Glider Panel

  • Select a category for the glider panel.
  • Also choose how many post you want to have displayed in the panel.

Featured Category Panel

  • The Featured Category panel will display the title to five categories. You should choose exactly five otherwise the panel formatting will be off. You need to enter the category ID numbers separated by commas (1,2,3,4,5).
  • You can get the category ID by going to the Category section under Posts. Hover your mouse over the category name and you will see the ID in the status bar at the bottom of your browser.

Admin Options

  • Check the box of you want to disable the admin links bar above the header
  • Check the box to disable the pop-up welcome message
  • Check the box if you want to disable the comments closed message when you have comments turned off on pages.

Main Navigation Position

  • Choose whether you want the page navigation to appear above or below the header

Featured Video Settings

  • Choose a title for the top of the header block on the sidebar
  • Paste your video code in the text box. The video should be 320×265
  • You can also disable the video box altogether

Banner Ad Blocks

  • Just paste your Adsense or other code in the appropriate box
  • All ad sections can be disabled if you don’t want to use them

Google Analytics

  • Paste your Google Analytics code here
  • This can also be disabled

Logo Image In Header

The logo image in the header is called blue-moon-logo.png and is in the images folder. The image size is 441×48. Your image can be as wide as 480px and still fit. If you want it taller you’ll need to edit the extra.css file to change the height of the .logo class.

.logo	{
top:39px; /* change this value to change the verticle position of the logo image */
left:20px;
width:490px;
height: 1%;
position: relative
}

Image Thumbnails On Front Page And In Glider Panel

Blue Moon uses the custom image-resize script TimThumb. All you need to do is create a custom field called ‘gallery’ and enter the path to the image. If your image is located at http:/www.yoursite.com/wp-content/upload/file.jpg then the path you want to enter is wp-content/upload/file.jpg. This is also what you need to do for any posts you want to display images for  in the glider panel. The images must reside on the same server as your WP theme.

custom_field

Some important info on TimThumb

  • TimThumb requires the GD library, which is available on any host sever with PHP 4.3+ installed.
  • Once installed and in-use, TimThumb will automatically create a /cache/ subfolder with proper write-permissions. If your host server doesn’t allow this by default, be sure to manually change the /cache/ folder permissions to 777.

Page Templates

Blue Moon come with two page templates, a sitemap and a FAQ template.

Sitemap Template

This template will create a site map of your site. The first section will list all the titles for pages  and sub-pages. The next section will list all post titles.

All you need to do is create a new page, give it a name and choose the ‘Template for sitemap’. That’s it, nothing else to do. It will automatically update itself with new pages and posts.

FAQ Template

This template will help create a Frequently Asked Questions page.

Create a new page and call it FAQ (or whatever you want) the select the ‘Template for FAQs’. If you want the AJAX sliding function to work you need to format your Q&A properly.

The question should be wrapped in an Heading 2 (h2), the answer is just a normal paragraph  (p).

That should about do it for now. If you have any questions drop me a line through the contact form.