This document provides information on installing and using custom featured provided by the Celadon theme for WordPress.
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1. Installation
To install the theme you first need to upack the .zip archive file that the theme is stored in when you download it. On either PC or Mac you can just double click the .zip file to open it. Click on the folder called 'celadon' inside and drag it to your desktop to 'unzip' it from the archive. This folder contains all the theme files.
We now need to upload the theme files to your WordPress themes folder. The themes folder is located in:
[Your WordPress folder]/wp-content/themes/
Connect to your web server using your favorite FTP client and upload the 'celadon' folder to the WordPress themes folder. All the Celadon theme files should now be in:
[Your WordPress folder]/wp-content/themes/celadon/
The hard step is done. Now all we've got to do is log in to the WordPress admin panel, click "Apperance" in the admin navigation panel, and then click on "Themes". You should see Celadon as one of the available themes that you can use. Clicking on it will open a preview window. Click "Activate" to use it as your blog's theme.
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2. Using the admin panel
When you activate the theme you'll see a new admin panel under the "Appearance" section called "Celadon Settings". Click on it to go to set Celadon theme specific settings. Select the settings you like and click on the "Save changes" button at the bottom to activate the changes. Here's an explanation of each feature:
Color theme
Choose the color theme you want from the drop down menu. There are 6 color themes available: green, blue, purple, red, orange and black. Each color theme affects the background color of the date labels on the left of each post, the background of the sidebar headings and the color of the headlines and page titles.
Use text based header?
Tick this checkbox if you don't want to use the provided image for the header. The theme comes with a special header .psd file (Photoshop file) which you can edit using Photoshop to customize the title and tagline text. The file is located in the "photoshop" folder, in the main theme folder. Save the file as a PNG file called 'header.png' to the theme's images folder. If you don't want to customize this image and instead want to just use a text based header, check this box. Your blog title and tagline you've set under "Settings > General" in the WordPress admin pages will be displayed in the header.
Feedburner URL
Feedburner is an RSS delivery service. RSS is the technology used to provide your visitors with the ability to subscribe to your blog and read any updates as they come in from their RSS reader, such as Google Reader. While WordPress will serve RSS on its own by default, you can use services like Feedburner for this, which will allow you to track the number of subscribers you have, as well as other options, such as serving your RSS by email. If you're using Feedburner, paste the feed address here.
Email subscription URL
Services like Feedburner will allow you to serve your blog updates through email. If you're using Feedburner or another method of serving email subscriptions, paste the address of the subscription page here. This will add a "Subscribe by: Email" link to the subscription box in the navigation bar.
Analytics code
Do you use a tracking and analytics system like Google Analytics to monitor your website's visitors? Paste the analytics code they give you here. The code will be placed before the body close tag.
Sidebar ads code
Would you like to display advertising in the sidebar? Paste the ads code here. The ads will show up at the top of the sidebar content, above any widgets.
Exclude these pages from tabbed navigation bar
The tabbed navigation bar at the top will use all your blog's pages by default to generate the tabs. If you've got some pages you don't want to display in this main navigation area, maybe legal things like "Privacy Policy" or "Terms of Use", write their names here to exclude them from the navigation. They will still appear in the footer navigation, just not in the header. Write out the names exactly (with capitalization) and separate each entry with a comma and a space, like: Privacy Policy, Terms of Use
Copyright owner
The copyright message in the footer uses the blog title as the copyright holder. Add your own name, or company's name here if you'd like to use it instead.