Waluyo

Simple Personal Blog Wordpress Theme

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!

Getting Started

About Wordpress

By purchasing Waluyo means that you've decided to user Wordpress as your CMS. Using Wordpress is much easier than coding it by yourself, however if you're new to Wordpress it sometime become very difficult.

But don't worry, there are several online resources you can refer to:

You can also watch this session from Tuts+ which provide easy to understand videos about how Wordpress is working : WP 101 Basix Training

 

PS : Make sure that you always update your Wordpress to the latest version in case to keep your site more secure.

Installation

Before installing the theme please make sure that you already have our main file called waluyo.zip. And there are several ways to begin the installation :

Via built in Wordpress theme uploader
  1. Go to your Wordpress admin panel
  2. Point your cursor to Appearance menu and choose Themes
  3. Click Add New button, and then click Upload Theme button
  4. You will find a new page asking for main file .zip 
  5. Choose your waluyo.zip file and then click Install Now button
Via FTP Client
  1. Unzip/extract waluyo.zip file
  2. Using any FTP program, you can upload the unzipped theme to the /wp-content/themes/ folder on your site.
Activating The Theme
  1. Go to your Wordpress admin panel
  2. Point your cursor to Appearance menu and choose Themes
  3. Choose Waluyo and click Activate button

Installing Plugins

In order to get the full features of Waluyo, you have to install some plugins to your site. Once you have activated the theme you will find a notification about the required plugins like this :

Simply click begin installing plugins to start the installation and at this time you will headed to Install Required Plugins page.

Check all the boxes and from the Bulk Action option select Install then click Apply.

* PS : some plugins may not be installed automatically because there is no direct url to the plugin from the respository (plugins provider). Just click to te plugins name and you will go to the plugins respository page, download the plugins from there and upload it to your Wordpress.

Theme Options

Theme options is the themes built in control panel page to configure how your site will run and to apply some features from the theme. To access Waluyo theme option please go to Appearances menu and then choose Waluyo Options submenu.

General Settings

This section have three subsections, they are :

Blog Settings

In this section you can configure how the blog posts will run. For example, choose whether you will use numbered or directional style of pagination, choose whether you will display author box on the post, etc.

Page Settings

This section have two subsections, they are :

Color Settings

Do you like to do some experiment with your website color? Or maybe you want to keep the branding of your website? This section will be the one you need.

Utility

This is the default section from Vafpress Framework which will be useful to import/export your theme option setting. You can also reset your setting to default in a second by pressing the Restore Default button.

Pages

Waluyo Theme have only one custom page template, it is Archive page template. In order to make a new page please go to Pages menu and then click Add New button.

Archive Page

Archive page is used to display your website archive/summary. To use the built in archive page template please see the Template option from the Page Attributes section, after that you can just select Archives.

Contact Page

The contact form used by the demo of Waluyo  was generated using Contact Form 7 plugin which you have installed and activated before. For more info about this plugin you can refer to the official site of  this plugin here.

While to display map just like the demo site, please see the Page Map Option and then check the display map field, once you've checked it the field to embed your map will shown. Please put your map iframe code there.

Posts

Waluyo have seven kind of post formats including standard post format. If you have already entered Post editor page you will find this custom metabox of post format (make sure you have activated the Post Format UI plugin) :

In this documentation you're considered to have some knowledge on how to create a post on Wordpress, so the following is just the explanation about post formats provided by theme.

Image Post

This type of post format is to display a featured image for your post. Once you select the image tab you will get this field :

To display your image/photo just click the Set featured image link and the wordpress media uploader window will displayed.

So, what is the different of this post format with the standard post format? Actually, there is just slight different between them that is the post format label/icon. Well just keep going! :)

Gallery Post

This post format is to display image gallery on your post, the gallery will displayed as a slider using Flexslider. Below is the ui for gallery post format :

Click the Pick images button to insert your images. Once it done can rearrange the order of your images by drag and drop them.

Video Post

This post format will display featured video on your post, you can embed any video from video hosting site by inserting the iframe code on the field below :

For Youtube/Vimeo video you can also paste the video page url only, like this :

Audio Post

This post format is to display/embed audio on your post. To embed your audio, paste the direct url of the audio file or paste the iframe code from audio hosting site like Soundcloud.

Quote Post

This post format will display quote format. To do that please choose quote tab and you will find these fields :

To write the quote itself can be done through Wordpress WYSIWYG editor. Below is the example quote format from the demo :

Please make sure you set the quote content into Heading 1.

Link Post

Link post type will make your post title as a hyperlink to your inserted URL. Once you choose the link tab you will find these fields :

The Quote and Link post format will display its content on the blog roll. So the user can access the single post of them.

The Sidebar

Waluyo provide one default sidebar on the left side. On this sidebar there are located your site logo, site description, menu and the widget area.

Navigation Menus

Waluyo support one menu, that is Main Navigation menu which displayed on the sidebar and also displayed as the mobile navigation menu. To create your own navigation menu please go to Appearance menu then choose Menus submenu.

Give your menu name on the provided field and click Create Menu button, after that you can create your own menu structure. Once you have create/rearrange your navigation menu please make sure you've checked the Theme Location checkbox into Main Navigation Menu.

Widgets

To arrange your widgets go to Appearance menu then choose Widgets submenu. This theme provide four custom widget for your sidebar. They are :

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