To install this theme you must have a working version of Magento already installed. If you need help installing Magento, follow below sites and tutorials from magento.com, hope everything that you need are there.

• System Requirements - Required system credentials for your magento installation.
• Installation Guide - Installation guide that describes how to install magento2.
• Online Magento 2 guide - Online magento documentation that describes about magento2 in detail.
• Magento Forum - Magento forum site.
• stackoverflow.com - You can also get some useful articles from stackoverflow.

As of Magento 2.4.0, MySQL is no longer used for search. You must use Elasticsearch. Magento supports Elasticsearch 7.6.x.

There are two ways to install a Magento Theme:

• Quickstart Installation: Suitable if you have your first installation and want to get a whole new fresh site as our Demo.
• Manual Installation (including Theme Installation): Manual Installation (including Theme Installation): Suitable if your store is full with data/content (category, products...) that you don't want to overwrite.

Magentech provides SM Quickstart package for each theme which aims to ease the installation for users. If you plan to start your site from the beginning, it will help you save much time of installing and configuring. Please follow steps below:

Important: You must use the command line to install Magento 2.4+.

• Step 1: Download the quickstart package named as sm_smartech_quickstart_pl_m2.4.0_v2.0.0
• Step 2: Upload and Extract the whole Quickstart package to your server. In Quickstart folder you will see the extracted folder that include all sample data


After upload quickstart package, please extract package by this command: unzip file.zip


• Step 3: Create a Database for your Magento site

  Important!

  You need to remember the database name to use in the next steps
  
• Step 4: Import database sample_data.sql under the folder sm_smartech_quickstart_pl_m2.4.0_v2.0.0\data_quickstart

  Note: You can import database by run this command mysql -u root -p database_name < sample_data.sql

  
  Note: After that please go to folder root and run these command to permissions:
  chmod -R 777 pub
  chmod -R 777 generated
  chmod -R 777 var
  
• Step 5: Install Magento

  This example assumes that the Magento install directory is named sm_smartech, the db-host is on the same machine (localhost), and that the db-name, db-user, and db-password are all magento:

  php bin/magento setup:install --base-url=http://192.168.1.220/ytc_templates/magento/sm_smartech --base-url-secure=https://192.168.1.220/ytc_templates/magento/sm_smartech --db-host=localhost --db-name=magento --db-user=magento --db-password=magento --admin-firstname=admin --admin-lastname=admin --admin-email=admin@admin.com --admin-user=admin --admin-password=admin123 --language=en_US --currency=USD --timezone=America/Chicago --use-rewrites=1 --backend-frontname="admin" --search-engine=elasticsearch7
  
  
  Messages similar to the following display to indicate a successful installation:
  Post installation file permissions check...
  For security, remove write permissions from these directories: '/var/www/html/ytc_templates/magento/sm_smartech/app/etc'
  [Progress: 274 / 274]
  [SUCCESS]: Magento installation complete.
  [SUCCESS]: Admin Panel URI: /admin_puu71q
  
  Note: You can customize the Admin URI with the --backend-frontname option. However, we recommend omitting this option and allowing the installation command to automatically generate a random URI. A random URI is harder for hackers or malicious software to exploit. The URI displays in your console when installation is complete.
  
• Step 6: Can't login to admin panel
  When you login to admin will be display like this image:
  
  Please open file app/etc/config.php and change 'Magento_TwoFactorAuth' => 1 to 'Magento_TwoFactorAuth' => 0
  
  After that run these command:
  1. php bin/magento setup:upgrade
  2. php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy -f
  3. php bin/magento indexer:reindex
• Step 7: Finally, permissions for the following folders by run these commands:
  chmod -R 777 pub
  chmod -R 777 generated
  chmod -R 777 var

• Step 1: Download Magento 2.4.x https://magento.com/tech-resources/download and install on your server
• Step 2: Please download 'sm_smartech_theme_m2.1.x-2.4.x_v2.0.0.zip' file and upload to the root of your magento site folder on your server, after that unzip by command unzip name_file.zip.
  
• Step 3: Active SM Extensions, open command line in folder root of magento and run commands via ssh using putty or others php bin/magento setup:upgrade

  

  
  
Step 4: Run deploy command: php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy -f

Finally, permissions for the following folders by run these commands:
chmod -R 777 pub
chmod -R 777 generated
chmod -R 777 var
• Step 5: Navigate to Content > Design > Configuration > Edit Default Store > Select "SM smartech" theme.

  

• Step 6: Click "Save Configuarion" button to save your changes.
• Step 7: Navigate to Stores>> Settings>> Configuration >> MAGENTECH.COM >> Sm smartech >> Theme Installation. Press the buttons named 'Static Blocks' and 'Pages' to import all default blocks and pages. Click "Save Configuarion" button to save your changes.
• Step 8: Click "Demo X" button to install demo version that you prefer to install. After that, click "Save config" button on the top.
  

Note. Please remember that: If you have imported these Static Blocks, Pages successfully, you would have all blocks and pages provided with this theme and you do not need to create any static blocks or pages manually as the following instruction of this document.

• Step 9: Flush Cache: After successfully import your demo, save Theme Settings and Design Settings and clear the cache by using this command as php bin/magento cache:flush in Command Prompt. Or you could go to System >> Tools >> Cache Management, click 'Flush Cache Storage' button to flush all the cache.
  
• Step 10: Finally, go to front-end to view demo (example import demo 1).
  Note: In front-end, you will see some extension don't display product as below image:
  Because in some extension: SM Filter Products, SM Listing Tabs, SM Categories..you must change id of categories that you created.
  Example: Please go to Admin Panel >> Content >> Elements >> Pages and search with URL key "home-demo-01" >> Edit. In code content, search "Listing Tabs" module and change id of categories as below image: Note: How to know id of categories?
  After created categories, please see below image:
  

Click here to view documentation of SM Mega Menu module.

Enable Extensions: Allow to enable/disable the module. If choose "Disable", magento's default menu style will be applied.
Select Mega Menu: Allow to choose Mega Menu.
Select Template: This module support 2 templates for presenting of menu (Horizontal and Vertical).
Select Effect: We support effects for Mega menu (CSS/Animation/Toggle)

Advanced Options

How to create list Menu Items for your menu?

	{{block class="Sm\MegaMenu\Block\MegaMenu\View" template="Sm_MegaMenu::vertical.phtml" theme="2" group_id="2" title="All Categories"}}

	{{block class="Sm\MegaMenu\Block\MegaMenu\View" template="Sm_MegaMenu::horizontal.phtml" theme="1" group_id="1"}}

Click here to view documentation of SM Filter Product module.

General Settings

Enabled : Enable or disable the module displaying on Frontend area.
Title Module: Enter the title of the module.

Source Options

Show Countdown Timer: Allow to show countdown timer for special product when you select “Yes”.
Select Category: Allow you to select Category.
Product Limitation: Allow to set product limitation.

Click here to view documentation of SM Cartquickpro module.

Enable Extensions: Enable or Disable this extension.
Select Type: This module support 3 types: Both, Quickview, Ajax Cart. Option "Both" including quickview and ajaxcart.
Product Class Container: Class of the product.
Button Class Container: Where to display the button.
Label Button: You can define texts of the quickview labels.
Countdown Number: The time of ajax box displaying on the screen.

Click here to view documentation of SM Listing Tabs module.

General Options

Enabled Extensions: Enable or disable the module displaying on Frontend area.
Title: Enter the title of the module.
Type Show: We support 2 types: Slider or Loadmore.
Type Listing: We support 3 types: All, only deals and under price.
Show Countdown Timer: Allow to show countdown timer for special product when you select “Yes”.

Source Options

Fiter Type: Allow you to select Type of Filter.
Select Category: Allow you to select Category.
Order By: Set Product Field to Order By.
Ordering Direction: Allow to order ascending/descending direction.
Product Limitation: Allow to set product limitation.

Click here to view documentation of SM Search Box module.

General Options

Enabled Extensions: Allow to enable/disable the module.
Root Catalog Id: Allow to choose root catalog which SM Search Pro uses.
Max Level: The number of child category levels to return.

Click here to view documentation of SM Categories module.

General Options

Enabled Extensions: Allow to enable/disable the module.
Title: Enter the title of the module.

Source Options

Select Category: Allow you to select Category.
Category Limitation: Allow to set category limitation.

When your store is ready to go, you should set the Magento 2 in Production mode. Because it help you improve the performance of the store, improve security and ease of use.
To change or set the Production mode, you can use the following CLI command in your SSH Terminal:
php bin/magento deploy:mode:set {mode} [-s|--skip-compilation]

You’ll get the next messages:

To setup currency, you can go to Store -> Configuration -> General -> Currency Setup. Set Allowed Currencies are the currency you want on your store:

To setup multi languages, you can go to Admin -> Stores -> All Stores -> Create Store View

Example with French:

You can translate the interface lables into other languages. Example: To translate the interface into Arabic languages, follow these instruction:

Step 1: In admin panel, Go to Store >> Configuration >> General

Step 2: In folder code, go to app/design/frontend/Sm/smartech/i18n and open file ar_SA.csv

Step 3: Open ar_SA.csv file and make all required changes in your translation. File opened in a text editor might look like this:

To change logo, in admin panel please go to Content >> Configuarion >> Edit Store >> Header tab. After, upload logo that you want.