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“SPORTICA” Documentation by “FahimMurshed” v1.0

Created: 5 July 2012
By: Fahim Murshed
Email: fahim.murshed5@gmail.com

Thank you for purchasing my theme. If you have any questions that are beyond the scope of this help file, please feel free to email via my user page contact form here. Thanks so much!

Installation
Setting Up the Homepage
Theme Options
Custom Widgets
Shortcodes
Schedules Setup
Sources and Credits

A) Installation - top

Just like any other WordPress Theme this one is also very easy and simple to setup. There are two ways to install the theme in your WordPress Installation. If you want to install the theme from WordPress back-end, just upload the sportica.zip from the package and activate the theme. And if you want to directly upload the files in your server, upload the all files of 'sportica' folder in the package and activate the theme from WP back-end.

For information about setting up WordPress Themes please click here.

B) Setting up the Homepage - top

As a news/magazine site, the homepage is very important and Sportica lets you to setup the homepage in a very nice and easy way. The homepage is basically consists in some widget area (WordPress Sidebar) where you can make it up using different widgets from the back-end.

Here is the layout of widget positioning:

You can set the whole homepage up very easily with Custom or Default WordPress Widgets to make the homepage completely in your way!

C) Theme Options - top

Before you run your site, you need configure the theme from Theme Options page at first. SPORTICA comes up with a tons of options to customize/modify the theme so that you can make it completely in your way.

After you setup the theme perfectly there will be an additional menu on your WordPress back-end to setup the theme. Theme Options are separated in 4 sections: Header, Slider, Footer and Advanced. There are several description included with the options inline so there wouldn't be any problem for you to set the whole thing up.

But for your favor and easy understanding, I am describing each and every options of the theme panel.

Header:

Show Logo: Whether you want to show a logo in the header.
Logo Image to use: Upload the logo here in either gif or jpeg or png format.
Show Social Icons: If you want to show the shinny the social icons in the header.
Social Icons URLs: Provide the Social Icons URLs for those you want to show.

Slider:

Slider Category: The category from where you want to show the slides.
Show Slider: You know it. Don't you want to show the slider???
Choose Slider: SPORTICA offers two types of slider: Flex Slider and Nivo Slider
Show Thumbnails: Keep it on if you want to show thumbnails in the slider. [works only for nivo slider]
Show on Frontpage: If you want to show the slider on frontpage[homepage]
Show on Search Result: If you want to show the slider on Search Results.
Show on Posts: If you want to show the slider on single posts
Show on Pages: If you want to show the slider on pages
Show on Not Found: If you want to show the slider on Not Found Error pages
Animation Speed: Animation Speed in mili-second
Interval: Slides Interval in mili-seconds
Color Scheme: Choose the color scheme that suits your appearance of the site.
Facebook Comments: Make it on if you want to use facebook comments in the posts.
RTL Support: If your site is in RTL Language, just make it on.
Custom CSS: Any Custom CSS codes.
Custom JavaScript: Any Custom JS codes.
Favicon: Upload the favicon in gif/ico/png format.

Slider:

Show Footer Sidebars: If you want to show the footer sidebars
Show Carousel on Bottom: If you want to show the bottom Carousel
Carousel Category: The carousel category from where the posts will come from.
Copyright Text Left: Copyright Textto be appeared in the left side.
Copyright Text Right: Copyright Text to be appeared in the right side.

Advanced:

Color Scheme: Choose the color scheme that suits your appearance of the site.
Facebook Comments: Make it on if you want to use facebook comments in the posts.
RTL Support: If your site is in RTL Language, just make it on.
Custom CSS: Any Custom CSS codes.
Custom JavaScript: Any Custom JS codes.
Favicon: Upload the favicon in gif/ico/png format.

D) Custom Widgets - top

Currently, SPORTICA provides THREE custom widgets that will help you to arrange your site nicely. The provided widgets are:

ST NEWS: For Showing Posts
ST NEWS HIGHLIGHTER: For Showing Headlines
ST TWEETS: For Showing Tweets from your twitter account

You will find all these three widgets in the Widget section of WordPress back-end and can use these to build up your site nicely. You can also use any third-party widgets as well.

E) Theme Shortcodes - top

SPORTICA provides you a number of simple shortcodes that will help you to write down your content in a more nicer way. Here is some examples of how to use those shortcodes in your work:

1. Dropcap :

CODE:
[dropcap]L[/dropcap]orem ipsum dolor sit amet, ....

2. Notification Boxes :

CODE:
[notification type="success"]Green box with text inside.[/notification]

[notification type="error"]Red box with text inside.[/notification]

[notification type="warning"]Orange box with text inside.[/notification]

[notification]Blue box with text inside.[/notification]

3. List Styles :

CODE:
[ul type="tick" class="left"]
	[li]Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet[/li][li]Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet[/li]
	[li]Lorem ipsum olor sit amet[/li][li]Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet[/li]
	[li]Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet[/li]
[/ul]

[ul type="plus" class="left"]
	[li]Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet[/li][li]Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet[/li]
	[li]Lorem ipsum olor sit amet[/li][li]Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet[/li]
	[li]Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet[/li]
[/ul]

[ul type="arrow" class="left"]
	[li]Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet[/li][li]Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet[/li]
	[li]Lorem ipsum olor sit amet[/li][li]Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet[/li]
	[li]Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet[/li]
[/ul]

[ul type="nostyle" class="left"]
	[li]Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet[/li][li]Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet[/li]
	[li]Lorem ipsum olor sit amet[/li][li]Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet[/li]
	[li]Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet[/li]
[/ul]

4. Tabbed Content :

CODE:
[tabbed_content]
	[handlers]
		[handle to="tab_1"]Tab 1[/handle]
		[handle to="tab_2"]Tab 2[/handle]
		[handle to="tab_3"]Tab 3[/handle]
		[handle to="tab_4"]Tab 4[/handle]
	[/handlers]
	[tab_contents]
		[tab name="tab_1"]Tab 1 Content goes here.[/tab]
		[tab name="tab_2"]Tab 2 Content goes here.[/tab]
		[tab name="tab_3"]Tab 3 Content goes here.[/tab]
		[tab name="tab_4"]Tab 4 Content goes here.[/tab]
	[/tab_contents]
[/tabbed_content]

NOTE: You may consider to see the shortcodes in action with demo_data provided with the package!

F) Schedules Setup - top

SPORTICA gives you an wonderful opportunity to display match/game schedule in a very nice way. SPORTICA has a custom post type and a custom page template called 'Schedule' in which you can make and display schedule in your website very nicely!

At first create as much as posts (read schedules) you want in the WordPress back-end. Then create a new with the page template called 'schedule' and you are done! Now add the page on the Menu and use see it in action!

G) Sources and Credits - top

I've used the following images, icons or other files as listed.

jQuery - One of the core thing of this theme
jQuery Masonry
jQuery Ticker
jQuery Mobilemenu
jQuery CarouFredSel
jQuery Superfish

Once again, thank you so much for purchasing this theme. As I said at the beginning, I'd be glad to help you if you have any questions relating to this theme. No guarantees, but I'll do my best to assist. If you have a more general question relating to the themes on ThemeForest, you might consider visiting the forums and asking your question in the "Item Discussion" section.

Fahim Murshed

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