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Installing the WordPress Wiki Theme

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

Wiki Theme
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 <!– more –> 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.

7 Responses to “Installing the WordPress Wiki Theme”

  1. Darfuria says:
    March 14, 2010 at 7:39 am

    A link to the theme on Theme Forest would be nice, as searching “wiki” “wordpress wiki” or “wp wiki” doesn’t return any results.

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  2. Derek Herman says:
    March 14, 2010 at 8:02 am

    If you search ‘wordpress wiki’ on Google it’s the fifth result. Here is the link if you didn’t http://themeforest.net/item/wordpress-wiki-theme/29479

    Reply
  3. Sohail Ahmed says:
    April 25, 2010 at 1:08 am

    Very good theme!

    Reply
  4. ZERO says:
    June 29, 2010 at 3:24 am

    Good!

    Reply
  5. Rogers says:
    July 21, 2010 at 7:29 pm

    Great Theme!!!! I’m definitely going to pick this one up!

    Reply
  6. Sagive says:
    September 28, 2010 at 9:37 pm

    wonderfull theme and very usefull for in-house data managment.. 10x

    Reply

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