# Pav Decor Documentation

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## Getting Started

Firstly, we would like to thank you for purchasing Pav Decor and chosen it for your website. We outline all kinds of good information, and provide you with all the details you need to use Pav Decor.

If you are unable to find your answer here in our documentation, feel free to ask for help from our support team, all you have to do is submitting a ticket via our Support Ticket system.

#### Opencart 2.x and Layout Builder

Pav Opencart is native with OpenCart 2.x, the latest version of OpenCart and it's powered with the best Opencart page builder, you can check out the video tutorial HERE →

Here are some significant changes in Opencart 2.x

- Google reCAPTCHA added for contact page and product reviews
- Amazon Login and Pay module added
- Global Payments module added
- PayPal merchant on boarding added to PayPal Express module

#### Pavo Decor OpenCart theme Overview

Pav Decor is a responsive OpenCart theme for Decor, Fashion, and Beauty. The OpenCart theme is developed with Pavo Framework version 4, LESS, it integrates Bootstrap 3, Font Awesome, supports HTML5 and CSS3. Pav Decor menu system is powerful with MegaMenu and Off-canvas.

The theme also supports many modules that will help you save time and money to build a full functionality E-commerce website.

- Pav MegaMenu
- Theme Control Panel
- Pav Home Page Builder
- Pav Blog Category Module
- Pav Blog Latest Comment Module
- Pav Blog Latest Module
- Pav Blog Management
- Pav Layers Sliders
- Pav Products Carousel

You can have a complete E-commerce website in some simple steps with our sample data package included when you install the theme.

## Download and Installation

The instruction is to help you with installation of the Pav Decor.

### Download packages

To download Pav Decor, please check it out at:

Once the download is complete, unzip the file and you would see the following packages:

- Guides - our detail documentation for the theme
- Quickstart package - for quickstart installation
- Theme folder - for manual installation
- Modules - the installation packages of all modules used in the theme
- Source - the PSD files of the theme
- Licensing - the theme license

### System Requirements

OpenCart requires certain technical requirements to be met for the store to operate properly. First, a web server must be created to make the OpenCart store publicly available on the web. Domain names and hosting services can easily be purchased for an affordable price.

When selecting a hosting service, you should check to see that these server requirements are provided and installed on their web servers:

- Web Server (Apache suggested)
- PHP (at least 5.3)
- Curl enabled
- Database (MySQLi suggested)

### Quickstart Installation

The Quickstart Package includes Opencart core, Pav Decor theme, Extensions supported for the theme, and Sample data. Quickstart is the best choice for beginner to explore back-end settings and for new site building. Installing the Quickstart steps is just like Opencart installation, after the step, you will have a site that is exactly the same as our demo site.

Installing in Localhost or installing on your hosting is almost the same. Here is the quick guide to install Quickstart in localhost.

- Step 1 - Create a folder in htdocs folder for Xampp, www folder for Wamp
- Step 2 - Unpack the Quickstart package then copy all the files and folders to the new created folder.
- Step 3 - Create database: You can create a database in your hosting provider's control panel, for example cPanel. It may also be possible to do so in phpMyAdmin. Remember to take note of the details that you use as you'll need them for the next step.
- Step 4 - Auto - installer: The final step is to run the auto-installer. Open your favourite web browser and add “/install” to the end of your site's website address. When doing this you should see with the following page:

The 4 steps in the auto-installer wizard.

- Accept License: Click “Continue” after reading the GNU licence.

- Pre-Installation: The pre-installation page checks that your server meets the minimum requirements. If there are any issues then you may need to contact your hosting provider. Assuming that everything is okay, click the “Continue” button.

- Configuration: In section one, enter the database details that you used in step 3 and in section two enter your desired admin username, password and email address. Once all of the information is entered, click the “Continue” button.

- Finished: That's it! Now delete or rename the installation directory and you're DONE.

### Theme Installation

Before you install this theme:

1. Read our complete instruction to install theme
2. Make sure you have installed and running the correct version of OpenCart: OpenCart 2.x
3. Take a FULL BACKUP for your site

We recommend to use this theme on a new, clean installation or existing shops without custom core modifications.

#### Steps to install Pav Decor Theme manually:

Step 1 - Unzip the theme package

After unzip the download package, please unzip the theme package - pav_decor_themes_unzip.zip

Step 2 - Upload theme to your OpenCart site root directory

### Module Installation

Step 1 - Unzip the module package

Step 2 - Upload the folder admin, catalog,... in the Module package that you want to install to the root directory of your OpenCart site

Step 3 - When you install Decor theme manually, please unzip the Quickstart file: pav_decor_full\pav_decor_quickstart.zip\image. Then go to image folder and copy to theme folder.

Step 4 - After uploading all the folders, you can install it as Quickstart installation

Step 5 - Go to your OpenCart site admin panel, navigate to: Extensions → Modules, find the module you just uploaded then hit the "Install" button to proceed with the module installation.

After installing all modules, please navigate to Design → Layouts

Click on the Edit button to choose the page you need to edit then click on the Add module button.

Choose any module you want and assign the position for it

## Theme Configuration

### Supported themes/layouts

Pav Decor is a OpenCart theme. It supports 3 skins: Default, Brown and Red. Each skin has different color; meanwhile, layout structure is the same.

Decor theme/layout

### Active Theme

Once the theme is uploaded, access your admin panel, navigate to: Admin > Extensions > Themes. Next, select Edit button.

And set Pav Decor General section as your default store.

In here, you can configure the image size for category, product thumbnail, product popup, etc that fit your layout best

### Image Size Adjustment

To configure the logo and favicon for theme, please navigate to: Admin > System > Settings and select Edit button.

Next, select Image tab and set store logo and icon for theme.

## Theme Control Panel Setting

Pav Decor supports Theme Control Panel module that allows you to manage your theme and customize your theme easily based on tons of options built in such as Custom Font, Layout management, compression, etc.

From your OpenCart site admin panel, go to Admin > Extensions > Modules, open the setting panel of Theme Control Panel module.

### General Settings

In the General setting, you can see a lot of settings. The screenshot below is based on our Demo site.

Here are the main things that you can do with the General setting panel.

- Select theme for your site: Default, Brown or Red.
- Theme layout width: You can design width for your layout or using auto mode by adding auto in the Theme Layout Width field.
- Using customized copyrights info or not
- Enable or disable OffCanvas Sidebars
- Enable or disable Footer Center
- Enable Panel Tool: The tool is to quickly change theme, layout, header layout, etc on front-page of your site
- Template Layout Mode: Select mode for your template layout - Full Width, Boxed Large
- Logo Type: Choose Logo In Theme or Logo OpenCart
- Offcanvas menu: Choose Category or Megamenu, which will be displayed in Offcanvas menu on Small Screen and Medium Screen

### Pages Settings

Depend on page type, there are different settings. Select the page you want to edit then change the page setting using the available parameters.

### Font Settings

The Font setting panel allows you to customize font for your whole site or for specific elements in your site such as heading, module heading, body. Google Font is supported.

### Static Modules Settings

Static module is a OpenCart static module, depend on theme type, there are different modules. Select the module you want to edit then change the static module settings.

#### 1. Gift Card

HTML code

    <h3>Gift card treta your friends</h3>
    <p>Morbi tristique senectus adipiscing</p>

- Module Detail setting screenshot

#### 2. Customer Service

HTML code

    <h3>24/7 Customer Service</h3>
    <p>Lorem ipsum amet morbi tristique senectus</p>

- Module Detail setting screenshot

#### 3. Follow Us

HTML code

    <h4>Follow us on</h4>
    <ul>
    <li class="facebook"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/"><span class="fa fa-facebook stack"><span>facebook</span></span></a></li>
    <li class="twitter"><a href="https://twitter.com/"><span class="fa fa-twitter stack"><span>twitter</span></span></a></li>
    <li class="google-plus"><a href="https://www.google.com"><span class="fa fa-google-plus stack"><span>google plus</span></span></a></li>
    <li class="flickr"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/"><span class="fa fa-pinterest stack"><span>flickr</span></span></a></li>
    </ul>

- Module Detail setting screenshot

#### 4. Contact Us

HTML code

    <p>Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of and typesetting industr</p>
    <ul>
    <li><i class="icon fa fa-home"> </i>Phone: +01 888 (000) 1234</li>
    <li><i class="icon fa fa-phone"> </i>Fax: +01 888 (000) 1234</li>
    <li><i class="icon fa fa-envelope-o"> </i>Email: www.leotheme.com</li>
    </ul>

- Module Detail setting screenshot

### Layout Settings

Thanks to the Pavo Framework version 4, Pav Decor comes with powerful theme configuration admin panel that allows you to customize the theme easily without touching any file. You can customize font, changing logo, changing skin, etc.

### Sample Data Settings

Sample data is an important part of any site, importing, exporting back-up sample data is a regular work. It's quite complex and risky if you do it manually. Theme Control Panel module helps you solve all the difficulties with the Sample Data management system.

### CSS and JS Compression

Compression Feature allows to speed up your site by merging, compressing JS and CSS files.

All cached files are stored in folder system/cache/pavo-assets/. To clear cached you click to CLEAR button on the top right side corner of your setting panel.

### CSS and JS Customization

You can add CSS rules and JS to customize for your site. The CSS rules and JS added in the panel will have highest priority so it will override the styles in your CSS files.

### Live Theme Customization

This is amazed feature in our product. The feature is to customizing your theme with pre-define parameters such as font size, text color, background color, font family, etc.

Here is the steps to customizing your site with Live Theme Customization

Step 1 - Open the Live Theme Customization panel

Step 2 - Customize your site with pre-defined parameter.

The Live Theme Customization panel includes 2 main sections: the setting panel (include all pre-define parameters) and your site front-page. When you change setting of a parameter, you would see the change in the front-page at the same time.

Step 3 - Save the customization when you're done by hitting the "Submit" button.

## Pav Module Configuration

Pav Decor supports a lot of Pav modules that help you build a full Ecommerce functionality and help with content building for your site easier. Here is the instruction to use the extension the way they are used in Pav Decor demo site.

### Pav MegaMenu module

Pav MegaMenu module helps you create MegaMenu menu for your Opencart site. The visual configuration panel allows you to see the structure of the menu in front-page. What you change is what you see.

To configure MegaMenu, please go to: Extensions > Modules, find the Pav MegaMenu module then hit the "Edit" button. There are 2 main sections in the panel: the Menu management system and MegaMenu configuration panel.

#### Menu management system

The Menu management system allows you to:

- Create a new megamenu: Fill in enough necessary information for your menu such as name, title, description... Remember to Save it before logging out.
- Edit any menu item: Click on edit icon of the menu item you want to edit, then edit the settings of the menu item in the right panel.
- Change menu item's position: Drag and drop the menu item to change its position, after changing the order of menu items, please hit the Update Order, the saving option in the panel does not save the order change of menu item.

#### Widget management system

To go to Widget management system, please click on the Live Mega Menu Editor button in Pav MegaMenu module.

The widgets are used to assign to MegaMenu. You can create as many widgets as you expect. The content of widget can be chosen from Filter By Name box or Filter By Group: All, Blog, Typo, Opencart, Others and Image.

You can create a new submenu for any widgets by hitting the "Setting" icon or delete the widget that is not used any more.

To create a new widget, please hit the Create Widget icon in the upper right corner.

- Select Widget type: There are a lot of widget types such as Blog, Typo, Opencart, Social, Image, Others.
- Add content for the widget: The content is depend on what widget type you select, add the required info and save the widget.

#### MegaMenu Configuration

In the main setting panel of MegaMenu, hit the Live MegaMenu Editor to access the MegaMenu configuration panel.

In the configuration panel, you can:

- Create sub-menu for any menu item, assign widget for the sub-menu and configure size of the sub-menu block.
- Add row, column inside created sub-menu block.
- Add class to style for column, row in sub-menu.
- Align sub-menu block: left, right, center

### Pav Home Page Builder module

Pav Home Page Builder module is to help you build Homepage layout for your site the ways you want. In short, each layout is built up from blocks, each block contains columns, you can resize the columns and assign widgets to the columns. Each block, column, widget has its own setting to make sure you can build any layout you want.

To configure the module, please go to: Extensions > Modules, find the Pav Home Page Builder module then hit the "Edit" button to go to its setting panel.

#### Layout Settings

Pav Flower supports a lot of layouts, you can configure, customize any layout you want easily with the visual layout configuration. You can move a position to any place in the layout, assign any module to a position, etc.

Home Page Builder

#### Quickly edit a module

Hit the Edit icon in the module loaded in the layout and you can edit settings of the module in a popup.

#### Changing position to any place in the layout

You can move a module to any position inside the layout panel, there are some hard fixed positions, blocks that you can not move such as Header, Footer.

#### Edit the width of the module for each position

For each module, you can edit the width of the module by dragging and dropping it..

#### Widget management system

A new point in our framework is used for more widgets instead of using module as before to create a website. It is very easy and friendly with every user. With using this widget, you can save much time and energy. Only a few clicks, you can create a website you expect.

To go to Widget management system, please click on the "+" icon in the bottom position in Pav Home Page Builder Module

Then Add Column and Add Widget

There are two options for you choose in Module Management: Opencart Modules and Widgets

#### 1. Opencart Modules

This Opencart Modules tab allows you to choose our modules: Pav Blog Latest Comment Module, Pav Deals,... or default Opencart module: Banner, Latest, Bestsellers,...

#### 2. Widgets

In Widgets tab, you can choose any widget you want for your website. You can create as many widgets as you expect. The content of widget can be chosen from Filter By Name box or Filter By Group such as: All, Others, Typo, Product, Image, Piechart, Social and Opencart.

When you selected widget type, you need to add content for the widget. The content is depend on what widget type you select, add the required info and save the widget.

### Pav Blog module

This is the platform for Blog on Opencart. You can create categories, blog items and get it displayed in front-page brilliantly. The module comes with a lot of settings that allow you to manage your blog post easily. It also includes comment system, a lot of modules such as Category module, Most Read blog module, Latest Comment module and Latest blog module.

To manage Your Blog system, please go to: Extensions > Modules, find the Pav Blog module then hit the "Edit" button to go to its setting panel.

#### General Settings

General setting

Category Page setting

Blog setting

#### Category Management

#### Blog Management

#### Comment Management

#### Category Module setting

Front-end appearance of the module

#### Latest Comment Module setting

Front-end appearance of the module

#### Latest Module setting

Front-end appearance of the module

### Pav Layers Sliders module

To configure the module, please go to: Extensions > Modules, find the Pav Layers Sliders module then hit the "Edit" button to go to its setting panel.

- Slider settings
- Menu Assignment settings

### Pav Product Carousel module

Pav Product Carousel module is to display list of products in carousel. The products are selected based on: Featured, Latest, Best Seller, Most Viewed, Special, Top Rating.

To configure the module, please go to: Extensions > Modules, find the Pav Product Carousel module then hit the "Edit" button to go to its setting panel.

- Module Detail setting screenshot

## Default Opencart Modules

These are default Opencart modules but it's style has been customized to fit the theme design.

### Best Sellers module

The module is to display list of bestseller product in your OpenCart site. Its setting is so simple, just add layout, position that the module is displayed in and product image size.

To configure the module, please go to: Extensions > Modules, find the Best Sellers module then hit the "Edit" button to go to its setting panel.

- Module Detail setting screenshot

### Specials module

The module is to display list of special product in your OpenCart site. Its setting is so simple, just add layout, position that the module is displayed in and product image size.

To configure the module, please go to: Extensions > Modules, find the Specials module then hit the "Edit" button to go to its setting panel.

- Module Detail setting screenshot

### Category module

The module is to display list of category product in your OpenCart site. Its setting is so simple, just add layout, position that the module is displayed in and product image size.

To configure the module, please go to: Catalog > Categories and you can see the list of category product in your site.

- Module Detail setting screenshot

## Get Support

If you are unable to find your answer here in our documentation, please go to our forum and post up a new topic with all the details we need. Please be sure to include your site URL as well or send us an email.

### Our support scope

Our support covers configuration, building site as demo, trouble using any features, and bug fixes. We don't provide support for customizations or 3rd party extension.

### Our support time

We try our best to monitor the email around the clock, however, this is not always possible due to different time zones. We will try to reply you as fast as we can.

Our working time is 8.00 AM - 5.30 PM, Monday to Friday (GMT+7). So if ask for help in the weekend, you may have to wait a little bit for support and please be patient.