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Current Theme Version: 1.0 (13/10/08)

Contents of this document:

1. Installing Snapshot
2. Explaining the Theme Options
3. Required Plugins
4. Setting up the WP-PostRatings Plugin
5. Different Layouts: Photo Showcase or Design Gallery
6. Adding Items (Photo or Design)

1. Installing Snapshot:

To install Snapshot, is not much different to installing any other (free) WordPress theme. There are however a few unique steps you will need to follow before jumping into the fun times using our themes. Follow these steps to get it up and running:

1. Unzip the the template file (snapshot.zip) that you have downloaded.
2. Via FTP, upload the whole folder (snapshot) to your server and place it in the /wp-content/themes/ folder. The template files should thus be here now: /wp-content/themes/snapshot/.
3. Log into your WP admin panel and click on the Design tab. Now click on the Snapshot theme to activate it (see the first screenshot below).
4. Note: When first clicking the theme to activate it, the preview pane will show that the theme contains “errors”, but this is only because you haven’t set up the Theme Options yet.
5. Complete all of the required inputs on the Snapshot Options page (in the WP admin panel) and click “Save Changes”. Section 2 below details this process (See the second screenshot below).

Screenshot 1: Activating the theme.

Screenshot 2: Set up the theme on the Snapshot Options tab.

2. Explaining the Theme Options:

Snapshot incorporates a user-friendly theme options page to allow you to easily customise / tweak a variety of options for the theme, without having to touch the code. The theme options is located under the Snapshot Options tab in your WordPress admin panel. Here is an explanation of all the options that can be found on this page:

(Note: Options marked with “*” is required to be completed otherwise your theme might not function properly.)

General Settings

• Photo or Design Gallery? – Select whether you are using this as a showcase of your own photos or a gallery of others designs. See section #4 below for an explanation.
• Theme Stylesheet* – Choose the stylesheet you would like to use (located in root/styles/).
• Custom Logo – Simply paste the complete URL for your custom-created logo image. Note that you need to add -trans to your logo if you want it to be transparent i.e. customlogo-trans.png and not customlogo.png.
• Google Analytics – Paste the tracking code of your Google Analytics account here. This will also support other analytical software’s embedding code and will be inserted just before the “</ body>” tag of the template.
• Feedburner URL – Paste the URL of your Feedburner feed here. If you use this option, it will replace all RSS links within the template from the default WP RSS2 links to your Feedburner RSS link.

3. Required Plugins:

• WP-PostRatings (Download)
• WP-PageNavi (Download)

4. Setting up the WP-PostRatings Plugins:

This awesome plugins allows you to change the layout of its output considerably. To get the optimal use of the plugin, we would suggest that you emulate our setup, which is present on the demo of Snapshot, as well as our showcase. To do this, simply alter the plugin options like on our screenshots below:

• On Ratings > Ratings Options Tab: See Screenshot
• On Ratings > Ratings Templates Tab: See Screenshot

5. Different Layouts: Photo Showcase or Design Gallery:

Snapshot has been set up with the ability to function like a photoblog / photo showcase, as well as a design gallery. The built-in theme options allows you to easily switch between between these two options (see above).

The main differences are the fact that the photo showcase does not use an outward link (for example when using Snapshot as a CSS design gallery, the thumbnail wouldn’t link externally, but internally), whilst the detail page uses a larger preview image. There are also subtle layout differences between the detail pages of two templates and we suggest you switch around between the two for experimentation.

6. Adding Items (Photo or Design):

1. Go to Write > Post in your WordPress admin panel.
2. Complete all of the fields as you would with any other blog post. The post content would be your description of the item, whilst excerpt is optional and won’t be published anywhere.
3. Complete the Additional Fields (Optional) as specified below.
4. Publish the post.

Additional Fields Instructions:

To complete this section, please reference the screenshot below and follow the subsequent instructions:

Screenshot 3: Additional Fields.

1. Below follows a brief description of each of the four fields that needs to be completed in this section:
2. Screenshot (330×190). Upload an image (normally a screenshot of the item being featured) of this size, which will be displayed.
3. Larger Image (Max Width: 690px). Upload a larger preview image with a max width of 690px and no height restriction. Note that this is only needed when the photo showcase template (1-photo.php) is activated.
4. Website URL. Enter the URL where this item can be viewed (external from your website). Note that this is only needed when the design gallery template (2-design.php) is activated.