Flexible Web Design Team PureMart template User manual

Flexible Web Design Team PureMart template User manual

Below you will find brief information for Virtuemart Template VM2 PureMart. This guide will walk you through the installation process for the PureMart template, from unzipping the files to configuring the plugin and uploading the necessary folders. You will also learn how to customize the template to achieve the look and feel desired for your online store.

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//  Flexible  –  Virtuemart  VM2  Template  –  PureMart  FOR  VIRTUEMART  2.0.x  (ONLY)  

//  version  1.0  

//  author  Flexible  Web  Design  Team  

//  copyright  (C)  2011-­β€  flexiblewebdesign.com  

 

//  license  GNU/GPLv3     http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-­β€3.0.html

 

FLEXIBLE  WEB  DESIGN  TEAM  

Flexible    Virtuemart  2  Template  –  PureMart  (for  VM2.0.x  only)  

TUTORIAL  

 

INSTALLATION  PureMart  VM  2  Template  (in  3  steps):  

 

  1.  STEP:  Explaining  the  files  and  folders.  

Once  you  UNZIP  the  Installation  file  that  you  download  from  our  server,  you  will  get  3  folders  and  3  files.    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Release  Notes.txt  =  Includes  the  Release  History.  Check  the  last  page  of  this  PDF  to  see  the  Release  History.  

Plg_flexibleTemplate.zip  =  is  the  plugin  you  need  to  install  it  to  your  joomla.  (2.  step)  

3  folders  =  you  are  going  to  upload  them  to  a  specific  location.  It  will  be  explained  in  (3.step)  

TUTORIAL.PDF  =  you  are  now  reading  it  :)  

2.  STEP:  Installing  plg_flexibleTemplate.zip  Plug-­β€in  to  Joomla!  

You  are  going  to  install  it  as  if  you  are  installing  any  other  joomla  plugin/components  or  module.  Basically   through  Extension  Manager.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

When  you  see  this  Message,  it  means  the  plugin  is  installed  to  your  Joomla!.  

 

 

As  it’s  stating  there,  you  need  to  publish  the  Plugin.  

 

 

 

3.  STEP:  Copying  Folders  to  proper  location

 

As  you  remember  you  got  3  folders    (com_virtuemart,  mod_virtuemart_cart  and  mod_virtuemart_search).  

Please  upload  this  folder  to  this  path  in  your  server:  π‘—π‘œπ‘œπ‘šπ‘™π‘Žπ‘…π‘œπ‘œπ‘‘ !

/templates/π‘¦π‘œπ‘’π‘Ÿπ‘‡π‘’π‘šπ‘π‘™π‘Žπ‘‘π‘’ !

/html/      

  π‘—π‘œπ‘œπ‘šπ‘™π‘Žπ‘…π‘œπ‘œπ‘‘ !

 =  is  the  location  where  your  joomla  is  installed .   π‘¦π‘œπ‘’π‘Ÿπ‘‡π‘’π‘šπ‘π‘™π‘Žπ‘‘π‘’ !

 =  is  the  joomla  template  folder  you  are  using  currently.  

 

 

Please  take  a  look  at  screenshot,  in  our  DEMO  page,  we  are  using  beez_20  joomla  template,  and  we  have  installed  those  folders  to  here:  

These  are  the   folders  you  need  to   upload  to  your   server.    

 

 

 

 

 

 

QUESTION&ANSWER:  

Q:  Under  my  HTML  folder,  there  is  already  a  folder  called  “com_virtuemart”,  what  should  I  do .  

A:  Delete  that  folder  completely,  and  upload  our  com_virtuemart  instead.  

   

Q:  I  don’t  know  what  joomla  template  I  am  using,  or  I  can’t  be  sure.    

A:  Browse  your  joomla-­β€backend  panel.  And  click  Extensions  -­β€  >  Template  Manager  

 

 

 

 

From  below  screenshot,  find  out  which  joomla  template  you  are  using  for  “site”  location.    

 

 

 

Q:  I  found  out  my  template,  and  browsed  that  folder,  but  there  is  no  HTML  folder  in  it  

A:  You  can  create  a  new  folder  with  the  name  of  “HTML”  manually.  

The  installation  is  done,    

Mission  Accomplished  :)  

Joomla  template  name  

 

 

Here  comes  the  fun  Part:  CONFIGURING  PureMart:  

 

You  have  finished  the  installation  already,  here  comes  the  fun  part.  In  order  to  use  our  theme  and  Virtuemart  itself   as  expected  (or  as  you  see  things  in  our  DEMO);  there  are  some  important  parameters  you  want  to  configure.  Since  

VM2  is  very  new  concept  and  completely  different  than  VM1.1.x,  let  me  explain  those  important  parameters  with   screenshots  one-­β€by  one  so  everyone  can  easily  understand  what  those  are.  Open  the  Joomla!  Back-­β€end  and  navigate   to  your  Virtuemart  Component,  then  click  the  "Configuration"  link.  

 

 

     

1-­β€ If  you  would  like  have  the  same  Price  layout  that  you  see  in  our  DEMO  website:  

Which  look  those  below  (basically  when  there  is  discount,  it  overrides  the  old  price):  

                                                                   

 

 

Then  you  need  to  enable  those  pricing  parameters  below  in  your  Configuration  (see  the  screenshot  below).  You  can   select  more  options  (such  as:  Tax  Amount  etc..)  ,  but  you  should  at  least  choose  these  options  below:  

 

If  you  would  like  to  change  your  price  labels    

Base  price  with  tax/Base  price  without  tax      to     “List  Price”,    

 

  Sales  Price     to    “Our  Price”    

Discount     to     “You  Save”.    

The  file  you  need  to  modify  is  this:  

  yourdomain.com/language/en-­β€GB 3 /en-­β€GB.com_virtuemart.ini  

en-­β€G3  is  for  English  Virtuemarts  .It  will  be  what  ever  language  you  currently  have  for  your  Virtuemart.  For  example;  for  French,  it  is  fr-­β€FR  

In  this  file;  look  for  the  text  you  want  to  change,  and  change  the  text  to  what  you  would  like  then  you  are  done.  This   file  actually  is  the  translation  file  for  your  Virtuemart.  You  can  change  any  text  you  would  like  via  this  Language  file.  

 

For  example,  you  can  remove  the  “No  Additional  Charge”  text  from  this  language  INI  file  that  appears  in  the  Custom  

Field  attributes.    

 

 

 

2-­β€ In  the  configuration  section,  click  “Templates”  tab  from  the  header  bar,  take  a  look  at  the  screenshot   below;  

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Make  sure  you  have  the  same  settings  as  the  screenshot  above,  which  are:    

               

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(VM  Template  –  PureMart  comes  with  2  different  category  browse  page  layout  versions,  each  version  includes  3  View   options:  ListView,  GridView,  MultiGridView.  You  can  change  the  Default  View  (the  View  option  that  shows  off  when  visitor  open  the  page)  

  option  through  Flexilbe  VM2  Template  plugin.  Choose  any  category  layout  version  that  you’d  like  through  Virtuemart  Configuration).  The   category  layouts  come  with  our  template  are:  -­β€

 

   

  a. default     b. flexV2    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There  might  be  some  more  in  the  dropdown  list  in  VM  Configuration  but  only  2  of  them  come  with  our  template .  

Default  Number  of  categories  in  a  row:  3    

(recommended  value  is  3,  but  try  and  see  how  it  looks  like  with  2,  4  or  even  5)  

 

             

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(Choose  any  product  details  layout  version  that  you’d  like  through  Virtuemart  Configuration).  The  product  details  page   layouts  come  with  our  template  are:

 

  a. default   b. flexV2  

There  might  be  some  more  in  the  dropdown  list  in  VM  Configuration  but  only  2  of  them  come  with  our  template .  

 

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(recommended  value  is  3,  but  try  and  see  how  it  looks  like  with  2,  4  or  even  5.)  

 

 

 

3-­β€ We  are  still  on  “Templates”  tab,  scroll  down  the  page  little  bit  and  look  at  the  screenshot  below    

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Make  sure  you  have  enabled  the  Dynamic  Thumbnail  Resizing  option.  For  the  best  use  of  our  template,  you   should  set  your  thumbnail  size  200px  by  200px.  Making  them  too  large  or  too  small  values  might  create  some   weird  visual  bugs.  If  you  already  have  uploaded  pictures,  you  have  an  ongoing  website  and  your  thumbnails  are   larger/smaller  than  these  values,  and  our  template  might  not  look  cool  (You  should  give  it  a  try  and  see  how  it   looks,  first)  I  am  afraid  you  should  regenerate  your  thumbnails  with  200x200  again  L  Regenerating  thumbnail  is   a  tough  topic,  because  just  because  you  change  those  values,  it  doesn’t  mean  your  thumbnails  will  be   regenerated  automatically  by  itself,  only  the  pictures  that  you  are  going  to  upload  from  now  on  will  be  generated  

  sure  all  you  have  the  EXACT  same  settings.  

 

 

4-­β€ Now,  click  the  “Checkout”  tab  and  look  below  for  the  screenshot:  

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Make  sure  you  have  the  same  settings,  which  are  highlighted  in  the  screenshot  above.    

 

           

   

5-­β€ Okay,  now,  you  change  the  category  layout  from  Configuration,  but  some  of  your  categories  or  products   are  tend  to  use  some  another  layout  than  what  you  have  chosen.  There  are  2  places  that  you  should   check  it  out  for  configuring  Category  Page  and  Product  Detail  page  layouts.  First;  click  the  link  that  you  see   in  the  screenshot  below.  

 

                 

Then  click  any  category  from  the  list  (start  from  the  first  and  check  all  of  them  one  by  one),  after  you  click  any  of   them,  scroll  down  the  page  little  bit  and  look  at  the  screenshot  below:  

       

                     

 

Make  sure  for  that  particular  category  “Default  Number  of  Products  per  Row”  field  is  0,  

Don’t  get  confused  with  the  0  (zero).  If  this  field  is  0,  it  means;  it  will  be  whatever  number  you  have  submitted  from   the  configuration  (which  we  did  it  in  the  Step#3).  If  it  is  anything  rather  than  0,  then  it  will  be  overwritten  for  that   particular  category.  Also  look  at  the  last  3  fields,  and  make  sure  they  are:  

  1-­β€User  shop  default,  2-­β€No  override,    3-­β€No  override  

Also  by  using  the  above  configuration,  you  can  set  a  particular  Category  layout  and  Product  Detail  Page  layout  for   particular  categories.  It  is  pretty  usefull  if  you  want  to  use  a  different  layout  for  different  categories,  our  template   already  has  2  different  Category  and  Product  layout  versions,  you  can  use  both  of  them  in  a  single  website  for   different  categories.  Anyway,  There  is  one  more  place  that  you  can  change  Product  Detail  Layout  (this  time  only   product  detail  layout,  not  category  layout).  

 

Browse  your  Product  list;  And  choose  one  of  your  products  from  the  list.    

 

     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This  field  indicates  which  Product  

Detail  page  will  be  used  for  only   for  this  particular  product.  So  it   doesn’t  matter,  what  you  have   chosen  from  configuration  or   categories  sections.  If  you  change   this  field  to  something  rather   than  “no  override”,  it  means  it  is   final  and  this  layout  will  be  used  

(of  course  only  for  this  specific   product).  

 

 

People  have  asked  this  so  many  times,  I  should  mention  about  it;  The  shipment  icon  that  you  see  in  our  DEMO,  that   says:  1-­β€2  days,  24  hours,  3-­β€5days  shipping..  etc.  they  appear  only  if  you  select  any  of  them.  While  you  are  in  the  

  product  edit  page.  (the  screenshot  above  was  taken  from  “product  edit  page”).  Click  the  “Product  Status”  tab.  

And  select  a  Shipment  Icon  from   this  dropdown  box.  Than  the  icon   will  start  appearing  in  the   product  detail  page.  (For  this   specific  product)  

 

 

Creating  SPECIFICATION  TAB  IN  product  details  page  

Specifications  TAB  

 

 

 

You  should  create  non-­β€cart  attributes.  And  they  will  be  listed  as  “Specifications”  in  the  product  details  page.  To   create    Non-­β€Cart  Custom  Attribute,  you  should   submit  “ontop”  to  “layout  position”  field  while  you  are  creating  the   custom  field:  

 

 

Select,  NO  to  create  Non-­β€cart   attribute.  

Type:  ontop  to  “layout”  field.  

 

 

Basically  you  are  going  to  do  it  for  all  specification  parameters  you  are  going  to  create  (materials,  warranty  etc..).  

Then  browse  any  product,  add  those  custom  fields  and  submit  values  for  them.  

 

 

 

 

You  don’t  need  to  do  anything  for  Checkout  steps/shopping  cart  and  virtuemart  login  page  design,  They  will  be   changed  by  itself.  

 

 

 

 

Thanks  for  buying.    

Flexible  Web  Design  Team   http://www.flexiblewebdesign.com/support  

 

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Key Features

  • Easy Installation
  • Customizable Design
  • Compatible with VM2
  • Multiple Layout Options
  • Detailed Configuration Guide

Frequently Answers and Questions

What files and folders are included in the installation package?
The installation package includes three folders (com_virtuemart, mod_virtuemart_cart, and mod_virtuemart_search) and three files (Release Notes.txt, plg_flexibleTemplate.zip, and TUTORIAL.pdf).
Where do I upload the folders after installing the plugin?
You need to upload the folders to the following path on your server: yourJoomlaRoot ! /templates/yourTemplate ! /html/
How do I change the price labels?
You can customize the labels by modifying the file located at yourdomain.com/language/en-GB3/en-GB.com_virtuemart.ini. Look for the specific text you want to change and modify it to your desired label.
What are the recommended settings for the category and product layouts?
The recommended settings require choosing the correct template versions in the Virtuemart Configuration section. For category layouts, select either "default" or "flexV2." For product layouts, again select either "default" or "flexV2."
How do I create a specification tab in the product details page?
To create the "Specifications" tab, you need to create non-cart attributes. While creating custom fields, set the "layout position" to "ontop." When adding products, fill in the custom fields with the desired values.

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