Libra Support Documentation

Background

This is the documentation page for Libra WordPress Theme, where you will find a guide how to install and modify the theme to suit your needs after you purchase it. This theme is for online magazines, but also can be used for personal blogs.

Theme structure

Libra is very light but structured theme that can show 25+ post per page, perfect for organized blogs and magazines. It’s using three page templates, no custom fields and just few plugins (for twitter and feed count). On home page, there’s featured latest article with two more, and four (or as much as you want) featured categories with 5 posts (later on will be shown how to change what categories you want)

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 libra_theme folder to your “themes” folder (within the “wp-content” folder). Next, upload the content of the plugins folder (not the entire plugins folder, just its content) into the plugins folder online (which you will find in the “wp-content” folder).

In your WordPress administration panel, go to Appearance >> Themes to activate the Libra 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 7 as in demo (of course you can change it to what ever you want). 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. NOTE: if you want to have RSS subscription for single categories you have to use “pretty” links.

Author description
Since Libra is using it you should put some author description, which you will be able to see on all post pages. Go to users -> admin (or some other author) -> put some description to “Biographical Info” and save everything. Also is good to put name, and display in public field. User image is gravatar from your email and that is also one of the things you should have in mind.

Activate and setup plugins (optional)

Libra is using just two plugins, feedcount and twitter. Now these plugins should be in your plugin directory (step one) and now you have to activate them all, you can do that from your WordPress admin -> plugins -> activate one by one.

Feed Count
This plugin is also modified for Libra so please use this version instead of original one. It displays your FeedBurner feed count instead of using default button. If you don’t feel like using it you’ll just have “Join others, subscribe!” text. After you activate it go to Settings -> Feed Count and just fill in feed url with yours (example http://feeds.feedburner.com/stylizedweb) and you’re done.
NOTE: Be sure to have Awareness API for your feedburner account enabled (to enable it log in to your feedburner account, go to the Publicize tab, click on the Awareness API service and enable it).

Twitter for WordPress
This just needs to be activated, and later you will put your name in Libra theme options page

Setup home, archives and sitemap page

Since these are page templates you just have to choose a page template when you create new page (dropdown on the right -> choose “Home page”, “Archives page” or “Sitemap” depending on what page are you making) and you can also use page order 1,2,3.. to order top menu.
NOTE: for these 3 pages just write title and choose page template and publish them, so no content.
After that’s completed there’s just one more thing to do, go to settings -> reading and for front page choose home you’ve just made.

Libra Theme option page settings

Go to appearance -> Libra options and fill in required details based on descriptions