THE RECO WORDPRESS THEME
A Free Premium Wordpress Theme
Designed by:Moonthemes.com
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OVERVIEW
Now follow the instructions below to
Dress up you Website or Blog.
Moon Themes offer Premium Wordpress Themes to make your valuable Blog
more attractive, fresh and clean that you can be proud of with our
finest and professionally design themes. You can easily manage and setup
your Blog with only clicks using advance theme options page which gives
you full control for customizing your Blog or Website.
-= IMPORTANT NOTE -=
Do not change any folder or file names.
Wordpress 3.0+
Host Server with PHP5+
You have done the first step by extracting the zip folder, now here
you will have several files including, the Reco Wordpress theme files,
plugin files, Documentation and THEME_License.txt.
Before you install the theme, you must read and agree to MoonThemes
license in order to use this premium theme which you have downloaded.
Carefully read and be sure you understand the MoonThemes.com
license usage.
Inside the plugin folder you will see plugin named "wp-pagenavi"
upload that pluing to the "wp-content/plugins"
folder in your Wordpress directory online in your hosting account
via FTP access.
Now if that plugin, has been uploaded successfully to your server, than
access the plugin panel in your Wordpress Administration Panels and
check out through the list of plugins to find out your new plugin which
you just uploaded. Once you find it than click on the "Activate link" to
turn that plugin on.
Inside the ZIP folder you will see a folder named "reco" upload the "reco" folder to the
"wp-content/themes" in your Wordpress directory online in your hosting
account via FTP access.
Now if you have uploaded the theme and the plugin to the correct
directory, so activating your new theme is click away.
1. Login in to the Wordpress Administration Panel.
2. Select the Appearance Panel, than click on Themes.
3. Now you will see your theme here, click on the theme title (or theme
screenshot) in order to activate it.
You can change the image, using the reco theme control panel.
Make sure you use the correct image URL paths.
So in order to replace the logo, you must Enter the URL of your
custom image like below: also avoid signs like,
?
=
etc, also avoid
any extra empty
spaces.
See the examples below:-
WRONG : www.yoursite.com/images/mylogo.jpg
WRONG : http://yoursite.com/imgaes/mylogo.jpg
WRONG : www.yoursite.com/?images=mylogo.jpg
CORRECT : http://www.yoursite.com/images/mylogo.jpg
No Custom Field for Thumbnails, you do not require to add the Wordpress
custom field for the posts thumbnails, we have coded our own custom field,
and you will find this below the writing posts window.
To add post thumbnail images, see below the writing a post window in
Wordpress, you will have the "Reco Theme Post Thumbnail Setting URL Box", so
there in the box simply paste the full URL of your image, like
http://www.yoursite.com/images/cake.jpg
OR if you are using Wordpress media library, than don't include the
http://www.sitename.com
use it like example below: use it from forward slash to jpg
/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/example_image.jpg
and save the post, the image will be re-size automatically to fit in the
theme post thumbnails.
The Reco Theme has a custom contact page, so for receiving emails, you need to set up your email address. It's easy, in the theme folder, open up contact.php file and than go to line number 51 and change the mail@gmail.com
with your email address. and than save the file.
For adding the contact page, go to add new page and create a page, and give it any name for example "contact" do not write any thing on the notepad window,
than on the right pages attributes
you will see a drop down menu below the "Template" than select contact and publihs the page,
Note: You must add save these pages into naviagtion menu, by using wordpress 3.0 custom menus.
To create a custom menu, give it a name and click Create
Menu. Then choose items like pages, categories or custom links from the left column to add to this menu.
After you have added your items, drag and drop to put them in the order
you want. You can also click each item to reveal additional configuration options.
When you have finished building your custom menu, make sure you click the Save Menu button.
Watch the video tutorial, you must have internet connection.
10. ADDING HOME HIGHLIGHTED LINK INTO CUSTOM MENU -Back to Top
Go to custom menus and on left pages, select view all and check the Home and add to
menu and save the menu.
If you select any layout from the theme control panel, so this will be your main website layout, it means when visitors visit
your site the first time, so they will see this layout, as main page. However
if you wish to have add a blog layout into the menu, for example you want your main layout the homepage, and also you wish to add a blog layout,
into the menu, so than simply do this:.
Go to add new page and create a page, and give it any name for example "Blog" do not write any thing on the notepad window,
than on the right pages attributes
you will see a drop down menu below the "Template" than select the blog and publihs the page,
Note: You must add save this page into naviagtion menu, by using wordpress 3.0 custom menus.