Premium WordPress Themes for Business and Portfolio

Installing Theme

1. Unzipped the template file you’ve get.
2. Upload the theme folder portfolius3 to your /wp-content/themes/ directory.
3. Log in to your WordPress admin panel and go to Appearance.
4. Click on the screenshot theme to activate it.
5. Download plugins, which recommend for Portfolius v.3
6. Upload these plugins to your /wp-content/plugins/ folder and activated through the WordPress admin panel.
7. Click on Appearance > Theme Options to setup the rest of the theme – you have to go through this setup, or else the theme might not work.

Create Categories and Major Pages

Creating Categories and Major Pages is the first and important step after install. If you have this pages, please, follow to next step Theme Options > Navigation Options.

1. Create Categories

   You need to have two (or more) categories for correct theme work. One of them is Blog category. Other categories and sub-categories will be Portfolio. More about Categories

2. Create Major Pages

   By default you need to have major pages: About, Services, Contact, Archive. You can call this pages as you like. The most important thing is that they exist. Also you can create subpages for Services Page. More about Pages

Hierarchy

The final hierarchy is recommended to have the following:

1. ← major page About
2. ← major page Sevices Page
   1. ← all other pages Sub-Page #1
   2. Sub-Page #2
      1. ← all other sub-pages Sub-Sub-Page #1
      2. Sub-Sub-Page #2
      3. ...
3. ← portfolio category Portfolio Category
   1. ← portfolio sub-categories Sub-Category #1
   2. Sub-Category #2
   3. ...
4. ← blog category Blog/News Category
5. ← major page Archive
6. ← major page Contact

Adding Posts to Portfolio

Posts are entries that display in reverse chronological order on your portfolio’s front page and on portfolio page. More about Posts. Please, follow the steps below.

1. Make big screenshot 520*439 px JPEG, GIF or PNG
2. Make 2 thumbs 239*219 px JPEG, GIF or PNG
3. Write the post as you like
4. Fill the excerpt field
5. Choose the category e.g. Portfolio > Websites
6. Upload screenshot and thumbs
7. Use custom field thumb-520x439 for big screenshot
8. Use custom field thumb-239x219a for second screenshot
9. Use custom field thumb-239x219b for third screenshot
10. Press 'Publish' button

Recommended Plugins

1. Grunion Contact Form or Scaleable Contact Form
2. Clean Archives Reloaded

Recommended Fonts

1. FF Meta Black & LF & Exp
2. Miss Stanfort free

Use widgets

1. Contact Us widget (Footer)
   Put here your contact information or something else. You can use code template:

   <img class="we" src="img/z16.jpg" alt=""/>
   <p>
   64184 St. Vincent Place Glasgow, D99 9430GR, United States
   </p>
   <p>
   Phone: 1 899 941 3214<br/>
   Fax: 1 899 941 3584<br/>
   Email: <a href="#">mail@yoursite.tld</a>
   </p>
   

2. Clients widget (Footer)
   Put here your client list or something else. You can use code template:

   <ul class="clients">
   <li><a href="#">Cola Company</a></li>
   <li><a href="#">Software Inc.</a></li>
   <li><a href="#">Estate Developer</a></li>
   <li><a href="#">Lawer Corp.</a></li>
   <li><a href="#">WebDeveloper</a></li>
   <li><a href="#">Investment Inc.</a></li>
   <li><a href="#">Translation Agency</a></li>
   </ul>
   

3. Services widget (Footer)
   Put here information about your services or something else. You can use code template:

   <h5>Internet Marketing</h5>
   <p><a href="#">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetuer adipiscing elit nunc ullamcorper blandit urna.</a></p>
   <h5>Web Design</h5>
   <p><a href="#">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetuer adipiscing elit nunc ullamcorper blandit urna.</a></p>
   <h5>Web Development</h5>
   <p><a href="#">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetuer adipiscing elit nunc ullamcorper blandit urna.</a></p>
   

4. Top Sidebar widget (Blog Sidebar)
   Put here any HTML code as you need.

5. Bottom Sidebar widget (Blog Sidebar)
   Put here any HTML code as you need.

Version: 3.0

1. First Release