# Read me for instructions and notes on this theme **Table of contents** --------------------------------------------- 1. Installing the theme 2. Using the demo content 3. Set-up 4. Custom post types 5. Security 6. Recommended plugins 7. Fonts 8. Languages 9. Zurb Foundation framework 10. Support 11. Messaging/to do system 12. universal-ie6-css --------------------------------------------- # Installing the theme --------------------------------------------- Install the theme like you would any other Wordpress theme... 1. Download the Theme archive and extract the files it contains. You may need to preserve the directory structure in the archive when extracting these files. Follow the guidelines provided by your Theme author. 2. Using an FTP client to access your host web server, create a directory to save your Theme in the wp-content/themes directory provided by WordPress. For example, a Theme named Test should be in wp-content/themes/test. Your Theme may provide this directory as part of the archive. 3. Upload the Theme files to the new directory on your host server. 4. Log in to the WordPress Administration Panel. 5. Select the Appearance panel, then Themes. 6. From the Available Themes section, click on the Theme title (or Theme screenshot) for the Theme you wish to activate. 7. A preview of the Theme will be shown. 8. To activate the Theme click the Activate "Theme Name" link in the top right. --------------------------------------------- # Using the demo content --------------------------------------------- 1. Go to WP admin > Tools > import then select Wordpress from the bottom of the list. 2. You'll be prompted to install the import plugin so go ahead and do that. 3. Select the themesfordesigners.xml file, check the download images box and import. This content will give you... ¥ Multiple posts with different elements in each ¥ 12 Posts to force pagination ¥ Sample pages ¥ Blockquotes, lists Ð ordered and unordered Ð and floating images ¥ Comments on a few of the posts ¥ Parent, child, and grandchild categories and pages ¥ Tags ¥ Multiple months for the archives --------------------------------------------- # Set-up --------------------------------------------- Once you've installed your theme and added the demo content you'll need to make sure your menus are active. There are example menus in the demo content but they won't be activated. To activate the menus go to Admin > Appearance > Menus and select each menu from the dropdowns on the left under 'Theme locations'. --------------------------------------------- # Custom post types --------------------------------------------- This theme uses custom post types to make adding content to specific sections easier. The custom post types in this theme are banners, testimonials and home content and you'll see them on the left side main admin menu. Dummy content is provided as an example. You can add more custom post types to deal with different content if you change the layout or content structure. See the comments in the functions.php file. --------------------------------------------- # Security --------------------------------------------- As this is a basic theme it comes with no added security. Wordpress security is a big subject and not something we can cover in depth here. Search Google as there are many articles that will help you with Wordpress security and hardening. One simple peice of advice though, no Wordpress site is safe straight out the box so added security is a MUST. That said, we have provided a few recommended plugins to get you started. --------------------------------------------- # Recommended plugins --------------------------------------------- We've provided a basic list of recommended plugins to get you started. Most help with security but you shouldn't just rely on them, look into proper Wordpress security and hardening as well. 1. block-bad-queries 2. contact-form-7 3. login-security-solution 4. wordfence --------------------------------------------- # Fonts --------------------------------------------- All fonts used in this theme are from the Google web fonts library. See header.php for more info. You can use Google fonts or your own web font service such as Typekit. Make the changes in header.php. To add a nice little extra touch we've also added icon fonts to use in your design. Thise theme comes with 4 sets of icons fonts from Zurb with one made active but there are lots more to choose from. Check out the /icon-font/ folder. More info at http://www.zurb.com/playground/foundation-icons You can also use your own icon fonts and there are some great ones to choose from. --------------------------------------------- # Languages --------------------------------------------- This theme uses the built in Wordpress text domain system to make all text available for translation. You'll see tags like this in the theme... _e('something', 'wpd_themes') This displays the returned translated text from translate(). More info can be found here...http://codex.wordpress.org/I18n_for_WordPress_Developers --------------------------------------------- # Zurb Foundation framework --------------------------------------------- This theme is built on the fantastic Zurb Foundation framework. This framework provides the perfect foundation to build a responsive site onto and comes with everything you need to create responsive websites. The Zurb documentation is far supperior than anything we can write here so for more info on the widgets, grid system, media queries and more please check out the Zurb docs at http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/ --------------------------------------------- # Support --------------------------------------------- As a web designer or developer we hope all the comments and help within the theme will be enough but if you do need support please use the forum at http://www.designer-themes.com/forums/ --------------------------------------------- # Messaging/to do system --------------------------------------------- Also provided in the theme is a development to do list system. First created by the super keirwhitaker (More at https://gist.github.com/2761605) it allows any devs or designers to add to do messages to the top of pages as a reminder of things that need action while working on a website. We've found it incredibly useful and we hope you will to. If you don't want this feature active just remove the javascript code from footer.php and all the messages will disappear! --------------------------------------------- # universal-ie6-css --------------------------------------------- One, standard, universal stylesheet for Internet Explorer 6. For old IE browsers we don't want to support (or can't because Zurb Foundation doesn't support IE6/7) we give them a very basic style so the user can see the content clearly but we leave out any design elements. More info can be found here...http://stuffandnonsense.co.uk/blog/about/universal_internet_explorer_6_css/