=== Beauty and Clean === Author: Your Inspiration Web Donate link: Tags: red, white, light, two-columns, left-sidebar, right-sidebar, fixed-width, custom-colors, custom-header, custom-background, custom-menu, editor-style, theme-options, threaded-comments, sticky-post, translation-ready Requires at least: WP 3.0 Tested up to: WP 3.1.3 A versatile and highly customizable theme. == Description == Beauty is a clean and elegant theme that can be used for your company website: it offers in fact the possibility to visualize in Home an introductory page and the latest news, a feature common to many corporate sites. Nevertheless, it’s perfect also for a more traditional use of WordPress, as also in the blog version the layout remains vital and engaging. It has 5 widget areas, one-column, two-columns, fixed-width and flexible-width formats, 2 pre-defined templates, one customizable multi-level drop-down menus, featured posts, a corporate layout, tabbed sidebars, translations in many languages. WP 3.0 Menus, Custom Post Types and Custom Taxonomies are integrated. Support forum at http://www.mascaradesign.it/tf/forum/ = Widget = Address Info: Widget with a simple address information. Almoust Categories: Get list of categories, without categories excluded from options panel. Contact Info: Widget with a simple contact information. Last News: The last news. Testimonial Widget: Add a slider testimonial on your widget which link a category to show the contents. == Installation == You can install the theme through the WordPress installer under Themes → Install themes by searching for it. Alternatively you can download the file from here, unzip it and move the unzipped contents to the wp-content/themes folder of your WordPress installation. You will then be able to activate the theme. == Frequently Asked Questions == = Where can I get support for the theme? = Support is available at the theme's support forum. = How to Add custom javascripts? = You can include your own scripts by editing the functions.php and making use of wp_enqueue_script(). == Changelog == A more technical change log is bundled with the theme as the ChangeLog.txt file. == Credits == Icons: Huge Set of Minimal Icons: http://www.tutorial9.net/downloads/108-mono-icons-huge-set-of-minimal-icons/ Images: images for the slider are taken on Fotolia with regular license and are used only in the live preview. The images are not available for download with the theme. jQuery http://jquery.com/ Nivo Slider: http://nivo.dev7studios.com/ Cufon: http://cufon.shoqolate.com/generate/ PrettyPhoto: http://www.no-margin-for-errors.com/projects/prettyphoto-jquery-lightbox-clone/ JCarousel by Sorgalla.com: http://sorgalla.com/jcarousel/ == Suport == SUMMARY .............................................................................................................................................................. 2 CUSTOMIZING ....................................................................................................................................................... 3 SET THE HOME PAGE AS A STATIC PAGE (NOT BLOG) .................................................................................................................... 3 UPLOAD YOUR LOGO ........................................................................................................................................................... 4 CREATE PAGES .................................................................................................................................................................... 5 CREATE THE MENU AND ADD PAGES OR ITEMS ........................................................................................................................... 6 SET THE HOME PAGE CONTENT AND SIDEBAR ............................................................................................................................. 8 ADD WIDGETS IN THE SIDEBARS ........................................................................................................................................... 10 ADD CONTENT IN THE “TEAM” SECTION ................................................................................................................................. 10 SETTINGS TESTIMONIAL SECTION .......................................................................................................................................... 12 HIDE SOME CATEGORIES FROM THE “CATEGORIES” WIDGET ........................................................................................................ 14 HIDE SOME CATEGORIES FROM THE BLOG PAGE ........................................................................................................................ 15 SET THE FOOTER ............................................................................................................................................................... 16 3 Beauty & Clean Free minimal WordPress theme Created: May 06, 2011 By: Sara Presenti, Nando Pappalardo – Your Inspiration Web Contact Info: support@yourinspirationweb.com Thank you for download our theme. If you have any questions that are beyond the scope of this help file, please feel free to email us. We hope you enjoy Beauty&Clean theme! CUSTOMIZING Set the home page as a static page (not blog) After you create the home page (read to process to create a new page), you have to set the home page as a static page, and not a page with blog post. Go to Settings menu and choose “Reading”; after set as shown in the picture: 4 Upload your logo For change the logo, you must go on Appearance >>Theme Options >> General tab. Here you can choose if upload your logo (image) or use title and description, like our demo. Title will be display with a calligraphic font (the same used for “Beauty&Clean” in our demo) and description with the “Champagne&Limousine” font. In this page you can: 1- Upload your logo 2- Upload your favicon 3- Set the date format 4- Add additional CSS rules Create pages To create a page (home, about, services, etc..) with setting as shown in the picture below: You have to click on “add new” on Pages menu and: 1- Write the title of your page 2- Add content of your page (insert text, images, what do you want) 3- Choose if the page is under another page (if is it in the dropdrown menu under another page or if is it a primary page) 4- Choose the template of the page (only if the page is the home page or the blog ) 5- Write the slogan of the page (attention: the text inside the square parentheses will display with a different colors: “Welcome to [Beauty & Clean] blog”, the word ‘Beauty & Clean” is red and other text is grey) 6- Choose if display or not the title of the page 7- Choose the layout for the page (Without sidebar, left sidebar, right sidebar) 8- Choose the sidebar for the page (Example: if you have create a special sidebar for the ‘about’ page, here you can find and select this sidebar) Now Click on the button and publish the page. 6 You have to click on “add new” on Pages menu and: • Write the title of your page • Write the text of your page (insert text, images, what do you want) • Choose the template for this page (If the page that you want to create is the “services” page choose “services” and so on. • Click on the button in the top and publish the page. Create the menu and add pages or items Go to “Appearance >> Menus” menu on the left and set: Then, in the same page: 7 In the Navigation select, choose the name of the menu that you have just create, then click on save button. On the bottom, in the “pages” box: Now you can see your page successfully created! 8 In the image below you can see the final result, with all the pages of our theme: Set the home page content and sidebar Create the home page, with settings as shown in the picture below: 9 Here you can: 1. Write the name of your home page 2. Add content in your page 3. Choose the template “Home” 4. Add the slogan in your home page. The word inside the [ ] will display colorful, not grey. 5. Choose if display or not the title 6. Choose the layout for the page (no sidebar, right sidebar, left sidebar) 7. Select the sidebar you want to use in this page. 10 Add widgets in the sidebars In this theme you can find some sidebars ready to use and you can add to these sidebars some widget. Go to Appearance >> Widgets and drag & drop the widget you want to include in your sidebar in the sidebars on the right. Add content in the “team” section In the left bar of the WordPress panel, you can find the “team” section: 11 Click on “add new” and set each team member as shown in the picture below: 1. Add the name of the member 2. Add description 3. Add image: upload the image and click on “use as featured image”, then save. 12 After you add all the members, go on the page where you want to include the staff (like our “about” page) and add this shortcode in the editor of the page: [team] Settings testimonial section In the left bar of the WordPress panel, you can find the “testimonial” section: 13 Click on “add new” and set each testimonial as shown in the picture below: 14 Hide some categories from the “categories” widget If you want to hide some categories from the widget “categories” in the Blog Page, you have to go on Appearance >> Widgets section and drag the ‘Almost Categories’ widget from the left side on the right side, under ‘Blog sidebar’ bar: Put a name for the widget and then click on ‘save’ button. 15 Now on Theme Options >> Blog settings tab, you can choose which categories to exclude from the ‘Categories’ widget on the blog’s sidebar. Hide some categories from the blog page Instead, if you want to hide some categories of post from the blog page, follow the same procedure (go on Appearance >> Widgets section and drag the ‘Almost all categories’ widget from the left side on the right side, under ‘Blog sidebar’ bar) and then in ‘Theme options >> Blog settings’ select the categories to exclude on the left side: 16 Set the footer In Appearance >>Theme Options >> General you can set the footer of the theme. You can choose if you want a footer like the footer used in our demo, with text on right and left side, or a footer with centered text. 17 Once again, thank you so much for download this theme. See you!