How to start using SMT Framework 1. Download Files First, download the WordPress archive files. The latest version of WordPress CMS is located on their official website at: http://wordpress.org/download/ Choose the theme you would like to utilize on your website and download this file at the same time. 2. Install WordPress and Template Information and additional instructions regarding WordPress Installation can be found at: http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress. To install our template, extract the downloaded archive into the wp-content/themes directory of your WordPress site. To activate, log in to your WordPress administration panel Choose Appearance—>Theme option. Highlight your chosen theme and click “activate”. Your theme is now installed and active. 3. Configure Your Theme Here’s a few suggestions for a quick and productive start with your new theme: a. Change your logo All of our themes have “logo.psd” file in the PSD directory which can be used to create a logo. You can also upload any image following the instructions on the general theme panel. Or you can directly replace the images/logo.png file with your logo image. b. Configure Your Sidebars Themes typically come with 1 or 2 sidebars and 3 footer sidebars. All have standard widgets that display when the sidebars are empty. You can easily configure your widgets through the general theme panel using Appearance—>Widgets option. c. Configure Your Menus Your theme will default to displaying your pages on the top menu and categories in the main menu. You can change this to your preference using the Appearance—>Menus option. Animation in your menus can be added/changed using Appearance—>Rococo->Menus option from the administrative panel. d. Add Contact Page Our framework provides an automated feedback function. To add a Contacts Page to your site, just Add New Page and select the “page without sidebar” template for it. Next, go to the Appearance—>Rococo->Contact Form page and configure your feedback. Important: The contact form will not be displayed until you enter an email in “Email for messages” field. e. Configure Your Slider Slider configuration placed at Appearance—>Rococo->Slider page. There are 4 different ways to create slides. You can load them from posts by category, chose the posts or pages you want to show or create your custom slides