Newsy Documentation
Installing The Theme
To install themes with the WordPress theme uploader:
- Download the theme.zip from the member area
- Login to wp-admin
- Go to Appearance > Themes
- Click on the "Install Themes" tab, then click on the "Upload" link
- Upload the theme.zip (note: it is the theme.zip, not theme-psd.zip) that you just downloaded from the member area
- Activate the theme
You can also install the theme with a FTP software, read this tutorial for more details.
Sample Content
If you are starting a new site and would like to import the sample content as seen on the demo site, here are the steps:
- Go to Tools > Import (yoursite.com/wp-admin/import.php). Click WordPress. You maybe asked to install the importer plugin. If so, install the plugin.
- Upload the sample content XML file included in the theme folder.
- You will be asked to map a user to the content and import file attachments. Check "Download and import attachments" to import the gallery images from our demo site.
- Now you may edit or delete the content as you like.
Note: there is a bug in WordPress 3.0 where it doesn't export the taxnomony correctly. This means the category in the Menu custom post category will show uncheck. To fix this, go to the Menu posts (custom post type), edit the menu post and assign the category accordingly.
Header Widget (horizontal banner ad)
To insert a horizontal banner ad/code as shown in our demo:
- go to Appearance > Widgets
- drop a Text Widget in the Header_Widget panel
- enter the following sample html code or your ad code:
<a href="http://themify.me"><img src="http://themify.me/banners/themify-468x60_1.jpg" alt="" /></a>
Setting Up The Social Media Links
To set up the social media links:
- Go to Themify > Settings > Social Links tab
- The theme comes with some pre-filled social links. Simply enter your social profile URL in the Link input field. For example, enter 'http://twitter.com/themify' for the Twitter link.
- You can replace the default icons by clicking on the Upload button and uploading your own graphic icon. You may download more free social media icons at IconDock.
- To add more links, click on the Add Link button at the bottom.
- To remove link, click on the delete icon.
- To arrange the display order, drag and drop the link container
Displaying The Social Media Links
Once you have the Social Links setup, go to WP > Appearance > Widgets, drop the Themify - Social Links from the Available Widgets panel to the Social Widget panel. Optional: enter the widget Title such as "Follow Us", check to "Show link name" and icon size.
Hiding the RSS Icon
To disabling the RSS or social media icons: go to Themify > Settings > Theme Settings (under Exclude RSS link section).
Custom Menus
To create a custom navigation menu:
- Go to Appearance > Menu
- Click on the plus (+) sign to create a new menu (eg. Main Menu).
- Add the menu items from the left panels (Custom Links, Pages, or Categories)
- To create dropdown menu, drag the menu item toward the right (the item(s) will be indented)
- When you are done adding the menu items, click "Save Menu"
- Then on the top right panel where it says "Theme Locations", select the menu from the dropdown to assign it to the navigation location and click "Save"
Read Custom Menus for more detailed tutorial.
Site Logo
To display a logo image instead of text:
- Go to Themify panel > Styling > Site Logo
- Under "Site Logo", select "Image" radio button
- Upload a logo image
- Specify the image width and height
Read Customizing the Site Logo and Description (Tagline) for more details.
Feature Post Sliders
- Check "Enable" to display the feature slider. You can choose to display blog posts or custom images.
- To display blog posts, select the category and enter the number of slides you want to show.
- To display custom images, select the "Images" radio button. Then upload the images or enter the url of the images in each slides. The image links are optional.
- Visible = the number of slides visible at the same time.
- Speed = the speed of the animation.
- Wrap Slides = repeat slides
Custom Page Layout
To display posts from specific category(ies) using pre-designed layouts:
- Create a new WordPress page.
- Under the Query Posts Template Options, select the category that you want to display or enter multiple category IDs in the Query Category text field.
- Posts per page = the number of posts to be displayed per page.
- Select the layout option.
- Image width & height is optional.
- Page navigation: you may turn it off as you want.
Standard Page: to remove the query post options and use the regular page template, simply clear the Query Category field or select blank in the dropdown.
Inserting Gallery to Posts or Pages
The gallery can be inserted in any post or page. To insert a gallery, click on "Add Media" button
It will open a lightbox for you to create and insert gallery. Read this tutorial for more details on how to use WordPress Gallery.
Custom Front Page
The homepage on our demo is a custom page created with the Query Categories:
- Create a Page (eg. Home)
- Under the Themify Custom Panel, select Query Categories dropdown to All Categories
- Select the layout options as you like
- Publish the page
- Then go to wp-admin > Settings > Reading and select the custom home page as the front page display (read Custom Front Page detailed tutorial)
Footer Widgets
To set the Footer Widget column layout, go to Themify > Settings > Theme Settings. To drop the widgets in the Footer_Widgets, go to wp-admin > Appearance > Widgets.
Footer Text
To replace the default footer text, go to Themify > Settings > Theme Settings (under Footer Text section).
Responsive Videos
This theme incorporated some CSS tricks to make the video embeds responsive. If you are embedding the video using WP embeds, then it will add a <p> wrap automatically to make the video responsive. The .post-video class is required for the responsive trick.
If you are embedding manually, please add that <p> in the HTML code. Example:
<p> [iframe embed code] <p>
If you want to restrict the video to certain size, add width style in the wrapper:
<p style="max-width: 500px"> [iframe embed code] <p>