How to use Gremio Kit, step by step

The steps

Gremio Kit is the companion plugin for the Gremio theme: they go together. If you follow the steps in this order, there is no way to lose anything.

1. First of all: the Gremio theme has to be active

Gremio Kit brings no designs of its own: it takes them from the Gremio theme. So the first thing is to have the Gremio theme active (Appearance → Themes). It is free and you download it from its own page.

That is also why the plugin checks the theme before touching anything. If you activate it without Gremio, it deactivates itself and tells you why; if you change theme later, it stops acting until Gremio is back. It is not a whim: applying a trade moves your previous home page to the trash and creates pages, so without the theme's designs there is nothing to build. The plugin says so itself on its Help screen:

The Help section explaining that the plugin needs the Gremio theme — **Does it need the Gremio theme?** Yes, and the plugin says so in its own Help screen.

2. Install and activate the plugin

Download the package from the plugin page and, in your WordPress, go to Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin. Pick the zip gremio-kit-0.4.1.zip, press Install Now and then Activate.

When you activate it, a new menu appears in the dashboard, Gremio Kit, with its five screens: Trades, Quote form, WhatsApp, Requests and Help. The whole plugin lives there:

The WordPress dashboard menu with the Gremio Kit entry and its five screens — **Gremio Kit** in the dashboard: five screens, one per job.

3. Pick your trade and press “Apply this trade”

Go to Gremio Kit → Trades. You will find the eight trades with their picture (plumbing, electrical work, cleaning, locksmithing, heating and air conditioning, renovation, painting and decorating, and carpentry). Find yours and press its Apply this trade button. The one in use right now is marked in green.

The Trades screen with the eight trades, the applied one marked and the apply button — **Trades.** Pick yours and press “Apply this trade”. The one in use is marked in green.

4. See what it created (and how to undo it)

When you apply a trade, the plugin builds the home page with that trade's design and creates the pages the theme menu needs: Services, Who comes, Reviews, Area and Contact. It lists them with their addresses in the same block, so you always know what it made and what was there before.

Under that list you have the Undo: remove the pages and the menu Gremio Kit created button. If you do not like the result, press it and everything goes back to how it was: those pages and that menu are removed and your previous home page is restored. It never deletes a page or a menu it did not create.

The “Created by Gremio Kit” block with the pages and the menu created and the undo button — **Created by Gremio Kit.** The pages and the menu it built, with their addresses, and the undo button at the bottom.

5. The menu, with the labels in the language of your website

The plugin builds a normal WordPress menu (Appearance → Menus) linking the home page to those pages. The labels are written in the language of your site, not in the language of the admin panel. Look at the screenshot: a site in Spanish, and the menu follows the language of the site even though the panel is in Spanish.

The main menu created by the plugin, on a site in Spanish — **Site in Spanish.** Inicio, Servicios, Quién viene, Opiniones, Zona and Contacto.

The menu is yours: rename it, reorder it or delete it whenever you like. The labels come out in the language of your site.

6. The quote form: email, subject, privacy and contact details

The form is already placed inside the home page, in the contact band (there is nothing else to install). What is worth filling in is Gremio Kit → Quote form:

Send requests to: your email address. Every request is also saved on your website, so nothing is lost even if the email fails.
Email subject: whatever you want to see in your inbox.
Thank-you message: what the visitor reads after sending the form.
Privacy policy link: leave it empty and the plugin uses your site's privacy policy page (Settings → Privacy).
Contact details: phone, phone you can tap, email, work area and opening hours. These are the four details shown next to the form on the home page.

The contact details are written into the page when you apply a trade, so if you change them afterwards, press Apply this trade again to refresh them on the home page. And do not forget to Save changes.

The Quote form screen with the email address, the subject, the privacy link and the contact details — **Quote form.** Where requests go, the subject, privacy and the contact details.

7. The WhatsApp button

In Gremio Kit → WhatsApp you tick whether you want the floating button, enter your number (with the country code and no spaces) and write the message the chat starts with. You can choose whether it shows on phones only, on computers only, or on both. Leave the number empty and the button is not shown.

The button is a plain link to wa.me: WhatsApp is not called, and nobody else is, until someone taps it.

The WhatsApp screen with the number, the message and where the button shows — **WhatsApp.** The number, the message and where the button shows. At the bottom it shows the exact address that will open.

8. The requests and the answered tick

Every time someone fills in the form, the request is saved on your website and an email reaches you. In Gremio Kit → Requests you have them all: name, phone, trade, message and when it arrived. As you deal with them, tick them with Mark as answered, and the number still pending stays at the top so you do not forget any.

These requests never show on the site and nobody can reach them from outside.

The Requests screen with a request marked as answered — **Requests.** What the form collected, with the answered tick and the count of pending ones.

9. The help, inside the plugin itself

If you get lost, Gremio Kit → Help sums up the four steps, tells you what the plugin never does, and reminds you that it needs the Gremio theme.

The plugin Help screen: the four steps and what it never does — **Help.** The four steps, what the plugin never does, and the theme check.

Quick questions

Does it delete the home page I already had?

No. It moves it to the trash, and you can get it back from Pages → Trash. And it never deletes a page or a menu it did not create.

I already have a “Services” page. Will it overwrite it?

No. It only fills in the pages that are missing: if one with that address already exists, it is left exactly as it was.

Does it need JavaScript or any service from outside?

No. The form posts to the page itself and back, and WordPress handles it. The plugin asks the internet for nothing: not a font, not an image, not even a version check.

In what language do the pages and the menu come out?

In the language of your site (Settings → General → Site Language), never the panel's. The plugin brings English and Spanish; in any other language it comes out in English until a translation arrives.

Can I remove everything it did?

Yes: on the Trades screen there is the Undo button, which removes the pages and the menu it created and leaves your home page as it was.

I come from the previous version, under another name. Do I lose anything?

No. The first time you open the plugin it moves your settings, your requests and the pages it had created over to the new names on its own.