Theme Plaza 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 Grid Content
  
• VikWP Google Maps
  
• VikWP Icons

Because the theme has been made for our Vik Booking 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 Vik Booking widgets used on this theme:

• VikBooking Search Form
• VikBooking Currency Converter
• VikBooking Rooms

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.

VikWP Grid Content is a widget loaded by the VikWidgetsLoader plugin, which allows you to display the posts of category in a grid layout.

In the widget parameters you can specify the number of posts you wish to see, select the category of posts to be shown and if you'd like to have a background image (as our demo image). You can also choose whether to display some read more text that links to the full post, or not.
Click here to read our Knowledge Base post that explains the VikWP Grid Content 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.

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.

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 blue 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.

Responsive Menu

With these parameteres you can select the color of the text and menu icon in the responsive mode. If the Menu Text field is empty will be displayed just the responsive menu icon.

• 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 User Menu, you can configure it from the admin WordPress Appearance > Menus. The Menu location for this menu is "User Menu".
  For more information about how to configure the menus, please the read the specific chapter here.
• 3 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: Top Bar - Left

  Widget Configuration

  Icons Options

  • Icons Size: 14
  • Content Alignment: Centered
  • Icon Alignment: Left
• 4 This is the Vik Booking Search Form widget, it's installed automatically during the VikBooking plugin installation.
  We listed just the parameters that we've changed from the default values.
  • Dates Layout: Human Readable
  • Months and Days length: Full
  • Layout: Default (Override)
  • Page: You should select a page connected to VikBooking, an example a Rooms List or a Room Search Form page.
  Sidebar: Vik Booking Search Form Sidebar

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

• 5 This is the Vik Booking Rooms Widget. This widget displays all the rooms added on the Vik Booking plugin, from the widget parameters you can display the category name, the number of people allowed for each room, the characteristics, etc.

  Sidebar: HP - Under Content

• 6 This is the VikWP Grid Content Widget. We've already explained this widget on this chapter. Here all the details about it in the homepage.

  Sidebar: HP - Full Size Widgets

• 7 This is the VikWP Text Slide Widget. We've already explained this widget on this chapter. Here all the details about it in the homepage.

  Sidebar: HP - Full Size Widgets

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

  • CSS Classes: padding-row testimonial-hp
  • Enable Mask: No
  • Sentence Layout: Carousel
  • Sentence per row: 1
  • Navigation Arrow: No
  • Navigation Dots: Yes
  • Featured Image Position: Under

• 8 The footer is composed by two Navigation Menu and two Custom HTML widgets (logo and contacts).
  First of all we have created the two menus in the Appearance > Menus page of WordPress. The two menus shouldn't be associated to any position because we are going to add them as widgets in the Footer sidebar.
  Once we've created the two menus, we go back in the Appearance > Widgets page. Through the native widget "Navigation Menu" we add a widget for each menu we'd like to add in the Footer sidebar.

  Sidebar: Footer

• 9 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

  • Icon Size: 18
  • Padding Size: 1

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

1 At first we've create the page named About Us. To enable the About Us Sidebars 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:

• 2 This is the VikWP Grid Content 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.

  Sidebar: About Us - Under Content

• 3 This is the VikWP Text Slide Widget. We've already explained this widget on this chapter. Here all the details about it in the homepage.

  Sidebar: About Us - Full Size Widgets

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

  • Enable Mask: No
  • Sentence Layout: Carousel
  • Sentence per row: 2
  • Navigation Arrow: No
  • Navigation Dots: Yes
  • Featured Image Position: Under

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.

  

  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>Get in touch by filling the form below:</h3>
<div>
<p>[text* your-name placeholder"Name"] </p>
<p>[text surname placeholder"Surname"] </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>

• 2 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 - 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 Size: 22
  • Padding Size: 12
  • Content Alignment: Default
  • Icon Alignment: Left
  Sidebar: Contact Us - Under Content