WiseBusiness Wordpress Theme

Features

Installing WiseBusiness Theme

1. Unzip the file that you have downloaded, you will find a folder called "colorbold".

2. To install the theme you should have already wordpress installed and running on your server. Using FTP, upload the "wisebusiness" theme folder to your web server, and place it in "/wp-contents/themes/". So what you'll have in the end is "wp-contents/themes/wisebusiness/".

3. Now that you have the theme uploaded you just need to login to your WP admin panel and activate it "Appearance > Themes".

Theme Setting Up

WiseBusiness theme displays all categories and their subcategories as drop down menus ( using JQuery Superfish ) on the main menu and all the pages on the top right menu.

Installing Plugins

This theme uses 3 plugins, Simple Post Thumbnails, Twitter Tools and WP-PageNavi which you can find in the downloaded .zip file, folder "plugins". You need to upload these folder's contents on your server to "wp-content/plugins/" and activate the plugins from the admin panel.

1. Simple Post Thumbnails ( http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-post-thumbnails/ ) - This plugin adds a widget to the posting screen that allows you to add a post thumbnail by uploading an image from your computer or via a URL. The thumbnail is scaled and cropped to the correct size automatically.



2. Twitter Tools ( http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twitter-tools/ ) - Twitter Tools is a plugin that creates a complete integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account.

3. PageNavi ( http://lesterchan.net/wordpress/readme/wp-pagenavi.html ) - Adds a more advanced paging navigation your WordPress blog. To make changes to paging style you will need to edit "pagenavi.css" file from "plugins/wp-pagenavi/pagenavi.css".

 

Theme Options Page

This themes comes with a custom options page ( Appearance > Wisebusiness Options) where you can:

1. Choose the theme color style

2. Setup your logo - You need to enter the full path to your logo file and the logo image ALT text. For better visual results we recommand to use a PNG transaparent logo.

3. Cufon Text Replacement - The theme uses by default "Century Gohtic". You can disable this by setting to "No". This way the font used will be Arial. You can use different font with Cufon if you want, you just need to generate your font cufon script and change the path in header.php. Here is where you can generate the script for your font: http://cufon.shoqolate.com/generate/

4. Setup Blog, Portfolio, Testimonials categories - After creating the categories you need to select your blog, portfolio and testimonials categories. This way the theme will know to use each type of content its way.

5. Email Address for Contact Form - As the theme comes with a working Ajax contact form you need to specify your address in order to get the messages on your email.

6. Features Bar Setup - You need to create pages for each feature. These pages content will be displayed under the header, on the Features Bar. If you dont need this bar to appear you simply dont have to select anything. Please remember that if you dont select all 3 the bar wont appear at all.

7. Homepage Content - SImply create a page with your desired title, content and select it from dropdown list.

8. Homepage Latest Blog Posts - Setting up how many blog posts do you want to display on the homepage. Default is 4. For good visual results use an even number.

9. Homepage Testimonials - Setting up how many latest testimonials you want to display on the homepage.

10. Exclude Pages IDs from Top & Footer Menu & - As for the homepage boxes you will need to create some pages that not should be linked in the top menu and the top menu lists the pages and categories available, here you need to enter the IDs of the pages and categories that shouldnt appear on the main navigation.

11. Footer contact details page - For the footer contact area you need to create a page with your desired content. Then just select it from the dropdown.

12. Social Networking - Enter your Facebook and Twitter links. They will appear at the bottom of the footer contact area.

13. Add Google Analytics code - Simply fill in the filed for Analytics code and save.

 

Homepage Graphic Header

For customizing the homepage graphical header you need to edit home_header.php. You can create your own content and have elements placed however you want.

Portolio Page

For portfolio a template is used, portfolio.php, which makes use of TimThumb image resizing script ( timthumb.php ). You should know that the first image found in the post content is resized and displayed on portfolio page.

Testimonials Page

For testimonials you need to create a category and specify it on the theme options panel. The testimonials listing page uses a template, testimonials.php.

Contact Page

When you create the Contact page, you will need to set the "Contact" template for it ( right side Attributes panel ), in order to have the contact page as in preview and have it Ajax functional.

Lightbox

For adding Lightbox behaviour to a link just add class="lightbox" to the link tag.