Spiceli Documentation

TM Extensions Settings

Ajax Wishlist

Products Wishlist is one of the standard e-commerce features. We have created the special module for the convenient use of this feature, it is based on AJAX technology and allows you to add products to the wishlist without having to navigate to the separate page.

In order to configure this module, you should navigate to Magento admin panel and choose the Stores > Configuration section in the left side menu.

Then choose TemplateMonster > Ajax Wishlist item on the new page on the left side.

Let's review the module configuration:

Frontend:

Check the tutorials below:

Featured Products

Featured Products extension, which is basically the Magento widget, will help you to showcase your best products. Display the products in a product grid or product list and choose the type of products to show, e.g. you can display new, sale, most-viewed, bestseller, top-rated products, or choose the product manually. Moreover, you can use a different product label for each product type to draw the site visitors attention even more.

Add Featured Products Widget

To set up the widget, navigate to the Content > Widgets section and press the Add widget button.

In the Storefront Properties section in the Type field, select Featured products. Press Continue.

Then, fill the other fields and specify the place, where you want to display the module in the Layout Updates section.

To set up the widget, go to the Widget Options section on the left.

In this section you should select the product type, which you want to display, in the Product types option.

Widget Options:

When complete, tab Save.

Frontend

Example (based on the Spiceli theme)

• Type: Featured Products;
• Assign to Store Views: All Store Views;

Layout Update

• Display on: Specified Page;
• Page: CMS Home Page
• Container: Main Content Area;
• Template: Products Grid;

Widget Options

• Product types: New Products;
• Title: Featured Products;
• Number per View: 8;
• Carousel: disabled;
• Products per Row: 4;
• Cache Lifetime (Seconds): 0;
• Show Label: disabled.

Useful Tutorials:

• How to set multiple products as "New"?
• How to set the Special Price?

Film Slider

TemplateMonster FilmSlider module allows you to add slider with multiple layers to your store home page. Rich collection of slider configuration options and user interface will help you to configure your slider fast and easily.

In the main navigation menu you'll see new menu option TemplateMonster.
To start working with the FilmSlider module, click Template Monster > Sliders menu item.

Here you can see a list of available sliders where you can disable/enable, delete or edit sliders.

To add new slider click Add New Slider button in the top right corner.
On the slider configuration screen in General Options section you can see all available slider settings. Slider Items section allows you to add slides to your slider.

Let's see what slider options are available. As you can see options are divided into several parts to make the configuration interface more user friendly.

General Options

Main Settings

This section allows you to set slider title, select store view, enable/disable slider, set its width and height.

Image Settings

In image section you can adjust slider image configuration settings. Each option has a brief description. Let's describe some of them more specifically.

The Aspect Ratio

Image Scale Mode

Force Size

Slides settings

Slides settings section allows configure slides behaviour. Here you can configure slides animation, visible slider size, slides shuffle and loop.

Fade animation settings

This section contains settings for fade animation. Fade animation can be enabled on slide switch.

You can set if you want to fade out previous slide and fade animation duration in milliseconds.

Auto play settings

Autoplay feature in Film Slider allows looping through the slides automatically. This configuration settings contain options to configure auto play delay, direction and pause with mouse cursor on hover.

Controls settings

Slider controls are the navigation buttons that let you switch the slides. In FilmSlider there are several types of navigation controls: prev/next arrows, pagination buttons. Enabled keyboard navigation allows you to switch between the slides using keyboard. Also, you can enable button that will switch slider to the full screen mode.

Responsive settings

Caption Settings

Layers main settings

Adding Slides

You can add new slides only after saving the slider. Click Save and Continue Edit button in the top right corner. When the slider is saved, switch to Slider Items tab.

Slide Information

Slide Images

This section allows you to add images to the slide. Click Insert Image button to open Image library where you can select available images.

Under the Image field you can see your slide preview. You are free to set preview size the way you like. We moved the next section of slide configuration to the separate section as it is fully related to slide layers.

Working with layers

Layers list

Layers list section allows you to add layers to your slide. You can add image layers and text layers. Use corresponding buttons to add layers.

By clicking on Add layer image you'll see an image library where you can select from available images or upload images from your computer. By clicking Add layer text, you'll see new text layer added and layer settings became associated with your new particular layer.

Layer text settings

Layer text position settings

Layer animation settings

Display the Slider

Megamenu

TemplateMonster Megamenu module extends standard Magento menu functionality and allows you to configure subcategories multi-column display, add static blocks and products to the dropdown menu, as well as the flexibly customize its appearance in site admin panel.

Categories Configuration

Megamenu block display can be configured on the 1st level category configuration page, that can be found in the Megamenu tab, at Products > Categories section.

You will see the Turn on Megamenu for this Category option at the Megamenu tab.

This option enabled Megamenu block display for the selected category. After enabling this option, you will see the two fields and a widget with menu content settings.

Label option allows you to display the label (new, sale) for the top-level categories.

This label has default styling, but its appearance can be changed by using Css class option. This option sets the class for current menu item's <li> и <a> tags, so you can easily create custom styling for your label by using the class. Megamenu block content settings' widget allows you to define number of rows, columns, specify their width and lot of other settings.

In order to add a new row you need to use Add row button. Then you will see the empty field with Add column(s) and Remove row buttons.

• Remove row - removes the row.
• Remove column - removes the column from the megamenu.

After pressing the Add column(s) button you'll see a pop-up window to select the width of the column you're going to add. The maximum width of the column is col-12 it stretches menu block to the full width of the container.

So, if you need to display 4 columns in a row, you have to add 4 columns with the width parameter set to col-3.

Let's consider columns' settings.

• Set column width - column width. It can take values from col-1 to col-12.
• Enter specific class - custom css class of the column, so that you can further create styles for this column using css rules.
• Add subcategory - subcategories dropdown for the parent category. This option allows you to select and display the subcategories you need. In order to do this, choose the subcategory among the list and press on the Add button. On the next step you will see this category listed at the Selected items field.
• Select static block - static blocks dropdown list. You can show any of site static blocks in the dropdown menu same as the list of subcategories, if you have previously added it to the shop admin panel. In order to add a static block, choose it among the list and press on Add button. Static block title will be listed in the Selected items field.
• Add product[s] - adding product to the menu. This option allows you to add any of site products to the menu. Product image, title and a price will be displayed in this case. After pressing on the button you'll see the pop-up list of products available for adding. After you add it to menu, it's title will be listed in the Selected items field.
• Selected items - the field for sorting the items. It allows you to change the display order [sorting] of your column content. Drag&Drop interface allows you to reorder items by dragging them. If you do not want the product or static block to be displayed below, just drag it to the top to reach the required appearance. You can also remove some items here. Select the ones you need to remove and press on Remove selected button to do that.

Subcategories configuration

This module allows to add an image and a label to any products' subcategory. In order to configure the subcategory, open its page and navigate to the Megamenu tab. You'll see two options there: Category image and Label.

Styles configuration

Useful Tutorials:

1. How to add the CMS Page link to Main Menu?
2. How to add static block to Mega Menu?
3. How to manage Mega Menu?
4. Magento 2.x. Widget types overview

Newsletter Pop-up

Email newsletter has always been the important part of every marketing strategy. This method is used all over the world, so it will definitely help you to gain more orders and subscribers. That's why we proudly present you the Newsletter pop-up module. It displays the popup window with subscription form and social icons right after the client visits your site.

Global configuration

In order to configure this module, you should navigate to Magento admin panel and choose the Stores > Configuration section in the left side menu.

Choose the TEMPLATEMONSTER > Newsletter Pop-up in the left side menu to go to the module settings interface.
The module has 2 sections, and each one contains a specific set of options:

• General
• Social Settings

General section includes main module settings, and Social settings section serves for social icons display setup in the pop-up window.

General

As stated above, this section includes main module settings. You can enable or disable module here, specify buttons color, define the width of the window, etc. Let's review each option separately.

General section includes main module settings, and Social settings section serves for social icons display setup in the pop-up window.

Let's review each option separately (click to expand):
1. Enabled: In order to enable or disable module completely, you'll need to use Enabled option. It provides the possibility to deactivate the module completely.

2. Show on startup and Show on footer options allow you to configure the subscription form pop-up display.

   Show on startup option shows up the pop-up after visiting the site. As soon as shop page is loaded, you will see the pop-up offering you to subscribe to this site's newsletter.

   This pop-up can be also set up to display once again after navigating to site footer by using a scrollbar. E.g., if you close the pop-up that appeared after the initial page loading and scroll down to the footer then, the same pop-up will show up for the second time. In order to re-display this subscription window, you have to enable Show on footer option.

3. Pop-Up width option allows you to define the newsletter pop-up window width. Its size can be set in pixels only.
4. Show in footer option allows you to display a link in the site footer, to display the newsletter pop-up after clicking on it. Footer link text field changes the label for the link displayed in the footer after activating the Show in footer option.
5. The pop-up may not be displayed immediately, but after some certain time period. This setting is controlled by Pop-Up timeout option. You can set a delay before the newsletter pop-up appearance and it will not show up right away, but only after the time you have specified passes since the client visits your site.
6. Button color and Button hover color options let you set a background color for the "subscribe" button.
7. You may need the CSS-class option when customizing the pop-up design. This option allows you to apply additional custom CSS-class for the pop-up window so that it can be used for further stylizing or other actions.

Social Settings

This section is responsible for social icons display and configuration in the newsletter pop-up. It consists of a few subsections that have similar options.



Main settings' subsection allows you to set colors and social icons' appearance for the following services:

• Facebook
• Twitter
• LinkedIn
• Google+
• Youtube
• Vimeo
• Pinterest
• Instagram
• Foursquare
• Tumblr
• RSS
Let's review each option separately (click to expand):

1. You can enable or disable certain icon appearance by using the respective Enabled ……. icon option. This option activation will make a respective sections appear to let you configure each icon individually.

   

2. This section also includes the Use default icon colors option. It is used for changing icons color.

   

   By default, it's enabled, so all the icons have their corporate (standard) color that is specific for each social network. However, if you'd like to define icons color on your own, you should disable this option.

3. Each social network section has a Link option available. It lets you define the link to any page (your profile) in a respective social network.

   

4. After disabling the Use default icon colors option, you will see the new fields in subsections for each social network icon configuration:

   • Icon background
   • Icon color
   • Icon background hover
   • Icon hover color

   

All of these options allow you to customize the icon appearance. They provide you with the option to set the icon background and color for the initial state and on hover (after hovering the icon with the mouse cursor).
Please be sure to save your configuration!

Just in case, you'd like to return all the default settings, there is a Reset button available next to the Save one.

Ajax Compare

Products compare is one of the standard e-commerce features. We have created the special module for the convenient use of this feature, it is based on AJAX technology, and allows you to add products to compare without having to navigate to the separate page.

You can either enable or disable this module. In order to do this, navigate to the admin panel and choose the Stores > Configuration section in the left side menu.

Then choose the TemplateMonster > Product Compare Ajax on the new page on the left side.

Theme Options settings

Then choose the TEMPLATEMONSTER > Theme Options in the left side menu and you'll move to the module settings interface.

Access Theme color Settings

1. Click on the Store View: Default Config.
2. Select a Store View from the option dropdown.
3. Confirm the scope switching in the pop-up window. Press "OK" to confirm.
4. After that process, we can see a new tab called Theme color settings under the General one.

The Tab structure is as follows:

General

For Image Type:

Use Logo Type	-	select type of logo.
Logo Image	-	you can upload your logotype image [Allowed file types: png, gif, jpg, jpeg, svg].
Logo Image Width	-	set a Logo image width in pixels.
Logo Image Height	-	set a Logo image height in pixels.
Logo image alt text	-	enter a Logo image alternative text.
Use slogan	-	set if you want do display the slogan

For Text Logo Type:

Use Logo Type	-	select type of logo.
Logo Text	-	enter text for logo.
Logo Font Size	-	enter font size for logo text in pixels. Example: 48.
Logo Line Height	-	enter line height for logo text in pixels. Example: 48.
Logo Font Color	-	set color for logo text in hex format. You can select a color from the Color Palette.
Use slogan	-	Enable/Disable slogan.[If you enable this option, additional options became available.]
Slogan Text	-	enter text for slogan.
Slogan Font Size	-	enter font size for slogan text in pixels. Example: 28.
Slogan Line Height	-	enter line height for slogan text in pixels. Example: 28.
Slogan Font Color	-	set color for slogan text in hex format.
Slogan Position	-	select slogan position relative to the logo.

SEO

Preloader and BackToTop Button

Theme color settings

Please note: for display Theme color settings and apply color scheme you need select your website (1). If you want to edit each color individually, you need to choose store (2).
All colors set in HEX format: #xxxxxx

Let's review the options available:

Uncheck Use Website to change the layout settings.

Color scheme status

Header

Content

Primary color	-	the primary color in hex format.
Secondary color	-	set the secondary color in hex format. You can select a color from the Color Palette.
Body background color	-	body background color in hex format.
Body background image	-	Enable/Disable body background image
Background image	-	upload the body background image file. Allowed file types: ICO, PNG, GIF, JPG, JPEG, APNG, SVG. Not all browsers support all these formats!
Background position	-	set position for your background: Left Top, Center Top, Right Top, Left Center, Center Center. Right Center, Left Bottom, Center Bottom, Right Bottom.
Background repeat	-	choose how background image will be repeated: Repeat, No Repeat, Repeat X, Repeat Y.
Background size	-	set the body background image size
Background attachment	-	body background image attachment: Scroll (scroll with content), Fixed (no scroll with content).
Primary font color	-	set the primary font color in hex format. You can select a color from the Color Palette.
Primary link color	-	set the primary link color in hex format. You can select a color from the Color Palette.
Primary title color	-	set the primary title color in hex format.

Footer

In case, you've changed the "website code" in Stores > All stores, you must change it in the color_schemes.xml file, too.

In order to change "website code" in the color_schemes.xml file go to app\code\TemplateMonster\ThemeOptions\etc.

Open the color_schemes.xml file using any code editor.

Find the <website code="clothes_store"> line (in our case) and replace "clothes_store" (the previous code) with the new one <website code="your code">.

If you change the "website code" for another Web Site, you need to change its code in color_schemes.xml file. Find the <website code="previous code"> line and replace it with <website code="new code">.

Before modifying the website code please make sure it is not used in index.php.

Category Page

Settings for Category page in a list/grid view.

Grid View

List View

Product Page

You see three tabs: General, Tabs section, Gallery settings.

General

Related ptoducts

Upsell products

Tabs sections

Gallery settings

Header

General

In Header tab you have the Social links section.

Social links

You can add link to your social network using Font Icon or Image icon.

Image icon

For adding URL with image, you need add social url, width of icon, alternative text to image and upload image.

Font Icon

For adding URL with FontIcon, you need add icon CSS Class, social url, set font size and line height

Footer

In footer you can add social link and set position

Image icon

For adding URL with image, you need add social url, width of icon, alternative text to image and upload image.

Font Icon

For adding URL with Font Icon, you need add icon CSS Class, social url, set font size and line height.

Sidebar

Useful Tutorials:

• How to set the store typography?
• How to add keywords for your store?
• How to change product image size (Product Page)?
• How to change product image width and height (Category Page)?
• How to disable or enable product description for Category Page?
• How to disable or enable "Compare" button?
• How to manage Category Pages and Products Page?
• How to disable the social media sharing option for the Product Page?
• How to manage Product Reviews?