A WordPress child theme is a theme that inherits the functionality of another theme, called the parent theme. Child themes allow you to modify, or add to the functionality of that parent theme. —WordPress Codex: Child Themes
Homestore is a child theme for Storefront, the official WooCommerce theme. It provides an elegant and modern design with a magazine feel, which provides the right style for stores in the homeware industry.
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Homestore adds a new menu location titled ‘Homepage’. This allows you to create a custom menu to be displayed alongside the homepage content.
This menu is managed in the same way as any other WordPress menu. More at: WordPress Menu.
To get the menu to display, assign a custom menu to the ‘Homepage’ menu location.
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To account for high resolution (retina) displays, we recommend the following image dimensions for Homestore as a minimum:
Catalog Images: 376 x 508 px
Single Product Image: 600 x 600 px
Product Thumbnails: 300 x 365 px
WooCommerce Product Image settings are found at Appearance > Customize > WooCommerce > Product Images. More at: Managing Product Images.
More information on WooCommerce image sizes can be found at:
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It’s possible to import WooCommerce Dummy Data to populate your site with demo products as a starting point.
Note: We do not supply the exact images you see in our Homestore demo due to copyright restrictions. The WooCommerce Dummy Data instead comes with our own unique unrestricted images that we can redistribute within product import data.
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To display the Homepage menu, you need to assign a custom menu to the ‘Homepage’ menu location. By default, the Homepage menu is not displayed, it only shows up if there is a custom menu assigned to that menu location.
The menu is managed in the same way as any other WordPress menu. You can read more about using WordPress Menus here.
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Homestore applies some specific styles to elements like buttons and the header layout, so these settings are removed from the designer to avoid confusion.
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They are the three first top level (parent) categories as arranged on the product categories screen in your dashboard. You can drag and drop categories there to rearrange.
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Install the Storefront Footer Bar plugin. Then add a text widget to the newly created widget region via Appearance > Widgets.
To use the footer area as a Call to Action, you can use the following code in the Text Widget:
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If you don’t want to display content simply don’t add any. To hide the title you can use this plugin which gives you the ability to hide the page title on any page across your site. Alternatively use the Homepage Control plugin to toggle the display of this component.
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A lot of WordPress tutorials will recommend inserting code snippets into a child themes functions.php file. This is to ensure that you’re always able to update the parent theme without losing your changes. As Homestore is already a child theme, you aren’t able to do this. Any changes you add to Homestore’s functions.php file will be lost when you perform an update. Instead, it is recommended that you add any code snippets to a customization plugin. We’ve created a plugin you can use to do just this. Download Theme Customizations.
This menu is managed in the same way as any other WordPress menu. More at: WordPress Menu.