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WordPress is free blogging software. With WordPress, you can install themes and plugins, run advertisements, edit the database and even modify the PHP code that powers your site. Anyone can download the software for free from wordpress.org, but it must be installed on a web server before it will work.
Yey, you now have your theme! You’re about seconds ahead of having a beautiful site running.
Remember you must have a working version of Wordpress already installed in order to install this theme. If you don’t, it’s not a problem at all. You can easily have it with the famous 5 minute install, please see WordPress Instructions for more details.
To install this theme you must have a working version of WordPress already installed. For information in regard to installing the WordPress platform, please see the WordPress Codex.
1. On your WordPress Dashboard and go to Appearance → Themes, and click the Add New button.
Figure 1: The Appearance > Themes section.
2. On the Add Themes screen, click the Upload Theme button.
Figure 2: The “Add Themes” screen.
3. Choose the theme zip file you downloaded from NiceThemes and click the Install Now button. If you work on a remote server, WordPress may ask for your FTP credentials after you click the button, so make sure to have this information at hand.
Figure 3: Uploading the Theme zip file.
4. Wait until the process is done, and then click Activate.
Figure 4: Activating the WordPress theme.
If you’re going down this road, it’s very important that you know what you’re doing: messing with the wrong files could break your site entirely. We also recommend backing up your site first, just in case.
wp-content/themes
folder.wp-content/themes/smart
) and upload the extracted contents there.wp-content/themes/smart
and not wp-content/themes/smart/smart
, the latter may cause malfunctioning.That’s it. Your theme should be installed now.
After installing, you should register your theme to enable automatic updates.
That's all you need to do to install your theme. Some themes need some shifting around of the widgets and Page Templates
If you are installing your theme via an FTP Client, please make sure that the path is wp-content/themes/smart/ and not wp-content/themes/smart/smart, this will affect the ajax and commenting of your theme
The theme comes with a simple to use administration panel. You can access it by navigating to Smart → Theme Options. The theme options are conveniently spread over a number of tabs and each tab contains the options that pertain to a particular area of the theme.
The theme includes a bunch of different widgetized spaces, along with custom, specific widgets to allow you more customisation options than ever before.
NOTE: If you change WordPress Themes, the Widgets will return to the left side of the page in the Widget Archives or Available Widgets list. You may need to add them again and rearrangement depending upon the Theme's ability to preserve other Theme's Widgets.
Individual Pages can be set to use a specific custom Page Template (a WordPress Theme PHP template file).
All of our themes come bundled with unique page templates which adds additional functionality to your pages. These are our standard page templates included in most themes:
NOTE: Additional page templates might be included in your theme.
To select a Page Template to your page:
By default, WordPress shows your most recent posts on the front page of your site.
Our themes come bundled with a special page template for Home Page. In order to use the theme Home Page template as your site home page you’ll need to set a static front page. This "static front page" look is common for those who wish to not have a "blog" look to their site, giving it a more CMS (content management system) feel.
Creating a virtual static front page does not require editing or coding of files or templates. Using the default configuration for a "static front page" in WordPress does not remove the sidebar or change the look of the entire site, just the content area.
To create the static front page, go to the WordPress Administration Panels.
Most themes allow you to set a featured image in your posts. Featured images are dynamically resized to fit in your theme.
To add a featured image using WP Post Thumbnails:
Wordpress menus were introduced in version 3.0. All our themes have support for this super easy and simple feature.
Follow these steps and within minutes you’ll have a nice navigation menu and a complete understanding on how it works:
Figure 1: “The Appearance > Menus” screen.
As mentioned in step number 4, it is really simple to set an order for items. You just need to drag and drop each item in the place you want it to appear.
You just need to drag and drop each item horizontally.
Our themes have a special space for advanced users, developers or even designers who want to add some special PHP or CSS styles.
You can choose to add custom styling within the theme files or the options panel. This way you won’t have any trouble with your custom styles when updating the theme.
Add your custom functions in your theme’s functions.php file, below these lines:
/* Add your code below. */
Once again, thank you so much for purchasing this theme. As I said at the beginning, I'd be glad to help you if you have any questions relating to this theme. No guarantees, but I'll do my best to assist. If you have a more general question relating to the themes on ThemeForest, you might consider visiting the forums and asking your question in the "Item Discussion" section.
Juanfra Aldasoro — founder http://nicethemes.com