1- User guide and theme setup
Thank you for purchasing our theme. If you have any questions or suggestion that are beyond the scope of this help file, please feel free ask any questions on the online Support Forum.
For questions about WordPress installation/usage, HTML, JavaScript or CSS editing – please try the W3Schools or the WordPress Codex as theme errors/issues get top priority.
Thanks so much!
2- Getting started
To install our theme you must have a working version of WordPress already installed. For more information regarding the installation of the WordPress platform, please try the WordPress Codex: http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress
3- Installation
Once wordpress is installed, you can upload the theme files and activate the theme.
Download the zipped theme pack to your local computer and extract the ZIP file contents to a folder on your local computer.
In the extracted folder you will find ‘christopher.zip’ Extract this file .
The theme files can be uploaded in two ways:
-FTP Upload: Using your FTP program, upload the non-zipped theme folder into the /wp-content/themes/ folder on your server.
-WordPress Upload: Navigate to Appearance > Add New Themes > Upload. Go to browse, and select the zipped theme folder, called christopher.zip. Hit “Install Now” and the theme will be uploaded and installed.
Once the theme is uploaded, you need to activate it. Go to Appearance > Themes and activate your chosen theme.
More info in this post
4- Menus
Setting Up Your Navigation Menu
If you using version 3.0 of WordPress or higher, you can setup custom menus to configure your site’s navigation. The theme comes with one custom menu location called “The Main Menu” and is located at the very top of the each page, on the ribbon. If you are running earlier versions of WordPress, the menu degrades gracefully and automatically creates your navigation for you – custom menus are replaced with a list of pages. In this case, you will need to change the order of the pages via the page order option in pages.
To setup your custom menus, navigate to Appearance > Menus. Give your menu a name and create your menu items using the available widgets. You can add a variety of items including pages, categories, custom links. To extend the available widgets, click the screen options tab at the very top of the screen and configure your options.
Once you’ve added all your items to your menu, be sure to click “Save Menu”. Then, set your menu by clicking it for the Top Navigation Menu in the “Theme Locations” box in the upper left hand side of the screen:
More info in this post
5- Social menu
Setting Up Your Social Menu
To set your own social menu, create a new menu as it have been explained in the above section.
To add new items, fill the field area with your own url social in the “link tab” as is done in the following image. You can fill the “link text” field if you want.
You can add many social icons as you need. Make sure to check the “Social Links Menu” option in Theme locations setting. Make sure to save the menu before leave the menu admin page.
6- Customize
You can customize the entire look of your theme, from colors to fonts and backgrounds. To get to the customization panel, navigate to Appearance > Customize.
-Site Title & Tag Line
Choose a title and tag line for your site.
-Color
The color of the title and background as displayed by the theme.
-Static Front Page
You site’s home page can either contain your latest posts or display a static page or post.
Click the Save & Publish button to ensure any changes you have made to your Options are saved to your database. Once you click the button, the button text changes to “Saved” telling you your settings have been saved.
7- Home Page & Featured Content (Slider)
With the widgets Recent Posts by Categories you can add additional posts to your front page (in a three/two/one column grid). You can choose between the number of post per category and choose a specific category.
Just navigate to Appearance → Widgets and add as widgets “ Recent Posts by Categories” as you need to “Home Page Builder” Area. Also you can add the “Big Quote” widget.
If you want to include a Featured Post Slider at the top of your front page, you will need to install the Jetpack WordPress plugin. With the Jetpack plugin installed you can find the new option “Featured Content” under Appearance → Customize.
Here you can add one of your tags as a featured content tag. Now all posts (up to 10) with this tag will be seen in the slider on your front page, as long as the posts have a featured post thumbnail with the dimensions 1140×450 pixel.
For further customization of your front page you can now add more front page widgets to your widget area.
8- Breaking News
You can now add the “Breaking News by Category” Widget to the “Breaking News Header Bar” Area to show a header bar with the latest posts of a selected category. This option can be found under Appearance → Widgets.
9- Sources and credits
I’ve used the following plugins, thanks so much to:
Google Fonts API
Icons by Font Awesome
html5shiv.js
respond.js
Selectivizr.js
Images in theme demo by:
http://jaymantri.com/
https://unsplash.com/
http://littlevisuals.co/
http://www.gratisography.com/