Category: WordPress Templates

The given theme contains the Settings option. These settings allow for easy and quick change of the theme color palette, the items order, items on /off etc. In order to use these settings please go to Appearance > Theme Options.

General settings

• Body styling – you can select the body color and background pattern.
• Header background color – Header background color
• Buttons and links color – Buttons and links color
• Typography – a set of Typography settings
• Display search box? – show/hide the search bar in the header
• Custom CSS – if you need to add some css rules but you don’t want to mess with the main css file, you can use this field. Just insert your new css rules

Logo

• What kind of logo? – indicates what kind of logo to use, whether the text one or the image logo.
• Logo URL – with Image logo selected you can upload the new image with the help of the ‘upload’ feature or use any pic from the Media Library

Main Navigation

• Delay – delay in milliseconds that defines when the menu hides
• Fade-in animation – enabe/disable the fade-in animation
• Slide-down animation – enabe/disable the slide animation
• Speed – the speed of the submenu expanding
• Arrows markup – enabe/disable arrows for the menu items that have submenus
• Drop shadows – show/hide the submenu shadow

Slider Settings

• Slider effects – slider transition effect
• Number of slices – amount of slices in the slider
• Box columns – amount of box columns in the slider (for effects based on box animation only)
• Box rows – amount of box rows in the slider (for effects based on box animation only)
• Animation speed – the speed of the animation (ms)
• Pause time – delay between slides (ms)
• Display Next & Prev navigation – show/hide the Next & Prev buttons
• Display Next & Prev navigation only on hover? – this options allows to specify when the Next & Prev navigation is displayed
• Show Pagination – show or hide pagination (e.g. 1, 2, 3, 4 …)
• Opacity of caption – caption opacity

Blog section

• Sidebar position – you can select the position for the sidebar(right or left)
• Blog image size – the Image size (Normal size or Large size) for the Blog page
• Single post image size – the image size (Normal size or Large size) for the single post page
• Enable Meta for blog posts? – display meta for posts
• Enable excerpt for blog posts? – display excerpt for posts

Footer

• Footer copyright text – footer text content. If the text field is empty, the default content will be displayed. It is located in the footer.php file
• Google Analytics Code -you can put a code for gathering your site’s SEO stats. . For instance, Google Analytics Code
• Feedburner URL – Feedburner is a Google service that takes care of your RSS feed. Paste your Feedburner URL here to let readers see it in your website
• Display Footer menu – enable or disable the footer menu

Please note, these are common/standard theme options of our templates. Your particular template may include different options panels with different names and functionality. Please refer to your template documentation for the most accurate information.

• Official website http://wordpress.org/
• WordPress CMS manual
• WordPress CMS documentation

The most common widgets used in the templates are listed below

WP PageNavi

Download: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-pagenavi/
Description: For page navigation.

Contact Form 7

Download: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/contact-form-7/
Description: Contact form for contact page.

Please note, these are the most used plugins of our templates. Your particular template may include different plugins with different names and functionality. Please refer to your template documentation for the most accurate information.

Widgets

The following widgets are also used in the theme:

My – Recent Comments

Displays recent comments in a more convenient format. The given widget includes the following options:

• Title: – Widget Title
• Number of comments to show: – Number of Columns.

My – Popular Posts Widget

Displays popular posts. The following options are displayed:

• Title: – Widget Title
• Posts per page: – the number of posts to display.
• Link Text: – the Link Text that is displayed in the Popular Posts.
• Link Url: – the Link URL that is displayed in the Popular Posts.

My – Post Cycle

Displays recent posts, you can also display custom posts. The Widget is used for the slideshow because of Cycle plugin in its structure. The given widget contains the following options:

• Title: – Widget Title
• Limit Text: – the number of words in the brief post description.
• Posts per page: – the number of posts to display.
• Post Type: – a Post Type selection.

My – Recent Posts

Displays recent posts. You can also show custom posts of certain categories and add a read more link. The given Wdiget contains tge following options:

• Title: – Widget Title
• Category Slug: – Post Category Slug.
• Posts per page: – the number of posts to display.
• Link Text: – the Link Text that is displayed after the Recent Posts.
• Link Url: – Link URL that is displayed after the Recent posts.

My – Request a Quote

An advanced text widget with a whole lot of extra fields. The given Widget contains the following fields:

• Title: – Widget Title
• Text: – Widget Text.
• Button Text: – Button Text
• Button URL: – Button URL

My – Advanced Cycle

The multifunctional widget used to display different post types including the blog posts, as well as the functionality of settings display. The given widget contains the following options:

• Title: – Widget Title
• Posts type: – select Posts type
• Number of posts to show: – the number of posts
• Sort by: – Post selection option
• Reverse sort order (ascending): – reverse sort order
• Show number of comments – show the number of comments
• Show meta – show meta
• Container class: – wrapper class. Set to featured_custom_posts by default
• Show post title – show post title.
• Date as title – for date usage instead of the title
• Before title: – custom HTML-markup before Title
• After title: – custom HTML-markup after Title
• Show post excerpt – show excerpt
• Excerpt length (words): – excerpt length (the number of words)
• Excerpt as link – convert excerpt into a link
• Show “More link” – show link More link after the post
• Link text: – Link Text
• Link class: – CSS-class for the link More link
• Show post thumbnail – show thumbnail for a post
• Width: – Image Width
• Height: – Image Height
• Thumbnail as link – convert the image into a link
• Show global link to all posts – Show global link to all posts
• Link text: – the text of the given link
• Link URL: – Link URL

My – Social Networks

This is the Widget that allows linkage to your social network accounts. The widget contains the following options:

• Title: – Widget Title
• Facebook URL, Twitter URL, Flickr URL etc. – the links to your Social Network accounts
• Display: the way of icons display.
  • Icons – icons only.
  • Labels – text only.
  • Both – icons and text.

My – Twitter

This is the Widget that displays latest twitts from your twitter account. The widget contains the following options:

• Title: – Widget Title
• Twitter Name: – your twitter name
• Twitts number: – amount of twitts to show.

My – Flickr

This is the Widget that displays photos from your flickr gallery. The widget contains the following options:

• Title: – Widget Title
• Flickr ID: – your flickr ID
• Images count: – amount of photos to show.
• Link Text: – text of link under flickr photos.

Please note, these are standard and the most used widgets of our templates. Your particular template may include different widgets with different names and functionality. Please refer to your template documentation for the most accurate information.

Shortcode is a powerful content building tool http://codex.wordpress.org/Shortcode.Shortcodes are easy to use. First please make sure that the editing mode is set to visualThen please click the button for the shortcodes.

Please select the shortcode you want to insert.

There are following shortcodes available:

1. Basic
   • Recent Posts – for recent shortcodes with a number of settings.
   • Recent Testimonials – for recent testimonials
   • Popular Posts – for the popular posts
   • Recents Comments – for the recent comments
   • Tags – for the TagCloud
2. Grid columns
   • grid_1
   • grid_2
   • grid_3
   • … – the given shortcodes are used for the layout framework on the basis of 960gs.
3. Fluid columns
   • 1/2
   • 1/3
   • 2/3
   • … – the given shortcodes are used for the layout framework on the basis of fluid columns
4. HTML
   • Button – the shortcode for the button
   • Drop Cap – to make the first letter in the paragraph an uppercase letter.
   • Blockquote – for a quotation
   • Frame – a wrapper for the image or any other object
   • Frame Left – a wrapper for the image or any other object with the left side location
   • Frame Right – a wrapper for the image or any other object with the right side location
   • Horizontal Rule – the horizontal separation line
5. Alert Boxes
   • Alert – the Error Box
   • Approved – the Approve Box
   • Attention – the Attention box
   • Notice – the Notice Box
6. Audio & Video
   • Audio – insert audio (HTML support)
   • Video – insert video. Youtube, Vimeo files can be embedded as well as any file located on your server.
7. Tabs
   • Shortcode for Tabs.
8. Toggle
   • Shortcode for toggle-script. With a number of such scripts added you can get Accordion.

Please note, these are standard and the most used shortcodes of our templates. Your particular template may include different shortcodes with different names and functionality. Please refer to your template documentation for the most accurate information.

Portfolio pages can be created with the help of page templates

1. Log in to your WordPress Administration Panel (Dashboard).
2. Click the Pages tab
3. Click the Add New tab
4. Type in your page name, for example Portfolio page
5. Select your page template ( Portfolio 1 column, Portfolio 2 columns, Portfolio 3 columns or Portfolio 4 columns in the Page Attributes drop-down menu)
6. The following custom fields are available for Portfolio page template:
   • page-desc – page description
   • category-include – name of the category that is displayed on this Portfolio page. You need to use the slug of the category here.
7. With that done, click the Publish button

Note: Please do not post any content to the editor field if you use one of the pages templates.

Please note, portfolio page templates and portfolio custom post type may have different names, e.g.: Gallery, Services, Project etc.

Adding a category

Review the following link for more info on adding categories: http://codex.wordpress.org/Manage_Categories_SubPanel

1. Log in to your WordPress Administration Panel (Dashboard).
2. Click the Post tab
3. That done, click Categories for blog posts
4. Type in the name of your new category
5. With that done, click the Add New Category button

Creating a blog post

1. Log in to your WordPress Administration Panel (Dashboard).
2. Click the Posts tab
3. And click the Add New tab
4. Type in your post content. For more info on adding posts, please review the following link http://codex.wordpress.org/Posts_Add_New_SubPanel
5. And finally click the Publish button

Creating a blog post

Review the following link for more info about post formats: http://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Formats

Creating a slider post (slide)

Slides are essentially custom post types http://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Types#Custom_Types. which means that they are different from common posts, such as blog posts, portfolio posts etc. That allows us to manage the content of the site really easy.

The following slider runs on Nivo Slider.

Please note, your template may use another slider plugin. Please refer to your template documentation for the most accurate information.

1. Log in to your WordPress Administration Panel (Dashboard).
2. Click the Slider tab
3. And now click the Add New tab
4. Insert your slider title.
5. Upload your image with the help of the Featured Image option (click the Set featured image link)
6. You can use the following custom fields for your slider:
   • slider-url – link for the slider image.
7. For the slider description please use the post edit option. The slider description can contain the HTML-markup, f.e:
   ?

   1 2 3

   <h2>Integrate.</h2> <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consec tetuer adipiscing elit.</p> <a href="#" class="button">Read More</a>

8. And click the Publish button

Adding a portfolio post

Portfolio items are essentially custom post types http://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Types#Custom_Types. which means that they are different from common posts, such as blog posts, portfolio posts etc. That allows us to manage the content of the site really easy.

1. Log in to your WordPress Administration Panel (Dashboard).
2. Click the Portfolio tab
3. And now the Add New one
4. Fill in all the required fields (title, content)
5. Upload your image with the help of the Featured Image option (click the Set featured image link)
6. The following options are available for a porfolio post:
   • lightbox-url – path to the large image. Once clicked it’ll pop up with the help of prettyPhoto
7. And push the Publish button

Adding a Testimonials post

1. Log in to your WordPress Administration Panel (Dashboard).
2. Click the Testimonials tab
3. And click the Add New tab
4. Fill in all the required fields (title, content)
5. Upload your image with the help of the Featured Image option (click the Set featured image link)
6. You can use the folowing custom fields for this sort of posts:
   • testimonial-name – authors’s name
   • testimonial-url – author’s link
7. Hit the Publish button

Adding an FAQs post

1. Log in to your WordPress Administration Panel (Dashboard).
2. Click the FAQs tab
3. And now the Add New button
4. Since it is a question/answer type of post, the title of the post is the question and the content is the answer.
5. Click Publish

Adding an Our Team post

1. Log in to your WordPress Administration Panel (Dashboard).
2. Click the Our Team tab
3. And now the Add New button
4. Fill in all the required fields (title, content)
5. Upload your image with the help of the Featured Image option (click the Set featured image link)
6. Click Publish

Adding a Service post

1. Log in to your WordPress Administration Panel (Dashboard).
2. Click the Services tab
3. And now the Add New button
4. Fill in all the required fields (title, content)
5. Upload your image with the help of the Featured Image option (click the Set featured image link)
6. Click Publish

Please note, these are the most used custom posts types of our templates. Your particular template may include different posts types with different names and appearance. Please refer to your template documentation for the most accurate information.

Please note, these are the most used page templates of our templates. Your particular template may include different page templates with different names. Please refer to your template documentation for the most accurate information.

Page Templates

• Default Template (the default page template with a right sidebar position)
• Full Width (a page template with one column and no sidebar positions)
• Portfolio 1 column (the page template for 1 column portfolio display)
• Portfolio 2 columns (the page template for 2 columns portfolio display)
• Portfolio 3 columns (the page template for 3 columns portfolio display)
• Portfolio 4 columns (the page template for 4 columns portfolio display)
• Page Testimonials (the page template for testimonials posts display)
• Page FAQs (the page template for displaying FAQs)

Sidebar Position

Please note, these are the most used sidebar positions of our templates. Your particular template may include different sidebar positions with different names. Please refer to your template documentation for the most accurate information.

• Header – Located at the top of pages
• Before Home Page Content – Located at the top of the Home Page content.
• Home Page Content – Located at the middle of the Home Page content.
• After Home Page Content – Located at the bottom of the Home Page content.
• Sidebar – Located on the right hand side or left hand side of pages
• Footer – Located at the bottom of pages.