Cortana_Construction Drupal Theme

Version 1.0

Thank you very much for purchasing our theme. In this user guide, you will find all required information to get your site up and running: starting from theme installation and setup, to usage of different post types, page templates and shortcodes. If all else fails or you have any questions about our theme that isn't covered in this documentation, please do not hesitate to submit a support request via our support forum.

We hope you will enjoy working with our themes.

Yours sincerely,

Megadrupal Themes.

Before Getting started

Cortana theme comes with two versions: default version and shop version to match user demands.

Please note that this theme is not harder to use than any other premium theme with advanced functions. Moreover, we believe that it’s even much easier! And there’s a good reason for that: amount of time that we invested in designing its interfaces, page templates and theme options is simply immense…

Nevertheless, please note that this User Guide does NOT cover basic Drupal usage. Therefore if you are not a confident Drupal user, please get accustomed with it BEFORE proceeding to this manual and theme!

First of all please google “Drupal basics” – plethora of articles and educational videos are available!

Here are some links that will help you to become more confident with Drupal:

• Drupal concepts: https://drupal.org/documentation/concepts
• Brings you step-by-step instructions to complete specific Drupal tasks.: http://www.digett.com/drupal-video-tutorials
• A group for apprentice/journeyman developers who want to increase proficiency: https://groups.drupal.org/drupal-dojo
• Free videos and articles:  http://codekarate.com/

Getting started

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1. Requirement
2. Download package contents
3. Install using demo profile
4. Manual install
5. Theme installation errors
6. Theme update

Requirement

Let's go over the minimum requirements that you will need in order to have a fully functioning site running our theme.

• Drupal 7
• The theme files that you downloaded from themeforest.net
• Web server: Apache, Nginx, or Microsoft IIS
• PHP 5.2.5 or higher (5.3 recommended)
• MySQL 5.0.15 or higher with PDO, PostgreSQL 8.3 or higher with PDO, SQLite 3.3.7 or higher

If you already have a working install of Drupal feel free to skip ahead to theme installation.

Download package contents

Once you have downloaded and unzipped the Cortana package you will be faced with a list of files and folders. An explanation of these is as follows. Any item not mentioned here should be ignored for the moment.

Install using demo profile

Once you have downloaded the cortana package from Themeforest.net, there are 2 ways of installing this theme. First way is easy way: using demo install profile. This way is like install standard Drupal. This video below show you how to do this.

You've done, now go to theme settings to custom your website and enjoy it.

Manual install

For manual install, you need install theme & require modules.

Install theme

You can install by using Drupal module uploader or using FTP

1. Drupal module uploader

   1. Log into your website
   2. From admin toolbar, click Appearance
   3. Click Install new theme
   4. Browse to the theme's zip file (it is located in the folder you've downloaded from ThemeForest) and choose that file.
   5. Click Install and wait while theme is uploaded to your server
   6. After successfully message, you can click Enable and set default MD Cortana
   7. After that, you need to click Theme settings and Save configuration for define some basic settings.

Install modules

After installing MD Cortana Theme, you can extract modules.zip (find in zip package) to sites/all/modules/ directory. Then go to Modules to install cortana features module.

List modules used in Cortana:

Contrib modules:

• addressfield
• admin menu
• bean
• commerce
• commerce autosku
• commerce bank transfer
• commerce coupon
• commerce fixed amount
• commerce coupon pct
• commerce flat rate
• commerce paypal
• commerce search api
• commerce shipping
• context
• ctools
• devel
• diff
• entity
• entityreference
• field collection
• facetapi
• file entity
• fivestar
• fontello
• form builder
• icon
• image delta formatter
• inline entity form
• jquery update
• media
• media_soundcloud
• media_vimeo
• media_youtube
• options element
• rate
• rules
• share this
• simplenews
• simplenews realname
• taxonomy display
• variable check
• views
• views infinite scroll
• views tree
• votingapi
• webform

Custom modules:

• md_ac_cortana
• md_awecontent
• md_block_custom
• md_field
• md_fullscreen_slider
• md_portfolio
• md_themesetting
• md_view_style

Feature modules:

• bean_file
• md_blog
• md_portfolio_content
• md_product

Insert content

After install and configure, nothing show in front page (and other pages). Please add some content and see your site working.

Theme installation errors

Do not upload the Themeforest download package directly to your Drupal site, because this will lead to errors. Make sure to unzip this package and inside you will find the theme zip archive: md_cortana-7.x-2.0.zip. This is what you will need to upload to your Drupal site

Theme update

When theme has a bug fixes or enhancements, you will be notified to upgrade..

Installing updates is just involves replacing the old theme files with the new ones. It's always a good idea to backup everything before you upgrade, especially if you have made any changes to MD Cortana's files, as the upgrade will overwrite all files. All custom in theme settings will all remain intact.

Backing Up

1. It is always a good idea to back up your theme before making any changes
2. Open your FTP program and FTP into your site and navigate to the sites/all/themes/ directory.
3. Download the md_cortana folder and save it as a backup

Upgrading

1. Download the new version of the theme from ThemeForest
2. Browse to the theme's zip file (it is located in the folder you've downloaded from ThemeForest) and extract that file, you will get folder named "md_cortana"
3. Put your site to Maintenance mode (Go to Configuration then Maintenance mode. Make sure the "Put site into maintenance mode" box is checked and click "Save configuration")
4. Switch to your FTP program, FTP into your site and navigate to the sites/all/theme/ directory.
5. Transfer the new md_cortana folder into the sites/all/theme/ directory on your server, overwrite the existing one.
6. Clear site cache (Go to Configuration then Performance and click "Clear all caches" button)

Note: If you are running a local server, just copy and override the files.

Site Menu

In this section, we will outline the steps involved in creating the menu for this theme.

Creating menu

1. Go to Structure/Menu in the toolbar and click List link near Main menu.
2. At first you will probably need to add a menu, click Add link & give it a name, link, where to scroll and save it.
3. Now you can drag the newly inserted menu item to their correct sequence.
4. After you have added and edited the menu items click Save Configuration in the bottom of this area.

Adding Content

The cortana theme contains 6 different content types:

To add content, just click Content from admin toolbar and Click Add Content or you can click Add Content from shortcut toolbar.

Adding Blog

Just click Add content > Blog and add your article.

Open detail page:

Adding MD Portfolio

Open Detail:

Adding Service

Just need to go to Add content > Service to add new service.

Adding Shop Product

Shop Product is only available in Cortana shop version.

To create a product, you have to follow these following steps:

1. Go to Store > Products > product types -> Add product type
2. Added some fields that are required such as SKU, Price, Attribute(color, size..). These fields cannot be created in content type. They must be created in Product Type for calculating when checking out or Add to cart submitting.
   
   

   

3. After finishing creating product type, click on Structure -> Content type and create new Shop Product type
4. Remember to create a field that has type Product Reference to get values/data from product type
   
   

   

5. Just create more needed fields like you create a normal content type

Then adding product in Add Content > Shop Product:

For more reference, you can see these instruction links:

Adding Simplenews

Simplenews publishes and sends newsletters to lists of subscribers. Both anonymous and authenticated users can opt-in to different mailing lists

Adding Webform

Just go to Add Content > Webform, After giving the form a name, please add webform elements:

Final View:

Customize

This section will guide you how to customize your Cortana site

Homepage

Most of pages are built by MD AWEContent module. For example Home page: to customise home page, please click on Edit: (admin mode)

Then Click on Build page with AWEContent

Then you can edit/customize every section content and image. For more detail and instruction, please see AWEContent Documentation which is also packed in the package

However, there still are some static blocks that you can't edit with AweContent. Just use contextual link to change it.

Block Region

If you used demo install profile, then this setup will be already done. In which case you may only need to modify things. However we still recommend that you read this section carefully because it contains important information which will be useful during modification of the block configuration.

The Cortana theme come with 15 block regions.

Assigning block

Blocks are placed in regions via the Block Admin page Dashboard > Structure > Blocks. Here you can

1. Enable, throttle, place, and configure blocks
2. Add a block

Creating new block region

You can follow this article to create new block region. This is short introduction:

1. Open md_cortana/md_cortana.info file (with a text editor)
2. Find regions[footer] = Footer
3. Insert code after: regions[region_name] = Region human readable name
4. Save md_cortana.info file and go to Configuration > Performance to clear site cache

Placing your block region into the theme

1. Open md_cortana/template/page.tpl.php file (with a text editor)
2. Paste this code to wherever you want to display block region:
   

                       <?php if ($page['region_name']): ?>
                         <div class="region-class">
                           <?php print render($page['region_name']); ?>
                         </div>>
                       <?php endif; ?>
                       

Theme Settings

In this section we will explain the custom settings that come with the Cortana theme, where to find them and what you would use them for.

Cortana's custom theme settings can be found at Appearance > Settings (near MD Cortana theme).

1. General settings
2. Design
3. Pages
4. Text/Typography
5. Custom code
6. Backup & restore

General settings

General settings usually with a global or site wide effect. This tab is open by default when this page is loaded.

Site Settings

Enable or disable some elements like logo, slogan, menu ...

Logo, Favicon & Webclip

Customise or change webclip, logo and favicon icons (A webclip is the icon that appears on a user's iPhone, iPad or Android device if they save your website to their home screen.)

Custom Font

Add your favourite Google text font to the font library here