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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8"/> <title>Getting Started with Charity Theme</title> <meta name="robots" content="index,nofollow,noodp,noydir" /> </head> <body> <div class="wrapper"> <h1>Charity Theme Documentation</h1> <p class="intro">Charity Theme is a theme designed for charities and non-profit organizations that is built on top of the UpThemes Framework and the Charity Theme by Ian Stewart (and other contributors/maintainers).</p> <a href="#install">Skip to Installation Instructions</a> <h3>How to Install</h3> <p>Install Charity Theme Through WordPress:</p> <ol> <li>Log into WordPress through the admin panel. (i.e. www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin)</li> <li>Go to the "Appearance" module in the left navigation and select "Themes"</li> <li>You should see two tabs "Manage Themes" and "Install Themes", Click on "Install Themes".</li> <li>Now click on "Upload" in the sub nav.</li> <li>Select the Charity Theme ZIP file located on your local machine.</li> <li>Click Install.</li> <li>After your theme installs you should get a confirmation that it was successful, you will have the option to "Activate", "Preview", or "Return to Themes Page".</li> <li>Click "Activate".</li> <li>Success! Your new UpThemes Charity Theme Theme is now active.</li> </ol> <p>Install Charity Theme Manually:</p> <ol> <li>Upload the Charity Theme folder to the themes folder located on your server. (i.e. wp-content/themes/)</li> <li>Once this is completed log into WordPress through the admin panel. (i.e. www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin)</li> <li>Go to the "Appearance" module in the left navigation and select "Themes".</li> <li>You should see two tabs "Manage Themes" and "Install Themes" click on "Manage Themes".</li> <li> In this tab you will see "Current Theme" which is the standard WordPress theme or perhaps another theme you had installed previously. Also,"Available Themes" which are the list of themes that you have uploaded to your server. You should see Charity Theme 1.0 in the available themes section. Click "Activate".</li> <li>Success! Your new UpThemes Charity Theme Theme is now active.</li> </ol> <h3>Updating the Featured Image Area</h3> <p>Uploading Featured Images:</p> <ol> <li>Click on the "Feature Images" menu item in the left navigation area.</li> <li>Upload a new image by choosing an image from your local machine.</li> <li>Click upload.</li> <li>Your image will be uloaded and displayed below the upload field.</li> <li>You can now add a link to that image if you'd like it to link to a specific URL.</li> <li>Click Update for that URL setting to take effect.</li> </ol> <p>Editing the Featured Image Slider Settings</p> <ol> <li>You can now update the settings of the Featured Image Settings area to whatever suits your needs.</li> <li>Check if you'd like to enable the transition effects, if left uncheck the images will not transition and it will stay on the first image in the list</li> <li>Select your desired trasition effect. Whatever you select here will show that style of transition.</li> <li>Set your transition delay. This is the length of time it will take to start the transition to another image. The longer the time, the longer the image will be displayed to the user.</li> <li>Set your transition length. This is the length of time it takes to transition to the next image. The longer the time the longer the transition effect will take to completely expose the next image.</li> <li>Save Settings and your settings should take effect.</li> </ol> <h2>Widget-Ready Areas</h2> <p>Charity Theme has 16 widget-ready areas, called <em>Asides</em>, that can be used creatively to customize your theme.</p> <ul> <li><h3>Primary Aside</h3> <p>Located immediately after the content area in the markup. Typically used as a sidebar. By default it contains <em>Search</em>, <em>Pages</em>, <em>Categories</em> and <em>Archives</em> widgets. Use the widgets panel under <code>Design</code> to add your own widgets and override the default.</p></li> <li><h3>Secondary Aside</h3> <p>Located immediately after the Primary Aside in the markup. Typically used as a sidebar. By default it contains <em>Links</em>, <em>RSS Feeds</em> and <em>Meta</em> widgets. Use the widgets panel under <code>Design</code> to add your own widgets and override the default.</p></li> <li><h3>Subsidiary Asides</h3> <p>Located in the footer. Empty of widgets by default, they will not appear in the theme markup until you add a widget.</p></li> <li><h3>Index Asides</h3> <p>Located in the content area of the index, or blog page. Empty of widgets by default, they will not appear in the theme markup until you add a widget. The location of the <em>Index Insert</em>, which appears between posts, is controlled from the theme options page. The default position sets it to appear after the second post.</p></li> <li><h3>Single Asides</h3> <p>Located in the content area of single post pages. Empty of widgets by default, they will not appear in the theme markup until you add a widget.</p></li> <li><h3>Page Asides</h3> <p>Located in the content area of static pages. Empty of widgets by default, they will not appear in the theme markup until you add a widget.</p></li> <li><h3>Footer Asides</h3> <p>Located in the footer. Empty of widgets by default, they will not appear in the theme markup until you add a widget.</p></li> </ul> <h2>Theme Support</h2> <p>If you have a question, problem or concern you can <a href="http://upthemes.com/contact/">contact UpThemes</a>. Better yet, I recommend posting to the <a href="http://upthemes.com/forum/" title="UpThemes Forums">UpThemes Forum</a> after looking there for an answer.</p> <p>The latest theme with updates and bug fixes is always available in your <a href="http://upthemes.com/amember/">UpThemes Member Dashboard</a>.</p> <p><em class="thankyou">Thank you</em>.</p> </div> </body> </html>