Installing and Using WordPress Theme Created

Installing WordPress Themes

1. Access your Web server using an FTP client or Web server administration tools.
2. Create a folder for your specific theme under “wp-content/themes” folder within WordPress installation.
   For example: <WordPressFolder>wp-contentthemes<YourThemeName>
3. Copy or upload theme files exported from Artisteer into the newly created <YourThemeName> folder.
4. Login to your WordPress administration panel and select Design -> Themes.
5. In the ‘Available Themes’ section click on your theme title or screenshot, then click the ‘Activate Theme’ link to activate it.

For more information please refer to the official WordPress documentation:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Themes#Adding_New_Themes

If you use latter versions of WordPress (2.8, 2.9 or 3.0),there is an alternative way for installing new themes. In the versions 2.8 and 2.9 you can install a theme by taking the path Appearance -> Add New Themes from your administration panel, and if you have WordPress 3.0 – by selecting the new tab “Install Themes” at Appearance -> Themes -> Install Themes.

To install a WordPress theme, please follow the steps below:

1. Export your WordPress theme from Artisteer as a zip file;
2. Login to your WordPress administration panel and select Appearance -> Themes;
3. Switch to the “Install Themes” tab (in WP 3.0) or select “Add New Themes” (in WP 2.8, 2.9);
4. Use the Upload link in the top menu to upload and install a zipped copy of a theme exported from Artisteer.

WordPress Widget Areas

Adding Widgets to Header

In Artisteer 4.0 you can add widgets to the Header and position them with CSS code. Please, follow the steps below:

1. Go to Appearance>Widgets and add a widget to the Header Widget Area. Your widget will appear in the top left corner of the Header,
2. Use a debug tool like Mozilla Firebug to define and copy the widget id,
3. Open Appearance>Editor and scroll to the bottom of the file. Paste the widget id preceded by # (number sign) and type the appropriate CSS positioning:

   #search-1 
   {
   top: 20px;
   left: 50%;
   }

Creating Vertical Menu

Artisteer WordPress templates support Vertical menus with pages or categories. To configure pages on your vertical menu go to Export Options and select Pages before exporting your template.

You can also add a vertical menu from WordPress Administration (for dynamic sidebars) by goingAppearance -> Widgets -> Vertical menu.

Grouping of Vertical Menu Items

Items in Vertical Menus can be grouped by a special menu item type called separator. Such menu items are not assigned the URL, which means they do not link to a particular web page, but serve as list items that name certain groups of links.

Starting from version 3.0 Beta 2, Artisteer templates for WordPress support Vertical Menus with separators. To enable menu separators, please update Artisteer, open your .artx project, re-export the template and apply it to WordPress.

To create a custom Vertical Menu with separators:

1. Create/Open your custom Vertical Menu in Dashboard -> Appearance -> Menus -> [custom menu name].
2. Go to the “Custom Links” block, enter # symbol in the URL field and name the separator (e.g. my separator 1). Press “Add to Menu” and see the newly created separator in the list with other Vertical Menu items. Continue the procedure to add more separator menu items.

1. Create new menu items or drag and drop the existing items to place them inside the separator menu item. Press “Save Menu” and go to your website to check the Vertical Menu.

Creating localized WordPress Themes with Artisteer

When exporting themes Artisteer automatically includes several language files obtained from WordPress Website at http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Localization

Specifically French, German, Italian and Spanish translations are exported by Artisteer in the WordPress compliant file naming format: <country>_<lang>.mo

For example German language file is: de_DE.mo

Installing additional language support

To include a different or additional language support in your Worpdress theme please find and copy the desired language files into your specific WordPress theme folder.

You can find the additional language files in your default theme folder
“<WordPressFolder>wp-contentthemesdefault“,

or on the WordPress Website at http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Localization.

To select a different language than your current WordPress language, change the “define” function in the wp-config.php file, for example: define(‘WPLANG’, ‘de_DE’).

Editing translations

To edit translations for your language please download and install Codestyling Localization plug-in from http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/codestyling-localization/.

Then in WordPress administration select Manage -> Localization.

Customizing the Footer

To customize Artisteer 2 template footer in WordPress 2.6+ administration:

• go to Administration -> Appearance -> Footer
• edit the HTML

Please note that the footer content will be placed within the Paragraph container (<p>).

Facebook Comments