Frequently asked questions
opencart themes

FAQ

How to update theme?

First you need to redownload the theme from themeforest, downloading the theme will always give you the most recent update, you can view theme changelog on the bottom of product description.

There is no special process to update theme just overwrite old theme files, if you made changes to theme files you can use http://meldmerge.org/ to compare your theme folder with the latest update theme folder and merge the changes with a few clicks

How to get twitter id for social band and side block?

Go to www.twitter.com and sign in as normal, go to your settings page. Go to "Widgets" on the left hand side.

Create a new widget for what you need eg "user timeline" or "search" etc. Feel free to check "exclude replies" if you dont want replies in results. Now go back to settings page, and then go back to widgets page, you should see the widget you just created. Click edit.

Now look at the URL in your web browser, you will see a long number like this: 345735908357048478 Use this as your twitter ID!

How to hide customize theme panel?

Customize theme is shown only for opencart admin users, your customers never see it, if you want to also hide it for admin users edit nico_theme_editor/editor.inc and replace

define('HAS_PERMISSION', $user->hasPermission('modify', 'design/layout'));
with
define('HAS_PERMISSION', false);

Saving theme modules like megamenu in opencart admin gives 40x error

This can be caused by apache modsec module, megamenu uses large encoded strings on POST requests that triggers modsec. You can disable modsec by adding
<IfModule mod_security.c> SecFilterEngine Off SecFilterScanPOST Off </IfModule>
in .htaccess in opencart admin folder, more info http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12928360/how-can-i-disable-mod-security-in-htaccess-file , depending on your hosting provided there might be other ways to disable modsec for opencart admin.

I found a theme bug, what can I do?

Check if running latest update First thing to do is to make sure that you are using the latest theme update, go to theme page on theme forest and check Last update section to see if you downloaded the theme after the last update date if not then redownload the theme and update the files on your server.

Check if the bug is not present also on opencart default theme If the bug is still present after the update then make sure that is a theme bug by temporarily switching the theme to opencart default theme and check if the bug is still present after the change.

Send bug report only after checking last update and opencart default theme If the bug is not showing for opencart default theme then this is either a misconfiguration or a theme bug, you can then post a comment on theme page comments section or send me a message using the contact page on themeforest.

Detailed bug description required You will need to include the bug url and detailed steps to reproduce the bug along with opencart, php and browser version, if the bug is shown in the admin backend also temporary opencart admin access is required.