Photo Nexus Wordpress Gallery
Created: 18th April 2009
Last Updated: 24th August 2009
By: Mondre`
Contact Info: imagine.themes@gmail.com

Thank you for purchasing my theme. If you have any questions that are beyond the scope of this help file, please feel free to email, via my user page contact form. Thanks so much!

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A) Getting Started
B) Website Structure 
C) CSS Files
D) Javascript 
E) PSD Files

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A) Getting Started (Step by Step guide for installation)

Upload your theme to the Wordpress Theme Folder and Activate it

***** Photo Nexus Options is listed under Appearance Category (No need to edit files) *****

NOTE: 	I've provided screenshots for further guidance in the Help Folder of the theme.
		Please read this help guide before following the screenshots.

1. Create Contact Page and Fill the About page.

2. Enter Contact and About page ID's in the Theme Options page.
	(Login to WP ADMIN - Photo Nexus Options is listed under Appearance Category)
	a. Enter About page ID and Contact page ID is their respective input bars.
		1) There are two easy ways to find the Page ID
			- If you go to the Page in the Admin, it's ID will be displayed at the end of the url.
			- Or, you can go to Manage Pages in the ADMIN and hover your mouse over a Page Title, the ID will display in the status bar.

3. Add the required Category (Wordpress ADMIN panel)
	a. Featured

4. Featured Slides 
	a. The theme uses the custom field "image" (key) and the value is the full URL of the image. It relies on the custom field key "image" for the images.
	b. The slideshow posts in the mainpage rely on the "Featured" category to show up there. So you'll need to add the post to Featured category to be Featured.
	c. All images will be auto-cropped to required sizes. To keep it nice upload images not less than 730 X 550 (width x height)

5. Making a Photo Post (Wordpress ADMIN panel)
	a. Goto WP ADMIN > POST > ADD NEW
	b. Fill the TITLE (Content texts won't show as it's a Photo gallery - no need to fill - Enter just the Title)
	c. Upload your IMAGE
	d. Copy the absolute url in the LINK URL bar.
	e. In the CUSTOMS FIELD Section you'll find the NAME and FIELD bars.
	f. Enter the word 'image' in the NAME field
	g. In the Value field paste the URL you copied from the LINK URL.
	h. Tick the Featured Category if you want it to be in the Main page otherwise leave Featured unticked.
	i. Add a Category of your choice and tick it.
	j. PUBLISH!

6. Excluding Categories in the Category list
	a. Login to WP ADMIN - Photo Nexus Options is listed under Appearance Category
	   Enter the category ID to exclude seperated by commas.

7. Replace logo.gif file with your Logo. The Logo image is in the 'images' folder. If you rename it you should make the change in the header.php
	a. I've included a LOGO PSD file which you can edit. The font used in the PSD is a FREE Font called Quicksand.
	   You'll be able to download the font from http://www.typophile.com/node/50437

8. Changing Theme to either BRIGHT or DARK Style 
	   Login to WP ADMIN - Photo Nexus Options is listed under Appearance Category
	a. Select the either Bright or Dark Photo Nexus theme of your choice.

9. Enter Maximum Photos to show in Categories
	   Login to WP ADMIN - Photo Nexus Options is listed under Appearance Category
	a. Enter the maximum number in it's respective input bar.

10. Changing Featured Slideshow setting
	   Login to WP ADMIN - Photo Nexus Options is listed under Appearance Category
	a. Select your choice of setting from the menu and save.

11. OTHER SETTINGS found in WP ADMIN includes. ( IMAGE Quality, THUMBNAIL Resize, SLIDESHOW Button Text (For multilingual use)

ADDITIONAL SCRIPTS RUNNING

1. phpThumb (For Dynamic resizing of images)

    http://phpthumb.sourceforge.net/

    * phpThumb requires the GD library, which is available on any host sever with PHP 4.3+ installed.
    * Be sure to manually change the /cache/ in the theme folder permissions to 777 or 775


RECOMMEND PLUGINS
(All plugins need to be downloaded and copied to the Wordpress plugins folder to be Activated)
NOTE: This Wordpress Theme will fully work without these plugins.

1. Contact Form 7
	http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/contact-form-7/
	a. You can use this to make the Contacts form. Just follow it's instructions.


*********** THAT'S IT!! *****************


B) Website Structure

This theme is a fixed layout with two columns. All of the information within the main content area is nested within a div with an id of "content". The sidebar's (column #2) content is within a div with an id of "navwrap".

If you would like to edit the color, font, or style of any elements in one of these columns, you would do the following:

#contents {
   color: #someColor;
} 

If you find that your new style is not overriding, it is most likely because of a specificity problem. Scroll down in your CSS file and make sure that there isn't a similar style that has more weight. 

I.E.

#wrap #contents {
color: #someColor;
}

So, to ensure that your new styles are applied, make sure that they carry enough "weight" and that there isn't a style lower in the CSS file that is being applied after yours. 


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C) CSS

The theme uses one CSS file. Either the dark-style.css or the bright-style.css

1. style.css (Main CSS file which has all the main styles in it)

The Sections for the main style.css are

/* begin resets */
/* Main Global Layout Settings */
/* Page Structure */
/* Top Paddings  */
/* Gallery Globals */
/* Gallery Thumbs, Navigation and Caption Styles */
/* Main image  */
/* Navigation Next and Previous */
/* Extra not set to anything. If required  */
/* Head Styles  */
/* The top Menu */
/* Top Menu Home About Contact */
/* Category Title */
/* Categories */
/* Post */
/* All Columns */
/* Center Column */
/* Contact Text Input Styles*/
/* BOX styles */
/* FEATURED POST */
/* Footer */

If you would like to edit a specific section of the site, simply find the appropriate label in the CSS file, and then scroll down until you find the appropriate style that needs to be edited. 

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D) Javascript

This theme imports Javascript files used by JQuery to create the Flow Slides and the Popups of larger pictures when clicked.

  1) jQuery

1) jQuery is a Javascript library that greatly reduces the amount of code that you must write.


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E) PSD Files

I've included 1 psd with this theme:

   1) Logo (logo.psd)

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Once again, thank you so much for purchasing this theme. As I said at the beginning, I'd be glad to help you if you have any questions relating to this theme. 
If you have a more general question relating to the themes on ThemeForest, you might consider visiting the forums and asking your question in the "Item Discussion" section. 

Mondre`
