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Cability Theme

A theme with a darker colour scheme perfect for the retail of furniture & cosmetics.

View the example store

 

Contents

  • Installing the theme
  • Home Page custom fields
    • Banners
    • Featured Collections
    • Featured Products
    • Parallax Collection
    • Best selling products
    • Subscribe section
  • Footer
    • Middle-left menu
    • Middle-right menu
  • Product Page
  • Collection custom fields

 

Installing the theme

  1. Open Design in the Lifeboat admin interface
  2. Click on Install Theme
  3. Find the Cability Theme
  4. Click install
    Once installed the theme will be listed underneath the theme preview
  5. Click on Actions
  6. Click on Make Default

 

 Cability Theme in Admin Preview Mode

 

Home Page

Banner

In Cability, you can have up to 3 collections to be featured in the banner which are shown on the home page.

  1. Open Design in the Lifeboat admin interface
  2. Click on Customise
  3. Choose up to 3 collections in the fields labelled:
    • Home: Featured Collection 1
    • Home: Featured Collection 2
    • Home: Featured Collection 3
  4. Click Save

 

Home page banner preview 

 

Featured Collections

Underneath the banner, you may choose up to 4 collections to be shown on the home page.

  1. Open Products > Collections
  2. Click on the collection you'd like to add (open for editing)
  3. In the Tags field add the tag show_in_home
    Optional: Specify an image in Featured Image to be used in the card
  4. Click Save

 

Home page featured collections section preview

 

Featured Products

Below the featured collections, you can have 4 featured products. This is done by:

  1. Open Products
  2. Select the product you want to feature
  3. Add a tag called; featured in the product tags
  4. Click Save

Note

You may change the title of the section by;

  1. Open Design
  2. Update the field labelled; "Featured Items Section Title"
  3. Click Save

 

Featured items preview on the home page

 

 

Parallax Collection

Underneath the Featured Products, you can choose 1 collection to be shown as a parallax banner.

  1. Open Design in the Lifeboat admin interface
  2. Click on Customise
  3. Choose the desired collection to be shown in the Home: parallax collection
  4. Click Save

 

Parallax Collection preview on the home page 

Best Seller Products

Below the featured collections, you can have 4 featured products. This is done by:

  1. Open Products
  2. Select the product you want to feature
  3. Add a tag called; best_seller in the product tags
  4. Click Save

Note

You may change the title of the section by;

  1. Open Design
  2. Update the field labelled; "Best Sellers Section Title"
  3. Click Save

 

Best Seller products preview on the home page of the Cability theme 

 

Subscribe section

In the final section before the footer on the home page, you can opt to have users subscribe to your newsletter.
You may also change the background image of the section.

Note

You need to have Mailchimp Integration enabled for the subscribe to work.

 

  1. Open Design in the Lifeboat admin interface
  2. Click on Customise
  3. Choose an image you'd like to use as a background in the Newsletter section image
  4. Click Save

 Subscribe Box preview on the Cability theme

 

Footer

In the footer section, you can have two custom menus in between the blog posts (if you have any) and the shop details.

Middle-left menu

  1. Open Design in the Lifeboat admin interface
  2. Click on Customise
  3. In the field labelled Footer: First Menu select a menu that will be used on the middle left-hand side of the footer.
    Note

    The Menu title is used as the header in the footer.
    Submenus are not supported.

  4. Click Save

 

Middle-right menu

  1. Open Design in the Lifeboat admin interface
  2. Click on Customise
  3. In the field labelled Footer: Second Menu select a menu that will be used on the middle right-hand side of the footer.
    Note

    The Menu title is used as the header in the footer.
    Submenus are not supported.

  4. Click Save

Footer preview of the Cability theme

 

 

Map Location

The Cability theme gives you the option to have a map with the store's location on the site, specifically in the Contact page. To do this;

  1. Open Design in the Lifeboat admin interface
  2. Click on Customise
  3. Enter your shop's name and full address in the field labelled Map Location
    1. Get the shop's full name (1) and address (2) from Google Maps as shown below Store name and address
    2. Input them as shown below in the field Map Location
  4. Click Save

 

NOTE:
It is important to enter the shop's name and address exactly as it is shown on Google Maps. You can follow the steps and screenshots below.

 

And the result should be as follows.

 

Product Page

You may have a featured collection on the right sidebar when viewing a product.
This is typically used to promote a special offer or the latest products collection

The same collection will be shown on all the products

 

  1. Open Design in the Lifeboat admin interface
  2. Click on Customise
  3. In the field labelled Product page featured collection (In sidebar) select a collection that will be used as a feature in the sidebar.
  4. Click Save

 

You may also have 4 featured products underneath the collection. These products can be set by 

  1. Open Products
  2. Select the product you want to feature
  3. Add a tag called; featured in the product tags
  4. Click Save

 

Product page featured collection preview in Cability

 

Collection

For each collection, you can have different customisations for different sections.

The Collection Banner image is the image shown at the top of the particular collection’s page.
If left blank, the image shown will be the default collection image.

The Banner Image is the image shown if you have selected this particular collection as one of the Banners on your home page.
If left blank, the image shown will be the default collection image.

The Banner Heading text is the heading that will be shown on the home overlaying the banner image if you have selected this particular collection as one of the Banners on your home page.
If left blank, no heading will be shown.

The Featured Image is the image shown if the collection is chosen as one Featured Collections on the home page.
If left blank, the image shown will be the default collection image.

The Parallax Image is the image shown if the collection is chosen as the Parallax Collection on the home page.
If left blank, the image shown will be the default collection image.

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