BoardWalk FAQ
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01. How do I add a photo to my users' profiles?
02. How do I add thumbnail images and featured section images?
03. How do I change the featured video?
04. How do I change what widgets appear in the sidebar?
05. How do I remove certain advertisements, featured video, or the subscribe section?
06. How do I remove the sidebar advertisement?
07. How do I replace the default advertisements?
08. How do I replace the default logo?
09. How do I set which articles appear in the featured article slideshow?
10. How do I set which categories show for the Highlights?
11. How do I show or hide certain menu items?
12. What are the common image dimensions for Boardwalk?
02. How do I add thumbnail images and featured section images?
03. How do I change the featured video?
04. How do I change what widgets appear in the sidebar?
05. How do I remove certain advertisements, featured video, or the subscribe section?
06. How do I remove the sidebar advertisement?
07. How do I replace the default advertisements?
08. How do I replace the default logo?
09. How do I set which articles appear in the featured article slideshow?
10. How do I set which categories show for the Highlights?
11. How do I show or hide certain menu items?
12. What are the common image dimensions for Boardwalk?
- 01How do I add a photo to my users' profiles? Sign up at http://www.gravatar.com with the email address that you've associated in your blog with your user account, and upload your image to gravatar.com. After you've done that your gravatar.com image will appear whenever you post on your own blog. This photo will also appear when you post comments on other Wordpress blogs (if you use that email address in the mail field of the comment form).
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02How do I add thumbnail images and featured section images?
To setup the featured posts section as well as the post thumbnail and highlights image. you need to add the following to the custom fields on your post edit page:
Names: thumbnail, highlights_thumbnail, and featured_thumbnail
Values: the URL to those images
(You can use the WP Post Thumbnail Plugin to create the specific image sizes and insert their URL in to the Custom Fields automatically, or do it manually by uploading each image size to your Media Gallery and pasting the URL into the Custom Fields). -
03How do I change the featured video?
Navigate to your theme's directory inside the wp-content/themes/. Open the file “video.php” found under “editable/sidebar/video.php”. Instructions can be found once inside.
Please Note: For the simplista theme and onward we will not be including a video.php file to be edited (Unless the video is somewhere other than the sidebar). The same effect can be achieved using WordPress' built-in "Text" widget. To add your featured video add a new Text widget and enter your title, and paste the HTML embed code into the box. Resize the width/height as needed to make it fit nicely.
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04How do I change what widgets appear in the sidebar?
Login to your wordpress admin dashboard and navigate to: appearance -> widgets.
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05How do I remove certain advertisements, featured video, or the subscribe section?
Find the file you wish to remove in the “editable” folder. Clear the code out of each file you wish to delete and re-upload the empty file to your server.
Important: Do not delete the files completely!
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06How do I remove the sidebar advertisement?
Find the file you wish to remove in the “editable” folder. Clear the code out of each file you wish to delete and re-upload the empty file to your server.
Important: Do not delete the files completely!
Please Note: In our most recent themes we include a sidebar advertisement widget so you can move it around to your liking, if you want to get rid of it just remove the widget.
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07How do I replace the default advertisements?
Navigate to your theme's directory inside wp-content/themes/. Once there, you will notice a folder named “editable/ads”. This folder is the home to the standard advertisements. Each file has HTML comments guiding you through the process.
Please Note: In our newer themes, as well as older themes that have the theme options panel, all advertisement code is handled through the theme options panel. Just paste your code into the ad spot specified and click save.
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08How do I replace the default logo?
Simply overwrite the existing logo found under “wp-content/themes/YOUR THEME/img/logo-trans.png”. If you would like to find guideline dimensions, right click the current logo in your browser then select “Properties”.
Please Note: For some of our themes that have multiple colors, the logo files are placed in the color folder inside the img folder. For example, in Huex, the blue logo is located in img/blue/logo.png, etc.
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09How do I set which articles appear in the featured article slideshow?
Create a new category for featured articles (call it Featured, or something similar). Any articles that you would like to appear in the featured section, add them to that category.
Once you've set the featured category , navigate to your Theme Options Panel located under Appearance in admin. Find the drop-down menu labeled "Featured Category" and select the category name that you have set up.
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10How do I set which categories show for the Highlights?
To set the highlight categories open the wpn_config.php file found in the theme's
root directory and edit the 3 category IDs for under highlights_category_id_1,
highlights_category_id_2 and highlights_category_id_3.
Note: In some of our themes that have text excerpts in the highlights, you can use the custom field highlights_text to set the text that appears.
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11How do I show or hide certain menu items?
To hide item(s) from the menu:
In order to hide specific items from one of the menus included with your theme open the file wpn_config.php using Notepad or Wordpad inside your theme's folder. Your theme's folder is located in wp-content/themes/. Once you have the file open, find the options for menu_exclude (for sub / secondary menus find submenu_exclude). Inside the two single quotes after => enter your page or category IDs in as comma-seperated values.To show only certain item(s) on the menu:
In order to show only certain items on any of your menus, open the file wpn_config.php from the above instructions and locate menu_include and submenu_include if you have a secondary menu. Enter your category or page IDs as comma-seperated values into the two single quotation marks to the right.Note: Include items override exclude items, so if you are having troubles make sure you only have IDs in either or.
Please Note: In our newer themes and old themes that have the theme options panel, all menu include/excludes are handled through the theme options panel. Choose how you want your menu/submenu to be displayed, check any items you want hidden or shown and then click save. -
12What are the common image dimensions for Boardwalk?
Featured Slideshow (custom key featured_thumbnail): 670 x 200
Thumbnails (custom key: thumbnail): 106 x 106
Highlights Thumbnail (custom key: highlights_thumbnail): 210 x 115
Logo: 383 x 141
