Quickstart Guide to Installation
Quickstart Guide to Installation
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Quickstart Guide to Installation

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Welcome to the quick installation guide of the Travel Theme

By following the instructions in this document, you will have your theme up and running in practically no time at all!

If you need additional help, we recommend Getting Started with WordPress and New To WordPress? Where to Start.

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Installing TheTravelTheme

There are two ways to install TheTravelTheme.

Method 1 is via the WordPress Dashboard.

  1. Download the ZIP file
  2. Login to WordPress, usually accessible at http://www.yoursite.com/wp-admin
  3. Select ‘Appearance’ > Themes
  4. Select ‘Upload’
  5. Upload TheTravelTheme.zip
  6. Activate

Download TheTravelTheme

Method 2 is via FTP

  1. Download an FTP Client. For a list of FTP clients, please visit http://codex.wordpress.org/FTP_Clients
  2. Using an FTP client, connect to the server that your WordPress blog is hosted on
  3. Upload the folder TheTravelTheme to /public_html/wp-content/themes/
  4. Log in to your WordPress dashboard (http://www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin/)
  5. From the left hand sidebar, select “Appearance”, then “Themes”
  6. Activate “TheTravelTheme”

Customising TheTravelTheme

To customise the way the theme looks, navigate to the theme options located within the Travel menu item on the left hand side of the WordPress Dashboard.

Screenshot of FTP screen. Upload your theme files to public_html/wp-content/themes/thetraveltheme

Homepage Settings

Your homepage is totally customisable via the ‘Homepage’ section of the ‘Travel’ menu.

If you would like to add blog posts to the homepage, simply add the following line of code to the Homepage Content Editor:

[blog count="5" width="630"]

Screenshot of the homepage content editor. You can add any content you like here, including shortcodes. In our example, we add a shortcode that shows 5 blog posts - square bracket facing left blog count=

You will now see 5 blog posts on the homepage.

This line of code was generated using the Shortcode Editor by clicking the drop down menu ‘Choose one’ and selecting ‘Blog’

Shortcode screenshot - select Blog from this menu

Expanding into:

Shortcode Generator screenshot, you will find a lot of options for shortcodes by selecting from the drop down menu

How to setup the sidebar widgets

To setup the sidebar widgets of TheTravelTheme, click on ‘Appearance’ in the left hand side menu of the WordPress Dashboard and select ‘Widgets’.
Screenshot of Widgets screen. Within the WordPress Dashboard, select Appearance, then Widgets. Drag and drop widgets into the sidebars.

How to setup the menu

TheTravelTheme takes advantage of WordPress 3.0 menu functionality, allowing you far more control and customisation opportunities from within the WordPress Dashboard.

To setup the sidebar widgets of TheTravelTheme, click on ‘Appearance’ in the left hand side menu of the WordPress Dashboard and select ‘Menu’.
From within the WordPress Dashboard, click Appearance and Menus. This is where you can set up the navigation and footer menu items.

Flickr installation guide

To set up your own Flickr gallery, download the Flickr Photo Album Plugin by Joe Tan. The installation files for this plugin are included in the download zip file of TheTravelTheme, or can be installed using from within the WordPress Dashboard (Plugins > Add New > Search for Flickr Photo Album)

Simply activate the plugin and follow the instruction steps.