We’re excited to talk about the following large factor inside a new trend for Theme Blvd and our flexible new WordPress framework. The Arcadian is our new portfolio theme made to look past the typical corporate mold and provide you with the best in WordPress creativeness.
Features Overview
- HTML5 and CSS tableless design
- Publish Formats supported (See Blog)
- Responsive design for those screen resolution dimensions
- Choice to turn special stylesheet that targets pills and mobile products off or on.
- Unbranded Theme Options Panel
- Panel #1 – Styles (See screenshot)
- Panel #2 – Layout (See screenshot)
- Panel #3 – Content (See screenshot)
- Panel #4 – Configuration (See screenshot)
- Layout Builder
- Video #1: Introduction
- Video #2: Add New Layout
- Video #3: Configure Layout Elements
- Video #4: Use the Layout
- Video #5: Apply Layout as Home page
- Video #6: Tweak design
- Video #7: Sample Designs
- Slider Manager
- Video #1: Establishing a Fundamental Slider
- Video #2: Image 35mm slides
- Video #3: Video 35mm slides
- Video #4: Standard Slider Configurations
- Widget Area Manager (i.e. Limitless Sidebars)
- Video #1: Locations
- Video #2: Retractable Versus Fixed
- Video #3: Custom Widget Areas
- Video #4: Floating Widget Areas
- 6 Sidebar Designs (Watch Video)
- A lot of shortcodes with shortcode generator (See screenshot)
- prettyPhoto lightbox integration (Watch Video)
- Dynamic typography with Google Font Directory support (Watch Video)
- 100% child theme suitable for sample child theme incorporated (Watch Video)
- Optional no-click drop lower menus (Watch Video)
- 5 Custom Icons (Twitter, Video, Simple Contact, Small Publish Power grid and Small Publish List)
- Localization-ready (for translation into languages)
- New! – Full WPML compatibility. http://wpml.themeblvd.com
- New! – Sample Data incorporated (Watch Video)
- New! – Developer lessons for dealing with our framework. http://dev.themeblvd.com
Free Theme Blvd Addons
- Theme Blvd Admin Presence – Show or Hide theme’s admin pages.
- Theme Blvd Featured Link Override – Set site-wide featured image links.
- Theme Blvd Featured Videos – Replace featured images with embedded videos.
- Theme Blvd Image Dimensions – Adjust your theme’s image crop dimensions.
- Theme Blvd News Scroller Widget – A widget that scrolls through posts.
- Theme Blvd Piecemaker Addon – Add Piecemaker onto theme’s built-in slider mobile phones.
- Theme Blvd Publish-to-Page Link – Link a publish to some page for modifying the breadcrumb trail.
- Theme Blvd Responsive Google Maps – Responsive Google Map shortcode.
- Theme Blvd String Swap – Rapidly translate text strings on frontend of the site.
- Theme Blvd WooCommerce Patch – Adds fundamental compatibility with WooCommerce.
- Theme Blvd WPML Bridge – Full WPML compatibility. http://wpml.themeblvd.com
- Tweeple – A awesome method to setup and display Twitter feeds.
Home page Setup
This is actually the quick step-by-step guide based on how this theme’s demo home page was setup in the WordPress admin panel. You'll find much a lot of the next stages in great detail by viewing the documentation that arrived your theme’s download package. Bear in mind this is just a quick step-by-step for that theme demo’s home page and also you certainly don't have to setup your website in by doing this should you not wish to.
- Install the theme under Appearance > Styles.
- Visit Configurations > Reading through > Frontpage Shows, and make certain you’ve selected “your latest posts”.
- Visit Appearance > Widget Areas and make up a new custom widget area. Because of its location, choose for this to become a “Floating Widget Area.”
- Visit Appearance > Icons and add some “Search” widget for your new custom sidebar together with the “Theme Blvd Twitter Widget.”
- Visit the Builder page and make up a new custom layout. Use “The Arcadian Homepage” as the layout’s beginning point. Configure your element configurations, including choosing the custom widget area you produced within the second column from the Posts element. Then, save design.
- Visit Appearance > Theme Options > Content > Home page, choose to exhibit a custom layout, and choose the custom layout you’ve produced.
Image Dimensions
For the reference, listed below are all the image dimensions that the images get popped to when utilizing this theme. In case your WordPress installation already has numerous images submitted, it’s better to run the Thumbnail Generator wordpress plugin after setting up the theme.
- Slider Full Width – 940×350 (hard crop)
- Slider Staged Left/Right – 540×350 (hard crop)
- 1/5 Column of Power grid – 200×125 (hard crop)
- 1/4 Column of Power grid – 240×150 (hard crop)
- 1/3 Column of Power grid – 320×200 (hard crop)
- 1/2 Column of Power grid – 472×295 (hard crop)
- Small Thumbnail of List – 195×195 (soft crop)
- Small Square – 130×130 (hard crop)
- More compact Square – 70×70 (hard crop)
- Littlest Square – 45×45 (hard crop)
NOTE: Should you require changes to those image dimensions, you have options. Find Out More
Sample Designs
Around the live demo, you will notice a piece around the primary menu known as Sample Designs. In this particular theme framework, sample designs are not something that require any type of XML import file. When you attend design Builder to construct your custom designs, you can select from these sample designs as the beginning point.
So, quite simply, whenever you install the theme, you've all the sample designs. Its not necessary to import anything or perform any extra tasks.
Twitter Functionality
By June 2013, Twitter has completely cut of v1 of the API together with all Nourishes, so the Twitter widget incorporated within the theme will no more work.
However, because this, we’ve produced Tweeple, a totally free WordPress wordpress plugin you are able to incorporate together with your Theme Blvd theme to harness the energy from the latest Twitter API.
After you’ve setup your Twitter Authentication configurations and set up a Twitter feed, you should use the plugin’s “Tweeple Twitter Feed” widget. —This provides you with an identical visual result because the theme’s “Theme Blvd Twitter” widget used to.
Support
We handle all support at our discussion board. Here’s ways to get access together with your purchase:
http://themeforest.internet/item/the-arcadian-responsive-wordpress-theme/1266406/support
Changelog
Right here all updates for this theme so when these were published. Inside your WordPress admin panel, you can observe what form of the theme you’re using by visiting Appearance > Styles and searching in the version number near the title from the theme. To update the theme, you have to download it again out of your ThemeForest Downloads page, increase the files in your server. (See video: About Updates)
- v1.1.6 – December 24, 2012
- v1.1.5 – August 15, 2012
- v1.1.4 – This summer 2, 2012
- v1.1.3 – June 2, 2012
- v1.1.2 – May 25, 2012
- v1.1.1 – May 12, 2012
- v1.1. – May 7, 2012 – (Details about this update)
- v1..3 – The month of january 28, 2012
- v1..2 – The month of january 15, 2012
- v1..1 – The month of january 13, 2012
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