How to setup the slider:
- At first from admin panel go to Appearance> Amphion Lite Options and click on the "slider" tab now select the category from which you want to show the posts from in the slider.
- Select the number of posts you want to show in the slider.
- Create a post under your selected slider category that you want to display as a slide.
- To Add Image:
Notice that there is a Featured Image Option on the right side of the page. Attach Your slider Image(573 x 223) and click on "Use as Featured Image"
- To add Slider Sub-text
Notice a field called "summary" appeared right below the editor. Put your post summary in the "summary" filed.
If for existing posts the "summary" fields dons not appear click on the post's update button and the field will appear automatically.
In wordpress 3.1 the custom field option is disabled on default. To enable the custom field feature go to Posts > Add New . In the post editor page at the very top click on the "Screen Options" button. Now make sure "Custom Field" option is checked. Check this image for better understanding.
Widgets
There are total 5 widgets that come with the theme. After activating the theme go to Appearance> Widgets and you will see 5 widgets:
- Amphion- Popular Posts
- Amphion- Random Posts
Shortcodes
There are total 2 shortcodes that come with the theme. To use shortcode you have to put the following codes(in HTML mode)while writing posts:
FACEBOOK LIKE BUTTON
Usage: just add [fblike] anywhere in your posts (in Html Mode)
SPECIAL BUTTON
Usage: [button link=" http://www.google.com"]Your button Text[/button]
Page Types
There are 3 page types included with this theme:
- Page with left Sidebar
- Page with No sidebar
- Portfolio Page
To Apply page type/template while creating a new page look for "Page Attributes" on the right. Under Template there are 3 templates in the dropdown list. Select any from the dropdown list.
To create Portfolio Page you have to create a "portfolio" category.
Lightbox
A fancy lightbox is automatically applied to the images. To know more about the fancybox visit this
link.