Posted by Bryan on September 10, 2009 under Setting up Pages | 
WordPress offers an excellent way to catalog helpful links. In many WordPress-powered sites, these links are displayed on the entire site in a widget in the sidebar or footer. There may be many reasons you don’t want all of these links displayed on every page – it may affect your search engine rankings and it may simply not match the overall intent of your site. So the solution is to have a single page where all links are displayed. Read more of this article »
Posted by Bryan on September 6, 2009 under Using The Theme |
First, if you don’t want to use the fancy front page, just delete the file called home.php from your server and the theme will revert to a traditional blog formatted site. Or, you can specify a page as the opening page of your site under Admin > Settings > Reading and the page.php file will automatically override the home.php file.
To use the featured areas on the front page, you’ll use the Custom Fields feature of WordPress.
To use the main featured area (the wider area at the top)…
1. Create a category with any name you’d like, such as “Featured Articles.”
2. Under Admin > Manage > Categories, you will see your new category listed. Mouseover it and in the status bar of your browser, you’ll see a long URL that ends with ID=#, where # will be the unique category id.
3. Under Design > Theme Editor, you’ll see a list of files on the right. Select home.php from the list to edit it.
4. Add your featured category’s id as shown below…
5. Click “Update File.”
Add an image to your Featured Post
The square image to the left of the featured content on the front page is created using the Custom Fields feature. It’s very easy…
1. Upload an image, either using the “Add media” feature (you can insert the photo into your post, but adding it to the front page is still a separate process) or an ftp client.
2. Get the full URL to the image.
3. Under Custom Fields in the post editor, type in a Key of “Featured.” (You’ll only have to do this one time, Featured will be an available option in the drop down menu from then on.)
4. Add the URL to your image in the box to the right.
Configuring the Smaller Front Page Featured Areas
The two boxes shown on the demo are adjusted in a very similar way as the Featured Box. Decide which categories will be used in these boxes and add their category id’s in the home.php file.
The difference is that to generate the thumbnail, you’ll still use the custom fields, as above, but this time your “Key” will be “Thumbnail” instead of “Featured.” Again, you only have to enter this word once and then it becomes available in the dropdown.
Posted by Bryan on October 6, 2008 under Installation and Setup |
Assuming you have hosting set up, and WordPress is installed, the next step is to install the theme…
1. Unzip/unpack your theme files.
2. Access your site with an FTP client.
3. Upload all theme files into the theme directory of your site, usually… www/wp-content/themes.
4. On your server, open the directory in the theme titled /plugins.
5. Move these files (1 folder and 1 file) into the plugins directory of your site, usually www/wp-content/plugins.
6. In your administration panel, go to Design and choose The Ministry Theme as your theme.
7. In your administration panel, go to Plugins and enable the 2 plugins called WPListCal (optional, but it offers a nice and easy event management tool) and Limit Posts.
That’s it. Just make sure to replace the logo – you can use our cross emblem but you’ll need some kind of graphics program to overwrite the name.
Posted by Bryan on September 29, 2008 under Installation and Setup |
Here are the steps we go through on every installation of WordPress after we’ve installed it, even before we start working on the actual site’s design… Read more of this article »
Posted by Bryan on under Installation and Setup |
Many hosting plans today come with Fantastico’s nice little installer. If you’re not concerned with grabbing the latest version of WordPress the day it is released, it’s an excellent option. If you are using cPanel hosting with Fantastico, you’ve got it easy. Read more of this article »
Posted by Bryan on September 27, 2008 under Uncategorized |
The Bible Scholar WordPress theme is a free theme designed for bloggers. It’s clean and white with green accents. It has some pretty nice features for a free theme, including a links page, an archives, page, flexible sidebar layouts, widget ready sidebars, and it’s easily skinnable with a new header, logo, color changes, etc.
View the Online Demo
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If you need customizations or just want to tell us how you’ve used the theme, contact us.
