1. Go to your WP Admin panel, Appearance >Themes > Install Themes and upload boldy.zip file.
2. To install the theme manually you should have already wordpress installed and running on your server. Using FTP, upload the "boldy" theme folder to your web server, and place it in "/wp-contents/themes/". So what you'll have in the end is "wp-contents/themes/boldy/".
3. Now that you have the theme uploaded you just need to login to your WP admin panel and activate it "Appearance > Themes".
HomeBoxes You need to first create pages for JUST the content visible on the homepage boxes, including images. Then go to Options page and select the page to be displayed for each box.
Blurb ( Request Quote ) You can enable/disable and set this section on Options page. You have to set the text and the page where the link should point at.
You simply create a page and insert the images, one after another. Then make sure you select it on Options page. The slider will parse the page content and display the images.
For adding caption to the slider item you simply need to add Title to the image from admin panel. Also the url where the image link to point at should be set there.
For additional slider setting you can edit the setup script in home.php, at the bottom of the code.
The Blog is done by setting up a main blog category and its subcategoris as "blog categories". So you need to create the blog category ( called however you want ) and select it on Options page.
Just as for blog, you need to create a main portfolio category and, eventually, subcategories and select it on Options page. You add portfolio items as posts and you have to set Featured Images ( or Post Thumbs on WP 2.9 ) for each of them.
This themes comes with a custom options page where you will find:
1. Set up your site logo - You have enter the full path to an image logo and the image ALT text.
2. Enable/Disable Cufon Font Replacement
3. Set up the Blog and Portfolio categories.
4. Social Networking - Enter your LinkedIn, Facebook links and Twitter username.
5. Enable/Disable latest tweet.
6. Homepage Setup ( slider images page, homepage boxes and blurb settings)
7. Contact Page Text and Form Email address Setting - You can set the text of the contact page template and, as the theme comes with a working Ajax contact form, you need to specify your address in order to get the messages on your email.
8. Footer Action and your copyright details.
9. Setup META tags - keywords, description
10. Add Google Analytics code - Simply fill in the filed for Analytics code and save.
The theme is ready to take advantage of the new Wordpress 3.0 feature for Menus Management. If installed on an eralier Wordpress version the menus will work as well but with categories and pages regular listings function.
*Please remember that you first need to create a menu for registered themes locations to appear as available.
When you create the Contact page, you will need to set the "Contact" template for it ( right side Attributes panel ), in order to have the contact page as in preview and have it Ajax functional.
The theme comes with the WP thumbnail options enabled in functions.php. So, setting up a post thumbnail can be done in edit post page. The post option will be visible on the right sidebar.
You can also set as post thumbnail an image you insert into your post. So, when inserting an image you will see an option for "Use as thumbnail".
For adding Lightbox behaviour to a link just add rel="prettyPhoto" to the image Link Rel.