenburns, video
6. Padding – top, bottom or both
7. Padding size – if you don’t want to have padding, choose None
8. Section height
9. Type of section layout – boxed or wide
10. Onepager element and ID – if you want to use section for scroll-to-section navigation
11. Custom class – if you want add custom CSS styles for element

You can also check additional options in tabs: General, Design Options and Animations

Row parameters

Once your section row is created you can choose number of columns in section, their width and optionally offset value.

Section grid

If you want to create full_width element you need to choose 1 column greed in section and set it as full_width element.

Click pen to edit column.

Full width column

Once you set up your section – you can put inside it as many components as you want.

Learn more:

For more information about Visual Composer, please check articles below:
How to install Visual Composer
Visual Composer demo
Visual Documentation