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Orchid Theme for nopCommerce

How to Install and Enable the Theme

To install the theme

  • Download the Orchid theme from our store https://nop-station.com/customer/downloadableproducts
  • Go to Configuration → Local plugins from the Admin dashboard.

    local-plugins-page

  • Click on the Upload plugin or theme button and a popup will appear asking to navigate to the file that contains the theme.

  • Select the downloaded .zip file named 'Orchid Theme' and click Upload plugin or theme button.

  • Install and enable all the 12 plugins whose Group name is 'Nop Station'. Make sure the "Nop-Station Orchid Theme" plugin is installed and enabled.

  • To get these plugins, search by the group name.

    plugins group name

  • To know how to install and enable a plugin, go to nopCommerce documentation describing this topic.

  • Disable the Nivo Slider plugin to get the expected view on the homepage.

To enable the theme

  • Go to Configuration → Settings → General settings in the admin panel.

  • Choose Orchid as the Default store theme.

    select default theme

To enable the plugins

  • Go to Administration → Configuration → Local plugins

  • Search the plugins associated with this theme by using the Group Name 'Nop-Station'

  • Locate and click the Edit button for the plugin to be enabled for example, 'Nop-Station OCarousel'

  • In the pop-up window, tick the checkbox named 'Enabled' and click Save.

    enable plugin

The License Key

After buying the theme, one should contact nopStation for the license key and it will be sent through an email. The contact info is available here.

If anyone tries to configure the theme or bundled plugins for the first time, s/he will be redirected to a page prompting to enter the Product Key. It can also be entered by going to Nop Station → Core settings → License.

enable plugin

Configuration

You can configure the theme configuration by going to Administration → Nop Station → Themes → Orchid → Configuration

general-settings

footer-settings

General Settings:

  • Custom theme color: Choose a color that you want the site theme to display.
  • Enable image lazy-load: If you want to lazy-load for product box image enable this.
  • Lazy-load picture: From here you can choose a picture from your device and upload it. This picture will be displayed initially in the product box. Upload picture size should not be more than 4-5 KB.
  • Show supported cards picture at page footer: Determines whether the supported card picture will be displayed on page footer or not.
  • Supported cards picture: With this, you can choose a picture from your device and upload it. This single picture of supported cards should be expected image height 30 px.
  • Show logo at page footer: Determines whether the logo will be displayed on page footer or not.
  • Footer logo: With this, you can choose a logo from your device and upload it. This single logo should be expected image height 40 px.
  • Footer email: Specify email which will be displayed in at page footer.
  • Footer address: Specify address which which will be displayed at page footer.
  • Footer phone number: Here you can set your phone number to show on site.
  • Footer secondary phone number: Here you can set your secondary phone number to show on site.
  • Custom CSS: Write custom CSS for your website. It will be rendered in the head section of the HTML page.

Footer Top Description Settings:

Here you can configure total of four description box for the footer. Easch box can contain,

  • Enable description box: Check to show description box
  • Description box title: Title of the description box
  • Description box text: Text you want to display at the description box
  • Description box url: Url you want to redirect to when clicked on the description box
  • Description box picture: Picture to display at the description box one

Plugin Configuration:

In the section you can learn about configure your plugins.