Demo Content
This option allows you to install or uninstall demo content by some clicks.
From Dashboard => Handamde Theme => Demo Content.
You can visit Demo Installation to get the detail guide for this part.
The best choice for your Woocommerce store
Amy Handmade is versatile and ultimate Woocommerce theme, it is designed for handmade websites, however you can use to build up any online shop as you want.
Several different homepage layouts to choose from, one-click demo installation function, Visual Composer page builder. Revolution Slider and more make Amy Handmade is the awesome solution for your online stores.
Just buy it to get your business more successful!
Amy Handmade offers you free lifetime updating.
» Support time: 8AM - 5PM GMT +7, Monday to Friday
» Response Time: Within 24 hours (1 business day).
Note: Support is NOT available on Saturday & Sunday due to our weekend break. All of the questions sent at the weekend will be solved on Monday of the next week
To use Amy Handmade, please be sure that you are using WordPress version 4.0 or later, PHP version 5.6 or higher and MySQL version 5.0 or higher. And before going to the theme detail, we would like to provide you some references about WordPress. We think these references are usefull for users who are new to WordPress as well as experienced users.
» New to WordPress: Show basic WordPress information
» Installation: How to install WordPress
Installation shows you what is included in Amy Handmade package and help you learn how to install theme via FTP, via WordPress and how to install required and recommended plugins using for Amy Handmade theme.
From your account on themeforest.net, you can download the entire package of Amy Handmade theme. The theme package is a zip file including the following structures:
» amyhandmade.zip: A WordPress theme.
» Licensing: General license information.
» Resources: All of required and recommended plugins using for Amy Handmade.
» Docunentation: The instruction to user Amy Handmade theme.
Follow the steps below to learn how to install theme via FTP
Step 1: Login to your hosting space via an FTP software
Step 2: Unzip the Amy Handmade file and only use the extracted Amy Handmade folder
Step 3: Upload the extracted Amy Handmade folder into wp-content => Theme folder
Step 4: Activate the newly installed theme by going to Appearance => Themes and click on Activate button to activate theme
Follow the steps below to learn how to install theme via WordPress
Step 1: From backend, go to Appearances => Themes => Add New button, click on Upload button at the top of the page
Step 2: Click on Choose File to choose theme from your local computer, the file requirement is zip format. Press Install Now button to install theme.
Step 3: Wait for few seconds, the theme will be uploaded and extracted automatically by WordPress. After this process complete, you only need to press on Activate link under the message for successful installed theme.
Once you ativate Amy Handmade, you will receive notification message to install plugins. Follow the steps of Plugins Installation part below to learn how to do this
Step 1: Once you activate Amy Handmade, you will receive a notification message at the top of the screen that shows you which are required plugins and which are recommended plugins for theme.
Step 2: Click on Begin Install Plugins link under the message to go to Plugin’s list in which you can install and activate the required and recommended plugins. Tick on the box for plugins you wish to install => Click on Bulk Action to see drop-down list => Install => Apply button
Important: Required plugins are compulsory plugins to make Amy Handmade work.
Step 3: Wait for some seconds, after all of the plugin is installed, from Dashboard => Plugins, you will activate the plugins as you want.
By One-Click Demo, you are easy to set up a site the same as Amy Handmade's demo in seconds with all three home pages content
Important: Before installing demo, you need to make sure that Amy Handmade theme and required plugins (Amy Handmade Extends, AmyTheme Framework and Visual Composer, WooCommerce) are installed and activated successfully
From Dashboard => Handamde Theme => Demo Content => Click on Install button, a popup will appear to ask if you want to continue installing the demo content. Click on OK button if you want to continue. Please wait for some seconds, once the installing process is completed, you will see the message Demo's Installed
After activating theme successfully, you can change some basic theme settings like site title, tagline, logo, favicon, footer,.....
To change your site title and tagline, from Dashboard => Settings => General, these parameters are critical for search engine.
To make your permalinks more SEO friendly, you can set custom permalinks structure. From Dashboard => Settings => Permalinks.
Now, you can change theme favicon and logo, footer by navigating to Theme Options section.
To change theme favicon and logo, from Dashboard => Handmade Theme => Header, you will find the detail information at Header section of Theme Options.
To change theme footer and copyright, from Dashboard => Handmade Theme => Footer, you will find the detail information at Footer section of Theme Options.
After installing Amy Handmade demo content successfully, you need to change the general information for the theme to make it step by step become your own website.
By theme options, you are allowed to tweak a theme’s global settings. You can change the logo, topbar, theme color, theme footer, copyright, blog page layout, and more...
From Dashboard => Handmade Theme, you can change the settings of theme options here.
This section allow you to change the theme color, add favicon for your website, enable/ disable boxed layout as well as import/ export the backup of homepage.
From Dashboard => Handmade Theme => General
Top bar section allows you to build up an awesome and functional topbar by adding modules as well as easy to custom the color.
From Dashboard => Handmade Theme => Topbar => you can add module for top bar right or top bar left.
Top bar general settings
» Enable Top bar: Select On/ Off to enable/ disable top bar. If you choose “Off”, all options below will be hidden
» Topbar Fullwidth: Select On/ Off to enable disable top bar full width.
» Show in small screen: Select On/ Off to show/ hide top bar on the small screen.
Adding Modules to top bar: Amy Handmade theme offer you 15 modules, so you can make your top bar unique.
Top Bar Left and Top Bar Right: Please click on Add New Module button, then choose an module from the list. You can add as many modules in top bar as you want
Adjustment Settings: This section allows you to change the top bar height as well as top bar divider height.
» Top Bar Height: Enter the value of top bar height (unit by pixel).
» Top Bar Divider Height: Enter the value ò the top bar divider height (unit by pixel).
» Background Color: Allows you to change color of the top bar background for normal top bar or transparent top bar.
» Text Color: Allows you to change the text color at top bar for normal top bar or transparent top bar.
» Link Color: Allows you to change the color of text (which is inserted link) for normal top bar or transparent top bar.
» Link Hover Color: Allows you to change the hover color of text (which is inserted link) for normal top bar or transparent top bar.
» Divider Color: Allows you to change the color of divider at the top bar of for normal top bar or transparent top bar.
» Popup Color: Allows you to change background color for popup.
» Popup Link color:
» Popup Menu Color:
Click on Save button to save any your change.
Header section allows you to set up and change logo, header layout, extra modules and more at your header site.
From Dashboard => Handmade Theme => Header.
Header layout settings
Logo Settings
Sticky header and mobile header settings
Menu Module Settings
Adjustment Settings: This section allows to change the padding and margin of normal header, sticky header or mobile header.
Color Settings
Click on Save button to save any your change.
This section allows you to set the global settings for the page header. You can change background image, color, video for page header.
From Dashboard => Handmade Theme => Page Header.
General Settings
Parallax Settings: You can decide to use the parallax effect for page header or not
Overlay Settings
Video Header Setting: You can see video for your page header
Color Setting
Click on Save button to save any your change.
Blog section allows you to make the global settings for blog page and single post page.
From Dashboard => Handmade Theme => Blog.
» Blog Layout: Amy Handmade theme offers you three layouts for your blog page (List layout, Grid layout and Masonry layout).
» Blog Columns: Shows if Grid layout and Masonry layout is selected. Decide the number of columns for your blog page.
» Blog Sidebar: Decide your blog page with right sidebar, left sidebar or full sidebar.
» Blog Sidebar Type: Choose sidebar/ widget area from the list. These sidebar/ widget area will be created at Widgetssection.
» Blog Featured Image Size: You can decide the global size for featured image of the blog posts.
» Blog Pagination: Decide to use the default pagination or load more or hide pagination at your blog page.
» Blog Automatically Excerpt: Select On/ Off to show/ hide blog excerpt.
» Blog Excerpt Word Limit: Enter the number of words will show at the post excerpt.
» Show Featured Image: Select On/ Off to show/ hide featured image.
» Featured Image Size: Decide the featured image size.
» Show Social Share: Select On/ Off to show/ hide social icons (Facebook, Google Plus, Pinterest, Twitter) at the single blog page.
» Show About Authors: Select On/ Off to show/ hide the “about author” section at single blog page.
» Show Recent Posts: Select On/ Off to show/ hide recent posts at the single movie page.
» Recent Posts: Click on the arrow-down icon to select the recent posts type (Recent Posts, Related Posts, Random Posts, Most Commented Post).
» Recent Posts Title: Enter the recent post title
» Recent Post Thumbnail: Select On/ Off to show/ hide the recent post thumbnail.
» Recent Post Thumbnail Size: Click on arrow-down button to select the post thumbnail size.
» Show Post Navigation: Select On/ Off to show/ hide the post navigation.
Click on Save button to save any your change.
From Dashboard => Handmade Theme => Typography => click on Add New Typography button to add new typography for new parts
Click on Save button to save any your changes.
This section allows you to set the number columns of products at shop page, and more.
From Dashboard => Handamde Theme => WooCommerce
This section is optional allows you to add the extra css and js.
From Dashboard => Handmade Theme => Extra.
This option allows you to install or uninstall demo content by some clicks.
From Dashboard => Handamde Theme => Demo Content.
You can visit Demo Installation to get the detail guide for this part.
Amy Handmade offers you 15 great module for the top bar and header.
This module help you to add the search module to your top bar, you will be easy to create a nice and functional search module by some options.
At the Top bar left, Top bar right, Header section => click on Add New Module button => Choose Search for Module Type option
Search module settings
At the top bar/ header section, you can see
Text module allows you to show the normal text with icon on the top bar/ header.
At the Top bar left, Top bar right, Header section => click on Add New Module button => Choose Text for Module Type option
Text module settings
At the top bar/ header section, you can see
At the Top bar left, Top bar right, Header section => click on Add New Module button => Choose Textarea for Module Type option
Textarea module settings
At the top bar/ header section, you can see
At the Top bar left, Top bar right, Header section => click on Add New Module button => Choose Modal for Module Type option
Modal module settings
At the top bar/ header section, you can see
At the Top bar left, Top bar right, Header section => click on Add New Module button => Choose Link for Module Type option
Link module settings
This module allow you to show the extra module on the top bar.
At the Top bar left, Top bar right, Header section => click on Add New Module button => Choose Menu for Module Type option
Menu module settings
At the top bar/ header section, you can see
Each Social module will allow you to add one social network like Facebook, Twitter, Google+,... anything you want.
At the Top bar left, Top bar right, Header section => click on Add New Module button => Choose Social for Module Type option
Please note that you need to add one by one social module for Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, Pinterest, Skype, … anything you want.
Social module settings
At the top bar/ header section, you can see
You can be easy to show the WP login module on the top bar/ header
At the Top bar left, Top bar right, Header section => click on Add New Module button => Choose WP Login for Module Type option
WP Login module settings
At the top bar/ header section, you can see
You can be easy to show the Woocommerce login/ logout/ My Account module on the top bar/ header
At the Top bar left, Top bar right, Header section => click on Add New Module button => Choose Woocommerce Login & Logout for Module Type option
Woocommerce Login & Logout module settings
At the top bar/ header section, you can see
At the Top bar left, Top bar right, Header section => click on Add New Module button => Choose qTranslate Language Switcher for Module Type option
qTranslate Language Switcher module settings
At the top bar/ header section, you can see
At the Top bar left, Top bar right, Header section => click on Add New Module button => Choose WPML Language Switcher for Module Type option
WPML Language Switcher module settings
At the Top bar left, Top bar right, Header section => click on Add New Module button => Choose Polylang language switcher for Module Type option
Polylang language switcher module settings
Woocommerce Minicart module help visitors easy to manage their shopping cart.
At the Top bar left, Top bar right, Header section => click on Add New Module button => Choose Woocommerce Minicart for Module Type option
Woocommerce Minicart module settings
At the top bar/ header section, you can see
This module allow you to add the cart button at the top bar or the header so that visitors can see the number of products in their shopping cart, then click on that cart button to the cart page.
At the Top bar left, Top bar right, Header section => click on Add New Module button => Choose Woocommerce Cart Count for Module Type option
Woocommerce Cart Count module settings
At the top bar/ header section, you can see
This module helps visitors can see the cart button with the total price on the top bar or header.
At the Top bar left, Top bar right, Header section => click on Add New Module button => Choose Woocommerce Cart Count and Price for Module Type option
Woocommerce Cart Count and Price module settings
At the top bar/ header section, you can see
This section guildes all the things you need to create for your handmade websites. Here you will learn how to create new posts, products, testimonials and how to set up a homepage.
Amy Handmade uses Woocommerce plugin to build up the product data and your shop. If you want more detail information, you can visit Woocommerce documentation.
From Dashboard => Products => Categories
With Woocommerce plugin, you can use a lot of feature to create a product. And in this theme, I will show you some basic features.
From Dashboard => Products => Add Product
Set product image: Click on Set Product Image button to select an image from the library or upload an image from your computer.
Page Layout: You can decide the product single page layout with right sidebar, left sidebar or full width
If you choose Page Layout is right sidebar or left sidebar, Choose a custom sidebar option will appear allows you to select a sidebar from the list.
Product Gallery: Click on Add product gallery image to upload product gallery for that product.
Product Settings: This section allows you to set up the product with Product Type, Virtual products or Downloadable products.
General Tab
Inventory Tab
Shipping Tab: This section will be hide if Virtual product is enabled.
Linked products Tab: You can set up related product, up-sells and cross-sell product. Please visit here to get more detail information.
Attributes Tab: Click on Add button to add the additional information for the product. You can learn more detail in Attribute function at here.
Advanced Tab: In this section, you can enable/ disable review function.
Enter the product short description
Custom Page Option
You can use global page header or custom page header for each product page.
10.1. General Tab: This section allows you to turn on/ off the transparency header and top bar as well as footer section
10.2. Page Header Tab: This section allows you to show/ hide page header or decide to use the global page header as well as custom the page header base on your needs.
After all, click on Publish button to publish the product.
From Dashboard => Posts => Categories. You can explore the extra useful information for categories at Wordpress Codex
From Dashboard => Posts => Add New
Pag Layout: You can decide the interface of blog post detail page with Left Sidebar, Right Sidebar, Full Width.
If you choose Left Sidebar or Right Sidebar layout, Choose a Custom Sidebar option will appear. Click on Choose a Custom Sidebar to select a sidebar from the list.
Custom Page Option
8.1. General Tab: This section allows you to turn on/ off the transparency header and top bar as well as footer section
8.2. Page Header Tab: This section allows you to show/ hide page header or decide to use the global page header as well as custom the page header base on your needs.
After all, click on Publish button.
From Dashboard => Testimonials => Categories => Enter the category’s name at the Name option => click on Add New Category button to save and if you want you can continue to add new categories.
From Dashboard => Testimonials => Add New
By default, WordPress sets blog page as a home page for your website. Almost of time, it is not what you want, so in this guide, you can learn how to create and set up a special homepage for your site.
From Dashboard => Pages => Add New
Custom Page header: Please note that this section is invalid for the front page.
3.1. General Tab: This section allows you to turn on/ off the transparency header and top bar as well as footer section
3.2. Page Header Tab: This section allows you to show/ hide page header or decide to use the global page header as well as custom the page header base on your needs.
After all, click on Publish button
From Dashboard => Settings => Reading, you can set homepage by following the steps of the screenshot below.
Amy User Settings section allows you to enable/ disable the custom login page in a popup or in a page with sidebar or without sidebar and add Social login in that page.
From Dashboard => Users => Amy User Settings
1. General Settings
General
Page User Settings: This section allows you to decide the layout of login page with sidebar or without sidebar.
Popup Setting: This section allows you to decide using login popup or login page.
2. Social Settings
Enable Social Login: Select On/ Off to enable/ disable social login module (Facebook, Google Plus, Twitter) on the custom login page.
Please note that if you choose Off for Enable Social Login option, all of the options below will be invalid.
Facebook Login Settings
Google Plus Login Settings
Twitter Login Settings
This section shows you the detail setting of each Amy Handmade shortcode. It's very useful if you want to use shortcode to build up your own webpage.
Amy Tabs allows you to easily add and edit your tabs and you can add elements into each tabs as you wish. Follow the steps below to learn how Amy Tabs works
At this step, you can learn how to set the position of tab and choose active tab
From the green bar => click on button to make general setting on Tab
1.1. General Setting
1.2. Extra Setting: This option is optional allows you to add extras ID or extras class for your tabs
You can edit tab name or add element into child tabs at yellow bar
Click on tab you want to edit => click button at yellow bar , a popup will appear and you can change the tab name as you want
Each tab will show diferent content. To do this: click on the tab you want to add elements and click Plus icon at the yellow bar to choose elements like the image below
Please visit the GIF image helow to know about the tab settings.
Amy Handmade Blog allows you to show the blog posts with two nice layout, and you are easy to arrange your post by title, comment count, post ID, Date and more.
At the backend you can see
Blog layout 1, you can see
Blog layout 2, you can see
With Amy Handmade Heading shortcode, you can be easy to build up a creative block heading and easy to change the color and font size of the heading.
At the backend you can see
On the frontend you can see
You can be easy to show the gallery from your instagram account.
At the backend you can see
On the frontend you can see
Amy Handmade LookBook shortcode allows you to show the lookbook gallery of the newest as well as outstanding design of your products or other as you want. You also can add the nice text item block inserted a link to.
At the backend you can see
On the frontend you can see
With Amy Testimonial plugin, you can create the testimonial from backend with client’s name, quote, avatar, position, and Amy Testimonials List shortcode allows you to show the list of those testimonials.
1. General Settings
There are two ways to get data from: Testimonial Category or Testimonial IDs.
» If you want to get data from Testimonial Category, at the backend you can see.
» If you want to get data from Testimonial IDs, at the backend you can see.
2. Layout Options
Amy Handmade offers you three layouts to display testimonials to fit your each design.
3. Slide Settings
4. Extra Settings
After all, click on Save button to save any your change.
Product Countdown shortcode help you easy to show your big sale on the particular product with the nice and attractive design.
At the backend, you can see
How to get the product ID
From Dashboard => Products => hover on the sale product you want to show at the countdown section, you will see the product ID.
On the front-end, you can see
Product Carousel shortcode helps you to show the products in the carousel style with two layouts (horizontal or vertical).
1. General Settings
2. Layout Options
If you choose “vertical” layout, the “Rows” option will appear help you enter the number of rows you want to show.
3. Slide Options
4. Extra Options
Horizontal layout you can see
Vertical layout you can see
You can display your products in two grid styles.
1. General Settings
2. Layout Options
Grid layout, on the front-end you can see
This shortcode help you to display products with 4 special and nice layouts. You can easy to show/ hide the rate stars with the products.
1. General Settings
2. Layout Options
Layout 1, on the front-end you can see
Layout 2, on the front-end you can see
Layout 3, on the front-end you can see
Layout 4, on the front-end you can see
This shortcode will help you easy to build up a block with easy text on the right and image icon on the left You totally can change the text color and font size.
At the backend you can see
On the front-end you can see
A WordPress Widgets are small blocks that perform a specific function. You can add widgets to sidebars/ widget areas to show on your webpages. At the screenshot above you can see widgets are on your left-hand side and the Widget Areas are on the right-hand side.
You can find more information about widget HERE
Amy Handmade List allows you to show the list of blog posts at your sidebar or widget area.
From Dashboard => Widgets, you will drag and drop Amy Handmade List to any widget area you want to display.
Amy Movie List Widget Settings
With Instagram module you are easy to show the image from an instagram account.
About module allows you to add some text with a banner like a short introduction of your company or your website.
From Dashboard => Widgets, you will drag and drop Amy Handmade Module to any widget area you want to display, then choose Instagram for Type option.
Contact module allows you to show some information about your address, phone and email and more,,,, so that visitor can be easier to contact you if they need.
From Dashboard => Widgets, you will drag and drop Amy Handmade Module to any widget area you want to display, then choose Contact for Type option.
At the backend you can see
On the frontend, you can see
Advertising Module allows you to add advertising banner and insert a link into it
From Dashboard => Widgets, you will drag and drop Amy Handmade Module to any widget area you want to display, then choose Adverising for Type option.
You can add as many social network channels as you want at the social module. Clicking on Add New Social button to add new social.
From Dashboard => Widgets, you will drag and drop Amy Handmade Module to any widget area you want to display, then choose Social for Type option => Clicking on Add New Social button to add new social.
This widget allows you to show the testimonials on the sidebar or widget area. You can show testimonials based on the categories, or you can decide which testimonials will be shown by enter the testimonials IDs.
From Dashboard => Widgets, you will drag and drop Amy Handmade Testimonials to any widget area you want to display.
Title: Enter the widget title.
Decide to get data from testimonial categories or testimonials IDs.
» Get Data from Testimonial categories
» » Get Data from: Select Category for this option
» » Genre: Shows if "Category" is selected at "Get Data From" option. Select the testimonial categories you want to show.
» Get Data from Testimonial IDs: This feature allows you to select which testimonials will be shown.
» » Get Data from: Select Testimonial IDs for this option
» » Testimonial IDs: Shows if "Testimonial IDs" is selected at "Get Data From" option. Enter the testimonial IDs to the box.
General Information.
» Order by: Arrange the displaying orders of testimonials according to Title, Date or Random Orders
» Sort Order: Arrange the displaying order of testimonials according to Descending or Ascending.
» Layout: There are two layouts to show testimonials (List, Grid and Carousel).
» Number Testimonials: Decide the number of testimonials will be shown.
» Column: Shows if Grid layout or Carousel layout is selected. Decide the number columns of testimonials
» List Field Visible: Decide the client’s extra fields will show with client’s testimonials.
Show Avatar: Select On/ Off to show/ hide client’s avatar
If you choose On, there are some options will appear.
Show Pagination: Select On/ Off to show/ hide pagination.
If you choose On, there are some options will appear.
Custom Style: Choose On to custom style for testimonials. If you choose Off, the testimonials will use default style.
Extra Css: Enter the extra Css for this block (optional)
After all, click on Save button to save any your change.
1. What is sidebar/ widget area?
Sidebar/ Widget Areas display the information other than the main content of the webpage. A sidebar will include widgets which are configured by admin. In other word, widgets are only useful when they’re put into Sidebars/ Widget Areas.
2. Global Widget Areas
Global Widget Areas are Widget Areas displayed on all pages. They are Footer Widget Before, # Footer Widget,...You can enable/ disable Global widget areas at Theme options
3. Custom Widget Areas
You can create unlimited Widget Areas for your site at Custom Widget Area button and choose one of them is your sidebar
Step 1: From Dashboard => Appearance => Widgets.
Step 2: At Custom Widget Area field, enter the name of new sidebar (widget area).
4. How to add widgets into Widget areas