Corporattica Theme Installation Guide
March 14, 2011 at 5:22 pm | Blog | 101 comments
If you are a web designer or a freelancer who wants to have a website, the corporattica is extremely suitable for your case. If you are a newbie to wordpress, don’t be afraid, i am gonna give you a step by step installation guide on using this corporattica theme. It is easy to follow, you will find it really simple. If you have already used Aurelius, you will find this one is even easier, and more flexible than Aurelius. Ok, Are your ready? Let’s rock with corporattica.
Precondition
First of all, you have a wordpress blog installed. Coporattica is designed for wordpress up to 3.0, as it takes advantages of the new features like menu, custom post etc. If you are using old versions of wordpress, please upgrade to 3 first, or download the latest wordpress from the official website wordpress.org.Then follow wordpress’s famous one click installation steps to install the blog.
Then, you have to download the theme: corporattica from my website: from theme category or from download category. Once you get the theme, unzip it into your wordpress theme folder, and the structure is like “{your wordpress dir}\wp-content\themes\Corporattica”. login wordpress site with your admin account and go to Appearance->Themes. do you see “Corporattica”? Awesome, the new theme is installed successfully. Just activate the newly installed theme and be ready to start configuring your website with Corporattica!!
Start with Home Page
The home page is designed as a custom post type. As you may see there is a new post type: “Home Page” in the left side navigation besides the ordinary wordpress types. Add a new element for the home page by clicking “Add New”, and select “Introduction” or “bits” section for your need.
1. Welcome Section
See the screenshot for introduction section. this section is designed to let you have a brief introduction on the corporation or the website.
2. Bits Section
And add a new element for bits section on the home page, which displayed under the introduction section. It is better to add three bits, as it is a three column layout. Please note, you can add photos in the “image for posts” custom fields. and it thumb nails are generated automatically in the home page. so don’t worry about the size.
Add Posts to Categories
There are four predefined categories in this theme: blog, featured, portfolio, uncategorized. They are predefined, as there are specific templates for them.
1. Featured post
let’s add featured post, which will be displayed on the home page slideshow. (see the screenshot) Please note that the image you want to show in the slideshow should be larger than 960×340 in width x height if you can not make exactly the same. And keep the image size small. If a picture is larger than 1M, it is really slow to load, the performance will very bad. So the jpg format is preferred.
2. Blog post
Add blog post is really straight forward. input everything the title, the post, and check on “blog” category. that’s it!!
You don’t have to upload images on the right custom field, as it is not used.If you want to show the post on the featured slide show too, then add a image url in that field, and check on featured category too.
3. Portfolio post
Add portfolio post is also similar, except for some additional custom fields.
Add Pages
You can add as many pages as you want. But if you want to use contact form, you have to add a page named contact: see screen shot
please note: the name matters!! but the lower case or up case is fine. but just make sure it is a “contact”!
Add Menus
As I have stated that the corporattica theme takes full advantage of custom menu, it is much more user friendly and flexible.
Go to Menus in the Appearance section on the left side navigation bar. Add two menus for your site: the primary menu and the footer menu. add whatever categories or pages to each menu. see the screenshot for more details
assign your newly created menus to theme locations: the primary menu is located in the banner, while the footer menu just as the name indicated on the footer.
Add Sidebar
Finally, you can add sidebars to each page. The corporattica is designed with three different sidebars for different pages: the home page sidebar, the contact page sidebar and the right sidebar which is for all other blogs and pages.
Go to the Appearance, and select Widgets. Drag whatever widgets you want to the specific sidebar. See the screenshot for reference.
Finally
Click preview to check out your website. How do you like it? 
Are these steps too complicated? Fine, there are three other simpler but expensive ways:
1. Import everything from my demo site
wordpress support export and import from another wordpress functionality. So you can get a copy of my demo site data file and import to your site. Everything is there, and you just need to do some customization. However it is not free, it will cost you 1$.
2. Import everything from my demo site from sql
As everything is stored in the mysql database, you can grab an exported sql database from me. and replace the url to yours and import to your database. And you also need to do some customization. it will cost you 1$ too.
3. Ask me for help. I will setup the site for you
Ok, this is the easiest way. You just send me an email, and then everything is ready. Ok, but it will cost you 20$.
Any way, I hope you can take care all of it by yourself. Of course, i am also glad to help.
If you still have any questions, please feel free to comments or send me an email.
How do you make the bits show up on the home page?
admin Reply:
April 17th, 2011 at 3:47 pm
it only shows three bits on the homepage. just check on the bits type for the custom post type.
Hi I am testing in local server and wanting to know how to sort the order of bits on the page.
admin Reply:
April 17th, 2011 at 3:49 pm
i did not add sort parameters to the query, so the default sort order is by created time.
I created the home page as introduction and created new pages and clicked on bits for each of them. but they do not show up under the home page. is their something I am missing?
Thank you
admin Reply:
April 18th, 2011 at 6:03 am
it should be working. could you send me an email of your screen-shot on how did you add the pages? i can not get the answer from your description.
Thanks
How do you also get the featured pictures or video to show more than one i.e scroll
admin Reply:
April 18th, 2011 at 5:51 am
just add more than 1 featured posts
I will send you and email
Hi,
I cant seem to get the contact page to work, I assume it sends a email to the website admin. It says its sending and provides a msg but no email arrives?? any ideas could this be the validation?
Thanks Matt
admin Reply:
April 25th, 2011 at 3:50 pm
is it running on a host supporting smtp?
hi, yes the hosting has smtp.
at a bit of a loss here. ill check the hosting side
admin Reply:
April 27th, 2011 at 3:05 am
could you send me your website link? I can have a look too.
http://www.cake-verdi.co.uk
Thanks
admin Reply:
April 28th, 2011 at 3:51 am
I think the contact form is working, but there is a small issue. the button was not removed after the email was sent. please go to contact.js in the js folder. go to line 66, change this line to $(‘#send_message’).remove();
and your website is so beautiful. Congratulations!!
Thanks but its your work really, im just putting it to good use. I tried your fix but still no joy ill need to check the logs to see if it sending. but im deffo not recieving the email
admin Reply:
May 1st, 2011 at 5:23 am
It seems that you have already used a plugin for contact form. It is also another way to go.
I use wordpress 3.1.2. When I finished installed this theme, I did not find the new post type: “Home Page” in the left side navigation besides the ordinary wordpress types.I like this theme very much, please help me! Thanks a lot~
admin Reply:
May 10th, 2011 at 5:07 am
did you get any errors?
I am having problems with all images showing up with this theme (TimThumb issue)
Neither Featured Post Images (scrollbar) or Bits section images show.
However they do seem to correctly upload and have the correct URL referenced
I think the images are becoming corrupt by some process.
http://www.ontic.eu/blog/
admin Reply:
May 18th, 2011 at 2:13 pm
Hi tom
I believe that you uploaded the images, but i think you may forget to insert into the box. please check that the input box has url values.
tom Reply:
May 18th, 2011 at 2:51 pm
Not sure I upload an image and the custom box shows the url of the image.
http://oi51.tinypic.com/nxur88.jpg
I have also tried just adding an imagine directly into the body of the post, didn’t seem to have any effect either.
even more confusion on a features post
http://ontic.eu/blog/?attachment_id=33
Fixed! – sort of
Seems my host provider doesnt like somthing in the timthumbs code.
Applied a modified timthumb.php file found at the blog below
and now images are showing!
http://www.ridhuan.com/blog/2010/12/solving-the-timthumb-issue-on-000webhost/
What is the best way to contact you because I have some other questions about this theme
admin Reply:
May 19th, 2011 at 8:03 am
my email is： pengbos.com@gmail.com send me emails. Thanks
Hi, thanks for this theme! I have one problem, I have made a “Contact” page, but it isn’t showing up or well the page is empty. Any thoughts? Am I missing something?
admin Reply:
May 19th, 2011 at 8:04 am
what’s version of wordpress are you using? and could you send me the url?
Elizabeth Reply:
May 19th, 2011 at 10:00 pm
For some reason it figured itself out after 3 days. Strange.
Thanks and sorry for the alarm.
does it support the latest version of wordpress? I’m getting some errors on a clean installation
admin Reply:
May 28th, 2011 at 5:14 am
I have done some changes to my theme, could you please download again and have a try?
Is there a way to enable comments on posts? I see it in the settings>discussion settings that you can customize how comments work, but there are no options to post a comment (on blog items) when i am on the actual webpage.
admin Reply:
June 11th, 2011 at 3:32 am
Hi Sarah,
to enable comment, you have to make a little modification to the blog template.
Thanks and Regards
Pengbo
Brent Pierce Reply:
June 18th, 2011 at 12:11 am
How would you modify the template to use comments? Can it use the “Disqus” comment system?
admin Reply:
June 18th, 2011 at 5:48 am
Hi currently i does not have to much time to modify the template to use comments. I am not sure if “Disqus” helps. But you can have a try.
Hi
This is awesome theme
I have little problem
1) I can not see my menu from header
2) My menues appear on footer by default how I can put them above slide?
4) The name of three bits and introduction is not shown? How come? What is wrong?
5) How I can edit my bits in order to be able to put only three sentences not whole?
That is it I believe
Thanks
admin Reply:
June 14th, 2011 at 11:05 am
Hi
Have you read the installation guide carefully? For the first two questions. it is covered in the “Add Menus” section. Basically, you have to add two menus: menu and footer. and then assign your newly created menus to theme locations: the primary menu is located above the slide, while the footer menu just as the name indicated on the footer.
For the later two questions, did you follow the guide carefully? If you want to show only three sentence, you have to put the sentence in the excerpt, not the post itself.
Timur Reply:
June 14th, 2011 at 11:32 am
Hi
I have found what is the problem when titles are not shown. Actually they are shown when my homepage is loading but they disappear when it is opened totally. I think something wrong with unicode-8. But I am not sure. i write with russian letters. Help me, please, thanks
admin Reply:
June 14th, 2011 at 6:37 pm
send me your link if it is online. I can not investigate from your description. thanks
admin Reply:
June 15th, 2011 at 3:21 pm
Hi, I can see the title. Have you fixed it?
I love the Theme! I added Digg Digg so people can share each post I make. But you cannot see the options to share or like the post on the main Blog page or in Categories, only when you click on the actual post. Any way to change it to show up everywhere you see the post? Thanks in advance!
admin Reply:
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:52 am
I think you have too change the template for blog and categories. Add Digg Digg links to those templates. Thanks
Billy Reply:
June 23rd, 2011 at 3:10 am
Yes sir that did it! Thanks!
i cant see the featured post pics and slide (big image)
admin Reply:
June 24th, 2011 at 3:11 am
Hi Have you changed the pictures from gif to jpg? thanks
I can see the image for my featured post in admin…but it doesn’t show on the website http://cherylallen.org/
Appears to be a broken image.
It is jpg and I clicked featured. I haven’t tried images in the bit portion. How do I correct?
Beth Reply:
June 26th, 2011 at 9:02 pm
I got it to work. Disregard.
how can i purchase your demo xml for importing into wordpress to make it look like the demo page?
admin Reply:
June 28th, 2011 at 8:07 am
you can pay by the donation button. And i will send you the xml file once i get the notification from paypal. I will send you the xml file through email.
Thanks
Hey, thanks for opening the comment
So far I would like to note that I have a problem with foreign characters disappearing from the post titles. I suspect it might be the cufon script but I have no idea on how to disable it. Any help would be appreciated.
admin Reply:
July 30th, 2011 at 12:48 pm
Hi Tomas, please remove
from the header.php
Tomas Reply:
July 30th, 2011 at 1:06 pm
Thanks! It did the trick. Now I just gotta figure out how to make the titles bold again.
Actually I would have one question, not really a big problem but I wonder if there is a way to have the featured slider only on the front page and omit it from others.
admin Reply:
July 30th, 2011 at 5:31 pm
Yes, you can, just move the featured section from header.php to home.php
I’m trying to change the font color for the headers of each page, as well as have a hover color for the “read more” buttons, however when i go into main.css and change the h1-h5 color which is rep by
color: #ooo
and i insert
#c1066f, nothing changes…..Am I doing something wrong?
(i know this probably won’t affect the ‘read more’ words but its not affecting anything….)
admin Reply:
July 31st, 2011 at 4:17 am
Hi Melissa, it is because of the Cufon fonts. If you want to change the color, you have to remove Cufon fonts. Thanks
Regarding the contact form, is this one vulnerable to spammers? I know that it doesn’t display any e-mail address but I just wanna be sure they are not smarter than that.
admin Reply:
July 31st, 2011 at 12:50 pm
You can add robot checker. But i have not get any spammers.
Which flash player works with this theme? I tried to add the Flash Video Player by Joshua Eldridge but all I get is the message requiring me to get the Flash Player to see the content.
admin Reply:
August 1st, 2011 at 5:05 am
I have no flash installed in this theme, so the flash player is required by your flash video player from Joshua Eldridge. Just check what the version it requires. Thanks
I’m still confused….do I delete the js file that is Cufon, or do I just delete the two callouts to the js file in the header php?
I did all three and its still not affecting anything…..unless im missing something else, thanks!
Tomas Reply:
August 1st, 2011 at 1:23 am
Check the few posts higher. He told me how to remove it and it worked great for me.
melissa Reply:
August 1st, 2011 at 3:18 am
i did that, but then when i go back to the CSS and change the heading colors it doesnt do anything…..
am i supposed to replace
Color:#000
with my new color
#c1066f
or am I supposed to write
font-color: #c1066f…
i’ve tried both and nothing is changing….am I missing something?
Tomas Reply:
August 1st, 2011 at 2:02 pm
Honestly I don’t know and it scares me because I will probably have to do the same thing eventually.
The only thing that comes to my mind right now is that the headings are not connected to the proper css style but it’s up to the theme’s author to confirm that.
Also, i have added 2 “featured posts” to the featured posts sections, but the header will not scroll between the two….any idea why that isnt working?
admin Reply:
August 1st, 2011 at 5:06 am
do you add pictures to the featured post?
melissa Reply:
August 1st, 2011 at 11:22 pm
yes, i added a picture to each, the same size as the suggested size. I actually created “banners” that were 906×340 or whatever the size was and loaded one into each “featured post”. One shows up but it doesnt shift to another….it should work, right?
Also, I am still having problems adjusting the color, size, font type, etc of headings, content, etc. I removed the Cufon coding you suggested but it doenst work…anything i change in the main.css (which i uploaded) still doesnt affect anything once I upload the change and reopen the view of my website….do I need to delete something else? or write entirely new CSS?
admin Reply:
August 2nd, 2011 at 4:47 am
send me your url, i can take a look.
Does the theme include any kind of lightbox? All the pictures open in the new window and when I install something like Lytebox it doesn’t work. How can I get the type of picture viewing that gives the lightbox effect?
And I’ve tried other flash video players as well but all of them give the same result. Now I’m out of options. The players work with other themes normally.
Tomas Reply:
August 1st, 2011 at 1:33 pm
Ok, solved. In case someone else has a problem with this I’ll explain the solution:
Edit the header.php and put right before
The video appears afterwards. I’m still working on the page so I can’t say if it won’t have any side effects but the video is there, at least.
Tomas Reply:
August 1st, 2011 at 2:05 pm
Whoops, code disappeared from my post? Well, the solution can be found out there. Just Google “channel ai flv embed” and you’ll find the page with the solution.
Hi, I really like your theme, it is indeed nice. However it seems like I can’t use accentuated letters (as the desired language would be hungarian) as homepage or bits title. Is there some workaround to make this possible?
admin Reply:
August 2nd, 2011 at 5:59 pm
please try to remove cufon fonts. it seems that the cufon fonts only for English. you can check the comments above for how to remove it.
I would still like to know how to make pictures in posts to pop up like the thumbnails in bits and portfolio.
I tried to install lightbox but it doesn’t work. I need the thumbnail links to pop up without redirecting.
Tomas Reply:
August 4th, 2011 at 10:27 pm
No replies anymore?
admin Reply:
August 5th, 2011 at 4:56 am
Hi Tomas
Sorry for delay. To your last question. I don’t think it is wise to use lightbox. For each lightbox, there are actually two pictures. One thumbnail, and the other is the big picture which is hidden, and only popup when user clicks the thumbnail. It might be slow to load for posts. But if you want to use the lightbox. You have to follow the same html layout for portfolio for your post. You can read the code from portfolio category.
Thanks
Tomas Reply:
August 5th, 2011 at 10:00 pm
Well, I just need to make sure that pictures added into blog posts would pop up if I click on their thumbnails.
Are you saying that if I want to do that I’ll have to copy the whole code of portfolio php into the single php?
I’m sorry if I get a bit confused, I know how to handle some tasks in WordPress but I’m not THAT good.
A bit of help would be appreciated, especially since I suspect that other users would welcome this feature as well.
admin Reply:
August 6th, 2011 at 4:07 am
Ok, I have added a post on this. please read http://pengbos.com/blog/corporattica-theme-how-to-enable-lightbox-in-post
Thanks man, I appreciate it a lot.
Hi guys, is there an easy way to resize the slider itself vertically? I try to do it but everything falls apart
Thanks!
admin Reply:
August 10th, 2011 at 4:33 am
You have to change the css. The slider has a deidicated css file slider.css. You can make a change there.
it seems that you did not exactly follow the installation guide. You have to read carefully.
assign your newly created menus to theme locations: the primary menu is located in the banner, while the footer menu just as the name indicated on the footer. see the screen captures too.
Thanks
Josh Bollman Reply:
August 19th, 2011 at 7:25 pm
I can’t believe I missed that! Thanks! One other thing, how can I incorporate the logo into the header? Instead of static text? I can’t find it in the walkthrough here but I believe it is done via the php file? Just to make sure. Again, gorgeous theme!
admin Reply:
August 20th, 2011 at 2:41 am
you can add img tag to the header instead of head tag.
thanks
Annnu Reply:
August 30th, 2011 at 1:01 pm
Can you give me a more detailed explanation on how to get the logo into the header instead of the text? I just simply can’t handle it, tryed a lot.
admin Reply:
August 30th, 2011 at 5:36 pm
hi
Open your header.php file in the theme folder. And find these lines:
<div id="logo" class="grid_3"><a href="<?php echo get_settings('home'); ? rel="nofollow">"> <img src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/images/logo.png" alt=""/> </a></div>change it to a logo you want
Thanks
Marcos Reply:
August 30th, 2011 at 6:52 pm
In the header.php file in the div just leave like this:
<a href = "”>
I can not create a portfolio page. I tried everything appears eDo not the images, appears only the page title. I have read the entire installation guide several times and I can not. Someone help me please? Thank you.
admin Reply:
August 30th, 2011 at 4:35 am
Hi Marcos,
The problem might be related to timthumb script. Could you please confirm that your web hosting support timthumb?
Marcos Reply:
August 30th, 2011 at 6:49 pm
I managed to create a portfolio page. I was not checking the category. Now I’m looking for ways to create a drop down menu to create some categories within the portfolio. Ex: From the main menu, PORTFOLIO and would hover over a submenu would open with the other categories (eg people, cars, nature …). Is it possible to do this?
I read through most of the comments and information, but how do I make the featured posts into a Rolodex order like yours? My images all appear linear, and I don’t like that it resets to the start when you get through them. I would like it to appear as yours does as a Rolodex.
Great theme! Is there a way to remove the post information (post name and date in the red rectangles) from each featured image on our homepage?
admin Reply:
September 2nd, 2011 at 2:46 pm
of course, modify the code in the header.php
Abdullah Reply:
September 3rd, 2011 at 5:47 pm
Which batch of code in header.php should I modify? I’m a novice
Do drop down menus work in this theme. I can’t get them to work.
admin Reply:
September 5th, 2011 at 8:18 am
just make a submenu to a top level menu at the dashboard. Or just pay for tech support!
Hi! thank you for the great theme. I did send you a donation.
Added full with and footer widget area. Now I am pritty happy, but would like to change the speed or interval of the slider. Tried to change the interval in the lofscript.js file but did not change anything.
Any Ideas?
admin Reply:
September 5th, 2011 at 8:17 am
Thanks Magrog,
I got your donation, and thank you very much for your recognition and support.
To your question, to change the speed or interval of the slider.
There are two configurations for lofscript: “interval” and “duration”
{ interval: 1800, duration: 1200, auto: true}
the duration is the transition time for one slide’s animation. the interval is the time from changing one slider to another, so it includes the time of animation duration and stay time. If you understand this，then i guess you will know that the interval time should be always longer than duration time. and the interval – duration = speed.
So if you want to make it change quickly, just make the interval time a little shorter, but longer than the duration time. You can also make the duration time shorter and interval time shorter too.
Hope it answers your question.
Thanks again for your contribution to the website.
Regards
Pengbos.com
Thank you for the support! it did help. i adjusted the interval and speed in the header.php. you are really helpfull and answering fast. really thankful.
I am now using WPML to create a multilingual site. Most of the stuff works. there are two issues though related to wpml.
1. sometimes it is helpful to use the “widget logic” plugin to be able to show different sidebars in different languages. it seems like the theme does not support this plugin. am I right or am i doing something wrong?
2. The slider works perfectly, but the bits in the homepage does not appear in the translated version. is it possible to change the homepage elements to be normal pages or posts? Think this would help wpml to understand what to put on the translated front page.
admin Reply:
September 10th, 2011 at 2:26 pm
Hi magnus
Yes, you can change the home page to a normal pages or posts.
1. delete the home.php file in the theme. (or just change the file name to anything else)
2. in your admin dashboard, select the “reading” menu in the settings section. select a page or post for your front page.
Hope it helps.
Thanks
on issue one
My bad, did not tic the use filter in the widget logic in the widget page.