Home Guard WordPress Theme Documentation

Thank you for purchasing Home Guard WordPress Theme. This documentation consists of several parts and shows you the entire process of setting up and customizing a WordPress theme. If you have any questions that are beyond the scope of this help file, please refer to the Support section. Thanks so much!

WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and a content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL. It enables you to build Websites and powerful on-line applications and requires almost no technical skills or knowledge to manage. Many aspects, including its ease of use and extensibility, have made WordPress the most popular Web site software available.

Creating a website with WordPress is significantly much easier than coding it by yourself. if you are a beginner, even working with WordPress may be difficult to you. That's why, in this section we will provide some useful links and also will explain how to get oriented in the documentation and what pattern to follow when building your website with our theme. Please note that this documentation covers all the main settings for the theme, but it doesn't cover instructions about working with WordPress, as this is a very extensive topic. If you are new to WordPress, we would recommend to first get familiar with the WordPress system, so you can have at least basic knowledge about how it works and then proceed with setting the theme.



Table of Contents

  1. Theme Installation
  2. Import Demo Content
  3. Homepage Setup
  4. Header
    1. Contact Info & Social Media Icons
    2. Site name / logo
    3. Setting the menu
  5. Homepage Slider
  6. Inner Page Banner
  7. Homepage Section
    1. Services
    2. Security System
    3. Features
    4. Our Speciality
    5. Why Choose Us
    6. Personalized Service
    7. Our Expert
    8. Business Security
    9. Our Process
    10. Testimonials
    11. Introducing
    12. Industries We Serve
  8. Footer
  9. Footer Menu
  10. Contact Form
  11. Page Templates & Sidebars
  12. Widgets
  13. Shortcodes
  14. Multilingual
  15. Support

Free Version

  1. Homepage Setup
  2. Header Section
  3. Slider Section
  4. Services Section
  5. Security System Section
  6. Features
  7. Footer

1. Theme Installation

a. Through WordPress Dashboard

  1. Go to the menu Appearance > Themes and click on Add New button.
  2. Click on Upload Theme button.
  3. Click on Browse button and navigate to the unzipped theme package on your computer.
  4. Look for a file called home-guard-pro.zip Click on it to select, then click OK.
  5. Click on Install Now button and wait until the installation is complete.
  6. Click on Activate link to activate the theme on your WordPress site.
  7. Go to Appearance >> Theme Options >> Restore Default.
Note: Some servers have limited folder access settings applied and wouldn't allow uploading the theme trough the admin - in these case you have to upload the theme via FTP.

b. Manual Installation using FTP client

If you know the FTP login details of the server where your site is hosted and you have a FTP client installed (such as FileZilla), you might consider using this way of uploading your theme.

  1. Unzip the home-guard-pro.zip file
  2. Using an FTP client to access your host web server. Go to /wp-content/themes
  3. Upload theme to /wp-content/themes/
  4. Go to Appearance » Themes and activate theme from Dashboard.
First you have to unzip the download file, find the zip file called home-guard-pro.zip, unzip it and upload the folder to the main WordPress installation folder » wp-content » themes. Please note that if you prefer this way of installation, you have to make sure that the main files of the theme are contained just within one folder of the themes folder.

You can activate the theme after it is uploaded on the server. In order to activate this theme you have to go to the admin panel » Appearance » Themes. In this section you should see the theme with a title Home Guard PRO. Just click on the Activate button and your theme should get activated.



2. Import Demo Content

After activating the Home Guard theme, please import demo content using following



3. Homepage Setup

After activating the Home Guard theme, please setup homepage using following



4. The header

The header consists of three main elements:



a. Contact Info & Social Media Icons

To customize the contact information & social media links
Go to Appearance » Theme Options » Basic Settings » Header Social Icons



b. Changing the site name / logo

If you don't have your logo image then you can use site name and tagline. To change site name and tagline
Go to Settings » General » Site Title

OR if you want to uplaod logo for your website go to Appearance » Theme Options » Basic Settings » Logo
You can also increase logo image height as per your requirement.



c. Setting the menu

  1. First of all create pages from Pages >> Add new page
  2. Go to Appearance >> Menu
  3. Click on Create a new menu link
  4. Give a name to your menu in Menu name and click save menu button
  5. Once you have create menu. You need to add pages by selecting with checkboxes. After adding menu list you can arrange it by drag and drop.
  6. Select menu theme locations Primary Menu from Menu Settings
  7. Click Save Menu after adding required pages, categories in the menu


5. Homepage Slider

In order to add slides to homepage slider: Go to Appearance » Theme Options » Homepage Slider
For each slide there are different options that you can apply.

If you don't want to use this default image slider, you can use any image slider WordPress plugin



6. Inner Page Banner

To change inner page banner image: Go to Appearance » Theme Options » Homepage Slider » Inner Page Banner

To set different banner image for each individual page



7. Homepage Section

a. Services

To manage this section



b. Security System

To manage this section



c. Features

To manage this section



d. Our Speciality

To manage this section go to Appearance » Theme Options » Sections » Section 1

Shortcode/Content: 
[column_content type="speciality-ls-45"][custom-video cover="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/home-guard-pro/images/video-cover.jpg" youtubeid="ApLnqFUtHWc" smallimg="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/home-guard-pro/images/video-small-img.jpg"][/column_content][column_content type="speciality-rs-55"][section-main-title subtitle="Our Speciality" title="Professional security services you can trust" color="#141414" align="left"][short-desc fontsize="" color="" align="" description="Pellentesque lacinia vulputate consequat. Ut nec antelaor eet, Kfficitur velit id, pellentesque dolor. Sed nerat placerat inposue Mellentesque lacinia vulputate consequat. Ut nec antelaor eet, efficitur velit id, pellentesque dolor. Sed nerat placerat inposue resollicitudin, hendrerit ut urna."][prof-services icon="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/home-guard-pro/images/icon-ps1.png" title="All Your Security System At One Place"][prof-services icon="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/home-guard-pro/images/icon-ps2.png" title="Great Services and Support with Us" class="last"]
[/column_content]

To display YouTube video in this section, you need YouTube video ID

To change the images in this section



e. Why Choose Us

To manage this section go to Appearance » Theme Options » Sections » Section 2

Shortcode/Content: 
[column_content type="whychooseus_left"][section-main-title subtitle="Why Choose Us" title="Your Trusted Security Company" color="#ffffff" align="left"][short-desc fontsize="19px" color="#ffffff" align="" description="Pellentesque lacinia vulputate consequat. Ut nec antelaor eet, Kfficitur velit id, pellentesque dolor. Sed nerat placerat inposue Mellentesque lacinia vulputate consequat."] [/column_content][column_content type="whychooseus_right"][why-choose-us-services iconname="fas fa-check-circle" title="Best Professional" info="Pellentesque lacinia vulputate consequat. necant elaor eet,efficitur velit, pellentesque dolor."][why-choose-us-services iconname="fas fa-check-circle" title="Always Honest" info="Pellentesque lacinia vulputate consequat.necant elaor eet,efficitur velit id, pellentesque."][why-choose-us-services iconname="fas fa-check-circle" title="24/7 Hours Support" info="Pellentesque lacinia vulputate consequat. Ut necant elaor eet,efficitur velit id, pellentesque."]
[/column_content][clear]


f. Personalized Service

To manage this section go to Appearance » Theme Options » Sections » Section 3

Shortcode/Content: 
[column_content type="skill-ls-50"][section-main-title title="The Only Personalized Service From Security System Experts" color="#ffffff" align="left"][short-desc fontsize="19px" color="#ffffff" align="" description="Pellentesque lacinia vulputate consequat. Ut nec antelaor eet, Kfficitur velit id, pellentesque dolor. Sed nerat placerat inposue."][skillwrap][skill title="Front system" percent="80" bgcolor="#57b857"][skill title="CCTV Cameras" percent="70" bgcolor="#57b857"][skill title="Home Automation" percent="95" bgcolor="#57b857"][/skillwrap][/column_content][column_content type="project-rs-50"][counter value="20" plus="+" title="Year Experience" desc="Pellentesque lacinia vulputate
consequatnec."][counter value="499" plus="+" title="Projects Done" desc="Pellentesque lacinia vulputate consequatnec."][counter value="620" plus="+" title="Active Customers" desc="Pellentesque lacinia vulputate consequatnec."][/column_content]


g. Our Expert

To display Professional Team Member section:

Shortcode/Content: 
[our-team show="4"]


h. Business Security

To manage this section go to Appearance » Theme Options » Sections » Section 5

Shortcode/Content: 
[column_content type="left-security-35"][section-main-title title="We are always on guard for your family and business" color="#092a49" align="left"][short-desc fontsize="" color="" align="" description="Etiam posuere turpis finibus velit tempor ultrices.Vestibulum lacinia arcu et nulla sollicitudi rutrum"][rounded-button align="left" name="Read More" link="#" target=""][/column_content][column_content type="right-security-65"][video-services cover="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/home-guard-pro/images/videoimg01.jpg" youtubeid="8YxnjQLLHKo" title="Personal security services"][video-services cover="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/home-guard-pro/images/videoimg02.jpg" youtubeid="TmEMjJxPrfs" title="Security for business" class="last"][/column_content]

To display YouTube video in this section, you need YouTube video ID and Video image



i. Our Process

To manage this section go to Appearance » Theme Options » Sections » Section 6

Shortcode/Content: 
[our-process icon="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/home-guard-pro/images/process-icon01.png" title="Your Need" description="Search the service you need"][our-process icon="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/home-guard-pro/images/process-icon02.png" title="Enquiry" description="For enquiring make a call or email us"][our-process icon="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/home-guard-pro/images/process-icon03.png" title="Confirm" description="Get your quote and confirm us"][our-process icon="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/home-guard-pro/images/process-icon04.png" title="Stay Calm" description="Feel free and relax yourself" class="last"][clear][subtitle color="#092a49" size="26px" align="center" description="Want to know more? It is as easy.. Call Us on (00) 1234567890"]

To change the icon in this section



j. Testimonials

To display clients testimonials

Shortcode/Content: 
[column_content type="left-tm-50"][tm-two-img largeimg="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/home-guard-pro/images/tm-leftimg.jpg" smllimg="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/home-guard-pro/images/tm-left-small.jpg" title="Professional security services you can trust"][/column_content][column_content type="right-tm-50"][section-main-title subtitle="Testimonials" title="Most of the People Choose Us" color="#ffffff" align="left"][testimonials][/column_content]

To change the images in this section





k. Introducing

To manage this section go to Appearance » Theme Options » Sections » Section 8

Shortcode/Content: 
[column_content type="leftcolumn-ss-50"][ctn-box][section-main-title subtitle="Protecting what matters for you!" title="Introducing The Most Easiest Security Systems" color="#141414" align="left"][short-desc fontsize="" color="" align="" description="Pellentesque lacinia vulputate consequat. Ut nec antelaor eet, Kfficitur velit id, pellentesque dolor. Sed nerat placerat inposue Mellentesque lacinia vulputate consequat. Ut nec antelaor eet,efficitur velit id, pellentesque dolor. "][rounded-button align="left" name="Request a Free Quote" link="#" target=""] [subtitle color="#141414" size="20px" align="left" description="Talk With Us. 1.700.231.0025 "][/ctn-box][/column_content][column_content type="rightcolumn-ss-50"][hand-image image="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/home-guard-pro/images/hand-image.png"][/column_content]

To change image in this section



l. Industries We Serve

To manage this section go to Appearance » Theme Options » Sections » Section 9

Shortcode/Content: 
[subtitle color="#494848" size="17px" align="center" description="antelaor eet, Kfficitur velit id, pellentesque dolor. Sed nerat placerat inposue Mellentesque lacinia vulputate consequat. Ut nec antelaor eet, efficitur"][projects_carousel][projects image="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/home-guard-pro/images/carousel-img1.jpg" title="Residential Building Security" link="" target=""][projects image="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/home-guard-pro/images/carousel-img2.jpg" title="Hospitals and Medical Facilities" link="" target=""][projects image="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/home-guard-pro/images/carousel-img3.jpg" title="Retails Stores & Shopping Malls" link="" target=""][projects image="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/home-guard-pro/images/carousel-img4.jpg" title="Residential Building Security" link="" target=""][projects image="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/home-guard-pro/images/carousel-img3.jpg" title="Office & Commercial Buildings" link="" target=""][/projects_carousel]

To change the images in this section



8. Footer

To manage footer section go to the Appearance » Theme Options » Footer



9. Setting Footer menu

  1. Go to Appearance >> Menu
  2. Click on Create a new menu link to create footer menu
  3. Give a name to your menu (Footer Menu / Support Menu) in Menu name and click save menu button
  4. Add pages by selecting with checkboxes.
  5. Select Display location Footer Menu from Menu Settings
  6. Click Save Menu after adding required pages, categories in the menu


10. Contact Form

To display contact form, install the Contact Form 7 plugin



11. Page Templates & Sidebars

When you create a new page from the Pages » Add New section, the "Default Template" is assigned to the page by default. The default page template is a standard page template that can be with a sidebar or full-width layout and can contain custom content.



12. Widgets

The WordPress widgets are used to manage sidebars:



13. Shortcodes

To view all shortcodes go to Appearance » Theme Options » Short Codes:



14. Multilingual

This theme is ready for translation - it comes with a .po file that contains all the embedded into the theme strings.
It supports multiple languages. The qTranslate X WordPress plugin offers a way to maintain dynamic multilingual content on a WordPress site.

How to make your website translate ready?

To translate Homepage sections Title, Content, Button texts, Read more texts



15. Support

If you have any questions regarding our WordPress themes, you can contact us through our support forum or you can mail us at support@gracethemes.com Our support team is always ready to help you with any problems of customization or compatibility you may encounter.

Home Guard Free Theme Documentation

Thank you for using Home Guard Free WordPress Theme. This documentation consists of several parts and shows you the entire process of setting up and customizing a free WordPress theme. If you have any questions that are beyond the scope of this help file, please refer to the Support section. Thanks so much!


1. Homepage Setup

After activating the Home Guard Free theme, setup homepage using following

Go to Appearance » Customize » Select static front page



2. Header Section

To customize the header social icons and Order online button
Go to Appearance » Customize » Home Guard Theme Settings » Header Social Details



3. Slider Section

Go to Appearance » Customize » Home Guard Theme Settings » Frontpage Slider Section



4. Services Section

Go to Appearance » Customize » Home Guard Theme Settings » Three Page Column Section





5. Security System Section

Go to Appearance » Customize » Home Guard Theme Settings » Security System Section





6. Features Section

Go to Appearance » Customize » Home Guard Theme Settings » Six Column Services Section





7. Footer