Theme MediCenter Documentation

VikWidgetsLoader

IMPORTANT: Before to start using the theme, you need to install and activate the VikWidgetsLoader plugin.

This plugin contains all our widgets that you can use with our themes. Please, click here to install the plugin, otherwise you can find a download link in the Theme Customizer.

Here the list of the VikWidgetsLoader widgets used in our Plaza:

• VikWP Category 
• VikWP Text Slide
  
• VikWP Counters
• VikWP Google Maps
  
• VikWP Icons
• VikWP Custom Text

Because the theme has been made for our VikAppointments plugin, some of the widgets used on this theme are related to this plugin and they will be installed and activated with it.
Here the list of the VikAppointments widgets used on this theme:

• VikAppointments Search
• VikAppointments Services
• VikAppointments Employees
• VikAppointments Employees Filter

To set up static page as Front Page

• From your WordPress Dashboard go to Settings > Reading.
• In the Front page displays set the option to A static page.
• Select the page created previously from the Homepage dropdown.
• Click on Save Changes to apply your setup.

To pick what is shown in the Header of the theme, you need to use the 'Customizer' view.
In it, you will find a section called 'Header Settings', which allows you to pick whether you prefer using a static image or a sequence of sliding images in your header. It also contains the settings for the header image. 

• From the WordPress Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Header Settings

First of all, if you prefer using a Static image as the header of your website, you will need to head in the 'Header Options' subsection.

• From the WordPress Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Header Settings > Header Options > Static Image
  

The 'Header Type' field will allow you to select which type of header you wish to display. This should be set to 'Static Image'. You will find a link under it which will redirect you to the 'Static Image Options' subsection.

Make sure you publish the changes before you click on it, as you will be redirected, and the current changes will be lost. If you click on it, you should be able to see three fields:

• Title - The title to be displayed over the static background image
• Image Caption - The caption to be displayed over the static background image
• Header Image Arrangement - "Cover" sets the cover image to slide along with your website, when your website is scrolled, "Fixed" leaves it static in place.

As for setting the actual image to be displayed, you should head into the subsection 'Header Image'. From it you will be able to upload a new header, or you will be able to pick from previously uploaded headers or from suggested images already present on your site.
You’ll also be able to crop your image once you upload it for a perfect fit.

To pick what is shown in the Header of the theme, you need to use the 'Customizer' view. In it, you will find a section called 'Header Settings', which allows you to pick whether you prefer using a slider of images or a static image. If you prefer using a slider of images as the header of your website, you will need to head in the 'Header Options' subsection. The 'Header Type' field will allow you to select which type of header you wish to display. This should be set to 'Slider'. You will find a link under it which will redirect you to the 'Header Slider Settings' subsection.

In the 'Header Slider Settings' subsection, you will be able to set each individual image (from 1 to 5), including their settings, or you can modify the whole slider's settings from the 'Slider Settings' section. In the 'Slider Settings' section you can set the following parameters of the slider:

• Fullscreen - Set if the slider should be displayed in full screen.
• Image Height in px - Set how high should the slider be if it's not fullscreen.
• Text Font - Choose the text font used for each image's title and description.
• Title/Caption/Read More Effect - The animation effect for the title/caption/read more transition.
• Text Align - The alignment of the Title,Caption and Read More text.
• Enable Navigation - If enabled, displays the navigation arrows on the sides of the slider.
• Enable Navigation Dots - If enabled, displays the navigation dots on the bottom of the slider.

You can also set some parameters for each image individually. You can do so from each 'Slider Image' subsection. The parameters available are the following:

• Slider Image - The image to be displayed in the slider.
• Title - The title to be placed over the image when it appears.
• Description - The description to be placed over the image when it appears.
• Read More - The text placed inside the button that appears over the image.
• Read More Link - The link the button placed over the image redirects to.

The Icons widget is used to display several icons, optionally with individual links and text. It can be used to represent different functionalities, or as links for your social accounts.

The widget is very flexible, it allows you to select icons from a big icon library, you can take a look to the icons available from the official FontAwesome website.
Click here to read our Knowledge Base post that explains the VikWP Icons widget in more details.

The VikWP Text Slide widget displays a slider which shows text from a post category. The text fades in and out on regular intervals or could have a carousel layout. The widget could have a background image.

Click here to read our Knowledge Base post that explains the VikWP Text Slide widget in more details.

The VikWP Category widget displays your latest posts filtered by Category. 

Click here to read our Knowledge Base post that explains the VikWP Category widget in more details.

VikWP Custom Text is a widget loaded by the VikWidgetsLoader plugin, which allows you add simple text. It's actually very similar to the WordPress native widget. The only difference is that our widget has a Class Suffix parameter to add custom class, that our theme needs to add some fancy style.

With this widget you can locate your important points with Google Maps, the widget allows you to customize every point with a marker, title and description.
Set the latitude and the longitude coordinates of your locations and optionally add a text, a description and a customized image and shadow for the marker.

Click here to read our Knowledge Base post that explains the VikWP Google Maps widget in more details.

The VikWP Counters widget displays a number of counters from 0 to a specific number.  It'd be useful if you'd lke to show the numbers of your activity.

Click here to read our Knowledge Base post that explains the VikWP Counters widget in more details.

From this section, you'll be able to hide/show title pages, meta information and enable the Cookies message.

We've already seen this function in the Logo Setup chapter of this documentation.

• Menu Sticky: This parameter will let the header follows the vertical scolling navigation of the website.

• Homepage - Header Position: With this parameter you can choose to display the header over the slider or in the top of it.
  By choosing "Over Slider", your header will be displayed with a black background with transparency. By choosing "Top" instead, the theme will apply the color background selected in the Header Background parameter. On this last case, the slider will not take all the window size in width and height, but just in width, the height will be calculated automatically.
  Here some screenshot of the two choices.

  Over Slider

  Top (In this case we have selected a white header background)

• Internal Pages - Header Position: This parameter works in the same way of the Homepage - Header position. But it'll manage the internal pages.
• Menu Text Color: This parameter setup the color of the menu text for homepage and internal pages.

• Color Menu Icon This parameter set the color for the Menu and Text icon during the responsive layout.
• Menu Text This text will be displayed next to the responsive icon.
• Responsive Width The responsive framework will be displayed below this value.

• 1 This is the Main Menu, you can configure it from the admin WordPress Appearance > Menus. The Menu location for this menu is "Main Menu".
• 2 This is the Extra Menu, you can configure it from the admin WordPress Appearance > Menus. The menu has been added in the "Top Bar - Right" sidebar.
  For more information about how to configure the menus, please the read the specific chapter here.
• 3 On this sidebar has been published three widgets.
  1. BOOK AN APPOINTMENTS: This is the VikAppointment Search widget, it's installed automatically during the VikAppointments plugin installation.
     We listed just the parameters that we've changed from the default values.
     • Orientation: Vertical
     • Layout: Default (Override)
     • Menu Item: You should select a page connected to VikAppointments, an example a the Services List page.
  2. PROFESSIONAL STAFF: This is the VikWP Custom Text.
     We listed just the parameters that we've changed from the default values.
     • CSS Class: color3
  3. OPENING HOURS: This is the VikWP Custom Text.
     • CSS Class: color2 opening-hours
     Here the html code we used for our demo website:

<ul class="list-unstyled">
  <li>Monday – Friday 
    <div>8.00 – 19.00</div>
  </li>
  <li>Saturday
    <div>8.30 – 19.00</div>
  </li>
  <li>Sunday
    <div>8.30 – 14.00</div>
  </li>
</ul>

• 4 This is the Homepage content. It has been explained how to create it on this chapter.

• 5 This sidebar has two widgets inside, the VikAppointements Services and the WordPress native Menu widget.

  1. VikAppointments Services: This widget is part of the VikAppointments package. It displays all the services on your VikAppointments plugin. We listed just the parameters that we've changed from the default values.
     • Menu Item: A page that contains a VikAppointments shortcode.
     • Show Description: Yes
     • Show Details Button: Yes
     • Layout: Default (Override)
     • Module Class Suffix: width75 no-padding
  2. Navigation Menu: This is the native widget of WordPress to display a menu inside a sidebar.
  Sidebar: HP - Under Content

• 6 This sidebar has two widgets inside, the VikWP Icon and a VikWP Custom Text widget.

  1. VikWP Icons: We've already explained this widget on this chapter. Here all the details about it in the homepage.
     We listed just the parameters that we've changed from the default values.
     • Icons Displayed: 3
     • Icons Size: 35
     • Icons Style: Circle
     • Container Size: Full Size
     • Icons Padding: 4
     • Icon Allignment: Bottom
     • CSS Class: width75 no-padding service-ico
  2. VikWP Custom Text: We've already explained this widget on this chapter.
     The HTML code is the same as for the VIkWP Custom Text widget of the VikAppointments Search Sidebar. The only difference is the Class Suffix:
     • CSS Class: opening-hours border-box width25
  Sidebar: HP - Services Container

• 7 This is the VikWP Text Slide. We've already explained this widget on this chapter. Here all the details about it in the homepage.
  We listed just the parameters that we've changed from the default values.

  • CSS Class: no-padding
  • Testimonials Layout: Carousel
  • Testimonials per Row: 1
  • Featured Image position: Left
  Sidebar: Full Size Widget

• 8 This is the VikAppointments Employees. This widget is part of the VikAppointments package. It displays all the services on your VikAppointments plugin.
  We listed just the parameters that we've changed from the default values.

  • Title: OUR STAFF [br] Highly qualified specialists (The [br] tag is used to break the line).
  • Menu Item: Select one page that contains a shortcode of VikAppointments.
  • Number of Items: 4
  • Show Description: Yes
  • Show Detailed Button: yes
  • Module Class suffix: main-size grey title-center
  Sidebar: Full Size Widget

• 9 VikWP Category Widget. We've already explained this widget on this chapter. Here all the details about it in the homepage.
  We listed just the parameters that we've changed from the default values.

  • Title: LATEST NEWS [br] News or Tips from your health (The [br] tag is used to break the line).
  • CSS Class: width75 no-padding
  Sidebar: HP - Bottom News

• 10 VikAppointments Employees Filter. This widget is part of the VikAppointments package. It displays the employees of VikAppointements based on some filters.
  We listed just the parameters that we've changed from the default values.

  • Title: Select Doctor [br] Book an appointment (The [br] tag is used to break the line).
  • Menu Item: Select one page that contains a shortcode of VikAppointments.
  • Module Class suffix: color width25
  Sidebar: HP - Bottom News

• 11 The footer is composed by four widgets:

  1. Custom HTML: It contains the logo and text.
  2. Navigation Menu: Departments
  3. Navigation Menu: Quick Links
  4. VikWP Icons Widget

  VikWP Icons Widget (you can find the widget explaination here).
  We listed just the parameters that we've changed from the default values.

  • Icon Displayed: 3
  • Icon Size: 14
  • Padding Size: 12
  • Container Size: Full Size
  • Icon Alignment: Left
  • CSS Classes: footer-contacts width33
  Sidebar: Footer

• 12 This is the VikWP Icons widget (you can find the widget explaination here).
  We listed just the parameters that we've changed from the default values.

  Sidebar: Sub Footer

  Widget Configuration

  • Icons Displayed: 3
  • Icon Size: 18
  • Padding Size: 1
  • Content Alignment: Centered

This chapter explains how to get the About Us page as our demo website.

1 At first we've created the page named About Us.
To have the same layout as our demo website, you should enable the About Us Sidebars. To do so you need to select from the Page Attributes the Template "About Us".
If you'd like to have a background image for the page title as our demo website, you should select the Featured Image.
Here the page configuration:

In our case we are using the native Gutember Editor. The page content is created by using the block Layout Elements > Media & Text.

• 2 This is the VikAppointments Employees Widget. Here all the details about it in the About Us page.

  We listed just the parameters that we've changed from the default values.

  • Module Class Suffix: title-center
  Sidebar: About Us - Under Content

• 3 This is the VikWP Counters Widget. On the About Us page we have associated another post category, it'd show just one post of this category.
  We've already explained the widget on this chapter. Here all the details about it in the About Us page.

  We listed just the parameters that we've changed from the default values.

  • Number of Counters: 4
  • Padding Size: 2
  • CSS Class: text-center bg-color
  Sidebar: About Us - Full Size Widget

This chapter explains how to get the Contact Us page as our demo website.

• 1 As we did for the About Us page, we did also for the Contact Us.
  For the Contact Us page you should select from the Page Attributes the Template "Contact Us", in this way the page will show the Contact Us Sidebars.
  In this case we didn't add any Featured Image but we used the Contact Us - Top Content Sidebar for our Google Maps.

  

  This is the VikWP Google Maps widget (this widget has been already explained on this chapter).
  We listed just the parameters that we've changed from the default values.

  Sidebar: Contact Us - Top Content

• 2 The form that you can see in our demo website is the external Contact Form 7 plugin. This is a very famous plugin that you can find in the WordPress Repository. You can find it on this link.
  If you'd like to use the same plugin and to have the same layout as our demo website, here below you can find the code of our form, you can copy and paste it on your own form:

<h3>Send us a message</h3>
<div>
<p>[text* your-name placeholder"Name"] </p>
</div>

<div>
<p>[tel telephone placeholder"Telephone"] </p>
<p>[email* your-email placeholder"Email"] </p>
</div>

<div class="contact-row">
    <p>[text your-subject placeholder"Subject"] </p>
</div>

<div class="contact-row">
    <p>[textarea your-message placeholder"Message"] </p>
</div>

<div class="contact-row"><p>[submit "Send"]</p></div>

• We used the WordPress native widget Text. In fact this widget accepts shortcodes, you can easily copy and paste your Contact Form 7 shortcode on the textarea of this widget.

  Sidebar: Contact Us - Under Content

• 3 This is the VikWP Icons widget (this widget has been already explained on this chapter).
  We listed just the parameters that we've changed from the default values.

  • Icons Displayed 4
  • Icons Size: 21
  • Padding Size: 12
  • Container Size: Full Size
  • Content Alignment: Default
  • Icon Alignment: Left
  • CSS Class: width33 color contactus
  Sidebar: Contact Us - Under Content