Redbusiness Theme Installation Manual

December 29, 2011 at 9:56 am | Blog | 7 comments

Thank you for choosing my theme. If you have any questions that are beyond the scope of this manual, please feel free to comment or to email via my contact form.

A) Getting Started

In order to begin installing Redbusiness theme. You need the WordPress version above 3.0, the latest one is better. Here is the download URL. Once you downloaded and set it up, You are ready to go.

Installation
Upon downloading the zip file, you will unzip the file. Upload this folder to your themes folder at: your WordPress installation root directory /wp-content/themes

Log into WordPress administration and click on the Appearance >> Themes tab. After that is done, activate the theme as you would activate any other theme.

B) Home Page options

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.

C) Gallery Page setup

The Gallery page is designed as a custom post type. As you may see there is a new post type: “Portfolio” in the left side navigation bellow the “Home Page” type. Add a new element for the portfolio by clicking “Add New”.

Input every necessary fields.

D) Other Pages

Two Pages are predefined: About and Services.The menus About us and Services link to the two pages.

please note, name the pages exactly the same with the figure shows.

E) Widget

Redbusiness has 3 ready made widgets.

1. The first one is “Right Sidebar” will show on every page (with right sidebar page style)
2. The second one is “Contact Sidebar” will show on contact page.
3. The third one is “Service Sidebar” will show on service page.

To add content to sidebar simple go to Appearance > Widgets and drag item into certain sidebar.

Finally

Click preview to check out your website. How do you like it?

Here is a screencast for installation guide. In case the manual does not cover everything.

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.

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