Table of Contents

• 1. Preparation
• 2. Setting up the Menus
• 3. Theme Options

1. Preparation

Step 1:

After you’ve purchased Cubicle, unzip it and open up the Cubicle/WP folder, you will find your theme in there, now upload the theme folder to wp-content/themes/ with your ftp application of choice.

Login to your wordpress back-end and navigate to Appearance -> Themes and activate the Cubicle theme, once activated we need to remove the current dummy page, post and comment, remove them and then we will continue importing the posts, pages, comments, categories, and tags from the WordPress export file that was present inside the zip file.

We will do this by going to Tools –> Import and select “Wordpress” ( when this is a fresh wordpress installation then you need to install the WordPress Importer plugin. )

Then on the next window locate your XML file and upload it, now you will be asked to map the authors in this export file to users on the blog. Select your account and select to import images/attachments as well. When all went well you will get a nice confirmation.

Step 2:

Now we need to activate the threaded (nested) comment settings, this setting is disabled by default, so if you want to use the threaded (nested) comments then go to Settings –> Discussion and select “Enable threaded (nested) comment …”

Step 3:

Let’s move on with the Permalink setting, we all want some nice and clean links for our page, category and posts titles. To achieve this just go to Settings –> Permalinks and select “Custom Structure” write /%postname%/ inside the input field, there’s one problem though, some hosts are handling these permalink settings differently, when the normal method does not work try to ad this index.php?/%postname%/ or else contact your host for help on this matter.

Step 4:

To make the homepage show as the demo just go to Settings -> Reading and select Home and Blog as a static page from the Front page displays.

2. Setting up the Menus

Cubicle uses two types of Custom Menus, a Top Menu and a Footer Menu. To set up both of these menus you go to Appearance -> Menus and select your Menu Locations first.

When you’ve imported the xml file with the dummy content then i don’t need to explain how to select and move the pages  Then select the Footer Menu on your right and ad the pages you want.

The select the Top Menu and add the pages you want, do you want to have them as in the demo then look at the screen, navigation label is the menu title and also important to mention is that you need to ad a title attribution or else the menu will break.

Okay, now your menu are ready to go, let’s continue with the theme options.

3. Theme Options

General Settings

Click on the Cubicle settings tab to open up the theme’s option panel. We will start with the first item inside the panel, the General Settings, at this section you can select your theme’s alternative color scheme, enter the url of your logo, ad the the txt for the top quotation information, activate or de-activate the top quotation information and ad the google analytics code.

1. Theme Stylesheet – Select your theme’s alternative color scheme.

2. Logo URL – Specify the image address of your logo for the theme.

3. Top area – Check this option if you want to display a top area for button and contact information.

4. Top Circle text – Enter text for the circle/button on the top of the page.

4. Top phone number – Enter phone number for the area on the top of the page.

5. Top email address – Enter email address for the area on the top of the page.

6. Tracking Code - Paste your Google Analytics (or other) tracking code here. This will be added into the footer template of your theme.

Homepage Settings

Next item inside the theme’s option panel will be the [highlight_red]Homepage Settings[/highlight_red], at this section you’re able to set up the three blocks below the featured slider on the frontpage, this section is build in and fully editable throughout this tab. Most common html tags are allowed.

Below you will find the dummy text in html format which you can use to test it out . Juste paste them inside  the boxes

Box 1:

<h3>Search Engine Optimization</h3>
<img src="http://dev.gentlecode.net/cubicle/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/icon-gear.png"
alt="" /> <p>Nunc pellentesque, lacus nec molestie pha retra, risus ipsum lacinia nunc,
nec varius</p> <p>Urna consectetur elementum vehicula, diam diam bibendum odio,
sagittis interdum felis odioat Curabitur tincidunt hendrerit elit, eu iaculis tortor ia.</p>
<p><a href="">Normal State</a></p>

Box 2:

<h3>Web Development</h3>
<img src="http://dev.gentlecode.net/cubicle/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/icon-safari.png"
alt="" class="icon" /> <p>Nunc pellentesque, lacus nec molestie pha retra, risus ipsum
lacinia nunc, nec varius</p> <p>Urna consectetur elementum vehicula, diam diam
bibendum odio, sagittis interdum felis odio at Curabitur tincidunt hendrerit elit, eu iaculis
tortor ia.</p> <p><a href="" class="button">Normal State</a></p>

Box 3:

<h3>Print and Design</h3>
<img src="http://dev.gentlecode.net/cubicle/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/icon-sign.png"
alt="" /><p>Nunc pellentesque, lacus nec molestie pha retra, risus ipsum lacinia nunc,
nec varius</p> <p>Urna consectetur elementum vehicula, diam diam bibendum
odio, sagittis interdum felis odio at Curabitur tincidunt hendrerit elit, eu iaculis tortor
ia.</p> <p><a href="">Normal State</a></p>

Contact information

1. Contact form E-Mail – Enter e-mail address messages from the contact page should be sent to.

2. Contact form subject – Enter subject for the e-mail you get from the contact page.

Footer

1. Copyright info – Enter copyright info or other information to be displayed in the footer (left side).

Thank you very much for buying this theme and I’ll do my best to assist if you need any help but i’ll believe when you read the help file thoroughly it would not be any problem to install this theme. If you have a more general question relating to the themes on ThemeForest, you might consider visiting the forums and asking your question in the “Item Discussion” section.

Let’s start with going to Portfolio items.

Then create the categories you need, this depends of course on which profession your having. I’ve used Graphic,Photographic, Webdesign and video for the demo. After you’ve done this we need to ad the portfolio items. Click on Add New, I’m not going over every single item in this page, just look at the screen-cast below to find out how it works.

2. How to set up the portfolio

3. How to set up the Main slider

4. Explanation of the custom widgets

Then when you have imported the xml file containing the dummy content, you will find the slider items inside this section. Open up slide1 and set the Featured Image, this image has to be 959 x 359 px, the thumbnail is automatically generated. All you need to do is ad the title and ad the link to the Slider Link Url field.

Continue to do this until you’ve got all 5 images done. There’s now way to ad more then 5 because then the thumbs will break down, maybe in a future update we will ad navigations for the thumbs but for now it’s all there is.

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