Arena Produts Store - WordPress Plugin

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Setting up APS plugin

Installation

You can install Arena Products Store plugin by using 1 of 2 methods available here

Method 1

You have already downloaded and unzipped aps-products-wp.zip copy > paste the folder called aps-products.zip on your desktop.

Login to your wp-admin go to Plugins > Add New click on upload (link) in the next screen click on browse button and navigate to your desktop, find and select aps-products.zip, now press Install Now button (see image below), wait a few minutes (depend on your connection speed) when you see (successfully installed) text then click on activate link to activate your APS Arena Products - WordPress Plugin, now go to the plugin settings page, change settings as needed or leave as it is to use default settings.
Congratulations You've Activated Your Arena Mobile Specs Plugin Successfully.

Installation Method 1

Method 2

Open unzipped folder aps-products-wp copy > paste the folder called aps-products on your desktop.

Open up your favorite ftp client software fileZilla or any other ftp client software or you can use fireFTP an extenssion for firefox and chrome, login to your web hosting server and upload folder aps-products to /wp-content/plugins/ on your server after finish uploading you have successfully installed your APS Arena Products - WordPress Plugin.

Now go to Plugins find APS Arena Products in the plugins list and click on activate, now go to the plugin settings page, change settings as needed or leave as it is to use default settings.
Congratulations You've Activated Your Arena Mobile Specs Plugin Successfully.

APS Control Panel

Arena Products Store plugin has a number of settings to change the output of plugin, which you can control from APS Settings page, you will find 8 section divided in tabs on settings page below i'll try to explain every aspect of plugin settings, however i have provided a brief description of each settings field below the field.

Don't forget to press Save Changes button to save changes you've made for each section, you can also restore default settings for each section by clicking on Reset Default button found in the bottom left corner.

Design

You can change the layout and style of output by configuring Design Settings, select container width to match with your existing theme width, choose a skin from our pre-built skins or create your own by using color pickers belw to match with your theme's colors, select border or box shadow, select where to display content (left or right), control group icons display settings, also you can apply your custom CSS styles (read customization section below).

Design Settings

Settings

Here you can change products main index page, product slug, brand slug, index page main heading, search archive main heading, brands archive main heading etc, more details are available below each settings field.

Main Settings

Features

Here you can change Main Features title and icons, main features are 6 metro style features displaying in single product view.

Features Settings

Rating Bars

You can add / edit / delete product rating bars in this section.

Rating Bars

Tabs

In this section you can add / edit / delete tabs and contents of tabs, also you can change display order of tabs by drag and drop tabs boxes up down.

Tabs Settings

Zoom

In Zoom settings section you can manage main (featured) image zoom settings, press save changes button to save the settings.

Zoom Settings

Gallery

Here you can manage gallery lightbox settings, press save changes button to save the settings or "Reset Default" button to restore default settings.

Gallery Settings

Affiliates

You can manage affiliate stores easily in affiliate settings, click Add Store to add a store, enter store name in name field, enter store's logo url in url field or select a logo image using media uploader.

Affiliate Settings

APS Groups

APS Groups are designed to provide you product attributes grouping functionality, You can add / remove / edit attributes groups, also you can change display order of groups by moving them up / down, press save changes button to save settings.

APS Groups

APS Attributes

In this section you can add / edit / delete product attributes for each group of attributes (you can add / edit / delete groups from APS Groups page), also you can change display order of attributes by moving them up / down, press save changes button to save settings.

APS Attributes

APS Filters

Add / edit / delete product refine search filters, change filter name and slug, don't change filter slug which has some terms defined, click on Add Terms to add filter terms foreach filter like you add other taxonomy terms (tags, categories), also you can change display order of filters by moving them up / down, press save changes button to save settings.

APS Filters

Customization

We've included 9 pre-built color schemes (skins) and ability to choose skin colors of your choice by using color pickers in plugin Design Settings tab, however if you are not satisfied with built-in styles and colors you can create your own styles from scratch if you are good to write CSS styles.

If you want to do this then open up custom-styles.css located in "/wp-content/plugins/aps-products/css/pre/" directory, add your own CSS styles in this file and save it, now goto APS Settings > Design > Custom CSS Stylesheet (select box) and select "Yes, Use My Styles" and press Save Changes button to load your styles, please remember this way plugin's styles will not be loaded at all.

Add Contents

Add New Product

Add new product (post) is similar to add new post, go to APS Products in the dropdown menu click on Add new APS Product in the next screen add product name in the title (input field), add some details about the product in content editor (also you can add images), look in the sidebar you'll see APS Brands metabox select a brand or add new brand if not found in dropdown list, scroll down a bit you'll see Featured Image metabox, set a featured image (main image of product).

Add Product

Now look at left hand column you'll see APS Product Data metabox, here you'll see product data tabs add main features of your product in input fields (you can change features titles from settings page).

Product Features

Click on gallery tab to add images to product images gallery, you can add galley images by click on Add Image button, a new image box with a button will be created now click on Select Image button, default media uploader of WordPress will be opened, upload an image (800x800 pixels recommended) when image is uploaded add alt text (optional) and click on Add Image button (right bottom), media uploader will be closed and you'll see the image thumbnail in the gallery, Repeat the step to add more images, you can add unlimited number of imgaes for each product, drag and drop image boxes to change display order of images, you can delete an image by click on cross icon (right top) of image box or change an image by clicking on Select Image button.

Product Images

Now click on Videos tab to add videos about your product, click on Add video button, a set of input fields will be added, select a video hosting site from video host select box, now enter video id only (an alpha numeric string), repeat this step to add more videos, drag and drop fields box to change display order of videos.

Product Videos

Now click on Ratings tab, here you can select rating of this product by drag and drop range input handles, You can add / edit / delete rating bars from plugin settings page.

Product Ratings

Click on next tab to add product specification data in attributes input fileds, here you will see pills (navigation) in the left side these are attributes groups, add product data in fileds, (you can add / delete / edit attributes groups from APS Groups page and you can add attributes from APS Attributes page.

Product Attributes

Now click on Filters tab to select appropriate filters terms for this product, filters are helpfull for your visitors to search and find products they are looking for, you can add / edit / delete filters and filter terms from APS Filters page.

Product Filters

Add Affiliate offers for your product, click on Offers tab and add offer by clicking on Add Offer button select a store from ofeer dropdown box (you can add / edit / delete stores from APS Settings page) enter offer title, price and url in appropriate input fields, you can add more offers by reapeat this step, drag and drop offers to change order or click on cross icon (top right) to delete a offer

Product Offers

You can add custom tabs data by clicking on Tabs tab, use editors to add your content, leave empty if you don't want to show this tab for this product, you can add / edit / delete custom tabs from APS Settings page.

Product Tabs

Now press Publish button to publish this product (post), Congratulations You've successfully added new product post, repeat steps to add more products (posts).

Add New Comparison

Add a new comparison of products is an easy step, simply click on Add New Comparison link, add some contents in content editor, select up to 3 products to compare by using select boxes, upload and set a featured image (800X500px for best results) press publish post button to publish the comparison.

Add Comparison

Import Demo Content

This is optional if you want to import dummy contents for test and learning propose, navigate to the Wordpress dashboard. Go to Tools > Import and then click on Wordpress

Wordpress might offer you to install the wordpress importer plugin, if you haven't installed it before do it now.

Once you've installed wordpress importer plugin, browse to the folder Demo Data in your download package find aps-phones-data.xml, and upload it. Make sure that when the option is shown, you check the Download and import file attachments box. That concludes the content imports.

Import Demo Content

Sidebar Widgets

Widgets Setup

This is very important to setup your sidebar using proper widgets for better looks and functionality, APS Products - WordPress Plugin has 5 built-in widgets and a sidebar (APS Sidebar) for all view templates we used in plugin to display different contents like (Products index page, brands and search archives, product single page, products comparision page).

Navigate to Appearance > Widgets you'll see APS Sidebar and APS Widgets Drag and Drop each widget to the sidebar, enter a title (leave empty if you don't want to display widget title) change other settings as needed, press save button to save settings, repeat steps to add more widgets to APS Sidebar.

Widgets Setup

Search Widget

APS Search widget is designed to display an ajax powered search bar in the sidebar, you can select how much results you want to display from widget's settings.

Search Widget

New Arrivals Widget

APS New Arrivals widget is designed to display most recent products (posts) in the sidebar, you can change the number of products being display from widget's settings.

New Arrivals Widget

Recent Compares Widget

APS Recent Compares widget is designed to display most recent products comparisons (posts) in the sidebar, you can change the number of comparisons being display from widget's settings.

Recent Compares Widget

Brands Widget

APS Brands widget is created to display a list of products manufacturers with optional number of products you've added, you can enable / disable this functionality from widget's settings.

Brands Widget

Top Rated Widget

APS Top Rated Products widget would be display top rated products (sort by ratings), you can control the output of the widget by changing widget's settings.

Top Rated Widget

Shortcodes

Products List

[aps_products num="12" order="DESC" type="grid" brand="brand-slug"]

You can display products anywhere on your site by using this shortcode.

  • num: number of products to display (default 12)
  • order: DESC or ASC (default DESC)
  • type: display products in list or grid style (default grid)
  • brand: brand slug or comma separated multiple brands slugs to display products from (default all brands)

Product Main Features

[aps_product_features id="product id" style="list"]

Display Product's main features in list or metro style.

  • id: post id of product (required)
  • style: list or metro (default list)

Product Specifications

[aps_product_specs id="product id"]

Display specifications of a product by using this shortcode, only attribute is product's post id

  • id: post id of product (required)

Localization

Translate into Your Language

Your APS Products - WordPress Plugin is Ready for Localization, We have made every string translateable with text domain "aps-text", you can translate easily into your language.

You can use CodeStyling Localization WordPress plugin for translate and create .mo, .po files.
If you have plugin installed and activated, you will get a new menu entry inside "Tools" which is named "Localization". If you choose the entry, you will get the complete overview about all components of your WordPress installation, that are gettext ready or having already language files on board.

This plugin inspects WordPress itself, all plugins out of plugins folder and also all themes out of theme folder. Only those components will be listed that are really gettext ready and can handle translation files. you can get more information here

Changelogs

Version 1.2 (4 January 2015)

  • Added Attributes Groups management system
  • Added Product Attributes management system
  • Added Product Filters management system
  • Added Affiliate Stores management system
  • Added Product Videos management system
  • Added Shortcodes
  • Added RTL langages support

Thank You

Once again, thank you so much for purchasing APS Products - WordPress Plugin. As I said at the beginning, I'd be glad to help you if you have any questions relating to this plugin. No guarantees, but I'll do my best to assist. If you have a more general question relating to the plugin on CodeCanyon, you might consider visiting the forums and asking your question in the "Item Discussion" section. or please feel free to email me via my user page contact form here.

Shahzad Anjum

WebStudio55