A WordPress theme by TemplateXtreme
Thank you for downloading this WordPress theme from TemplateXtreme.com.
1. Introduction
Here is a list of the main features:
- A company theme.
- Adsense ready: spot for a 120x600 Skyscraper Google Adsense banner on the right.
- Fixed width layout.
- Three columns layout with two sidebars on the left.
- Flash slideshow in the header on the homepage that you can easily customize with your own pictures.
- Horizontal menu in the header.
- Easy to edit custom navigation with the StickyMenu plugin.
- Embedded contact form immune to the bcc field injection security hole.
- W3C standard compliant, valid XHTML 1.0 strict
2. Installation notices
Installation is straightforward as with regular themes made for WordPress: just copy (or upload) the theme directory into your wp-content/themes/
directory. Activate your new theme from within the 'Presentation' menu in the site administration.
Notice: This theme utilizes both ALEW and Sticky Menu plugins:
- ALEW: Advanced Layout Extension for WordPress (the theme won't display correctly without it).
- Sticky Menu: Optional but recommended if you'd like to display a nice main menu.
3.1. Install the ALEW plugin
- Download from http://tela-web.com/wordpress-plugins/alew/
- Upload the folder "alew" and its content to your server in the wp-content/plugins/ directory.
- Activate it in the "Plugins" panel. No further configuration is needed.
3.2. Install the Sticky Menu plugin
- Download from http://tela-web.com/wordpress-plugins/sticky-menu. Upload the plugin to your server in the wp-content/plugins/ directory.
- Activate it in the "Plugins" panel.
- Look for the "Sticky Menus" sub-panel under "Manage".
- Add some menu items to the menu 'main' (if you choose a different menu name, change also the menu name in sidebar.php and / or footer.php).
Check if the menu displays at the top of the sidebar and / or in the footer.
3.3. Adsense
Feature provided only for themes with a space for Adsense.
How to edit the Adsense account info:
Edit the file adsense.php and replace with your Google account at this line:
> google_ad_client = "pub-9240276355798915";
3.4. Flash slideshow
Feature provided only for themes with a Flash banner.
How to replace the pictures displayed in the Flash slideshow.
- Locate the
flash
folder in the theme directory.
- Upload your images in the image subfolder:
flash/images
.
- Edit
flash/images.xml
.
3.5. Blog presentation text
Some themes don't have this feature enabled by default. You need to uncomment the corresponding lines in index.php.
You can set up a short text about your blog that will appear at the top of the sidebar, and set a link to a longer presentation.
- Write a page with a post slug: about_short (the short text in the sidebar).
- Write a page with a post slug: about (the short text will link to this longer presentation).
3.6. Contact form
How to use the embedded contact form:
Write a page with:
- post slug =>
contact
- page tempate =>
contact
If you write some page content, it will dispay above the fields.
Email is sent to the admin's email address.
3.7. 'Links' page
The "Links" page displays the list of the links you entered under the "Links" section in the admin panel. The links are classified by link categories.
How to create a 'Links' page:
Write a page with:
- page template =>
Links Page
- post slug =>
links
If you write some page content, it'll display above the list.
3.8. Comments on pages
You may add comments on every page the same way as you have in posts.
- On the 'Write Page', look for the 'Custom Fields' section under the upload interface.
- If it's not open, click on the + sign.
- Enter
comments
in the key field and in the value field.
- Click on 'Add Custom Field';.
4. License information
Posted on this page: license.htm.