This video in provides an overview of how to setup a “Portfolio” just like the Celestial Reloaded theme demo website that takes advantage of categories and posts without the need of a portfolio plugin: Portfolio Covered in this video: Introduction to the Portfolio. Introduction to the Portfolio theme settings Creating a Portfolio category. Create some Portfolio posts. Adding your portfolio to the main menu. Previewing our portfolio. Video – Creating the Portfolio Video – Don’t Show Portfolio Items in the Blog
Setup Tutorials for Celestial Reloaded
Welcome to the Setup Tutorials for Celestial Reloaded. These are the standard guidelines to help you install, configure, and customize your newly downloaded theme. If you have any requests for additional tutorials relating to this theme, please contact me and I will review your suggestions. These tutorials are also based on the assumption you have a basic understanding of how WordPress works.
This video in this series provides an overview of how to setup a Recent Posts widget with thumbnails like the Celestial Reloaded theme demo website displays on its blog page. The widget is a plugin called Recent Posts Plus and offers many features that you can customize how the widget looks. Here is a demo of it in action: Recent Posts Covered in this video: Introduction to the plugin. Getting the Recent Posts Plus plugin and setting it up. Using the widget to display recent (latest) posts with thumbnails. Widget Output Template You can change the template layout of your widget how you want it, but to make it easy for you, I’ve provide you with the code that the demo site uses. You will find this code snippet in your original download for Celestial Reloaded and in the snippets folder called “Recent Posts Plus“. Selecting Categories You will be… read more
This video in this series provides an overview of how to create a WordPress Gallery using the gallery shortcode. This is actually a feature that is part of WordPress, but what I did with Celestial Reloaded is change the default styling for the gallery to be a little more pleasing to the eyes. To see what we will be making here, let’s take a look at the demo site’s gallery: WP Gallery Covered in this video: Introduction to the WordPress gallery feature. Setting up a page for our gallery. Create a gallery with 8 photos Add our gallery page to our menu Preview your gallery and click on an image to see it in a special page viewer Video
Most people nowadays use WordPress for more than just a blog, so it also means you will more likely want what WordPress calls a “Static Front Page“. Normally when you install WordPress, the blog is the default front page where you will see your posts show up, but what if you want something different there? This is where the static front page comes into play and the blog is therefore moved into the site. You can read more about the Static Front Page here: Static Front Page Covered in this video: Introduction to using a page for the front of your website. How to create your new home and blog page. How to assign your new pages to be active. Video
This video in this series provides an overview of how to setup your social networking icon group when using the Celestial Reloaded theme. When you set up your icons, it will depend on what social networks you belong to because you won’t need to show all the types that Celestial Reloaded offers: Twitter Facebook Google+ LinkedIn Pinterest Youtube Flickr Covered in this video: Familiarizing yourself with the Social Networking Options. How to enable the social networking bar. How to add links to each social network field. Previewing and saving your changes. Video
This video in this series provides an overview of how to change the colours of different elements within your website when using the Celestial Reloaded theme. When changing colours, you can get virtually an unlimited array of colour combinations so that your site can look different from others that might be using Celestial Reloaded. Covered in this video: Familiarizing yourself with the colour Options. How to use the colour selector. How to go back to the default colour. Previewing and saving your changes. Video
You get three (3) layout styles for your blog along with a few options with Celestial Reloaded. For instance, you can have a left or right column (sidebars) blog layout and you get a full width (no sidebar columns) option. Once you decide on how you want your blog to look, you also get the choice of using a full sized featured image or a small image. To give you an idea what the image style sizes look like, I’ve provided a couple screenshots below: Wide Featured Image Small Featured Image Video Tutorial for the Layout Settings
With Celestial Reloaded, you get the option of having: Your own logo Site Title and Site Description (set in h1 and h2 tags respectively) Setup Your Own Logo Create your logo in your favourite image program like Photoshop, Illustrator, or other, and save it as a jpg, png, or gif format Go to Appearance >> Themes >> click on Customize Click on the Site Title & Tagline tab on the left side Select the “Your Logo” option, at which point the preview window will now show the default logo gone Click on the Your Logo dropdown and then browse, then choose your logo you created to upload. After a few moments, your new logo will be uploaded and the preview will show it Click Save & Publish at the top then “Close“ Setup Your Site Title and Description Go to Appearance >> Themes >> click on Customize Click on the Site Title &… read more
This video in this series provides an overview of how to setup your main menu when using the Celestial Reloaded theme. By default, you will get a fallback menu which contains only pages, so what we want to do for more flexibility is to create a custom menu. Covered in this video: Familiarizing yourself with the WordPress menu manager. How to create a menu. How to add links to your new menu. Video
This video in this series provides an overview of available page templates that comes with the Celestial Reloaded theme. There are several templates that are setup to give you a variety of layouts, some are created for a website’s front page, but you can use these inside your site if you wish. Available templates are: Default (has a right column) Page Centered Heading Page Full Width Page Left Column Page Left + Right Columns Page Right Column Page Widgets Full Width Page Widgets Left Column Page Widgets Left + Right Columns Page Widgets Right Column Page Widgets Only Covered in this video: Introducing you to the available page templates. How to select a page template. Video
