News CMS wordpress theme ReadMe
Article Demo Download Installation
Step 1.
Extract news-cms.zip and upload the wp-content folder to the folder wordpress is installed. (It is okay to merge/overwrite if asked by your FTP program)
Step 2.
News CMS uses (but does not require) the following plugins:
- Contact Form 7 (link)
- Get Recent Comments (link)
- Who See's Ads (link)
- Popularity Contest (link)
- Subscribe2 (link)
- Quick Subscribe (link)
- Simple Tags (link)
the_excerpt_reloaded()included in functions.php
While in the Admin area of your WordPress
(2.6 or higher) installation, go to the Plugins page.
Activate the plugins listed above. Now would be a good time to activate Akismet as well. (don't forget your
wordpress.com API key )
Step 3.
While still in the Admin area of your WordPress site, go to Manage -> Themes and activate the News CMS plugin
Create your Categories.
You'll notice that News CMS has a highlighted news section at the top of the index page. While you will need to change the labels of each tag in an image editing program like PhotoShop, you also need to tell News CMS which categories to show up there.
News CMS also relies on you having a category for "Featured" articles. The newest article written that belongs to the "Featured" category will be displayed prominently on the index page.
Once these categories have been created, open functions.php and replace the values for the $BustATheme variables with the appropriate category id's. This step will make more sense when you open functions.php. While you're in functions.php, also follow the directions and fill in the other options. Hopefully in a near-future update I will have time to write a plugin for this theme so this step is not needed.
Setting up your Categories
To make sure your News CMS index displays properly, open up the functions.php file that came with News CMS and edit the variables:
- $BustATheme['tab1'] through $BustATheme['tab5'] are the categories for the category id's for the "Latest In" block on the index page
- $BustATheme['featured'] is the category id for articles that will appear in the 'Featured' article block on the index page. Only the newest article in the category with this id will be displayed.
- $BustATheme['recent'] is the number of articles that will be displayed in the 'Reacent Articles' block located directly under the 'Featured' article block on the index page. Articles that appear in tab1 through tab5 and the featured article will not be displayed here to prevent posts showing twice on the index page.
- $BustATheme['popularArticles'] is the number of 'Popular Articles' you want displayed on the index page located in the right sidebar.
Create your Pages.
Create the following pages:
During the install of the Contact Form 7 plugin, a contact form was created. To make this contact form visible, edit your Contact page and paste the following:
[contact-form 1 "Contact form 1"]
And in your Subscribe page, paste this:
<!--subscribe2-->
More information about each of these plugins and how to use them is available at WordPress.org (Use the links on this page).
Set up your Ads.
Using the Who See's Ads plugin (Manage -> Who See's Ads), create ads with the following names:
- 728x90
- 468x60
- 300x250
- 120x600
- 160x600
This plugin is completely self explanatory so there isn't much else to say about it.