Setting Up DirectoryPress for the first time.
There are 3 main steps to setting up your DirectoryPress for the first time, they are;
- 01. Updating The Settings
- 02. Adding The Pages
- 03. Adjusting The Links
01.Updating The Settings
Once you have activated the theme you should be able to see a new list of administrations tools available to you in the admin area.
These can be found on the left hand menu bar along with the other Wordpress admin options. See the image below;
You need to go through each of the option pages available and configure your website and update the settings for each. Refer to the manul for more help on each section.
Once you have completed each page in the admin you can move onto the next step.
02. Adding The Pages
DirectoryPress theme requires you to setup a number of pages in order for the member account pages, contact page, articles page and submit listings to work correctly.
Setting up these pages is very easy, simply follow the steps below;
1. Login to the Wordpress admin and click to add a new page.
2. Give the page title a memorable one such as 'contact page', 'articles page', ' account page' etc.
3.Now you need to select the template type from the attributes area in the bottom right hand side
You need to create a total of 5 pages and select 1 template for each page so by the end you have 5 pages one for each of the templates available.
Once you have all 5 pages setup, you can move onto the next step.
03. Adjusting The Links
The last step to setting up your DirectoryPress website is to adjust the links in the settings to link to the newly created pages.
This is very easy, just follow the steps below
1. Login to the admin area and click on the DirectoryPress Admin Options -> General Setup.
2. From the options available select the 'Directory Pages and Articles' tab.
3. All you need todo is copy/paste the full http://... link of each of the pages available into the boxes provided, this will then make all the links on your website work correctly.
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