!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!! WARNING: The project is no longer supported, nor does any further !!! !!! development take place. The project webiste projects.lb-home.de !!! !!! is no longer active and should not be visited. !!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Readme ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ LB-Projects Theme has been developed by Lukas Bommes. LB-Projects and the LB-Projects logo are protected by copyright law. All rights reserved. License: LB-Projects Theme is licensed under GNU General Public License v2.0 (more information available in license.txt) Support: You can get Support for the theme at my Homepage: projects.lb-home.de ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Setting up the theme +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1. Usage of Templates This theme provides various template files for specific content. For example a static homepage with an image slider and featured content, an email contact form, an archive page and a guest book. Moreover a template for fullwidth content is being offered. Using this template disables the sidebar on the specific site and stretches the content to full width. For setting up a site template go to "Pages" -> "Add New" in the WordPress backend. Enter a title and content (optional) and select one of the five templates in the "Template"-selector in the box "Page Attributes". If the attribute box is not being displayed, go to "Screen Options" in the upper right corner and make sure, that the checkbox for the attribute box is checked. Publish the page and add a link to your navigation to make the page accessible for your visitors. 2. Setting up the header navigation By default all your pages will be displayed in the header navigation. To create a custom menu go to "Appereance" -> "Menus" Enter a name for the menu and click "Create Menu". Select the content that shuld be displayed in your navigation and click "Save Menu". Now got to the selector "Theme Locations" on the left, select the menu you created before and click "Save". Now your custom menu should be displayed on the front end. 3. Using Widgets The Theme provides four widget areas, on in the sidebar and three in the website's footer. Simply drag and drop the widget you want to show to the appropiate widget area. You may also use one of the custom widgets to display a better tagcloud, information about the author or recent posts. 4. Using custom Shortcuts The them offers a wide range of so calles shortcuts, that allow you to display predefined context in your articles. For example you can put text into differently colored boxes by writing [colorbox color="red"]...Text...[/colorbox] for a red box or box [colorbox color="green"]...Text...[/colorbox] for a green box. You will find a list and a description of all available shortsuts in this article on my homepage: http://projects.lb-home.de/2012/06/neue-funktionen-des-lb-themes 5. Theme Options After activating LB-Projects Theme you will be forwarded to the theme's option panel, where you can edit various settings of the theme. Make sure to check every single option and decide, how you want to configure your theme. Don not forget to click "Save Changes" after finishing the setup. Click "Reset" to reset all changes. 5.1. Breadcrumb If you check this option, a so called "breadcrumb navigation" is beeing isplayed, that shows your current position on the website. This option is useful for big intricated websites with a lot of content. 5.2. Thumbnails Check this option to show the featured image for the post. This image can be set in the edtiro under "Featured Image". 5.3. Fixed Header Selscting this options makes the header stick to the top of the browsers viewport. This increases the accessibility of the conentent in the header (e.g. the menu), but also reduces the height of the active content. 5.4. Sidebar Position This Option allows you to change the floating of the sidebar. Checking this options floats the sidebar to the right and the content to the left. 5.5. Logo Input the URL to any image on your server or the Internet for displaying this image as your logo in the website's header. The image should be 50 pixels width an height. 5.6. Custom Favicon If you want to add your own custom favicon (the image being displayed in the browser's address bar), enter the URL of any 16 x 16 pixels big image in the .ico or .png format. 5.7. Google Analytics Code If you are using Google Analytics for your website, you have to enter a tracking code, that will be assigned to your site's header. Put your tracking code into the input field to automaticcaly assign it to your site. 5.8. Custom CSS (advanced users) Use this option to add your own CSS Code to the theme. The CSS will be added to the site's header. Use this option with care, otherwise you could break the design. 5.9. Colors Change the background colors of header and footer by selecting the colors on the color wheels and check the option "Use custom colors" for enabling the colors. The footer color will also be assigned to all accents on your site like links, hovered elements, selctions, etc. If you want to change the background color, got to "Appearence" -> "Background" ans select a color or a background image. 5.10. Social Buttons Use these options to connect your website with social services like Facebook, Googleplus or Twitter. Check the option "Display Social Buttons" and enter your profile URLs of these services. 5.11. Slideshow In this sectio you have the possibility to decide wheter to use the slideshow on your static homepage or not. If you would like to use the slider, activate the checkbox "Display Slideshow" and enter the image URLs, titles, links and texts of each slider-image. Text, link and title are optional, but at least you have to define a image URL. If you want to use less than 10 images, simply add the number of images (e.g. 6), you want to be displayed. 5.12. Featured Slider This Option allows you to add specific posts to a post slider on your static homepage. Simply mark the post you want to be displayed in the slider as "featured post" in the WordPress post editor in the meta box "Featured Post". You may also define a custom title for the article in the slider. You can get further information to this topic in this article: http://projects.lb-home.de/2012/08/featured-post-slider 5.13. Search Form Select this option to disable the standard search form in the header. This option could be useful, if you want to use the search widget in your sidebar instead of the default search. 5.14. About the Author Selecting this option displaya a box with the post authors meta information like his name, biographical data, avatar, etc. 5.15. Announcements Check this option to display the text, you added in the text field "Announcement Text" below. This text will be displayed in a yellow box on each page of your website. Use this option to display important notices or announcements to your visitors. 5.16. Footer Copyright Text Enter your own copyright or legacy notice into this textfield. It will replace the default copyright notice displayed in the site's footer. 5.17. Tagcloud Enabling this option shows a tagcloud in the website's footer, that shows your most commonly used article tags. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++