Draco Support Documentation

Background

This is the documentation page for Draco 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 the zip file. Then extract the zip file. Before you do anything else, be sure that you have WordPress all set up and ready. Upload the draco_theme folder to your “themes” folder (which you will find in the “wp-content” folder online).

In your WordPress administration panel, go to Appearance >> Themes to activate the Draco 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 3 as in demo (of course you can change it to what ever you want but we suggest 3 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 in category “blog” (so not the ones in “featured” category) are in the news page, and those in the “featured” category are displayed on home page in tabs. More words about this later.

Adding pages

We will now add, home, about, news and contact page. About and Contact are static pages (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.

News Page Go to WordPress admin -> Write Page -> put news for title and leave the content empty, publish it. Then go to settings -> Reading and as posts page select news we’ve just made. Save.

Home Page. Now this one is a bit more complicated. Go to WordPress admin -> Write Page -> put home for title and don’t put content. Now you’ll have to make four custom fields for, title (in demo “Save time with OurApp!”), description (text below it with buttons), about text and press text.
Click on Custom fields at the bottom, for key add “title” and put some title. Add custom fields. For the next one, put “description” for the key and add some description like on domo. (NOTE: in custom fields you can use HTML, like <a href=”… or br tags etc.. in demo for those buttons we’re using class for the A tag named ‘button’. So if you want to add that button, you’ll have a br tag after text and link like: <a class=’button’ href=’#'>View Demo</a>, BIG NOTE: When you are adding “ and ‘, WordPress changes it to \’ and \” so you’ll have to change it back, it’s just once). Next custom field, “about” for the key and some text (with html formatting probably) and the last one, “press” for the key and some text.

And for the page template select home, publish it. Then go to settings -> Reading and for the front page put “home” we’ve just made. Save.

NOTE: To change pages order use “Page Order” function at the bottom of every edit page.

Adding posts

To add new post go to admin -> Write post -> add title and text and also select one of two categories, “featured” or “blog”. If you haven’t created those categories just add name and click add. Posts from featured category will appear on home page as slides. They are also using one custom field for image on the right (key is “image” and value is for example image.gif – images has to be in “images folder of the theme). In demo we are using h4 tag for headlines inside featured content.

Change the monitor icon

Open begin.php and in line 32 change monitor.gif to what ever you want (it image has to be in “images” folder)