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Before uploading the theme you have to unzip the file you downloaded from ThemeForest first
After doing so you will find the glisseo.zip among some other files and folders we need later. This glisseo.zip is the main theme file.
Now please open your WordPress and click the menu where it says "Appearance" -> "Themes" like this:
The glisseo.zip file is the file you want to upload.
After clicking "Install Now" the theme will be uploaded (may take a little while). Then you can "Activate" it:
Next you will see the Theme preview, an important message (Please install the Revolution Slider plugin and Contact Form 7 for best results), and some hints where to configure/customize the theme.
Please open the Plugin "Add new" Dialogue:
The "revslider.zip" is to be found in the "plugins" folder in your downloaded files:
Inside the plugins folder:
Please "Install Now" and "Activate" the plugin.
There are a few steps necessary to create import the demo slider.
First you need to create a new slider:
Please choose a clever name like Home :) and press "Create Slider":
After creating the slider you will be redirected to the Overview. Please click on the slider you just created:
Now import the demo slider content:
The demo content is too be found in the mentionend theme_demodata folder or the plugins/revslider_demodata folder and called "home_slider.txt":
After creating the slider you are now able to choose it in the page options:
We used the Contact Form 7 plugin for our Contact page which is pretty easy to implement. We styled the Input fields in our CSS so they will match the theme style. Also we build an add-on that enables you to use shortcodes inside the form. First download it via the plugin backend and activate it.
If you like some example content to see how things are done please go to the WP menu "Tools" | "Import" and choose Wordpress.
If you not already have the Import plugin installed, please do so:
Now you can upload the demo xml file:
The xml file is to be found in the "theme_demodata" folder:
The file needed:
After clicking "Upload file and import", please make sure to check the following inputs:
After clicking "Submit" the demo content will be installed.
The Theme Options are used to maintain certain parts of the theme in a quick fast way. Other design aspects should be handled via Child Themes and CSS customizations.
Pages are defined by its Page Template:
Depending on this Template choice the layout and the functions of the page will be defined. The second thing that influences the page are the page options that may vary depending on which Template you choose:
Certain special Page Templates like Portfolio, Gallery, Videocase will be explained later.
First of all you have to create a page with page template "Blog" and choose the specific layout of the blog overview (please note that if you choose to have a sidebar only the "full" view will be displayed:
Blog posts can be used as usual but one exception. On the right side there is a special box to choose the post type. Depending on what you choose other option could appear:
Do not forget to include a featured Image to help the overview or detail view to a nice look:
The heart shaped Like Button can be turned on/off in the "Glisseo Theme" Options "Blog". You can set the timeout too after that one can vote again.
First create a new page and choose the page template "Portfolio".
A new Portfolio can be added via the theme options. This is the place where you connect the Portfolio with the created Page.
After creating a portfolio you will find new Menus in the WP main menu. Use it to create new portfolio items and categories within this portfolio:
After creating a portfolio item you can make it of one of the following types. After clicking one type new options may show up.
Do not forget to set a "Featured Image" so the Portfolio item will be displayed nicely in the overview page:
Gallery Images are stored in the Menu "Gallery Images":
The menu item "Galleries" is the place where you can create different galleries. Please make sure to choose an overview picture and description that will be displayed on the gallery page later:
The Gallery can be chosen inside the "Gallery Images" edit/add screen. You can add one pic to multiple galleries too.
The Gallery picture itself must be added via the featured image option. If you place content in the image it will be displayed on image hover (Zeta Gallery) or below the picture (Single Gallery).
After creating the Galleries you must add a page and choose the Page Template "Gallery" which will show some more options on top:
In the top options you can choose which Galleries to display on this overview page, which layout and how the single Galleries will be displayed on click.
The Videos and the Categories can be found in the Menu item "Videos".
In the Video post you have to fill the title, featured image and content which will be the video details on the Videocase page and the Video embed data. This is basically the Video ID of Youtube/Vimeo(or path to HTML5 video m4v) and the size of the basic video (the theme calculates the perfect size from this basic values).
Now you only have to create a page with the page template "Videocase" and choose the categories of Videos to display.
If you choose the page template "Contact" you create a page with a google map on top. If you need no google map on top just choose a "Content" page template and skip the Gmap part here.
Addionally you will find a new page option:
This link defines the map on top and can be found on maps.google.com:
For inserting the Contact form please use the provided shortcode by the Contact Form 7 plugin.
Here is our Example of the Form code we used:
Form:
<ol> <li class="form-row"> [text* your-name watermark "Name (Required)"] </li> <li class="form-row"> [email* your-email watermark "Email (Required)"] </li> <li class="form-row"> [text your-subject watermark "Subject"] </li> <li class="form-row"> [textarea your-message] </li> <li class="form-row"> [submit "Submit"] </li> </ol>
Message:
From: [your-name] <[your-email]> Subject: [your-subject] Message Body: [your-message] -- This mail is sent via contact form on http://www.thunderbuddies4life.com/glisseo
We implemented two special buttons in the Visual Editor of WordPress to give you a comfortable way to include shortcodes. After you choose a shortcode it will either put the shortcode in the place your cursor is or if it is a shortcode that needs a little more information it will display a little popup window with the needed options. Here are the buttons for
ThunderCodes:
and ThunderColumns:
This theme comes with .mo and .po files and is ready for localization! Note that most of the steps that lead to a localized theme are not related to this theme specifically but are general information.
» Settings » General
...you can also set the themes "Time Format" which is used throughout the theme.