Platonic

Restaurant & Event WordPress Theme

• created: 05/18/2015
• latest update: --/--/2015
• by: JwsThemes
• www.themeforest.net/user/JwsThemes
• email:[email protected]

Platonic is a one-page wordpress theme made for Restaurant. It is built on Bootstrap 3.x and packed with great features, it makes use of modern jQuery and CSS3 techniques to create superb eye-catching animations and make your visitors love you and your work. It is simple, modern and responsive.

We would happily welcome feedback from you on how, if anywhere, you would like this documentation improved. If you would find anything a little bit easier and more helpful if we went into more detail, or explained something a little better - we'd be happy to hear it. We want PLATONIC to be the best theme! If you have any comments, please mail us via the form on http://www.themeforest.net/user/JwsThemes

• Responsive – This theme is responsive to give a perfect user experience on all devices.
• One Click Demo Import – Easiest and fastest way to build your website, one click import pages, post, revolution slider, widgets, theme options and more!
• Boxed or full width layout – This can be set globally or even per page!
• Built on Twitter Bootstrap – Platonic uses Twitter Bootstrap. This means that a range of shortcodes are automatically supported. For ease of use you can use the Visual Composer, Easy Bootstrap Shortcode or any other plugin to easily add visuals to your website.
• Slider Revolution plugin included – This theme includes the Slider Revolution plugin, saving you $18.
• Visual Composer plugin included – This theme includes the Visual Composer plugin, saving you $33.
• Restaurant Reservations support – This theme includes styling for the Restaurant Reservations plugin!
• Built with Less .css
• Switch to Right to Left.
• Shortcode Support.
• Demo content included!
• Unlimited Color Options.
• Moveable & Unlimited Sidebars – Move the sidebar to the left, the right, or hide it entirely for a full width page or post! (global or page/post specific).
• Designed with HTML5 and CSS3.
• Customizable Design & Code.
• All installed Extensions are included.
• Cross Browser Support.
• Detailed Documentation Included.
• Full Support.
• + many more features.
• More features coming soon.

Installing PLATONIC Theme

You can install this WordPress theme using two installation methods:

• Using WordPress Administration Panel.
• Copying theme files via FTP.

METHOD 1

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

• Login to WP admin.
• Go to Appearance > Themes option and click on it to load new page.
• Select Install Theme tab at the top of the panel to load new page.
• Click on Upload option at the top of the panel to load new page.
• Click on Browse button and locate platonic.zip on your file system.
• Go to Appearance > Themes option and click on it to load new page.
• Once installation is complete you can activate Platonic theme.

This video tutorial will show you how to install new Platonic Theme.

METHOD 2

IMPORTANT NOTE: If you are using FileZilla, make sure to fix it as described below before you copy the files:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/554960/how-can-i-stop-filezilla-changing-my-linebreaks

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

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

Importing Demo Content

One Click Install Demo Data

This video tutorial will show you how to Active and Import Data Platonic Theme One Click.

If you would like to learn the best practice of using PLATONIC theme, you can import content from our demo web site. Importing theme is performed using XML file located in theme ZIP file downloaded from ThemeForest and following these steps:

Install plugin:

• Install Wordpress Importer Plugin.
• Install Widget Data - Setting Importer/Exporter Plugin.

Content import:

• Select import type wordpress.
• Select file sample.xml from package.
• Assign author and select import attachments.
• Import completed.

Widget setting import:

• Select file widget_data.json from package.
• Import completed.

Revolution slider import:

• Click button import.
• Select file slider-home.zip from package.
• Import completed.

Options import:

• Open and copy content file file option.json for import from package.
• Import completed.

Setting page display and assign menu:

• Select front page display.
• Assign menu.

Upgrading PLATONIC Theme

IMPORTANT NOTE: If you are using FileZilla, make sure to fix it as described below before you copy the files:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/554960/how-can-i-stop-filezilla-changing-my-linebreaks

You can upgrade our theme by performing following steps:

• Download latest theme zip file from ThemeForest.
• Extract it and locate platonic.zip.
• Extract platonic.zip and locate platonic folder.
• Copy/Replace the content of platonic folder to /wp-content/themes/platonic folder of your web site.

Feel free to ask us any questions about using features PLATONIC theme offers.

Increasing the upload_max_filesize in WordPress via php.ini

The default upload file size for WordPress is 2 MB, which is a problem if you want to upload a large media files. If you get this error, "The uploaded file exceeds the upload_max_filesize directive in php.ini", follow these steps:

• Locate the php.ini file inside the wp-admin directory.
• Find this line in the php.ini file "upload_max_filesize = 2M" and replace it with a higher value (e.g. "upload_max_filesize = 64M").
• You may also want to increase your max post size. Look for this line in your php.ini file "post_max_size" and increase it as well.
• Save the changes to the file inside your wp-admin directory.
• Try the upload again.
• If you still have issues, look for this file in your root directory and make the same changes.

Increasing the upload_max_filesize in WordPress via .htaccess

If you get this error, "The uploaded file exceeds the upload_max_filesize directive in php.ini", follow these steps:

• Locate the .htaccess file inside the root directory or installed folder.
• Open or create the .htaccess file in the root folder and add the following code:

How to set upload upload_max_filesize in .htaccess:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2992376/how-to-set-upload-max-filesize-in-htaccess

The options panel is home to all of the theme's extensive configuration options. To view the panel, navigate to 'Theme Options' in the left-hand menu. Here you have the ability to alter many core aspects that make up how your theme looks and behaves. Any of the options that have some ambiguities to them conveniently have descriptions to explain their purpose.

Editing & Creating Content

Changing Your Logo:

• Select the Theme Options > Logo option from your WordPress admin.
• Click on the Upload button to bring up the WordPress image uploader.
• Choose the image if you've already uploaded it or upload the image for the first time.
• Click on the Save All Changes button to save your new theme settings.

NOTE: You should use a .png image

Changing Your Favicon:

• Select the Theme Options > Favicon option from your WordPress admin.
• Click on the Upload button to bring up the WordPress image uploader.
• Choose the image if you've already uploaded it or upload the image for the first time.
• Click on the Save All Changes button to save your new theme settings.

NOTE: You can create a favicon using Photoshop. Create a 16x16 pixels image and save it as favicon.png or favicon.gif.

This video tutorial will show you how to change the logo on your new Platonic install.

Platonic Theme comes with following custom widgets:

Blog Left Sidebar - here you can add anything to the left side of page.

Footer Top Widget 1 , Footer Top Widget 2, Footer Top Widget 3, Footer Column 4 Footer Bottom Widget 1 - here you can add content to footer columns (1-4)

Flexibility customized font

By default, the template loads this font from Standard Font, you can change the font with the one that suits you best.

Pages/Posts are built using shortcodes accessed by clicking Platonic menu in the top right of the Add new Element . All shortcodes are in menu listed alphabetically.Head Section.

Create a responsive (mobile friendly) or full width slider with must-see-effects and meanwhile keep or build your SEO optimization (all content always readable for search engines). See the heaps of custom transitions/animations for each object on the page!

Customize this slider with our convenient drag & drop back-end to your very needs. This plugin features tons of unique transition effects, an image pre-loader, video embedding, auto-play that stops on user interaction and lots of easy to set options to create your own effects.

For premium support with this plugin please visit: Revolution Slider on Code Canyon.

Visual Composer is the most popular drag and drop editor for wordpress.

If you need dedicated support for this component, please visit: Visual Composer on Code Canyon

Accept restaurant reservations and table bookings online. Quickly confirm or reject bookings, send out custom email notifications, restrict booking times and more.

• Quickly confirm or reject a booking.
• Receive an email notification when a booking request is made.
• Notify a customer by email when their request is confirmed or rejected.
• Automatically block bookings when you're closed, including holidays and one-off openings.
• Custom user role to manage bookings.
• Add your booking form to any page, post or widget area.
• Customize all notification messages, and date and time formats.
• Add and edit bookings from the admin panel.
• Send customers an email about their booking from the admin panel.

If you need know more about this component, please visit: Theme of the crop.

This video show how to create Blog page from grid element template using Visual Composer Grid Builder.

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