# Showroom Portfolio

## Responsive WP Theme

- By: Mad_Dog
- themeforest.net/user/mad_dog
- Support Forum: http://forums.themedev.me

Thanks for purchasing this theme. If you have any questions that are beyond the scope of this help file, please feel free to submit your request to my support forum. Also you can find a lot of useful information right there. Thanks so much!

### Theme Installation and Sample Data Import

There are several ways to install wp themes, I do prefer using FTP but you can choose other ways, you can read more about theme installation on the official website at http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Themes
If you choose to use ftp, please upload "Showroom" folder to the theme directory, log into your wordpress admin panel and activate Showroom theme. Once the theme is activated you can start adding the content from the scratch or you can import the demo content.
To import dummy content, please go to Showroom Theme Settnig Page => General and click "Import Sample Data", please find the screenshot below. It may take up to 3-5 minutes to do that.

Please note: Once the dummy content is imported, some images can not be displaying in the following sections of the theme (galleries, fullscreen gallery etc, you have to delete the empty thumbnails and add your own images).

### General Settings

1. Menu activation: Please go to Appearance => Menus => Theme Locations and choose from the drop download menu "Menu" and click save.
2. Reading settings: Please go to Settings => Reading => Front page displays and set the page for the front page and save changes.

### How to Change Logo

To change the current existing logo, please go to Showroom Theme Panel => General. Use the "upload image" option to upload your own logo. The required size is 240px x 45px (px) transparent .png file format. Please note that the same logo will be used for the landing page. Taking into consideration the fact that this theme is retina ready, you have to upload your logo in 480px x 90px to look great on tablet and mobile devices.

### Landing Page

This theme does support lading page functionality, it is based on the cookies, the timeline is 24 hours. To disable the landing page, please go to Showroom Theme Panel => General => Landing Page and choose disabled, do not forget to save the changes.

### Home Page Set Up

Here I will explain you on how to setup your home page as a grid portfolio:

- The first thing you have to do is to create a gallery. Please go to the Portfolio section and create your first portfolio category. Once the category is ready, please add portolio item one by one. The recommended size for the featued portoflio image 460x345 or higher;
- When you have enough portfolio items, please create Home page;
- Once it is created, please add "Portfolio Module" to the page, please take a look at the screenshot below;
- Please open that module and choose your prefered parameters (items per page, portfolio type - columns or grid, portfolio category);
- Then please go to Settings => Reading => Front page displays and set the "Home" page for the front page and save changes.

### Masonry Blog Setup

You can easily create a masonry style blog. To do that, please follow these steps:

- Create a page for example Masonry blog;
- Add the standard posts;
- Once you have the posts, please go to the "Masonry blog" page and add "blog" module, please take a look at the screenshot below;
- Please open "blog" module settings and enable "masonry style" option, that's all.

### Simple Gallery Set Up

You can add the simple gallery to your site in 2 easy steps:

1. Please go to the "Gallery" section in the main wordpress menu and create a gallery by adding the images/video to it;
2. Once you are done, please create a page and add "Gallery" module to it. Do not forget to check the module settings.

### Layer Slider installation

This theme comes with awesome Layer Slider plugin. To install the slider (it is used as a slider module in the page builder) please open LayerSlider folder, unzip "plugin.zip" and upload the folder to WP-Content => Plugins directory. Please note that it is a 3rd party plugin (the documentation is included in the pack, please read it before using).

How to use Layer Slider in Showroom theme: The frist thing you should know is that this slider is used only as a "SLIDER" module in the page builder. Once this plugin is installed, please go to LayerSlider settings panel and create a new slider. You may read the documentation on how to work with the slider. When the created slider is ready, please go to the page where you want to use the slider, add "SLIDER" module, and choose in the drop down menu slider #, it should be 1. Here is the screen shot:

### Source Files Included

Showroom Photography Responsive WP Theme comes with 8 PSD files. Some PSD files can include different pages inside, and can have hidden layers. Please note that the images are not included in the package.

### Credits

I would like to say a big thnx to all the people who created an awesome stuff:

- Camera slideshow by Manuel Masia
- Color picker by Stefan Petre
- hoverIntent by Brian Cherne
- Jquery flickr plugin by Joel Sutherland
- jQuery Cookie Plugin
- jQuery Easing
- jQuery Form Plugin
- Isotope
- Malihu custom scrollbar plugin
- prettyPhoto
- jquery.tweet.js
- Superfish
- Supersized
- SWFObject
- jQuery Carousel