Company Store Instructions
These are instructions for using my Company Store theme for WordPress:
1. Under the appearance menu select themes and then “install new themes” from the tab at the top. Click the “upload” link and then browse to the location on your computer where you save the ZIP file you downloaded from this site. After your theme finishes uploading click the activate link.
2. Now a new menu item will appear under appearance called “theme options.” Here you can configure the various options in the theme.
3. First is the logo. You can use your own logo or simply display the name of your site with text. To use your own logo, go to the Media uploader (it’s between posts and links in your WordPress control panel) to upload your logo. Copy the URL and paste it into the blank to use it. If you’d like to use a Favicon, you can do the same procedure for it next. You can choose to have a drop down menu for your categories next.
4. Next comes choosing which categories to display on three different page styles: Blog, product and your home page. You can also choose how many posts to show on your home page.
5. Next comes shopping options: include the shopping cart icon and the url for your cart.
6. The theme includes the option to have Demo and Buy buttons displayed on the home page. You can also name these what you’d like.
7. Another option that you can configure in the control panel is to include Google analytics or some other statistic tracking solution. To include it, just choose yes, and paste the code that analytics provides into the box. Click save settings and your theme is customized.
10. Lastly you can choose to add your own custom styling. Just select yes to include it and then enter in your color choices. You can use HTML valid color names like red or black or hex colors. If you use a hex color, make sure to include the # before the code. If you want to use a custom background, click on the background item under the appearance menu and you can customize the background there.
Adding Products or Posts to the Front Page
In order to have items appear on the home page of your site, you will need to create a post that corresponds to each of them. The Simple Post Thumbnail plugin that is included with the theme adds a box to every edit post screen where you can upload a thumbnail. The thumbnail will be automatically resized for the front page. If you are using this theme to sell items, you can also use the product post template. This will give you a large version of the thumbnail on the post when it is displayed, plus it features a place for price, demo and purchase links built into the sidebar.
If you run into any problems, feel free to contact me and I’ll be glad to help you.
