Getting started
Theme installation
Upload via ftp:
- Unzip the theme1283.zip file to any folder on your hard drive.
- Upload the theme1283 folder to the server (to the /wp-content/themes/. directroy).
Upload via Wordpress admin:
- Login to your Wordpress admin panel (add /wp-admin after your domain name in the browser address bar)
- Now go to Appearance
- Select the Add New Themes option
- Click Add new
- And upload your theme1283.zip file
Theme activaction
Once you have uploaded the theme, activate your theme in Appearance > Themes.
Using Themes http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_ThemesSQL dump file installation
- Open the theme1283.sql file that is located in the sources folder with any text editor (preferably Dreamweaver or Notepad) and replace all instances of "your_website_url_here" with your website URL in the entire document using the Find and Replace tool (usually the Ctrl+H hot key). E.g.: http://www.mywebsite.com
- Please, make sure that you do not have the forward slash "/" sign at the end of the address.
- Save your changes and close the file.
- Next, you can import the dump file with the phpMyAdmin tool or some other database management tool.
Menu setup

WordPress 3.0 comes with a new menu management panel, which makes building your sites navigation very easy and flexible.
This theme is registered with two menu locations:
- Header Menu - in Header
- Footer Menu - in Footer
Page Templates and Sidebars
Page Templates
- Default Template (the default page template with a left sidebar position)
- No Sidebar (a page template with one column and no sidebar positions. For this page template you can use custom field page-title). If it set in true - title will displaying. If you deleting this custom field - title will not displaying.
- Blog (the page template for blog posts display)
- Page About Us (the page template for displaying your company information)
Sidebar Position
- Left Column - Located at the left hand side of the Home page
- Center Column - Located at the center of the Home page
- Right Column - Located at the right hand side of the Home page
- Sidebar - Located on the left hand side of pages
- Testimonials - Located on the bottom side of the Home page.
- Address - Located on the bottom side of the Home page.
- Latest News - Located on the bottom side of the About page.
- Our Team - Located on the bottom side of the About page.
- First footer widget area - Located at the bottom of pages.
- Second footer widget area - Located at the bottom of pages.
- Third footer widget area - Located at the bottom of pages.
- Fourth footer widget area - Located at the bottom of pages.
- Social - Located at the bottom side of the footer.
Posts and Categories
Adding catogory posts
Review the following link for more info on adding categories: http://codex.wordpress.org/Manage_Categories_SubPanel

- Log in to your WordPress Administration Panel (Dashboard).
- Click the Post tab
- That done, click Categories for blog posts
- Type in the name of your new category
- With that done, click the Add New Category button
Creating a blog post
- Log in to your WordPress Administration Panel (Dashboard).
- Click the Posts tab
- And click the Add New tab
- Type in your post content. For more info on adding posts, please review the following link http://codex.wordpress.org/Posts_Add_New_SubPanel
- And finally click the Publish button
Creating a slider post
Slides are essentially custom post types http://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Types#Custom_Types. which means that they are different from common posts, such as blog posts, portfolio posts etc. That allows us to manage the content of the site really easy.
The following slider runs on Nivo Slider

- Log in to your WordPress Administration Panel (Dashboard).
- Click the Slider tab
- And now click the Add New tab
- Insert your slider title.
- Upload your image with the help of the Featured Image option (click the Set featured image link)
- You can use the following custom fields for your slider:
- thumb - defines the path to the slider image (it can be used instead of the Featured Image option.. If you specified this custom field, you don't need to use Featured Image
- caption * - it can be used for non-HTML content. For instance:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consec tetuer adipiscing elit...
or - caption * with a complex strucutre (that is to say HTML tags) For example:
<h2>Integrate.</h2> <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consec tetuer adipiscing elit.</p> <a href="#" class="button">Read More</a>
- And click the Publish button
* - optional
Adding a Testimonials post

- Log in to your WordPress Administration Panel (Dashboard).
- Click the Testimonials tab
- And click the Add New tab
- Fill in al lthe required fields (title, content)
- Upload your image with the help of the Featured Image option (click the Set featured image link)
- You can use the folowing custom fields for this sort of posts::
- testimonial-name - authors's name
- testimonial-post - author's post
- testimonial-url - author's link
- Hit the Publish button
Adding an Our Team post

- Log in to your WordPress Administration Panel (Dashboard).
- Click the Our team tab
- And now the Add New button
- Fill in al lthe required fields (title, content)
- Upload your image with the help of the Featured Image option (click the Set featured image link)
- You can use the folowing custom fields for this sort of posts:
- team-name - team member name
- team-post - team member post
- Click Publish
Plugins and Custom Widgets
Plugins
The widgests used in the theme are listed below
Contact Form 7
Download: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/contact-form-7/
Description: Contact form for contact page.
Custom Meta
Download: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-meta/
Description: Lets you choose what items of meta widget to show.
Social Networks Widget Deactivate
Download: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/social-networks-widget/
Description: Adds a widget which lets you link to social media presences
Widgets
The following widgets are also used in the theme:
- My - Post Cycle - displays recent posts, you can also display custom posts
- My - Recent Posts - displays recent posts.
- My - Request a Quote - an advanced text widget with a whole lot of extra fields
Theme Options
This theme has a specific tab with some settings. In order to be able to define the settings, you need to click on the Wilson Law button at the bottom. It can have a different name but in this particular theme the tab is entitled Wilson Law
Once you have clicked on the tab, you can define your setting on the right hand side.
General
- Logo URL - path to the logo image. If your logo is text, you can leave this field empty.
- Custom CSS - if you need to add some css rules but you don't want to mess with the main css file, you can use this field. Just insert your new css rules
Main Navigation
- Delay - delay in milliseconds that defines when the menu hides
- Fade-in animation - enabe/disable the fade-in animation
- Slide-down animation - enabe/disable the slide animation
- Speed - the speed of the submenu expanding
- Arrows markup - enabe/disable arrows for the menu items that have submenus
Slider
- Slider effects - slider transition effect
- Number of slices - amount of slices in the slider
- Animation speed - the spead of the animation
- Pause time - delay between slides
- Start slide - the first slide of the animation (starting from 0)
- Next & Prev navigation - show/hide the Next & Prev buttons
- Next & Prev navigation visibility - this options allows to specify when the Next & Prev navigation is displayed (true -always visible, false - while hovering)
- Pagination - show pagination
- Keyboard navigation - navigation with the help of the keyboard
- Pause on hover - stop the animation if the user hovers over the slider
Footer
- Footer copyright text - footer text content. If the text field is empty, the default content will be displayed. It is located in the footer.php file
- Google Analytics Code -you can put a code for gathering your site's SEO stats. . For instance, Google Analytics Code
- Footer Menu - enable the footer menu
FAQs
How to create Contact Form in WordPress
This video tutorial will show you how to add contact form in WordPress using the Contact Form 7 plugin
Installing Contact Form 7 plugin
- Open WordPress admin panel
Go to Plugins and click Add New
If you want to search for the plugin and download from the Internet type Contact Form 7 in the search field.
In case the plugin is included into the template package you ordered click Upload link and Browse for the plugin file in the template sources/plugins folder.- When the plugin is installed click Activate.
Creating Contact Form
If the plugin has been installed correctly you should see the Contact tab in the left column. Click it
- To add New Contact Form click Add new button link under the Contact tab.
- You can also click Add New at the top of the screen.
- In this field input the HTML for tags like
<form>
,<input>
etc - You can also use the tags drop down to add the fields you want.
How to change Google Map location in WordPress
This tutorial will show you how to change the google map location in WordPress
Locating Google Map
- Open WordPress admin panel
- Go to Appearance>Widgets
Check the widget areas for the necessary text widget.
The google map code looks like this:<iframe width="318" height="250" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Brooklyn,+NY,+USA&aq=0&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=47.704107,79.013672&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Brooklyn,+Kings,+New+York&ll=40.649974,-73.949919&spn=0.01628,0.028238&z=14&iwloc=A&output=embed"></iframe>
. This is the code you need to modify or replace.
Changing the Google Map location
- As soon as you found the google map code go to http://maps.google.com
- Using your mouse and the map controls choose the desired location and zoom.
- Click the Link button in the top right menu.
Copy the code from the "Pages HTML to embed…" field.
- Paste the code to WordPress text widget.
Feel free to check the detailed video tutorial below:
How to replace text logo
This tutorial will show you how to change text logo (website title) in WordPress.
Most of the templates, that use a text logo instead of an image display the website title as a logo content. The website title could be accessed and modified through the WordPress admin panel.
- Open WordPress admin panel
- Go to Settings>General
There you can see the Site Title field. Modify it’s value to change the logo.
Feel free to check the detailed video tutorial below:
How to add widget area
To add widget area access to your WordPress installation folder.
- Open ‘wp-content/themes/theme####/includes’ folder.
-
Open sidebar-init.php file. All widget areas are defined here. The following code is used to define wach area:
register_sidebar(array( 'name' => 'Sidebar 2', 'id' => 'sidebar-2', 'description' => __( 'Located at the right side of pages.'), 'before_widget' => '<div id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">', 'after_widget' => '</div>', 'before_title' => '<h3 class="widget-title">', 'after_title' => '</h3>', ));
To register new widget area copy the code above and paste it before the closing ‘}’ bracket
Change the ‘name’, ‘id’ and ‘description’ values.
- Now you can insert the widget area to any part of the template. Go back to the ‘wp-content/themes/theme####‘ folder. You can insert the area to any layout file:
- header.php
- footer.php
- single.php
- category.php
- index.php
- sidebar.php etc
- Paste the following code to the required place to insert the widget area.
<?php if ( ! dynamic_sidebar( 'New Widget Area' ) ) <img src="http://info.template-help.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_confused.gif" alt=":?" class="wp-smiley"> ><!-- Wigitized Area --><?php endif;?>
Replace ‘New Widget Area’ with your widget area name.
- If everything has been done correctly the new widget area would be available from the WordPress admin panel Appearance>Widgets (right column).
Feel free to check the detailed video tutorial below:
How to create page templates
Individual Pages can be set to use a specific custom Page Template (a PHP template file, e.g., custom.php) you create within your Theme. This new Page Template will override the default page.php page template.
WordPress can be configured to use different Page Templates for different Pages. At the page editing screen you can specify the page template in the Page Attributes block.
In order to access the Page Template selector, there must be at least one custom Page Template available in the active theme. If a custom page exists, but you still are not able to see Page Template selector, try to re-activate your current theme.
Creating Your Own Page Templates
The files defining each Page Template could be found in wp-content/themes directory. To create a new Custom Page Template for a Page you must create new .php file. For example let’s name it custom.php
To make it work as a page template the file should start from
<?php /* Template Name: Custom */ ?>
The file may be named almost anything with a .php extension(see reserved Theme filenames for filenames you should not use; these are special file names WordPress reserves for specific purposes). The rest of the page template files can contain anything you need, starting from the static content to some markup that will determine your page content
Feel free to check the detailed video tutorial below:
How to install WordPress plugin (through admin panel)
- Open WordPress admin panel and go to Plugins tab
- Click Add New button at the top.
- From the top menu select Upload.
- Click Browse and select the plugin package. Usually the plugins provided with the WordPress theme could be found in the sources/plugins folder. When you found the plugin package click Open, then Upload.
- When the upload procedure is done you need to activate the plugin. Use the Activate Plugin link.
How to use WordPress Media Library
This tutorial will show you how to use the WordPress media library.
The media library is used to enrich your website content with images, videos audio etc.
The Library could be accessed through the WordPress admin panel. Open the Media tab and click Library link. Here you may see all your media items.
Clicking the Edit button under each item you can modify the item settings (input the image alternative title, check the dimentions etc.)
To Add New item to the library click the Add New button. Then select the files on your computer and click Upload.