Created: 28/06/2011
By: Tolga Can
Support: http://support.rtthemes.com
Email: ftolgacan@gmail.com
Twitter: twitter.com/ftolgacan
Thank you for purchasing my theme. If you have any questions that are beyond the scope of this help file, please feel free to post your questions on my support forum at http://support.rtthemes.com. Thanks so much!
Upon downloading the .zip file from themeforest.net you'll have all files inside the theme package. Do not upload the entire file you get from ThemeForest, upload only the rttheme14 folder.
There are two ways to upload a theme;
1) Upload By FTP: Login your hosting space via an FTP software and upload the theme folder into wp-content/themes/ under your wordpress installation. Once you've uploaded the theme you can open Open WordPress Admin → Appearance→ Themes page and activate the theme from list.
2) Upload By Wordpress Admin:
Installing WordPress http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress
On wordpress admin area you'll see an additioal menu which named "RT-Theme 14"
In the General Options page you will find some options for control your page without thounching codes. For exapmle; you can upload your logo, activate the twitter bar or remove the seach bar from top of the page.
In this options page you will find all the typography related fields. You can turn on/off Cufon or Google fonts and select a new font family for several elements of your page like titles, page text or menu items. There is a one thing you may know, you shouldn't turn on two font replacement service in same time. (Google and Cufon)
This options controls the home page slider. In order to change Transition Timeout, Slider Height, Transition Effect or remove the Slider Buttons you need to visit this page.
Using Theme Stle option you can change the skin of your page, also there are plenty options to control Heading's color, Body Font Color and Menu Color.
Please note: If you want to select a new background image or new background color, you can use Appearance → Background page of the WordPress.
This options gives you chance to take control of your web site. You can create a new sidebar for the contents which you want to display it. For example: If you want to put a Text Widget (or anyone) only for yout About Us and Contact Us pages, you just need to select those two pages and hit the Save Options button. Then go to Appearance → Wigets page and drag&drop widgets into the sidebar you created.
Widget Caller Shortcode
As you can read with the description above the code on Sidebar Cretor page; you also call the sidebar which you created as a content by using this shortcode. This options will be help you mix Sidebars and Home Page contents. For example; You have three content boxes on your home page and you want to display tour twitter feeds in the middle of the content column. Once you've copied the Shortcode, go to Home Page → Add New Box and paste the code into the content area. Then go to Appearance → Wigets page and drag&drop widgets into the sidebar you created. Please note you're free to leave blank all the title fields both home page contents and widget you'll use.
Apart from the 'Product Free Tabs' you can use this shorcode any place you want. Just remember that the sidebar will displayed top of the contents.
Use this options to control your portfolio pages.
Select Your Product List Page: Choose a product list page even if you don't want to use on menu bar, this page is the start page of your product showcase.
Select Product Page Start Category: As default, RT-Theme shows all products on start page. You may want to show your selected products like "featured products" In this case you need to select a start category.
Products on Start Page: If you want to remove products from the start page of product catalogue check this option. You can put your content in the "product list page" by using Pages -> Edit
OrderBy Parameter: Choose a parameter to sort your products by.
Order: Designates the ascending or descending order of the ORDERBY parameter
Besides these options, you'll find more usefull options related with products.
Select Blog Categories: Select categories which you want to show posts that assigned them on your blog page. If you don't select any category the blog start page will display all categories' posts.
Select Your Blog Page: Choose a Blog Start page even if you don't want to use on menu bar, this page is the start page of your blog page.
Blog Categories on Sidebar: Blog list pages resizes the featured images. If you want to use them as you've uploaded, use this box.
Blog Categories on Sidebar: You can show or hide the blog categories on sidebar of your blog pagas, single blog posts
Besides these options, you'll find more usefull options about blog posts.
If there is a new update for the theme, you'll be informed by the theme admin panel and able to see update notes.
There are three embeded menu of the theme; RT Theme Left Navigation , RT Theme Top Navigation and RT Theme Left Navigation
The Appearance Menus SubPanel is available beginning with Worpdress 3.0. If you're new on this new menu feature of wordpress please read this article carefully; http://codex.wordpress.org/Appearance_Menus_SubPanel
To use all items like products, portfolio items, tags etc. check the Screen Options to insure those modules are set to display.
In order to add content to your home page you can use Home Page Contents custom post types.
You can also use the widgets in home page. Go, Wordpress Appearance → Widgets and put any widget into the Widgetized Home Page Area. This widget will be appear above the Home Page Contens custom posts if you've set any.
You can use the widgets to set your contents like photos, testimonials etc. They supports the shorcodes. Go, Wordpress Appearance → Widgets and put any widget into a sidebar. Also you'll find many custom widgets that coded just for the theme like twitter, flickr, recent posts etc.
In order to add new slide to your home page slider you need to use Home Page Slider custom post types.
Important Please Read
- You can find the slider setting under RT-Theme → Slider Options.
- The slides ordering by publish dates, If you want to re-order the slides please change their publish dates.
In order to add new portfolio item you need to use Porfolio custom post types. There are several things you must know;
In order to add new product item you need to use Product custom post types. There are several things you must know;
Finding page/post ID
To find the Page ID, go to Pages->Edit and hover over the title of the page. The status bar of your browser will display a URL with a numeric ID at the end. This is the page ID.
Pages Widget http://support.wordpress.com/widgets/pages-widget/
Finding the WordPress Page ID http://www.techtrot.com/wordpress-page-id/
URLs of Media Files
When you've added new media file, the url appears on the bottom of the page.
How to Find the URL for an Image http://www.bestwpthemez.com/wordpress/how-to-find-the-url-for-an-image-937/
Use regular posts to add new blog post. There is only one thing you need to know about blog posts that Featured Images
RT-Theme comes with some great shortcodes that allow you to add photo galleries, contact forms and social media icons. In order to use them, you need to edit/add posts, pages or widgets and enter the shorcodes into the content area. I've created my Contact Us page on the live preview by using the shortcodes and it's looking like this; click here to see the code
Sample Usage
[contact_form title="Contact Form" email="ftolgacan@gmail.com" text="(*) Aenean tincidunt pharetra leo. Curabitur euismod sollicitudin elit."]
Please note that you must only use one contact form shortcode in a single page. You don't have to use the title or text parameters. You can also use the code with the widgets for sidebars.
This theme imports these Javascript files.
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery-1.4.4.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery.easing.1.3.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery.cycle.all.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery.tools.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery.prettyPhoto.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/cufon-yui.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/Aller_Light_400.font.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery.validate.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery.form.js"></script>
<script type='text/javascript' src='js/jquery.imgr.min.js'></script>
<script type='text/javascript' src='js/jquery.jscrollpane.min.js'></script>
<script type='text/javascript' src='js/jquery.mousewheel.js'></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery.tweet.js"></script>
<script type='text/javascript' src='js/script.js'></script>
<!--[if IE]>
<script type='text/javascript' src='js/curvycorners.js'></script>
<![endif]-->
1) jQuery http://jquery.com
jQuery is a Javascript library that greatly reduces the amount of code
that you must write.
2) jQuery Cycle - jQuery plugin http://malsup.com/jquery/cycle/
Cylcle script on sliding gallery
3) script.js - Coded by Tolga Can
Includes several functions
4) jQuery Easing - jQuery plugin http://gsgd.co.uk/sandbox/jquery.easing.php
Offers multiple easing options
5) jQuery PrettyPhoto jQuery plugin http://www.no-margin-for-errors.com/projects/prettyPhoto-jquery-lightbox-clone/
6) Cufon http://wiki.github.com/sorccu/cufon/about
jQuery UI JavaScript Library
7) jQuery Tools http://flowplayer.org/tools/index.html
jQuery Tools jQuery Plugin
8) jQuery Image Rounder
Copyright 2010, SteamDev
http://steamdev.com/imgr
9) jScrollPane - v2.0.0beta9 - 2011-02-04
http://jscrollpane.kelvinluck.com/
10) Jquery Tweets
http://tweet.seaofclouds.com/
There are several psd files for all the elemens which i used for the template. You can find them in numbered folders under the psd_files folder.
I've used the following images, icons or other files as listed.
You can find the version history (changelog) by visiting the Theme Updates page of the RT-Theme Options.
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. No guarantees, but I'll do my best to assist. 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.
Tolga Can