The Lotus Hotel - Responsive Hotel Booking Wordpress Theme

Version 1.0

Thank you very much for purchasing our theme. This document will guide you through the setup process of this theme. If you have questions about our theme that isn't covered in this documentation, please post your question here.

Theme Installation

Download package contents

Once you have downloaded and unzipped the Lotus 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.

Lotus.theme.zip This is a zip archive of the theme.
Documentation This is the help documentation. To view simply open index.html found inside this folder

Install Theme

Once you have downloaded the Lotus package from Themeforest.net, there are 2 ways of installing this theme. These are as follows:

Method 1

  1. Unzip the download package using Winzip or equivalent.
  2. You will see another zip archive file inside called Lotus.theme.zip, unzip this file also using Winzip or equivalent software and using an FTP client (eg. Filezilla), upload its contents to your WordPress installation. You will need to place the folder into the following location: wp-content/themes
  3. Now inside your WordPress admin area, go to Appearance > Themes and there you will see the Lotus Theme.
  4. Click Activate to activate the theme. If you do not see the theme in this screen, you have done something incorrectly. Review the last few steps again.

Method 2

  1. Unzip the Lotus download package. Once unzipped you will see a zip file named Lotus.theme.zip, this is a compressed version of the theme.
  2. Now inside your WordPresss admin area, go to Appearance > Themes > Add new > Upload theme
  3. Click browse and locate this Lotus.theme.zip file and upload it
  4. Now you will see the Lotus theme in the Themes page.
  5. Click Activate to activate the theme. If you do not see the theme in this screen, you have done something incorrectly. Review the last few steps again.

NOTE: After install theme, you will need to install some plugins, just click Begin installing required plugins and active it.

Install plugin required

Install Demo Content

Here is that the theme offer the feature of One Click to import demo database. Just go to Lotus > Import Demo Data

Theme option

Logo & favicon

Open Lotus > Theme Setting > Logo & favicon

Header

Open Lotus > Theme Setting > Header

Header Address : Display hotel address

Phone Number : Display the contact phone

Header Top Menu : this is created by go to Apprearance > Menus > Create new menu and choose the Theme Location is Top Menu

Sidebar

Open Lotus > Theme Setting > Sidebar

Sidebar on Archives Pages : For pages such as category, tag ,taxonomy

Sidebar on Blog page :For only Archive Blog page

Sidebar on Single Post :For your blog detail pages

Sidebar on Pages :This rule apply for all pages that you create by Pages > Add New

Open Lotus > Theme Setting > Footer

Blog

Open Lotus > Theme Setting > Blog

Newletter

Open Lotus > Theme Setting > Newletter

Enable Newsletter : Optional ON/OFF Newsletter section

Newsletter Shortcode : Insert any shortcode of Contact form 7

Enable Social : this will be displayed when one of social networks is enable in Theme Setting > Social Follow tab

Social Follow

Open Lotus > Theme Setting > Social Follow

This feature allow all of audience follow your own fanpage of popular social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Google plus ... and so on. It will be displayed on Newsletter section. Just only insert your link fanpage below and turn ON/OFF whenever you want to use.

Font Style

Open Lotus > Theme Setting > Social Sharing

This feature allow you can import any font from Google font, custom all of heading font , paragraph as well as Menu/Navigation

Custom code

Open Lotus > Theme Setting > Custom code

This feature allow you can import any font from Google font, custom all of heading font , paragraph as well as Menu/Navigation

Page 404

Open Lotus > Theme Setting > Page 404

Coming Soon

Open Lotus > Theme Setting > Coming soon

You can active this functionality if your site is still ready to run

Page Setting

Setting Home & Blog Page

Step 1: Go to Setting > Reading

Step 2: Tick checkbox 'A stactic page'

Step 3: For Front page select any Home demo page you want in the select box.

Step 4: For Post Page select page called "Blog".

Navigation

This theme have two option menu location

Main Menu: The menu is located in the Header

Top Menu: The menu is visible for my account in the icon toggle upper left hand corner of pages

Widgets

Widgets

Here is a some of pages template sidebar that are included in this theme

engo Alert

Step 1: Insert description alert

Step 2: Choose one of a kind of alert style


engo animate number


engo Banner


engo Button


engo catalogue



engo List Room


engo Event


engo Reservation


engo Team


engo Testimonial


Tutorial / Guide

Some common question

Here is a some of pages template sidebar that are included in this theme