Cepheus Support Documentation

Background

This is the documentation page for Cepheus WordPress Theme, where you will find about how to install and modify the theme to suit your needs after you purchase it. This is a business theme, so you can use it for your products, services etc..

Extract and Activate the Theme

After you purchase and download the theme, make a backup copy of it. Then extract the zip file. Before you do anything else, be sure that you have WordPress all set up and ready. Upload the cepheus_theme folder to your “themes” folder (which you will find in the “wp-content” folder).

In your WordPress administration panel, go to Appearance >> Themes to activate the Cepheus theme.

Basic WordPress settings

If you haven’t changed your WordPress name description etc, now you will learn how to do it. Go to WordPress admin -> settings -> Change blog title and tag line, save it. Then click reading also in settings menu and change number of posts (“Blog pages show at most”) to 6 as in demo (of course you can change it to what ever you want but we suggest 6 for this theme). Also good thing to do is to change permanent links to “pretty” ones. Click Permalinks in settings and select the structure you like the most (NOTE: Be sure your .htacces is writable!) Save everything.

Theme Structure

Like every WordPress theme, you have pages and posts. Pages are in top and bottom menu, and posts are listed inside pages and sorted in 3 categories: “Tour” – posts from this category are on Tour page inside that cool slider, “News” – posts from news category are on news page and “Reviews” – on reviews page with ratings. More words about this later.

Adding pages

We will now add, home, about, tour, news, reviews and contact page. About and Contact are static pages so not using any page template (and every other page you add). Go to WordPress admin -> Write Page -> put About for title and some text, publish it, do the same for Contact page.

Home Page: Go to WordPress admin -> Write Page -> Put Home for title and put some short text for content, that’s that text left to image so keep it short and use “strong” tag. Also if you want that “Take a tour button” use the following code <a href=”#” class=”tour”>Take a tour>/a> (so important thing is just that class “tour” for the link)
When you are done with content, select from the “Template” dropdown “Home Page” and publish that page.
IMPORTANT: When you’ve created home page go to Settings – Reading – Click on “A Static Page” and for front page dropdown choose Home we’ve just created. Save everything.

Tour Page: Go to WordPress admin -> Write Page -> Put Tour for title, don’t put any content, and for page template (on the right) choose Tour Page, publish it.

News and Reviews page: Same thing as tour, just choose template for it.

Also do use page order on the right (just put number for each page) that’s how your pages will be sorted
And to have page subtitle, use custom field name “subtitle” and value your page subtitle of course

Adding posts

Now when pages are done, just write some posts within these 3 categories “Tour”, “News” and “Reviews” depending where you want them. For tour use shorter posts with some image, like on demo. For the Reviews if you want those star ratings add custom field (at the bottom) with name “stars” and value some number from 1 to 5 or 1 to 10

Also do use excerpt field with posts as we are in demo

Changing pricing part

Since this is very specific part, we’ve separated pricing.php file and left you to edit how you want. Don’t forget to upload that file when you are done!

Changing categories, colors and product images

All this is easily changed from Cepheus option page (Appearance – Cepheus Options). You have 6 color schemes and you can change it by selecting one of them in dropdown. Also if you don’t want to use “Tour”, “News” and “Reviews” categories you can put a name of your own category, for example if you want to turn News to Testimonials you’ll make a category testimonials put some posts in it and change News to Testimonials in Cepheus Options page (Name of category has to be one word!). Also here you can change all 3 product images just by replacing url. If you don’t want to use 2 or 3 just type none and there won’t be any JavaScript effects.