Forum

 

Theme Instalation

Installation via WP Dashboard:

1. Unzip the main (downloaded) theme package – to get forum.zip file,
2. Go to Appearance >Themes,
3. click on “Add New” > and “Upload theme”,
4. click on ‘Browse’ button, find forum.zip file on your computer and press 'Install Now',
5. Activate theme,
6. After theme activation go to Appearance > Install Plugins, and install and activate Redux Framework plugin!
7. Refresh admin page and Forum - admin panel' button will appear;
8. Go to Forum - admin panel (theme options) and setup theme.

 

Installation via FTP:

1. Unzip the main (downloaded) theme package / twice / to get main theme folder ‘forum’,
2. Using FTP client (e.g. Filezilla) upload 'forum' folder into 'themes' folder in your WordPress installation ( YOUR_HOSTING_ROOT/YOUR_SUBDIRECTORY/wp-content/themes/ ),
3. Go to Appearance >Themes, find Forum theme and activate theme,
4. After theme activation go to Appearance > Install Plugins, and install and activate Redux Framework plugin!
5. Refresh admin page and Forum - admin panel' button will appear;
6. Go to Forum - admin panel (theme options) and setup theme.

 

Default Setup

1. After theme activation go to Appearance > Install Plugins, and install and activate Redux Framework plugin!

2. Then go to Forum - admin panel

and hit "Save Changes" button to set default style settings:

You can change styling options later.

 

2. Following message may be visible after theme activation:

Click on 'Begin activating plugins' link and install and activate 'Redux Framework' (if not installed yet), bbPress and 'Shortcode Ultimate' plugins. Or you can do this by visiting Appearance » Install Plugins

 

4. IMPORTANT! It is possible that after theme activation are images wrongly cropped and look ugly! In this case use following plugin: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/ to regenerate old thumbnails (from previous theme).
After plugin installation start regeneration in Tools > Regen. Thumbnails. This process can take a while and you cannot close tab/window until regeneration is done.

 

 

 

Homepage Setup

 

A) Forum Homepage

1. In 'Pages' section create new page > name it 'Home'
2. Select 'Homepage' template for this page (in Page Attributes) and into content (in Text view) paste following shortcode:
   [bbp-forum-index]
   
3. Save page.
4. Go into Settings > Reading and created 'Home' page set as Static page > Front page,
   
5. Empty forum homepage is created now! Create some forums and topics to see bbPress plugin in action.

 

B) Blog Homepage

1. In Settings > Reading set default front page settings,
2. Adjust 'Blog pages show at most' number value to set number of posts on the front page and in archives.
   

 

Theme Setup - Admin panel

Theme comes with extensive options panel with functions divided to these sections:

General Settings:

1. Upload your Main logo image,
2. Enable/disable 'Uppercase' fonts.

 

 

Primary styling:

1. Select font family with color, style and width of the font,
2. Choose colors for typographic elements: body, wrapper, containers (ghost color), text/links, hover, borders etc.,
3. Add/paste your own custom CSS code

 

Header Styling & Settings:

1. Setup color scheme (background, font, links and border colors) for "Topnav" bar and main navigation
2. Set background color or background image for header,
3. Set other colors for header,
4. Set custom margins and width limitation for logo image.

 

Footer Styling:

1. Select font family with color, style and weight for footer,
2. Choose colors for typographic elements: footer background, text, links, hover, borders etc.,

 

Other Styling:

1. Set font styling for 'Meta' sections (date, category etc. post information)
2. Choose background color for elements (buttons, lines etc.),
3. Select text/link color for elements (buttons, lines etc.),
4. Set color scheme for image backgrounds.

 

 

Headings Typography:

1. Select Font-family for all headings (h1- h6) and 'post titles',
2. Select font weight for all headings (h1- h6) and 'post titles',
3. Select Font-size for all headings (h1- h6) and 'post titles',
4. Select font color for all headings (h1- h6) and 'post titles',

 

Post Settings:

1. Turn On/Off partial post sections.

Social Networks Settings:

1. Enter the full URL of social network, your profile or account (enter full URL: http:// or https:// including).

Custom Footer:

1. Enable custom footer and enter some text.

 

 

If you are finished click on "Save changes" button!

 

 

 

Custom Templates

 

1. Create a page by going to Page > Add New.
2. In Page Attributes section select custom page template (Full Width page etc.)
3. Click the Publish button to publish your page.

 

Custom Widgets

Theme comes with few custom widgets (marked as -Themnific).

Go to Appearance > Widgets and setup your sidebar and footer widget areas. Widgets are very easy to setup. Just follow and set partial widgets fields.

Used Widgets

Following widgets are used in theme demo:

As you can see, in theme demo are used custom widgets which come with 3dr party plugins (bbPress, Twitter etc.).
Please see 'Plugins' chapter for more info about these plugins.

 

 

Images

IMPORTANT! It is possible that after theme activation are images wrongly cropped and look ugly!

In this case use this plugin: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/ to regenerate old thumbnails from previous theme.
After plugin installation start regeneration in Tools > Regen. Thumbnails This process can take a while and you cannot close tab/window until regeneration is done.

Images and thumbnails are generated automatically.

To display thumbnails correctly upload images via WP interface using "Set featured image" button.
After image upload set featured image.

 

Featured Images - Minimal Sizes

1. Blog posts (on blog template): 206x206px;
2. Single (classic) post: 910x370px.

 

 

Galleries: Native (grid) gallery

1. If you want to create post with gallery, you need to create classic wp gallery
   
   
2. Classic wp gallery has 'grid' layout (styling) with lightbox image preview (if 'link to media file' is selected).
   
3. You can enable/create Tiled Gallery when you install 'Tiled Galleries Carousel Without Jetpack' plugin:
   

Post Settings & Post Formats

Post Settings:

In post add/edit screen is located custom 'Themnific Post Options' tab:

In this tab is possible to set (for every post):

- type of post sidebar

- option to disable featured image on single post

 

 

Theme comes with these posts formats (Format tab):

Standard post

Default (native) WordPress post.

Video post

Check 'Video' option in the Format tab and enter plain video link into Video URL field:

Audio post

Check 'Audio' post in the Format tab and paste Soundcloud URL into post content and save post...

Gallery post

Check 'Gallery' post in the Format tab and create wp gallery (see: images section)

Link post

Check 'Link' post in the Format tab and add any URL into Link field.

 

1. Ad Section: paste full URL of image banner and full URL of ad target
   

 

 

 

Plugins

 

 

Shortcodes Ultimate

You can create forums and your visitors can create different topics and replies with bbPress plugin.

In Plugins > Add New type bbPress into 'Search plugins' field and install and activate bbPress plugin. After that setup plugin options in Settings > Forums:

Access / create and edit forums, topics and replies in left dashboard menu.

 

Recent Tweets Widget

Theme is compatible with Recent Tweets Widget plugin. Plugin is used in demo site.

In search field (Plugins > Add New) insert 'Recent Tweets Widget' and Install plugin.

Plugin widget can be set in Appearance > Widegts:

Note!: You need to get "consumer and secret" codes for Recent Tweets Widget:

1. Go to https://dev.twitter.com/apps/new and log in, if necessary
2. Enter your Application Name, Description and your website address. You can leave the callback URL empty.
3. Accept the TOS, and solve the CAPTCHA.
4. Submit the form by clicking the Create your Twitter Application
5. Copy the consumer key (API key) and consumer secret from the screen into widget fields

 

 

Shortcodes Ultimate

You can generate different shortcodes using 'Insert shortcode' button in all Post/Page screens:

 

AddToAny Share Buttons

Plugin page: Plugin Homepage

Into search field (in Plugins > Add New) insert 'AddToAny Share Buttons' and Install this plugin.

Plugin can be set in Settings > AddToAny:

Theme is compatible with Simple Share Buttons Adder too.

 

Tiled Galleries Carousel Without Jetpack

In search field (Plugins > Add New) insert 'Tiled Galleries Carousel Without Jetpack' and Install this plugin.

Tiled gallery styling can be set in 'Add / Edit Gallery' screen directly:

 

Contact Form 7

Plugin page: Plugin Homepage

Into search field (in Plugins > Add New) insert 'Contact Form 7' and Install this plugin

You can create own contact form(s) in main wp menu > Contact.

You can display created 'contact form' on any page using shortcode.

Please read plugin documetation for more info about this very flexible plugin.

 

 

 

 

Demo Import

 

 

One Click Demo Import

Install and activate 'One Click Demo Import' plugin.

After that import full demo content easily in Appearance > Import Demo Data.

Just hit 'Import' button and wait until import is done (it can take few moments).

 

 

 

 

Important!

Due licenses all imported images are for testing purposes only and cannot be used on your live website!!!

You can download free photos for your commercial & personal works on sites like:

http://picjumbo.com/

http://pixabay.com/

https://unsplash.com/grid

 

Translation

This theme is translation/localization ready and comes with forum.pot file. File is located in ../forum/lang/ folder.

1. You need to use localized WordPress installation (core): WordPress in Your Language.
   If not localization will be not successful.
2. Download poedit software here,
3. Install it and in this software translate forum.pot file (line by line),
4. Once you have translated all the strings, you can save this as your .po file.

   The filename of your .po / .mo file is crucial! Gettext uses the ISO 639 standard for language abbreviations and ISO 3166 for locales. If your translation is written in deutsch for example, your file name will look like de_DE.po. Capitalization is also important here. For a full list of language and country codes, check out these two links:

   • Gettext language codes
   • Gettext country codes

   Once you save, POEdit by default automatically creates a .mo file alongside your .po file. Put these files into 'lang' folder.

5. Access your wp-config.php file found in your WordPress' root folder. Your file should already contain define('WPLANG', ''); but if it does not, you can add it in. You simply need to add your language and locale code into the define. If you were to translate your theme into German, you would have this:
   define('WPLANG', 'de_DE');

Your internationalization is complete!

 

 

 

 

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Once again, thank you so much for purchasing this theme.

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