Soho - Clean Multi-Purpose WordPress Theme

Responsive Creative AJAX/Parallax Theme

Welcome to Soho - Clean Multi-Purpose WordPress Theme

Introduction

Installing SOHO Theme

You can install this WordPress theme using two installation methods:

  1. Using WordPress Administration Panel
  2. Copying theme files via ftp

METHOD 1

Using soho.zip found in ZIP file you downloaded from ThemeForest.com you should perform the following steps:

  1. Login to WP admin
  2. Go to Appearance > Themes option and click on it to load new page
  3. Select Install Theme tab at the top of the panel to load new page
  4. Click on Upload option at the top of the panel to load new page
  5. Click on Browse button and locate soho.zip on your file system
  6. Click on Install Now button
  7. Once installation is complete you can activate Soho theme

METHOD 2

Using soho directory found inside of soho.zip file located inside ZIP file you downloaded from ThemeForest.com you should perform the following steps:

  1. Using FTP client you should login to server where your WordPress web site is hosted
  2. Using FTP client you should navigate to /wp-content/themes/ directory under your WordPress web site’s root directory
  3. Using FTP client upload soho directory to themes directory on remote server
  4. Once installation is complete you can activate Soho theme

Installing WooCommerce

If you plan to build online shop with our theme, please read WooCommerce section of this documentation before you install demo content.

Importing Demo Content

If you would like to learn the best practice of using SOHO theme, you can import content from our demo web site. Our theme comes with one-click import module. Importing demo web site is performed by following these steps:

  1. Open WP Admin Panel
  2. Click on Select Options > Select Import from left menu
  3. Select All from Import select box
  4. Check Import attachments checkbox if you want to import images
  5. Click on Import button

In order to import LayerSlider demo slider, you need to locate xml export folder in the theme's All files & documentation zip file you can download from your Downloads page at ThemeForest. You will find LayerSlider_Export.zip file there. Just go to LayerSlider option in the left menu and upload that file under Import section.

Upgrading SOHO Theme

You can upgrade our theme by performing following steps:

  1. Download latest theme zip file from ThemeForest
  2. Extract it and locate soho.zip
  3. Extract soho.zip and locate soho folder
  4. Copy/Replace the content of soho folder to /wp-content/themes/soho folder of your web site.

Feel free to ask us any question about using features SOHO theme offers.

Important F.A.Q.

Theme Options

Access the “Select Options” in the left menu. Some of these options may be overridden locally, in the shortcode or page settings (e.g. text color in editor or page title layout in the Select Custom Fields while editing post/page/portfolio item).

Most options in these tabs are self-explanatory. Explanations for options that need further clarification will be provided here.

GLOBAL OPTIONS

Colors

The elements of SOHO theme are made up from main colors.

Content background image

Here you can set background image for your content. It will be applied both for boxed and full width version.

Body background image

Here you can set background image for your whole site. It will be applied both for boxes and full width version.

Body pattern background image

Here you can set pattern background image for your whole site. Note that if you set pattern background image, background image option won't be applied.

Favicon image

Set this field to the image that you want to use as your favicon.

Page transition

Choose between predefined AJAX animations between pages. This scenario will be applied to all pages. Eventually it is possible to change the animation style for each page individually (options below text editor when editing pages/posts). Please note that you can turn off AJAX for certain pages there. That might be important for some other plugins to work properly.

Boxed

With this field you can control box layout for your site

Loading animation

Here you can turn ON/OFF display of loading image while navigating between pages using page transitions (AJAX)

Loading image

With this field you can change our loading image like you want, if Page transition and Loading animation are set to ON

Smooth scroll

With this field you can control smooth scroll effect for your site. You can choose between no smooth scroll, yes and yes but not on Mac devices.

Responsiveness

With this field you can control responsiveness for your site

Show back button

With this field you can control back button feature

Elements animation on mobile/touch devices

With this field you can control animation for elements(shortcodes) on touch devices

Google Anaylitics Account ID

With this field you can monitor the traffic on your website

List of internal URLs loaded without AJAX (separated with comma)

Here you can put URLs of the pages you want to get loaded without AJAX. You should enter full url (including domain part) here, for example: http://www.mydomain.com/forum/

Custom CSS and Custom JS

Advanced users can add their own code here.

Meta Keywords

Add relevant keywords separated with commas to improve SEO.

Meta description

Enter a short description of the website for SEO.

Disable Select SEO

Here you can disable Select SEO functionality. You should do this if you are using some SEO plugin.

GENERAL FONT OPTIONS

This section allows you to setup font properties for different elements of the site. (color, hover/active color, font family, font size, line height, font style and font weight)

HEADER AND FOOTER

Header in grid

Set if header is full width or grid (content) width

Show header top area

This setting applies to Header Left and Header Right widgets.

Scroll header top area

This setting will make header top area scroll with main menu if fixed header bottom style is choosen.

Header bottom appearance

With this option you can choose different styles of main navigation behaviour and position

Scrolled amount for sticky appear

With this setting you can set amount of scroll needed for sticky menu to appear

Header style

If chosen will make header elements (logo, main menu, side menu icon) in chosen predefine style: dark or light

Header height (initial, scrolled and sticky)

This option is important for defining the height of whole header including the logo

Logo

Add website logo here. You can upload different logo images for light & dark header style (if used) and for sticky header (displayed on scroll)

Center logo

If selected will display logo centered above the menu

Menu position

This setting lets you choose menu position (default / center)

Top background color

This is background color of the top header widget area

Bottom background color (initial, sticky, scrolled and for mobile)

This is background color of the header

Transparency (initial, scrolled and sticky)

This is transparency of the header

Dropdown main menu

Here you can choose whether to animate dropdown entrance, change background color of it, choose separator color for wide dropdown type, set dropdown transparencty and choose pattern background image. 

Enable Select Search

This option enables Select Search functionality (search icon will appear next to main navigation)

Header Buttons (Select Search icon, Side Area icon and Mobile Menu icon)

This section lets you customize buttons that appear inline with main navigation (side area opener, mobile menu opener and search icon)

Uncovering footer

This setting lets you enable footer uncovering effect (content revealing footer on scroll event)

Footer in grid

Set if footer is full width or grid (content) width

Show footer top

This option will show main footer widget area. You can define its content in Appearance > Widgets > Footer Columns 1-4

Footer top columns

Set how many columns footer top area has.

Show footer bottom

This option will show bottom footer widget area. You can define its content in Appearance > Widgets > Footer Text

Footer separator color

This option lets you set footer separator color

Footer top colors

This section contains settings for color management of titles and anchors on top footer

Footer top background image

Set background image for footer top section

Footer bottom colors

This section contains settings for footer bottom color management

TITLE

You can setup here global page title properties which can be overriden in select custom fields for each post/page.

Title type

Choose between standard title or with breadcrumbs

Enable breadcrumbs

This setting enables beadcrumbs in title area. Applied only for standard title type

TItle height

This setting allows you to set height of title area in pixels and is used if image is not set to be responsive.

Animate title area

This setting lets you choose starting position of the title area.

Title position

This setting allows you to set position of title text.

Title background color

This setting allows you to set background color for title

Title text background

Here you can turn on / off box around text int title

Title text background color

Here you can choose background color for title text box if enabled

Title image

This setting allows you to choose default background image for title area.

Use title image as pattern

Lets you use selected title image as pattern (it will repeat itself horizontally and vertically)

Title pattern overlay image

This setting allows you to set default overlay pattern image for title area.

Responsive title image

This setting allows you to make image resize to fit into browser width. Title are height will be defined by height of the image after it resizes to fit the browser width.

Parallax title image

Use selected title image as parallax. Applied only if title image isn't set to be responsive

Page title style

This section contains settings for title style management

Text shadow

This setting allows you to enable or disable text shadow on title and background color lets you set background color of title area.

Show separator and Separator color

This fields allows you to enable separator in title area and to control separator color

LEFT MENU AREA

Here you can manage left menu area properties (show/hide, colors and fonts)

If Left Menu Area is enabled, it will show area in the left containing logo, menu and left area widgets. Normal header will be disabled.

Enable transparent left menu area - Left Menu Area will be transparent when page is scrolled to the top. Also, when transparent, dark/ligh color change logic will be applied

Left menu area background - Choose background color of left menu area

Left menu area background image - Choose background image for left menu area - Image will be fixed and it will fit the left menu area

Left menu area text color (for widgets) - Choose the widget text color

Left Menu Area Menu Style options are used to define style of menu items.

Please note that at the page level you can set background color, transparent left menu are and background image specific just for that page and override global values defined here.

You can drag additional content to this area in Appearance > Widgets > Left Menu Area widget area.

ELEMENTS

Here you can define style properties of different elements. Options chosen here will override default settings for shortcodes and other elements that you can use. This section is divided in smaller sections, each one controlling on:

SIDE AREA

Here you can manage side area properties (show/hide and colors)

Fields in this section are:

CONTENT BOTTOM AREA

Here you can set global settings for content bottom area displaying just above footer. You can choose which custom widget area should be used to fill in this area with content. For example, you can create Call to Action widget.

Fields in this section are:

PARALLAX

Parallax on touch devices

This setting lets you enable or disable parallax on touch devices

Parallax min height

This setting lets you set parallax section's minimal height for last two responsive stages

PORTFOLIO

Here you can define global setting for portfolio list and portfolio single page.

Show Portfolio Select Like

This setting lets you enable or disable like featured for portfolio list

Portfolio style

This setting lets you choose portfolio style for single project. 

Enable lightbox for Single project

This setting lets you enable or disable lightbox featured for portfolio list

Number of columns for Portfolio Gallery style

This setting lets you choose number of columns per row for single gallery project. 

Portfolio single slug

This setting lets you define portfolio slug for your project. Default value is portfolio_page.

Show categories

This setting lets you enable or disable category description in portfolio single project.

Enable portfolio text following

This setting lets you enable or disable text following featured on portfolio single project for Portfolio Small image and Portfolio Small slider style

BLOG

Here you can define global properties for blog list and blog single pages. You can override those properties at post level.

Pagination

This setting lets you enable or disable pagination featured for blog list.

Choose Pagination on Masonry type

This setting allows you to choose pagination featured for blog masonry list. You have three types of paginations,

Show category filter on masonry style

This setting lets you enable or disable filter featured for blog masonry list.

Choose blog layout

This setting allows you to choose blog layout for blog list.

Blog sidebar

This setting allows you to choose sidebar layout for blog list.

Hide comments

This setting lets you enable or disable comments featured for blog list.

Page range for pagination

This setting allows you to set number of posts per page.

Number of words (excerpt)

This setting allows you to set number of characters for blog excerpt text.

Number of words in masonry blog template

This setting allows you to set number of characters for blog masonry excerpt text.

BLOG SINGLE

Hide post title

Option that lets you show / hide blog post title

Blog single sidebar layout

This setting allows you to choose sidebar layout for blog single.

Sidebar to display

This setting allows you to choose custom sidebar to display.

Blog Select Like

This setting lets you enable or disable like featured for blog single.

Show Blog Author

This setting lets you enable or disable author featured for blog single.

CONTACT

Mail send to

Here you should enter email address. Contact form data will be sent to this address.

Email from

Here you should enter email address. This address will be displayed as sender when sending contact form data.

Email subject

Here you should enter email subject.

reCaptcha

You can enable reCaptcha and enter keys generated here http://www.google.com/recaptcha/whyrecaptcha.

Heading above content

This setting allows you to change heading above contact form. Default value is Contact Us

Pin image

You can upload your own image used to mark your address on the map

Google map address (1-5)

You can define up to 5 different locations do display on your map. You should enter address in normal address format, for example: 100 Battery Street, San Francisco, USA.

Google map zoom

You can enter here google map zoom level (default is 15).

Google map height

You can define here height of map area on the page

Google map style & Google map color

If style is enabled, you can set color used to paint the map

Google map scroll on mouse wheel

Turn ON/OFF scrolling of the page when mouse is over the map. That disables/enabled map zoom.

404 PAGE

Here you can define content of 404 error page.

Fields in this section are:

SOCIAL

Here you can manage social share features.

Fields in this section are:

WooCommerce

Here you can manage woocommerce features.

Fields in this section are:

Widgets

Soho Theme comes with following custom widgets and widget areas:

Soho theme allows adding mutliple sidebars. You can define your custom widget areas (sidebars) from the Custom Widget Area section in the bottom right corner of this page.

You can see example of widgets configurion from our demo web site here:

Blog

BLOG LIST

In order to create a blog page, first create a new page and select one of 4 Blog Templates listed in Template field located  in the “Page Attributes” section:

- Blog Large Image - Displayes featured image above post title and excerpt

- Blog Large Whole Post - Same as large image template but displays full blog post content

- Blog Large Image Wide - Displays featured image in full width above title and excerpt

- Blog Large Image Wide  Whole Post - Same as large image full width template but displays full post content 

- Blog Masonry - Creates masonry layout

- Blog Masonry Fullwidth - Creates full width masonry layout

- Blog Medium Image - Displays featured image on the left side and post title and excerpt on the right

- Blog Medium Image Whole Post - Same as medium umage template but displays full post content

If desired, one of four sidebars can be turned on in the options below editor in Select Custom Fields section.

Choose sidebar to display

You can choose here custom sidebar you created. If empty, it will use Sidebar Page.

Choose blog category

You can display post of selected category

Posts per page

Enter number of posts displayed on each page

BLOG SINGLE

SOHO theme blog uses featured images as primary images displayed on the blog list page. Featured images are also used as first images in every post by default.

SOHO theme supports custom post formats. You can choose one of the following formats:

Each format creates custom fields section below editor. For example, video format creates this:

Also we implemented for Video post three different video types (Vimeo, YouTube and Self Hosted)

Make sure custom sections are enabled in Screen Options found in the top right corner of WP dashboard.

Similar as blog list, blog single also allows managing sidebar options in Select Custom Fields. If Choose sidebar to display field is blank, Sidebar widget area will be used.

Blog List (Template) Layout

Blog Masonry Image

Blog Masonry Fullwidth

 

 

Blog Large Image

Blog Large Image Full Width

Blog Medium Image

Blog Single Layout

Standard post

Gallery post

Video post

Audio post

Link post

Quote post

Pages

In this section we will explaid how page templates work.

Available page templates:

Default Template

http://demo.select-themes.com/soho/about-us/

Default Template pages are in grid.

Blog Large Image

http://demo.select-themes.com/soho/blog/blog-large-image/

Blog Large Image Whole Post

Difference between Blog Large Image Template and Blog Large Image Whole Post Template is that blog large image whole post template displays whole single post content.

Blog Large Image Full Width

http://demo.select-themes.com/soho/blog/blog-large-wide-image/

Blog Masonry

http://demo.select-themes.com/soho/blog/masonry/

Blog Masonry Full Width

http://demo.select-themes.com/soho/blog/blog-masonry-full-width/

Blog Masonry Medium Image

http://demo.select-themes.com/soho/blog/blog-medium-image/

Contact Page

http://demo.select-themes.com/soho/contact-us/

 

If you want to enable Google map you need to select yes and save. Then you need to go again to Contact page tab in Select options and you will see additional Google map fields.

Full Width

http://demo.select-themes.com/soho/

Default grid for Full Width template pages is full width. For this template you can combine full width sections with sections that are in grid.

Select Custom Fields

Header style - with this field you can set style for header menu for specific page. Predefined values are Dark and Light

Initial bottom header background color

Initial bottom header background color transparency (0 to 1) - Example 0.7

Initial top header background color

Initial top header background color transparency (0 to 1) - Example 0.7

Don't show page title area - check this field if you want  to remove title area

Don't show title - check this field if you want  to remove only title in title area

Page title type - standard or with breadcrumbs

Page title position- position for title

Animate page title

Title text shadow

Enable Breadcrumbs - enable or disable breadcrumbs in title

Title Font Style - choose from normal or italic font style

Title font size

Title color

Title Text Background - choose whether to show or hide title text background box

Title Text Background Color - background color of title text box if enabled

Title Area Background Color - background color of whole title area

Don't show page title image - check this field if you want to remove title image in title area

Responsive title image

Parallax title image / Only if title image is not responsvie

Title image

Use title image as pattern

Title pattern overlay image

Title height (px) / Only if title image is not responsive - this is height for title area

Page subtitle

Subtitle color

Breadcrumbs Color

Breadcrumbs Current Color

Page background color

Content bottom background color

Page Background image

Choose sidebar

Choose sidebar to display - choose custom sidebar that you want to have on single post / page, you can create custom sidebar in Appearance -> Widgets -> Custom Widget Area

Enable content bottom area

Choose content bottom sidebar to display - choose custom sidebar that you want to have on this area

 

Content bottom sidebar in grid

Page Transition - with this field you can control page animation only for this page

Choose blog category - this field is used only for Blog templates.

Posts per page - this field is used only for Blog templates.

Enable comments - Enable comment form for this page

Enter Layer slider or Select slider shortcode - in this field you can paste layer slider or select slider shortcode. Container for this area is full width.

Portfolio

Portfolio is created as custom post type and can be found in the left WordPress menu.

Adding Portfolio items is the same as creating blog posts. Featured image is used for portfolio lists.

You can choose between 7 different layouts listed in Choose portfolio single view field.

Portfolio images are added through “Portfolio Images” link below editor.

Also our theme allows adding videos together with images. Please not that when adding new Portfolio image/video item, if you want video to display, you should leave image field empty. In the Video field if you've choose Vimeo or Youtube you should just paste video ID. If you choose self hosted video you should select video from media library that you want to be displayed on your portfolio page.

Create custom label name (e.g. Project URL) using the “Option Items”.

PORTFOLIO LIST

Portfolio list can be added from Visual Composer by adding Portfolio element found in By Select section of the Add New Element window. Portfolio list has following properties:

- Type - used to define layout of the list (Standard, Gallery and Gallery Without Spaces)

- Columns - choose number of columns in the row

- Image Size (portrait, square)

- Order by & Order - set how items are ordered

- Filter - set if filter is displayed

- Hover (choose from two hover types)

- Choose Link Type: Single Project Link and Disable Link

- Show Load More - set if Load More button is enabled

- Number - set number of items displayed on first load (-1 is all)

- Category - enter category slug if you want to list items from selected category. Note that filter will be generated from sub-categories of selected category

- Selected Project - list selected project IDs delimited by comma

- Title Tag - set how title tag should be rendered

 

Standard

Gallery With Space

Gallery Without Spaces

Portfolio Single Layout - You can choose these layouts in Portfolio single page in Select Custom fields -> Choose portfolio single view 

Portfolio Single - Full Width Project

Portfolio Single - Small Project

Portfolio Single - Big Slider

Portfolio Single - Small Slider

Portfolio Single - Gallery

Portfolio Single - Custom (Full Width Custom and Grid)

Testimonials

Testimonials is created as custom post type and can be found in main WordPress menu on the left side of the screen.

When editing single testimonial, you need to enter following information:

- Author name

- Text - this is testimonial's content

- Company Position - for example General Manager

- Website

TESTIMONIAL LIST

Testimonial list can be added from Visual Composer by adding Testimonials element found in By Select section of the Add New Element window. Also you have two type of testimonials shortcode: Simple and Standard.

 

Visual Composer

Soho Theme comes with awesome Visual Composer plugin. Its documentation is included with our documentation.

You can find our elements (shortcodes) added to it in the By Select section of New Element wizard.

Please note that our shortcodes have custom attributes.

Some of existing Visual Composer elements are updated with our custom properties. For example Row shortcode has following important custom attributes:

- Row is container element to which you can add other elements (shortcodes).  This element can be full width or in grid and you can set for example this parameters: CSS Animation, Transition Delay, Anchor ID and Text Align. With CSS Animation you can set entering animation for this element and with Transition Delay you can set delay for chosen CSS Animation. Anchor ID is used in our anchor functionality. You can add row ID which can be referenced in main menu Anchor ID field. In this shortcode you can add other shortcode like you want.

- Anchor ID - explained in the Menu section of this documentation

 

Select Slider

Our select slider gives you a powerfull way to create some amazing sliders. It's easy to add, edit and delete sliders using our custom interface.  
 
First you can see our "Select Slider" section in your left admin menu. There are three options:

In "Slides" section you can see all slides that you created.

Add New Slide - Click here to add your first slide. First you need to upload some image for your slide background. Find Slide Image field and upload your image.

In order to use video background instead of slide image, you need to select Video Background type and to make sure you entered correct path for 3 types of video: webm, mp4 and ogv. You can also enter path for preview image and set if you want to have transparent overlay over video.

There are eight fields for Slide content:

Hide Slide Title - To hide slide title

Slide Background Type - Choose between video background and image

Slide Graphic Entering Animation - Choose between flip and fade effect

Additional slide options:

Slide Content Alignment - With this field you can control alignment of slide's content

Slide Text Alignment - With this field you can control alignment of slide's content text

Content Width - With this field you can set content's width in percentages

Content From Top, Bottom, Left and Right - With this fields you can control position of slide's content

Header style for this style - With this field you can control header style for slide, default value is determined by global header settings. You have two predefined header style available (dark / light).

Slide navigation color - With this field you can control color style for Select Slider navigations

Sliders

In this section you can create new sliders. Necessary fields are Name and Slug. When you created new slider it will appear in table on the right part of the screen with Shortcode data generated and ready for usage.

For example, this shortcode string is generated for About Us Slider.

[qode_slider slider='home-slider' auto_start='true' animation_type='slide' slide_animation='6000' height='' background_color='']

Two additional fields for each slider

 Here is the explanation of shortcode attributes:

Example of About Us Slider usage:

In order to use created slider you just need to copy/paste generated shortcode string from Sliders section to the some page's Enter Layer slider or Select slider shortcode field in Select Custom fields section.

Custom Shortcodes

Here is the list of Visual Composer custom shortcodes coming with our theme

Accordion

- Style: Accordion, Toggle,  Accordion with Icon and Toggle with Icon
- Icon Pack: choose from Font Awesome icons or Elegant Icons
- Icon
- Icon Color
- Title: Title label for accordion section heading
- Title Color
- Background Color
- Border Color
- Background Color
- Title Tag: h2, h3, h4, h5 and h6

Accordion and Toogle

Accordion and Toggle With Icon

Image Gallery - Flexslider

 

 

Image Gallery - List

Image Gallery - Grayscale list

Image Gallery - Frame slider

Row

- Row Type:  Row, Parallax, Expandable, Expandable With Background and Content Menu
- Type (Only When  Row Type is Row):  In Grid and Full Width
- Anchor ID
- Row in Content Menu: Yes/No
- Content Menu Title
- Content Menu Icon Pack - choose from Font Awesome and Elegant Icons
- Content Menu Icon: Font Awesome icons list (Font Awesome Icons)
- Text Align:  Left, Right and Center
- Video Background (Only When  Row Type is Row)
- Video Overlay 
- Video Overlay Image (pattern)

- Video Background webm file 
- Video Background mp4 file
- Video Background ogv file 
- Video Preview Image 
- Background Image (Only When  Row Types are Row or Parallax)
- Pattern Background (Only When  Row Types are Row, Parallax or Expandable with Background)
- Section Height (Only When  Row Type is Parallax)
- Parallax Speed (Only When Row Type is Parallax)
- Background Color (Only When  Row Types are Row, Parallax or Expandable)
- Border Bottom Color (Only When  Row Types are Row or Expandable)
- Padding (Only When Row Type is Row and Type is Full Width)
- Padding Top (Only When  Row Type is Row)
- Padding Bottom (Only When  Row Type is Row)
- Background Hover Color (Only When  Row Type is Expandable)
- Background Overlay Color (Only When  Row Type is Expandable with Background)
- Background Overlay Hover/Active Color (Only When  Row Type is Expandable with Background)
- Label Color (Only When  Row Type is Expandable and Expandable with Background)
- Label Hover Color (Only When  Row Type is Expandable and Expandable with Background)
- More Label (Only When  Row Type is Expandable and Expandable with Background)
- Less Label (Only When  Row Type is Expandable and Expandable with Background)
- Label Position (Only When  Row Type is Expandable):  Left, Right and Center
- Color (Only When  Row Type is Expandable)
- CSS Animation (Row - Row Type):  Elements Shows From Left Side, Elements Shows From Right Side, Elements Shows From Top Side, Elements Shows From Bottom Side, Elements Shows From Fade
- Transition Delay (Row - Row Type)

Row is container element to which you can add other elements (shortcodes).  This element is can be full width or in grid. With CSS Animation you can set entering animation for this element and with Transition Delay you can set delay for chosen CSS Animation. Anchor ID is used in our anchor functionality. You can add row ID which can be referenced in main menu Anchor ID field.

Expandable is full width container element which is initially closed. This element has two buttons which open / close this section when clicked. You can add every shortcode to this container element.

Content Menu is menu built from page sections and allows creation of one page web sites. First you need to add few row shortcodes to your home page (each row is menu item in section menu), then you need to edit each row:  just click edit row and select Use row for content menu? and fill section Title and Icon if you want. Also you need to set anchor link for each row, so when you click on content menu item page will be scrolled to that specific section. Then add one row shortcode where you want to be your content menu, edit this row and select type content menu and save.

Parallax is our simple and easy plugin for creating image parallax effects when scrolling the page.

Separator

- Type:  Normal, Transparent and Small with Icon
- Separator Width (%)
- Position:  Left, Right and Center
- Icon (Only for Small with Icon type):  Font Awesome icons or Elegant Icon list 
- Separator Color
- Thickness:  Separator height
- Top Margin  
- Bottom Margin  

Separator With Text

- Title
- Title Position:  Align Left, Align Right and Align Center
- Title Color
- Title Background Color
- Border:  Yes / No
- Background Color

Tabs

- Style:  Horizontal Full Width, Horizontal Standard and Vertical Left
- Title
- Tab Color
- Tab Background Color
- Tab Border Color
 

Horizontal Tabs

Boxed Tabs

Video Player

- Video Link (url)

Here is the list of custom shortcodes added to Visual Composer with our theme

Blockquote

- Text
- Text Color
- Width
- Line Height
- Background Color
- Border Color

Button

- Type: Normal and Transparent
- Size:  Small, Medium, Large, Huge and Full Width
- Text
- Icon Pack - choose from Font Awesome or Elegant Icons pack
- Icon
- Icon Color
- Link
- Link Target:  Self, Blank, Top and Parent
- Color
- Hover Color
- Background Color
- Background Hover Color
- Border Color
- Border Hover Color
- Font Style:  Normal and Italic
- Font Weight:  100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800 and 900
- Text Align:  Left, Right and Center
- Margin

Call To Action

- Type:  Normal, With Icon and Centered (without columns)
- Action Box Padding
- Icon Pack: choose from Font Awesome Icon pack and Elegant Icons
- Icon
- Custom Icon
- Text Left Padding
- Background Color
- Border Color
- Title
- Title Tag
- Title Color
- Text
- Text Color
- Show Button: Yes/No
- Button Text
- Button Position (Left, Center and Right)
- Button Link
- Button Size
- Button Text Color
- Button Hover Text Color
- Button Background Color
- Button Hover Background Color
- Button Border Color
- Button Border Color
- Button Icon Pack: Font Awesome icons list or Elegant Icons
- Button Icon

Columns

Counter

- Type:  Zero Counter and Random Counter
- Box: Yes/No
- Box Background Color
- Box Border Color
- Position (Left, Right and Center)
- Digit
- Digit Color
- Digit Color on End
- Digit Size (px)
- Title
- Title Tag:  h2, h3, h4, h5 and h6
- Title Color
- Text
- Text Size (px)
- Text Color

Cover Boxes

- Active Element
- Image 1
- Title 1
- Title Color 1
- Text 1
- Text Color 1
- Link 1
- Link Label 1
- Target 1
- Image 2
- Title 2
- Title Color 2
- Text 2
- Text Color 2
- Link 2
- Link Label 2
- Target 2
- Image 3
- Title 3
- Title Color 3
- Text 3
- Text Color 3
- Link 3
- Link Label 3
- Target 3

Custom Font

- Font Family:  You can add here system fonts (like Arial, Times New Roman etc.) and Google Font if you include it in Select options
- Font Size
- Line Height
- Font Style:  Normal and Italic
- Text Align:  Left, Right and Center
- Font Weight
- Color
- Text Decoration:  None, Underline, Overline and Line Through
- Text Shadow: Yes/No
- Background Color
- Padding
- Margin
- Content
- Show Dots

Dropcaps

- Type:  Normal, Square and Circle
- Letter
- Letter Color
- Background Color (Only When Type are Square or Circle)
- Border Color

Image Hover

- Image
- Hover Image
- Link
- Target
- Animation: Yes/No
- Transition Delay (ms)

Interactive Banners

- Width:  1/2 , 1/3 and 1/4
- Image
- Icon Pack:  Font Awesome icons list or Elegant Icons
- Icon
- Custom Icon Size
- Icon Color
- Title
- Title Color
- Title Size
- Title Tag:  h2, h3, h4, h5 and h6
- Link
- Target:  Self, Blank and Parent
- Link Text
- Link Color
- Link Background Color
- Link Border Color
- Hover Content

Default width for image with text over shortcode is 100%.

Icon

- Icon Pack:  Font Awesome icons list or Elegant Icons
- Icon
- Icon Color
- Icon Hover Color
- Icon Size:  Tiny, Small, Medium, Large and Very large (only for Font Awesome Icon set)
- Custom Size: enter icon size in pixels. Applied only for Elegant Icon set
- Type:  Normal, Square and Circle
- Position:  Normal, Left, Right and Center
- Border Color
- Border Hover Color
- Background Color
- Background Hover Color
- Margin
- Icon Animation:  Yes / No
- Icon Animation Delay (ms)
- Link
- Target:  Self, Blank and Parent

If you set Icon Animation attribute to yes icon will fade in when it comes in viewport.

Icon List Item

- Icon Pack:  Font Awesome icons list or Elegant Icon set
- Icon
- Icon Type: Normal and Small
- Icon Color
- Border Type: circle or square
- Border Color
- Title
- Title Color
- Title Size

Icon With Text

- Box Type:  Normal and Icon in a Box
- Box Border: Yes / No (only for icon in a box)
- Box Border Color
- Box Background Color
- Icon Pack:  Font Awesome icons list or Elegant Icons
- Icon
- Icon Type:  Normal, Square and Circle
- Icon Size / Icon Space From Text:  Tiny, Small, Medium, Large and Very Large
- Custom Icon Size
- Text Left Padding
- Icon Animation:  Yes / No
- Icon Animation Delay (ms)
- Icon Margin
- Image
- Icon Position:  Top, Left, Left from Title and Top With Title Over
- Icon Margin
- Icon Border Color
- Icon Hover Border Color
- Icon Color
- Icon Hover Color
- Icon Background Color
- Icon Hover Background Color
- Title
- Title Tag:  h2, h3, h4, h5 and h6
- Title Color
- Text
- Text Color
- Link
- Link Text
- Link Color
- Target:  Self, Blank and Parent

If you set Icon Animation attribute to yes icon will fade in when it comes into the viewport.

Latest Posts

- Type: Image in Left Box and Boxes
- Number of Posts
- Number of Columns (Only when type is Boxes):  2, 3 and 4
- Image Size: Portrait or Square (only for Boxes type)
- Order By:  Menu Order, Title and Date
- Order:  ASC and DESC
- Category Slug
- Boxes Background Color
- Boxes Background Pattern
- Pattern Image
- Text Length
- Title Tag:  h2, h3, h4, h5 and h6
- Display Category: Yes/No
- Display Time: Yes/No
- Display Author
- Display Comments: Yes/No
- Display Like: Yes/No
- Display Share: Yes/No
- Display Read More
- Post Description Color
- Post Description Background Color
- Category Text Color

Latest Posts - Boxes

Latest Posts - Image

Line Graph

- Type:  Rounded edges and Sharp edges
- Width
- Height
- Custom Color
- Scale Steps:  Number of steps on y-axis
- Scale Step Width:  Width between scale steps on y-axis
- Labels

List – Ordered

- Content

List – Unordered

- Style:  Circle, Square and Number
- Animation List:  Yes / No
- Content

Message

- Type:  Normal and With Icon
- Icon Pack:  Font Awesome icons list or Elegant Icons set
- Icon
- Icon Size:  Small, Medium and Large (only for Font Awesome icon set)
- Custom Size: only for Elegant Icons set
- Icon Color
- Icon Background Color
- Custom Icon
- Background Color
- Border Color
- Close Button Style: Dark and Light
- Content

Pie Chart

- Percentage
- Percentage Color
- Show Percentage Mark: Yes / No
- Bar Active Color
- Bar Inactive Color
- Pie Chart Line Width
- Title
- Title Color
- Title Tag:  h2, h3, h4, h5 and h6
- Text
- Text Color
- Separator: Yes / No
- Separator Color

Pie Chart With Icon

- Percentage
- Bar Active Color
- Bar Inactive Color
- Pie Chart Line Width
- Title
- Title Color
- Icon Pack:  Font Awesome icons list or Elegant Icon set
- Icon
- Icon Color
- Title Tag:  h2, h3, h4, h5 and h6
- Text
- Text Color

Pie Chart 2 (Pie)

- Width
- Height
- Legend Text Color

Pie Chart 3 (Doughnut)

- Width
- Height
- Legend Text Color

 

Portfolio Slider

- Number:  Number of portfolio items
- Space Between Images
- Image Size: portrait or square
- Order By:  Menu Order, Title and Date
- Order:  ASC and DESC
- Category
- Selected Projects
- Lightbox:  Yes / No
- Choose Link Type: Single Project Link Or Disabled
- Title Tag: h2, h3, h4, h5 and h6

Select Pricing Table Holder

- Numbers of Pricing Table Items: One, Two, Three, Four and Five

Select Pricing Table

- Price Title
- Price Title Text Color
- Price Title Background Color
- Price
- Price Color
- Currency
- Currency Color
- Price Period
- Price Period Color
- Active:  Yes / No
- Active Text
- Active Text Color
- Active Background Color
- Active Border Color
- Button Link
- Button Link Target
- Button Text Color
- Button Holder Color
- Content

Progress Bar – Horizontal

- Title
- Title Color
- Title Tag:  h2, h3, h4, h5 and h6
- Percentage
- Percentage Color
- Show Percentage Mark: Yes / No
- Active Background Color
- Inactive Background Color
- Progress bar Height (px)

Select Progress Bar Vertical Holder

- Numbers of Progress Bar Items: One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven and Twelve

Select Progress Bar Vertical

- Title
- Title Color
- Title Tag:  h2, h3, h4, h5 and h6
- Title Size
- Bar Background Color
- Active Background Color
- Percent
- Percentage Text Size
- Percentage Color
- Text
- Text Color

Progress Bar – Icon

- Number of Icons
- Number of Active Icons
- Type:  Normal, Circle and Square
- Icon Pack:  Font Awesome icons list or Elegant Icon set
- Icon
- Icon Size:  Tiny, Small, Medium, Large and Very Large
- Icon Color
- Icon Active Color
- Background Color
- Background Active Color

Select Carousels

- Carousel Slider
- Order By:  Menu Order, Title and Date
- Order:  ASC and DESC

First you can see our "Select Carousel" section in your left admin menu. There are three options:

In "Carousel Items" section you can see all items that you created.

Add New Carousel Item - Click here to add your first carousel item. First you need to upload some image for your carousel item. Find Carousel Image field and upload your image. Also you can upload hover image for this Carousel item, just findCarousel Hover Image field and click upload. Minimal width for image size is 220px.

Additional fileds for Carousel item are:

Select Process Holder

- Columns: Three, Four and Five
- Line Between Process: Yes/No
- Animated Process

Select Process Holder shortocode is holder for Select Process shortcode

Select Process

- Type: Icon in Process and Text in Process
- Background Process Color
- Background Process Image
- Border Process Color
- Icon Pack:  Font Awesome icons or Elegant Icon set
- Icon
- Custom Icon Size
- Icon Color
- Icon Border Color
- Text in Process
- Text in Proces Color
- Text in Process Size (px)
- Link
- Target: Self, Blank and Parent
- Title
- Title Tag: h2, h3, h4, h5 and h6
- Title Color
- Text
- Text Color
- Show Separator Between Title and Text
- Separator Color
- Line Color Between Process

Social Icons

- Type: Normal, Circle and Square
- Icon Pack:  Font Awesome icons or Elegant Icon set
- Icon
- Icon Size:  Small, Normal, Large and Very Large
- Link
- Target:  Self, Blank and Parent
- Icon Color
- Background Color
- Background Transparency
- Icon Hover Color
- Background Hover Color
- Background Hover Transparency
- Border Color
- Border Hover Color

Default hover color for all socail icons are social main color 

Social Share

To enable Social share you need to go in your back-end Select options -> Social -> Select yes and save. We have implemented seven differents social media (Facebook, Twitter, Google +, LinkedIn, Thumblr, Pinterest and VK).

Team

- Image
- Name
- Name Color
- Position
- Position Color
- Description
- Description Color
- Social Icon Size: Normal, Medium and Large
- Social Icon Pack 1
- Social Icon 1
- Social Icon 1 Link
- Social Icon 1 Target: Self, Blank and Parent
- Social Icon Pack 2
- Social Icon 2
- Social Icon 2 Link
- Social Icon 2 Target: Self, Blank and Parent
- Social Icon Pack 3
- Social Icon 3
- Social Icon 3 Link
- Social Icon 3 Target: Self, Blank and Parent
- Social Icon Pack 4
- Social Icon 4
- Social Icon 4 Link
- Social Icon 4 Target: Self, Blank and Parent
- Social Icon Pack 5
- Social Icon 5
- Social Icon 5 Link
- Social Icon 5 Target: Self, Blank and Parent

Team Simple

- Image
- Background Color
- Name
- Name Color
- Position
- Position Color
- Link
- Target: Self, Blank and Parent

Testimonials

- Type: Simple and Standard
- Category
- Number
- Text Color
- Text / Author Align 
- Author Color
- Background Color
- Border Color
- Show Author Image
- Control Navigation
- Control Navigation Active Color: Black and White

WooCommerce

Soho Theme comes with WooCommerce integration, which allows you to build online shop.

For more details on installing and configuring WooCommerce, please visit this page:

http://docs.woothemes.com/documentation/plugins/woocommerce/getting-started/

In order to setup WooCommerce with our theme please perform following steps:

  1. Go to Plugins in the left menu
  2. Click on Add New
  3. Type "WooCommerce" in the search field
  4. Locate "WooCommerce - excelling eCommerce" in the search results and click on Install Now below it
  5. Once install is done, click on Activate Plugin
  6. You will see a notice saying "Welcome to WooCommerce – You're almost ready to start selling :)". If you plan to import demo content click on "Skip Setup"
  7. Go to Importing demo content instructions in the Introduction section of this document and perform the process explained there
  8. Once import is completed click on Pages tab of the WooCommerce Settings
  9. Select existing pages for all field except Terms Page ID. You will be able to find all pages easily as they match name of each field

When you import all pages for woocommerce or when you create shop page, you need to go to your back-end and to select WooCommerce Template for all your shop pages.

 

Woocommerce Shop Layout

Woocommerce Settings for Images