# THE TIME WORDPRESS THEME

A Free Premium Wordpress Theme
Designed by:Moonthemes.com
Theme Version:Free - Must Keep Our Designer Footer Links As is.
Copyright Removal:No Designer Footer Links Info etc Required - Buy Now

## Documentation Menu

- First Read Overview!
- 00. Theme Requirements:
- 01. Unzipping The Zipped Folder
- 02. Reading The Theme License
- 03. Uploading & Activating The Plugins
- 04. Uploading The Theme
- 05. Activating the Theme
- 06. Changing Logo & Bakcground Images
- 07. Post Thumbnails Images
- 8. Setting Your Email for Contact Page
- 9. Adding a Custom Menu
- 10. Adding Home Highlighted Link into Custom Menu
- 11. Adding Blogs and portfolio Pages into Menu
- 12. Homepage Slider Settings
- 13. URL link Code

### OVERVIEW

Now follow the instructions below to Dress up you Website or Blog.
Moon Themes offer Premium Wordpress Themes to make your valuable Blog more attractive, fresh and clean that you can be proud of with our finest and professionally design themes. You can easily manage and setup your Blog with only clicks using advance theme options page which gives you full control for customizing your Blog or Website.
-= IMPORTANT NOTE -=
Do not change any folder or file names.

### 00. THEME REQUIREMENTS: -Back to Top

Wordpress 3.0+
Host Server with PHP5+

### 01. UNZIPPING THE ZIPPED FOLDER -Back to Top

You have done the first step by extracting the zip folder, now here you will have several files including The Time Wordpress theme files, plugin files, Documentation and THEME_License.txt.

### 02. READING THE THEME LICENSE -Back to Top

Before you install the theme, you must read and agree to MoonThemes license in order to use this premium theme which you have downloaded. Carefully read and be sure you understand the MoonThemes.com license usage.

### 03. UPLOADING & ACTIVATING THE PLUGINS -Back to Top

Inside the plugins folder you will see plugins named "wp-pagenavi" and "limit-post" upload that pluing to the "wp-content/plugins" folder in your Wordpress directory online in your hosting account via FTP access.
Now if that plugin, has been uploaded successfully to your server, than access the plugin panel in your Wordpress Administration Panels and check out through the list of plugins to find out your new plugin which you just uploaded. Once you find it than click on the "Activate link" to turn that plugin on.

### 04. UPLOADING THE THEME -Back to Top

Inside the ZIP folder you will see a folder named "time" upload the "time" folder to the "wp-content/themes" in your Wordpress directory online in your hosting account via FTP access.

### 05. ACTIVATING THE THEME -Back to Top

Now if you have uploaded the theme and the plugin to the correct directory, so activating your new theme is click away.
1. Login in to the Wordpress Administration Panel.
2. Select the Appearance Panel, than click on Themes.
3. Now you will see your theme here, click on the theme title (or theme screenshot) in order to activate it.

### 06. CHANGING LOGO & BACKGROUND IMAGES -Back to Top

You can change the theme images, using the time theme control panel. Make sure you use the correct image URL paths.
So in order to replace the logo, the advertisement or background images in control panel, you must Enter the URL of your custom image like below: also avoid signs like,

    ?

    =

etc, also avoid any extra empty spaces.
See the examples below:-
WRONG : www.yoursite.com/images/mylogo.jpg
WRONG : http://yoursite.com/imgaes/mylogo.jpg
WRONG : www.yoursite.com/?images=mylogo.jpg
CORRECT : http://www.yoursite.com/images/mylogo.jpg

### 07. POST THUMBNAILS IMAGES -Back to Top

No Custom Field for Thumbnails, you do not require to add the Wordpress custom field for the posts thumbnails, we have coded our own custom field, and you will find this below the writing posts window.
To add post thumbnail images, see below the writing a post window in Wordpress, you will have the "Time Theme Post Thumbnail Setting URL Box", so there in the box simply paste the full URL of your image, like http://www.yoursite.com/images/cake.jpg
OR if you are using Wordpress media library, than don't include the http://www.sitename.com
use it like example below:
/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/example_image.jpg
and save the post, the image will be re-size automatically to fit in the theme post thumbnails.

### 8. SETTING YOUR EMAIL FOR CONACT PAGE -Back to Top

The Time Theme has a custom contact page, so for receiving emails, you need to set up your email address. It's easy, in the theme folder, open up contact.php file and than go to line number 51 and change the mail@gmail.com with your email address. and than save the file.
For adding the contact page, go to add new page and create a page, and give it any name for example "contact" do not write any thing on the notepad window,
than on the right pages attributes you will see a drop down menu below the "Template" than select contact and publihs the page,
Note: You must add save these pages into naviagtion menu, by using wordpress 3.0 custom menus.

### 9. ADDIN A CUSTOM MENU -Back to Top

To create a custom menu, give it a name and click Create Menu. Then choose items like pages, categories or custom links from the left column to add to this menu.
After you have added your items, drag and drop to put them in the order you want. You can also click each item to reveal additional configuration options.
When you have finished building your custom menu, make sure you click the Save Menu button.
Watch the video tutorial, you must have internet connection.

### 10. ADDING HOME HIGHLIGHTED LINK INTO CUSTOM MENU -Back to Top

Go to custom menus and on left pages, select view all and check the Home and add to menu and save the menu.

### 11. ADDIN BLOGS AND PORTFOLIO PAGES INTO MENU -Back to Top

If you select any layout from the theme control panel, so this will be your main website layout, it means when visitors visit your site the first time, so they will see this layout, as main page. However if you wish to have add more blog and portfolio layouts into the menu, for example you want your main "Homepage#1" and also you wish to add blog#1,2, or portfolio, etc, into the menu, so than simply do this:.
Go to add new page and create a page, and give it any name for example "Blog" do not write any thing on the notepad window,
than on the right pages attributes you will see a drop down menu below the "Template" than select any layout and publihs the page,
Note: You must add save these pages into naviagtion menu, by using wordpress 3.0 custom menus.

### 12. HOMEPAGE SLIDER SETTINGS -Back to Top

Slider is easy to set up, simply go to Time theme control panel, choose a catgory for sliding images, the images will be pull from the post thumbnails of the category which you have chosed, and than Enter any number of post images you want in homepages slider gallery, you must at least have 2 posts. That's it!

### 13. URL LINK CODE -Back to Top

Write this code in theme control panel URL link code box: