# Dominion - Domain Checker Documentation

### 1.Introduction #

Dominion is a WordPress plugin which allow you easily to check domain name availability from your WordPress site. You can search for or check any generic domains and directly integrate the search result with your WHMCS domain sales page. Dominion – WP Domain Checker is made with AJAX and easily to use with Shortcode or Widget or WPBakery page builder.

### 2.Features #

- Check domain name availability for any TLD
- Whois domain name
- Made with AJAX
- Easily use with Shortcode
- Easily use with Widget
- Easily customize from admin panel
- No need domain reseller API
- Integrated with WHMCS
- Change/Choose Parallax Background Image
- List/Include unlimited TLD (extensions) of Domains
- Enable/Disable Ajax Domain Search
- Change Search Result's Domain Purchase Button Label
- Change Search Result's Domain Purchase Button URL (the page url from where users can purchase/transfer the domain)
- Change Highlighted TLD Pricing
- Change/Choose Shape of the Domain Search Section
- Enable/Disable Animation (35+ variations of animations to choose from)
- Change/Choose Title Tag (h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, div, span, p)
- Change Sub Title/Heading
- Change/Choose Sub Title Tag (h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, div, span, p)
- Change Text below Title
- Change Search Field PlaceHolder Text
- Change/Choose Font Family, Font Size, Font Weight and Line Height for Title
- Change/Choose Font Family, Font Size, Font Weight and Line Height for Sub Title
- Change/Choose Font Family, Font Size, Font Weight and Line Height for other Text
- Change/Choose Color for Title, Sub Title and other Text
- Change/Choose Mouse-Over (Hover) Color of Text
- Change/Choose Background Color of Button
- Change/Choose Mouse-Over (Hover) Background Color of Button
- Change/Choose Button Text Color
- Change/Choose Mouse-Over (Hover) Color of Button Text
- Change/Choose Domain Available Result Text Color
- Change/Choose Domain NOT Available Result Text Color
- Change/Choose Input Box Placeholder Text Color
- Change/Choose Domain Price Color
- Change/Choose Domain Extension (TLD) Color
- Change/Choose Section Background Color
- Change/Choose Mouse-Over (Hover) Color of Section Background
- Change Section Padding
- Change Section Margin

### 3.Installation & Updating #

### Installation

The installation process of Dominion – WP Domain Checker is quite simple and straightforward, and shouldn't cause you any troubles at all. Independent of you previous experience with WordPress plugins, you aren't likely to have any problems, just follow these simple steps:

1. Download the file from CodeCanyon and unzip it
2. Once you purchase Dominion – WP Domain Checker, you will be able to download the ZIP file from CodeCanyon, containing the current version. Download it to your computer and unzip it. You will get a folder with the plugin name – 'Dominion'.
3. Upload the plugin to your WordPress
4. There are 2 ways to do this::

   - Option 1 open your WordPress admin panel, go to Plugins -> Add new -> Upload and choose the the_dominion.zip file that you downloaded from CodeCanyon.
   - Option 2 open your WordPress installation folder in some FTP manager (CyberDuck, FileZilla, Total Commander, or any other), go to wp-content/plugins/ and upload the folder that you unzipped in previous step.
5. Activate the plugin
   In your WordPress admin panel go to Plugins, find Dominion – WP Domain Checker and click "Activate". Congrats, plugin installed!

### Automatic Updating

Download & install Envato Market plugin
This plugin can install WordPress themes and plugins purchased from ThemeForest & CodeCanyon by connecting with the Envato Market API using a secure OAuth personal token. Once your themes & plugins are installed WordPress will periodically check for updates, so keeping your items up to date is as simple as a few clicks.

### Manual Updating

If you download new plugin version from CodeCanyon please follow these steps to upgrade from the existing version:

1. Go to your FTP and open WordPress plugins folder
2. Delete the old Dominion – WP Domain Checker version folder
3. Upload the new version of Dominion – WP Domain Checker
4. Go to WP-admin panel, open Plugins section.
5. Deactivate Dominion – WP Domain Checker, and then activate it again.

### 4.Shortcodes #

#### ShortcodeS

You can easily use shortcode [dominion_shortcodes_domain_search_1] to show domain name checker form in your page or post.

Parameter | Example
--- | ---
search_pholder | `[dominion_shortcodes_domain_search_1 search_pholder="Enter your Domain Name"]`
button_label | `[dominion_shortcodes_domain_search_1 button_label="Search"]`
ajax_search | `[dominion_shortcodes_domain_search_1 ajax_search="true"]`
purchase_btn_name | `[dominion_shortcodes_domain_search_1 purchase_btn_name="Purchase"]`
purchase_btn_url | `[dominion_shortcodes_domain_search_1 purchase_btn_url="#"]`
domain | `[dominion_shortcodes_domain_search_1 domain=".com .net .org"]`
title | `[dominion_shortcodes_domain_search_1 title="Search Your Desired Domain Here"]`
title_tag | `[dominion_shortcodes_domain_search_1 title_tag="h1"]`
button_bg_color | `[dominion_shortcodes_domain_search_1 button_bg_color="#000"]`
button_bg_hover_color | `[dominion_shortcodes_domain_search_1 button_bg_hover_color="#fff"]`

Example:
You want to set the form button text with "Search" and purchase domain text with "Buy Now".

So just add "purchase_btn_name" and "button" to the shortcode like this `[dominion_shortcodes_domain_search_1 button_label="Search" purchase_btn_name="Buy Now"]`

### 5.WHMCS Integration #

WHMCS integration is too easy with Dominion. All you need to do is just put an URL in Purchase Button Field. If you have your WHMCS installed in your server, you will have a domain purchase url like this `YOUR_SITES_WHMCS_PAGE/cart.php?a=add&domain=register&query=`. You just need to put that url in the given field of the shortcode.

### 6.Allow Only Specific TLDs #

If you need to allow the users to search for only specific TLDs, you can do so by inputting only those TLDs in the drop-down field given in the Shortcode.