WordPress Wiki Theme » Installation

Installing the WP-PageNavi Plugin

Derek Herman — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:40:12 +0000

The wp-pagenavi plugin by Lester Chan will give you pagination. To get this plugin working just upload the plugin to the “/wp-content/plugin” folder and activate it in the admin menu, the plugin is now available and ready to be used without any customization.

No really it’s that simple

Installing the WP-PostRatings Plugin

Derek Herman — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:27:46 +0000

The WP-PostRatings plugin by Lester Chan will give you the ability to rate posts and in doing so the four posts with the highest rating will be displayed on the front page. However, if you decide not to install this plugin the front page will show the last four posts instead, or if no posts have been rated yet and the plugin is installed it will still show the last four posts, as well.

Getting set up for ratings

To get this plugin working just upload the plugin to the “/wp-content/plugins” folder and activate it in the admin menu, the plugin is almost ready to be used, we just need to change a few settings.

Before leaving read this next part. It’s very important and if you’re having issues with the way rating is working then you might want to read this again.

The Proper Settings

Go to “Ratings->Ratings Options” and choose (stars_crystal), with a max rating of 5. Then below where it says “Ratings AJAX Style” set the “Show Loading Image With Text” to NO. The other options on that page are up to you.

Rating Templates

Next, go to “Ratings->Rating Templates” and input the following code into the correct fields.

Ratings Vote Text:
Rate this Article %RATINGS_IMAGES_VOTE% (%RATINGS_USERS% Ratings)

Ratings Voted Text:
Rate this Article %RATINGS_IMAGES% (%RATINGS_USERS% Ratings)

Ratings None:
%RATINGS_IMAGES_VOTE% (No Ratings Yet)

Highest Rated:

%POST_TITLE%

%POST_EXCERPT%
Read Article ›

The other two are totally up to you, these four are the ones that are needed to make the theme act correctly and need to be done before the rating system is fully functional!

And that’s it! You have ratings.

Have fun, and enjoy!

Installing the Wiki FAQs Plugin

Derek Herman — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 05:15:18 +0000

All you really need to do is upload the Wiki FAQs plugin to the “/wp-content/plugin” folder and activate it in the admin menu, the plugin is now available and ready to be used without any customization.

The Wiki FAQs plugin is a completely custom addition built specifically for this theme, you will not find it anywhere else. If for some reason you want to use this plugin with another theme and need help getting it working I would be happy to help at my hourly rate, please contact me for more info.

Installing the WordPress Wiki Theme

Derek Herman — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 05:14:30 +0000

To install the WordPress Wiki Theme, you first would need to purchase it from ThemeForest.net. After you have downloaded the theme you would need to unzip the folder on your desktop and find the folder that says “themes” and open it.

It is important to note that you should always start with a fresh install of WordPress 2.6 or 2.7 (preferred) before attempting to use this theme.

Upload the Theme

Next upload (FTP) your chosen theme or all of them to the “/wp-content/themes” directory on your server. You will need to figure out how to upload your files on your own, but I suggest you contact your hosting company if you’re not sure how to FTP files to the server.

Activate

Click on the WordPress Wiki Theme to activate

To activate the theme go to “Appearance->Themes” in the WordPress admin area (if you are running a version below 2.7 go to”Design->Themes”), then click on the theme you want to activate.

Now that the theme is activated, you can now start to add posts. Adding posts works by using the_exerpt() to display the preview text. Basically, write a small sentence or two in the field that says “Exerpt” and you will have text that doesn’t pull from the first however many word in the actual post (much cleaner way to do it). This particular method is used to keep the style of the posts consistent and not have (…) at the end of a preview and allows us to have a custom “read more” text. If you want to use a tag you will need to do some editing to the actual theme files, message me if you need help doing that.

The navigation uses a parent child category structure for building the sliding sidebar navigation. Be sure that all posts are added to a subcategory and that the parent category is only a container for sections of the web site.