ADA Theme Thank you for try the ADA Theme! I'm doing my best for keep this project working under this wonderful platform called WordPress. I'm not a programmer, so I found difficult at times, even thought of giving up and let this alone, but why not just try? Please, e-mail me (dianakac@gmail.com) if you can support this project with coding improvements and alike. ADA Theme is designed for small or local projects on animal adoption. There are few things and configurations you need to know. You can check the Contextual Help in editing screens as well. __________________________________________________________________________________________ Content Types __________________________________________________________________________________________ There are 5 content managed by ADA Theme: *Animals - for animals for adoptions. Store animal's info and availabity ststus *Lost Pets - for lost pets. Visitors can add your lost pet (if allowed) *News - News about the project and alike *Articles - Articles about anything related *Blog Posts - Default WordPress Blog posts __________________________________________________________________________________________ Menus __________________________________________________________________________________________ 3 areas: *Top Menu - the main menu. You can add nested items as well *Intro Menu - Beside the slider and only in home page. Up to 6 itens, please do not add nested items. *Footer Menu - For special pages like TOS, Privacy Policy etc __________________________________________________________________________________________ WordPress defaults __________________________________________________________________________________________ WordPress features: *Thumbnail images for posts *Header image *Threaded Comments (with reply link) *Visual Editor style *Localization *Widgets for special pages __________________________________________________________________________________________ Extra Features __________________________________________________________________________________________ Embeded plugins *WP-Relates Post - http://fairyfish.net/2007/09/12/wordpress-23-related-posts-plugin/ *Slider - http://cssglobe.com/post/4004/easy-slider-15-the-easiest-jquery-plugin-for-sliding These plugins are embeded and don't show extra panels for configurations. You can check their documentation and edit their files for options, or replace the code installing the plugin. *Animals for adoption and Lost Pets - keep special data such height, breed, etc within everypost. You can export those data keeping a side database etc. *News - Shows scripts for increase/decrease font size, just like any news site. *Social Bookmarks - Edit file social.php and sidebar.php with your social links. There are also a form for subscription, you need an account in Feedburner for this. *Feeds for sections - Special content such Animals for Adoption, Lost Pets, News and Articles have feed link. You can replace using you Feedburner link if you want. __________________________________________________________________________________________ Using: Animals for Adoption Status __________________________________________________________________________________________ For a easy management, ADA Theme uses tags for status. Add a animal the 'adopt' tag for a available status and 'adopted' tag for non-available. Never use both tags at once! The adopted pet shows a iconic tag on his thumbnail and the current status. Also, you can add the tag archive as a menu item and allow visitors browse adopted animals. Note on localizing: Make sure to match the terms when localizing! The tags much match the Contextual Help. __________________________________________________________________________________________ Using: Lost Animals posts __________________________________________________________________________________________ The admin can allow visitors to add lost pets in you site, the user level can be 'Colaborator', which need the admin revision. __________________________________________________________________________________________ Using: The Intro Slide __________________________________________________________________________________________ The slider shows, by default, last 6 available animals for adoption along with some info. You can change that editing the intro.php file and using your own query. Please check Codex: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/query_posts Also, you can set the cycle speed editing /js/op.js, refer to script documentation if needed. __________________________________________________________________________________________ Using: Home Page and Archive for Animals for Adoption, Lost Pets, News and Archive __________________________________________________________________________________________ There's no better way to show special contents archive yet. We need to use a Page using a special Page Template. Please do the following: 1. Create a Page in Pages > Add News 2. Title the page. Ex.: Last News. Also, you can add any content you want in editing area. 3. Set the Page Template according the content. Ex.: News 4. Publish the Page Now you can add the page as a menu item in Appearence > Menus Page templates you must use: Articles - for Articles Lost Pets - for lost pets News - For news posts Full - Without sidebar, if you need Home - For home page ADA Theme comes with a special Home Page template. The ADA Theme home shows a slides with 6 last animals available for adoption. Below, there are last news at right side and articles and the last blog entry. You must create a new Page and set the Home Template. Then, set the static page in Settings > Reading, just like the instructions above. Adding as Menu Items You don't need to create pages for adding menu items. Just create a new menu and add a link item as follow: http://yoursite.com/wordpress/?post-type=news - for all news http://yoursite.com/wordpress/?post-type=articles - for all articles http://yoursite.com/wordpress/?post-type=pet - for all pets http://yoursite.com/wordpress/?status=adopt - for adopt status http://yoursite.com/wordpress/?status=adopt - for adopted status __________________________________________________________________________________________ Known Bugs __________________________________________________________________________________________ None yet! I just feel bad about some code bloating nad not be able to code a better and cleaner breadcrumb for post-types and RSS links. If you can do that, please let me know.