4. Setting Up The Theme
Homepage
An example of this page should already have been created for you upon installing the theme. If it has not or you wish to create your own pages please read below.
- Go to Pages -> Add New to create a new page.
- Give your page a title and in the text editor add the following:
[slider width="980" height="400" cats="17" margins="-70,0,0,0" shadow="shadow-xl" align="aligncenter"]
[text text_align="text-center" size="40" line_height="60"]The Next Generation of WordPress Themes[/text]
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[image url="wp-content/uploads/earth-and-the-communication.jpg" width="190" height="140" shadow="shadow-s" left="8" bottom="10" align="aligncenter"]
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[text size="20" width="100%" text_align="text-right" color="#808080" line_height="20"]A stylish panel[/text]
[text size="40" width="100%" text_align="text-right" line_height="40" margins="0,0,10,0"]Without Borders.[/text]
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[button]Read On...[/button]
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- To display slides in your slider from specific categories add your category IDs to the
cats="" option (go to Slides -> Slide Categories and get the IDs from the ID column).
- Scroll down to the Page Settings panel, check the Hide Page Title option, change the Frame and Breadcrumbs drop down menu options to Hide and change the Layout drop down menu option to Fullwidth.
- Scroll down to the Discussions panel and uncheck the Allow comments option, if you cannot see the Discussions panel click here.
- Go to Settings -> Reading, select A static page option and from the Front page drop down menu select the page you just created (leave the Posts page drop down menu empty).
- You can create your own custom homepage layout by using different shortcodes and changing the shortcode options. For a full list of the shortcodes available click here.
Navigation
An example navigation should already have been created for you upon installing the theme. If it has not or you wish to create your own navigation please read below.
- Go to Appearance -> Menus to set up your header and footer navigation menus.
- Click the + button and create two menus.
- On the left-hand side from the Theme Locations panel select your menus from the Header Navigation and Footer Navigation drop down menus.
Background
- Go to Appearance -> Background to add your own background colour or upload your own background image.
- If you only want to add a background colour with no background image you will still need to upload an image to overwrite the existing background image. Upload the transparent image that comes with the theme located at supermassive-theme/supermassive/lib/images/blank.gif.
Shortcodes
This theme comes with several shortcodes. Shortcodes are pieces of code that can be inserted directly into your posts, pages and widgets to add certain content easily such as videos and dividers.
- Click the Visual tab at the top of the text box on any post or page.
- Click the GP button to open the shortcode window.
- From the shortcode drop down menu select a shortcode, which will automatically be inserted into the text box.
- You can view the full range of options for all the shortcodes from the following page.
Sliders
Creating Slides
- Go to Slides -> Add New to create a slide.
- On the right-hand side you will see a Featured Image panel, click the Set featured image link to set an image for this slide.
- After uploading or selecting your featured image click the Use as featured image link in the image upload window.
- Enter your page, image or video URL that you want the slide to link to in the Slide URL text field.
- On the right-hand side you can add your slide to a category from the Slider Categories panel.
Inserting Slider Shortcode
- To insert a slider into your page add the following code to the text box on any post or page:
[slider width="980" height="400" cats="" slides="-1" timeout="6" orderby="menu_order" order="asc" arrows="true" nav="1" shadow="none" margins="" align="alignnone" preload="false"]
- To add slides from a specific category add the slider category IDs to the
cats="" option (go to Slides -> Slide Categories and get the IDs from the ID column).
- You can also change a variety of other slider options by adjusting the shortcode, for a full list of slider options see this page.
Blog Pages
This theme comes with a [blog] shortcode that can be used to display posts in a blog or gallery/portfolio format.
Creating Posts
- Go to Posts -> Add New to create a new post.
- Give your post a title and content in the text editor.
- Scroll down to the Post Settings panel where you can control the way the post looks.
- On the right-hand side you will see a Featured Image panel, click the Set featured image link to set an image for this post.
- After uploading or selecting your featured image click the Use as featured image link in the image upload window.
- On the right-hand you can assign your post to categories from the Categories panel.
Inserting Posts Shortcode
- Go to Pages -> Add New and insert the following post shortcode into the text editor:
[blog]
- To add posts from a specific category to a post shortcode add the post category IDs to the
cats="" option (go to Post -> Categories and get the IDs from the ID column).
- You can also change a variety of other blog options by adjusting the shortcode, for a full list of blog options see this page.
Gallery/Portfolio Pages
This theme comes with a [blog] shortcode that can be used to display posts in a blog or gallery/portfolio format.
Creating Posts
- Go to Posts -> Add New to create a new post.
- Give your post a title and content in the text editor.
- Scroll down to the Post Settings panel where you can control the way the post looks.
- On the right-hand side you will see a Featured Image panel, click the Set featured image link to set an image for this post.
- After uploading or selecting your featured image click the Use as featured image link in the image upload window.
- To add additional images/audio/images in a lightbox click the the Add Media button and upload your files.
- On the right-hand you can assign your post to categories from the Categories panel.
Inserting Posts Shortcode
- Go to Pages -> Add New and insert the following post shortcode into the text editor:
[blog image_width="250" image_height="150" cols="3" per_page="3" excerpt_length="10" pagination="false" meta_author="false" meta_date="false" meta_cats="false" link="image" title_size="18" divider="false"]
- To add posts from a specific category to a post shortcode add the category IDs to the
cats="" option (go to Posts -> Categories and get the IDs from the ID column).
- You can also change a variety of other post options by adjusting the shortcode, for a full list of portfolio options see this page.
Contact Page
An example of this page should already have been created for you upon installing the theme. If it has not or you wish to create your own pages please read below.
- Go to Pages -> Add New to create a new page.
- Insert the contact form shortcode into the text editor e.g.
[contact email="youremail@address.com"].
- Replace
youremail@address.com with your own email address.
- If your contact form is not working click here.
Login/Registration Pages
Login Page
- Go to Pages -> Add New to create a new page.
- On the right-hand side in the Page Attributes panel select the Login page template from the Template drop down menu.
- Now go to Appearance -> Theme Options -> General Settings and add the login page URL in the Login Page URL text field.
Registration Page
You do not need to create a registration page when using BuddyPress.
- Go to Pages -> Add New to create a new page.
- On the right-hand side in the Page Attributes panel select the Register page template from the Template drop down menu.
- Now go to Appearance -> Theme Options -> General Settings and add the registration page URL in the Register Page URL text field.
Sidebars/Widgets
- Go to Appearance -> Sidebars, click the Add Sidebar link and give your new sidebar a name.
- Now go to any post or page and scroll down to the settings panel.
- Now select one of your sidebars from the Sidebar drop down menu.
- Go to Appearance -> Widgets and drag and drop widgets from the Available Widgets panel over the to your sidebar widget panels on the right.
- You can also add any of the shortcodes with the theme within a Text widget.
Customising Theme Design
You will probably want to customise the design of the theme. This may involve editing the HTML in the php files (theme structure) and the CSS in the style sheets (theme design). If you are not familiar with HTML and/or CSS you will want to hire a developer to modify the theme for you. You can contact one of these developers from here. If they are unavailable you will have to look elsewhere such as FreelanceSwitch.
Developer Tools
An excellent way of styling your theme is to use the developer tools that come with most modern browsers. The developers tools allow you to see what HTML elements need to be styled and allows you to edit the styling of the theme within the browser window. These changes are not permanent and nobody else sees them, it's just a great way of adjusting the look of your site quickly. Here are some links to the developer tools for each of the major browsers:
Editing the Style
Once you know what HTML elements you need to style and how, you can either edit the stylesheets directly (style.css etc.) or override the default styling by adding your CSS code to the Custom CSS box as explained below:
- Go to Appearance -> Theme Options -> CSS Settings and in the Custom CSS text box.
- The CSS code you add to this text box will overwrite the default styling of the theme.
- The benefit of adding your CSS code to the Custom CSS text box rather than editing the stylesheets is that when theme updates are released your style modifications will not be overwritten.
- For example, to edit the link and link hover colours you would add the following to the Custom CSS text box:
a {
color: #ff0000;
}
a:hover: {
color: #000000;
}
- To change the colour of the post meta text you would add:
.post-meta {
color: #ff0000;
}
Translation
Translating The Theme
- Install the translation program Poedit.
- Open the supermassive-theme/supermassive/languages/en_EN.po file with Poedit.
- Translate the file with Poedit, click here for more information.
- Locate wp-config.php, which is in the root directory of your WordPress installation and change the language, click here for more information.
- If you want your website to support multiple language you can use the qTranslate plugin.
Updating Your Translation Files
- If you have updated the theme and the changelog says the translation files have been updated, if you have modified the translation files or created new ones you will want to update them rather than using the new ones.
- To do this insert your modified translation file (e.g. en_EN.po) into the supermassive-theme/supermassive/languages/ folder overwriting the new file.
- Now open this file in PoEdit and click Update and it will display the text changes since the latest theme update.
Using The Lightbox
Gallery Shortcode
- To enable the lightbox on the
[gallery] shortcode add itemtag="div" link="file" to the shortcode, like so:
[gallery itemtag="div" link="file" columns="3"]
Manual Use
- To use the image or video pop up effect on any content add
rel="prettyPhoto" to your links as follows:
<a href="http://example.com/imagename.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto"><img src="http://example.com/imagename.jpg" alt="" /></a>
<a href="file=http://www.example.com/video.flv&image=http://www.example.com/image.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[pp_gal]">Text Link</a>
- If you want to group items in the lightbox add
[pp_gal] to the link e.g. rel="prettyPhoto[pp_gal]".
- You can add the following files to the lightbox, using the following formats:
- YouTube: file=http://youtu.be/Sw-H3FoV2lc&image=http://www.example.com/image.jpg
- Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/8245346
- QuickTime: http://www.example.com/video.mov?width=780&height=418
- FLV/MP4/M4V/MP3: file=http://www.example.com/video.flv&image=http://www.example.com/image.jpg
- OGV/OGG/WEBM: http://www.example.com/video.ogv
- External Site: http://www.twitter.com?iframe=true&width=400&height=200
Disabling The Lightbox Script
- To disable the lightbox script that comes with this theme open supermassive-theme/supermassive/lib/scripts/custom.js and find and remove:
jQuery("a[rel^='prettyPhoto']").prettyPhoto({
theme: 'light_square',
deeplinking: false,
social_tools: ''
});
