Works with 7.0+ theme framework

How it works?

1. Open custom/custom_functions.php
2. Add new filters, examples below:

Filter example: Adding code after selected grid

add_action( 'bizz_sidebar_grid_before', 'custom_grid_code_after' );
function custom_grid_code_after( $grid ) {
if ( $grid == 'main_two' )
    echo 'This message appears before main_two grid area';
}

Filter example: Adding code before selected grid

add_action( 'bizz_sidebar_grid_before', 'custom_grid_code_before' );
function custom_grid_code_before( $grid ) {
if ( $grid == 'main_two' )
    echo 'This message appears before main_two grid area';
}

List of available grids

To find out, which grids are available on your site, open lib_theme/theme_widgets.php file. You may also remove/edit/create custom grids for this purpose, without ever even visiting theme options panel.

Documentation Quick-links

• Gettings Started
• Theme Structure
• Builder (Layouts Engine)
  • How it Works?
  • Template Hierarchy
  • Layout Grids
  • Layout Widgets
• Frame Options
  • Images & Thumbnails
  • Complete SEO Options
  • Translations
  • Total Branding Control
• Design Control [video]
• Theme Specific
  • Custom Widgets
• Updates Control
• License Control
• Custom Templates
• Shortcodes
• Change-log

Gettings Started

The Builder (Layouts Engine) Page

Clicked template Area

Once you have clicked a on a selected template, you will find several “grids” on right hand side, which are usually named like: Header Area, Featured Area, Main Area and Footer Area.

Each of these grids can be expanded by clicking the right hand end and inside are several “sidebar” areas. Although these work just like the sidebars you set up in the widgets page, they are not necessarily used as sidebars within the grid. We are just using the term “sidebars” because that is the technology the elements with the grid are based on.

You can drag and drop widgets from the list on the left into the “sidebars” within the grids to build up your page content. There are special widgets in the theme to let you display posts, lists of posts, comments and all of the things that normally appear on the pages of your sites.

Grid areas (Header area, Footer area, …) have been set up to provide the sort of layouts you expect to find on a website. You can rearrange them in any order you want by dragging and dropping them. You can also turn off or “disable” any of the grids you do not want to use.

The names of the grids are just names. There is no reason why you cannot use “Main Area” as your header and could use “Header Area” for some page content or even as the footer.

You can also change the width of the page and you can change the width of the “sidebars” inside the grids (without editing code of the theme). However, the page width of 960 px is pretty standard and what most people want and need. The selection of existing grids will handle most needs. There is a separate tutorial on creating your own grids which can give you more control over the number and width of elements within the grid: http://bizzthemes.com/docs/add-edit-remove-layout-grids/.

The Grids

The best way to understand the grids is to relate them to the live demo for the theme http://bizzthemes.com/demo/hosting-pro/

Layout Hierarchy

The real power of the Builder is that you are not locked into one layout for all page types. But at the same time, all of the pages inherit the settings from the “Site-wide” page unless you have made specific changes on the different page types.

When you look at one of the other tabs, you will see that the widgets inside the grids have a yellow border around them. This lets you see which are the default widgets and which are the ones added specifically to the layout on that page. If you do not want one of the default widgets on another page you can expand the widget and the normal “delete” link will be shown as “disable”. Disabling a widget stops it showing up on that page, but you cannot delete it as there would be no way to restore it if you changed your mind.

If you change the settings of any of the widgets with yellow boarders, these changes will be seen on all pages, because you are actually editing the widget from the “Site-wide” page.

You can add new widgets to any of the grids on the other tabs and they will only show up on the pages of those types.

You can also rearrange the grids vertically and enable and disable the grids so that the arrangement of the page can be different on different types of page.

Note that before a particular page has any custom layout settings, it automatically uses any recent changes on the Site-wide layout. However, once edits have been made changes such as rearranging or enabling/disabling grids on the Site-wide page will no longer show up on the other customised layouts.

Some tabs have an option to have different layouts for different subtypes of archive. For instance, the “Archive” tab has a the base archive page layout, but using the submenu tabs you can change the layout for specific types of archive such as by author, by category, by tab, by date, etc.

The “Single” tab has a base layout, but can then have individual layouts for a multitude of different subtypes of posts. You can have different layouts for each the entry types: Page, Post, Attachment, FAQ, Slider, or Portfolios. But then within each of those you can choose a specific post, page, FAQ, etc and give that individual entry its own specific layout.

The Widgets

There are a large number of widgets. Some widgets replace the standard WordPress widgets of the same name and some provide custom functionality for this particular theme. Note that you should never use the old WordPress Widgets page as this will have no effect when you make changes there.

Archives (enhanced) – An enhanced archives list offering list by alphabetical, daily, monthly, post-by-post, weekly and yearly. Output can be custom (simple links) HTML (an unordered list of links) or a select with options. The number of posts can be included and prefix and suffix html can be added.

Authors (extra) – Shows a list of Author users. Options to display as links or as plain text, with or without post counts and feed links per author.

Bookmarks (expanded version of Links) – Shows links from links table. Can include or exclude links based on their categories or include or exclude specific links. Can also search by text string or limit number of results. If “categorize?” is checked will group links by category. Separate pop ups to control sorting of category headers and links within category groups. Checkbooks to include various bits of information.

Calendar (enhanced) – Shows a calendar grid enhanced with nicer formatting of grid lines and spiral top image.

Categories (enhanced) – Shows a list of links for the various categories or tags (or other groupings in the taxonomy for the posts table. Options to select include or exclude specific categories, show flat or hierarchical, post counts, and many other display or selection options.

Comments form (extra) – Normally in themes the comments are just there after the posts. This allows you to choose where and if the comments form appears on a page. There are a few formatting options and you can change any of the text that appears in the labels and buttons of the form.

Comments loop (extra) – Normally in themes the comments are just there after the posts. This allows you to choose where and if the list of comments appears on a page. The widget has controls to allow threaded comments and other options.

Contact Form (extra) – A simple widget to add a contact form to any layout. Just add your email address to the parameters (so can have different addresses on different forms). Full control over field labels and other text messages.

Flickr (extra) – Displays thumbnails from a Flickr user or group. Options for number and sort order. Clicking takes the visitor to the Flickr page in the same window.

Logo (extra) – Display an image with a link, or the blog title and tagline. Image can be specific to widget or the default image set in the Frame Options page.

Meta (standard) – Log in/out, admin, feed and WordPress links.

Navigation Menu (extra) – Displays custom WordPress 3 menu. Options to wrap menu and items in html you specify to enable CSS skinning.

Pages (enhanced) – Display list of page links with full set of options to include or exclude pages, show flat or hierarchical, show only part of hierarchy or exclude subtree, Include dates, item html wrappers, select by meta-field and meta-field value.

Query Posts (extra) – This is a way of displaying any records from the posts table based on criteria. Almost any selection options available through the API are supported in this widget.

Recent Comments (standard) – Shows a list of recent comments which link to the relevant posts.

Query Posts (extra) – This is a way of displaying any records from the posts table based on criteria. Almost any selection options available through the API are supported in this widget.

Featured Posts Panel (extra) – Display your menu (custom post type) just as you want. Include/exclude specific categories, control the output of its layout and even modify your delicious meal images.

RSS (standard) – Display items from someone else’s RSS feed.

Search (extra) – adds a search blank. You can give it a title and place placeholder text into the search blank.

Slider (extra) – Display a group of any type of post record as a set of slides that rotate. Include and exclude slides by highlighting them in a list. Control options for display style and transitions. Show/hide post title and post content shown as slide. Slider size determined by content and placement in Builder.

Tags (extra) – Replacement for Tag cloud, choose which taxonomy list to use, hand limit list or use various criteria. Control over font size, separators and inclusion of empty tags.

Text (standard) – Just add text with a title. Can include HTML.

Twitter Updates (extra) – Fill in twitter account details and number of tweets to show.

WordPress Loop (extra) – This is used to display lists of posts and single posts, pages etc. as in a normal chronological list on a WordPress blog. Being a widget you can control where and when it is shown. You have control over what is displayed on each post, how many columns, number of posts, pagination and other options but selection of posts is based on the page URL (which will include categories, post ids, authors, etc).

The Home Page

Different people want different things from the home page of their web sites. If you are a blogger the home page is a list of recent articles. If you are using WordPress more like a conventional CMS then you may want a static page as the home page.

You can use this theme in both ways but there are important differences in the way you configure this.

If you want your home page to be your blog, you use the “Home” tab in the Builder to format the home page. If you want to add the home page to the custom menus you need to add a Custom Link item and give it the label you want and a URL for the base address of your site.

If you want a static page as your home page, you need to create two pages, one to act as the home page and optionally another to act as the page to display your blog posts on. Neither of these pages needs to have any content on it, but these work as placeholders for other options.

In the Settings->Reading, the option “Front page displays” with two choices “Your latest posts” which treats the home page as a blog or “A static page” which treats the home page as a static page. You then have to choose the page to be shown on the front page of the site and can also choose the page to display the posts on.

In the Builder (Layouts Engine), you have to go to the “Single” tab, choose “Pages” and then choose the pages created above to set their layouts. The page to show blog posts must include the WordPress Loop widget to function like a normal blog index page.

To help understand what is going on here it helps to know what is going on inside WordPress. Normally on a blog style site, when the URL is just the base address for the site, WordPress sees that there are no parameters for pages or categories or anything else and just displays a list of recent posts by default. This is what WordPress and the Home tab in the Builder consider to be the Home page.

When you change the option in the Reading settings to show a static page and the current URL is the base address of the site, WordPress pretends that the URL actually included the id of the page you chose as your home page. Since a URL with a page is not what WordPress considers to be the home page, then the layout in the Home tab is not used, but the layout attached to that page is.

Theme Structure

• custom-sample.folder (rename to’ custom’ on activation) ***
• lib_frame.folder (framework files)
• lib_theme.folder (only theme-specic files)
• index.php
• functions.php
• comments.php
• custom_template.php
• style.css

*** edit your theme code through ‘custom’ folder files. Leave all other files intact, otherwise updating your theme will become much harder, when new versions are available.

Builder (Layouts Engine)

How it Works?

Layout engine was designed to replace current custom page templates and extends current widgets adminstration. Think of it as widgets administration, where the whole theme is constructed of sidebar areas, where you may drop your widgets. Also, you may move your sidebars and even put them into hierarchical order.

Template Hierarchy

Template hierarchy used inside Builder extends default WordPress template hierarchy and is used to power grids and widgets hierarchical system. Site-wide tab is on top of hierarchy and is followed by other layout tabs. If you edit your grids or widgets inside parent tab, it will be visible inside all child tabs. Example: Navigation widget added inside Site-wide tab, will be visible on all pages, whereas if you add Navigation widget inside Archive tab, it will be visible on archive pages only. Learn more about WordPress template hierarchy: http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy.

Hierarchical system:

• Site-wide
  • Home
  • Single
    • Single Post Type
      • Single Post ID
  • Archive
    • Archive Post Type
      • Taxonomy ID
  • Search
  • 404

Layout Grids

Move your grids vertically and even disable them if you feel they’re not needed for some pages.

Layout Widgets

Move widgets from Available widgets in your left panel to your right widget ready grids.

Frame Options

Images & Thumbnails

Image & Thumbnails script is pretty advanced, yet very simple to use. What is important here is to Setup Image script correctly by checking all options you would like use when resizing thumbnails. These options don’t apply to Slider images and Front Page icons which have default sizes & alignments already built-in.

Complete SEO Options

BizzThemes is the framework of choice for serious Internet professionals, and efficiency is just one of the many reasons why they consider it indispensable. SEO was our priority upon development of our themes so most SEO options are already built-in. However, you have more options you may consider in Settings panel – we recommend you to use default ones as they will make the most use of your site.

Translations

If you are familiar with WordPress and the many plugins and themes available for it, you’ve probably come across some strangely named files like .mo, .po, and .pot. This file explains how to take a .po file that is included with this theme and translate it into your native language.

## SUMMARIZED INSTRUCTIONS

1. Download a gettext file editor like poedit and install it.
2. Open the English .po file that came with this theme (custom/lang/en_EN.po).
3. Now go through it and translate all the text one line at a time in the bottom box.
4. hen ‘File’ => ‘Save as’ to ‘custom/lang/’ folder, where .po file is located. This will output a .po and .mo file.
5. 5. Open wp-config.php, located in WordPress root directory and search for this line of code: define (‘WPLANG’, ”); Add your own country code, Brasil as an example: define (‘WPLANG’, ‘pt_BR’);
6. Add the same country code to .mo file you’ve saved in ‘custom/lang/’ folder. Example for Brasil: pt_BR.mo
7. 6. You’re done!

Total Branding Control

You have option to edit all theme branding areas, in front-end as well as in back-end. For instance you may change our credits in theme footer area, add you own logo or remove it altogether. In back-end you may remove all our credits and put your own links instead of ours. But wait, there’s more. You may also rename the theme if you like, which is great if you’re designing a site for your clients and want to put custom theme name on top of your work.

Design Control [video]

Theme Specific

Custom Widgets

Slider Widget

Display any post type inside your sliders. You may use as many sliders as you like, even on the same page. Slider script is also very customizable, so be creative and impress your clients or site visitors.

Featured Widget

Featured widget allows you to display any post content, wherever you like it. It was primarily developed to display Pricing tables and Featured post content, but you may use it to display any post for that matter.

Social Widget

Display your popular social profile links wherever you want on your website.

Updates Control

• Theme Update Control
  1. Backup your old theme files and database (preferably via FTP)
  2. Replace all theme files, except ‘custom’ folder in root theme directory, which you should leave intact.
  3. That’s it.

• Framework Update Control
  1. Automatically update your framework by clicking Update Framework button, when new update is available.
  2. That’s it.

License Control

There is only one theme version, which is locked down by default. Standard and Agency features open up, when you enter your theme API key inside License Control section inside theme options.

Where to find your license key?

Go to your membership account and find your theme under Your Products Downloads.

Custom Templates

Even though most pages are editable through Layout engine, you have an option to use custom templates for pages, you want to design and code your way. This exceptionally usable, when you’re building a separate page, which design is very different from your theme or a page that is stripped from any header/footer scripts, except your own.

Instructions:

1. Open custom/custom_function.php
2. Add/edit code below:
   <code>
   add_action( ‘bizz_hook_custom_template’, my_custom_template’ );
   function my_custom_template() {
   // here goes your custom template code
   }
   </code>
3. Open your page through WordPress admin: Pages/Pages/your_page
4. Select ‘Custom Template’ as your page template

Shortcodes

Theme comes predefined with a number of custom short codes, which are listed on this page: http://bizzthemes.com/demo/megusta/shortcodes/.

Instructions:

1. Open your post/page and simply add shortcode inside content editor, preferably in Visual mode (not HTML).
2. That’s it.

Everything you need to know about short codes: http://codex.wordpress.org/Shortcode_API.

Change-log

Open Theme Change-log Document

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Documentation Quick-links

• Gettings Started
• Theme Structure
• Builder (Layouts Engine)
  • How it Works?
  • Template Hierarchy
  • Layout Grids
  • Layout Widgets
• Frame Options
  • Images & Thumbnails
  • Complete SEO Options
  • Translations
  • Total Branding Control
• Design Control [video]
• Theme Specific
  • Custom Widgets
• Updates Control
• License Control
• Custom Templates
• Shortcodes
• Change-log

Gettings Started

The Builder (Layouts Engine) Page

Clicked template Area

Once you have clicked a on a selected template, you will find several “grids” on right hand side, which are usually named like: Header Area, Featured Area, Main Area and Footer Area.

Each of these grids can be expanded by clicking the right hand end and inside are several “sidebar” areas. Although these work just like the sidebars you set up in the widgets page, they are not necessarily used as sidebars within the grid. We are just using the term “sidebars” because that is the technology the elements with the grid are based on.

You can drag and drop widgets from the list on the left into the “sidebars” within the grids to build up your page content. There are special widgets in the theme to let you display posts, lists of posts, comments and all of the things that normally appear on the pages of your sites.

Grid areas (Header area, Footer area, …) have been set up to provide the sort of layouts you expect to find on a website. You can rearrange them in any order you want by dragging and dropping them. You can also turn off or “disable” any of the grids you do not want to use.

The names of the grids are just names. There is no reason why you cannot use “Main Area” as your header and could use “Header Area” for some page content or even as the footer.

You can also change the width of the page and you can change the width of the “sidebars” inside the grids (without editing code of the theme). However, the page width of 960 px is pretty standard and what most people want and need. The selection of existing grids will handle most needs. There is a separate tutorial on creating your own grids which can give you more control over the number and width of elements within the grid: http://bizzthemes.com/docs/add-edit-remove-layout-grids/.

The Grids

The best way to understand the grids is to relate them to the live demo for the theme http://bizzthemes.com/demo/law-firm/

Layout Hierarchy

The real power of the Builder is that you are not locked into one layout for all page types. But at the same time, all of the pages inherit the settings from the “Site-wide” page unless you have made specific changes on the different page types.

When you look at one of the other tabs, you will see that the widgets inside the grids have a yellow border around them. This lets you see which are the default widgets and which are the ones added specifically to the layout on that page. If you do not want one of the default widgets on another page you can expand the widget and the normal “delete” link will be shown as “disable”. Disabling a widget stops it showing up on that page, but you cannot delete it as there would be no way to restore it if you changed your mind.

If you change the settings of any of the widgets with yellow boarders, these changes will be seen on all pages, because you are actually editing the widget from the “Site-wide” page.

You can add new widgets to any of the grids on the other tabs and they will only show up on the pages of those types.

You can also rearrange the grids vertically and enable and disable the grids so that the arrangement of the page can be different on different types of page.

Note that before a particular page has any custom layout settings, it automatically uses any recent changes on the Site-wide layout. However, once edits have been made changes such as rearranging or enabling/disabling grids on the Site-wide page will no longer show up on the other customised layouts.

Some tabs have an option to have different layouts for different subtypes of archive. For instance, the “Archive” tab has a the base archive page layout, but using the submenu tabs you can change the layout for specific types of archive such as by author, by category, by tab, by date, etc.

The “Single” tab has a base layout, but can then have individual layouts for a multitude of different subtypes of posts. You can have different layouts for each the entry types: Page, Post, Attachment, FAQ, Slider, or Portfolios. But then within each of those you can choose a specific post, page, FAQ, etc and give that individual entry its own specific layout.

The Widgets

There are a large number of widgets. Some widgets replace the standard WordPress widgets of the same name and some provide custom functionality for this particular theme. Note that you should never use the old WordPress Widgets page as this will have no effect when you make changes there.

Archives (enhanced) – An enhanced archives list offering list by alphabetical, daily, monthly, post-by-post, weekly and yearly. Output can be custom (simple links) HTML (an unordered list of links) or a select with options. The number of posts can be included and prefix and suffix html can be added.

Authors (extra) – Shows a list of Author users. Options to display as links or as plain text, with or without post counts and feed links per author.

Bookmarks (expanded version of Links) – Shows links from links table. Can include or exclude links based on their categories or include or exclude specific links. Can also search by text string or limit number of results. If “categorize?” is checked will group links by category. Separate pop ups to control sorting of category headers and links within category groups. Checkbooks to include various bits of information.

Calendar (enhanced) – Shows a calendar grid enhanced with nicer formatting of grid lines and spiral top image.

Categories (enhanced) – Shows a list of links for the various categories or tags (or other groupings in the taxonomy for the posts table. Options to select include or exclude specific categories, show flat or hierarchical, post counts, and many other display or selection options.

Comments form (extra) – Normally in themes the comments are just there after the posts. This allows you to choose where and if the comments form appears on a page. There are a few formatting options and you can change any of the text that appears in the labels and buttons of the form.

Comments loop (extra) – Normally in themes the comments are just there after the posts. This allows you to choose where and if the list of comments appears on a page. The widget has controls to allow threaded comments and other options.

Contact Form (extra) – A simple widget to add a contact form to any layout. Just add your email address to the parameters (so can have different addresses on different forms). Full control over field labels and other text messages.

Flickr (extra) – Displays thumbnails from a Flickr user or group. Options for number and sort order. Clicking takes the visitor to the Flickr page in the same window.

Logo (extra) – Display an image with a link, or the blog title and tagline. Image can be specific to widget or the default image set in the Frame Options page.

Meta (standard) – Log in/out, admin, feed and WordPress links.

Navigation Menu (extra) – Displays custom WordPress 3 menu. Options to wrap menu and items in html you specify to enable CSS skinning.

Pages (enhanced) – Display list of page links with full set of options to include or exclude pages, show flat or hierarchical, show only part of hierarchy or exclude subtree, Include dates, item html wrappers, select by meta-field and meta-field value.

Query Posts (extra) – This is a way of displaying any records from the posts table based on criteria. Almost any selection options available through the API are supported in this widget.

Recent Comments (standard) – Shows a list of recent comments which link to the relevant posts.

Query Posts (extra) – This is a way of displaying any records from the posts table based on criteria. Almost any selection options available through the API are supported in this widget.

Featured Posts Panel (extra) – Display your menu (custom post type) just as you want. Include/exclude specific categories, control the output of its layout and even modify your delicious meal images.

RSS (standard) – Display items from someone else’s RSS feed.

Search (extra) – adds a search blank. You can give it a title and place placeholder text into the search blank.

Slider (extra) – Display a group of any type of post record as a set of slides that rotate. Include and exclude slides by highlighting them in a list. Control options for display style and transitions. Show/hide post title and post content shown as slide. Slider size determined by content and placement in Builder.

Tags (extra) – Replacement for Tag cloud, choose which taxonomy list to use, hand limit list or use various criteria. Control over font size, separators and inclusion of empty tags.

Text (standard) – Just add text with a title. Can include HTML.

Twitter Updates (extra) – Fill in twitter account details and number of tweets to show.

WordPress Loop (extra) – This is used to display lists of posts and single posts, pages etc. as in a normal chronological list on a WordPress blog. Being a widget you can control where and when it is shown. You have control over what is displayed on each post, how many columns, number of posts, pagination and other options but selection of posts is based on the page URL (which will include categories, post ids, authors, etc).

The Home Page

Different people want different things from the home page of their web sites. If you are a blogger the home page is a list of recent articles. If you are using WordPress more like a conventional CMS then you may want a static page as the home page.

You can use this theme in both ways but there are important differences in the way you configure this.

If you want your home page to be your blog, you use the “Home” tab in the Builder to format the home page. If you want to add the home page to the custom menus you need to add a Custom Link item and give it the label you want and a URL for the base address of your site.

If you want a static page as your home page, you need to create two pages, one to act as the home page and optionally another to act as the page to display your blog posts on. Neither of these pages needs to have any content on it, but these work as placeholders for other options.

In the Settings->Reading, the option “Front page displays” with two choices “Your latest posts” which treats the home page as a blog or “A static page” which treats the home page as a static page. You then have to choose the page to be shown on the front page of the site and can also choose the page to display the posts on.

In the Builder (Layouts Engine), you have to go to the “Single” tab, choose “Pages” and then choose the pages created above to set their layouts. The page to show blog posts must include the WordPress Loop widget to function like a normal blog index page.

To help understand what is going on here it helps to know what is going on inside WordPress. Normally on a blog style site, when the URL is just the base address for the site, WordPress sees that there are no parameters for pages or categories or anything else and just displays a list of recent posts by default. This is what WordPress and the Home tab in the Builder consider to be the Home page.

When you change the option in the Reading settings to show a static page and the current URL is the base address of the site, WordPress pretends that the URL actually included the id of the page you chose as your home page. Since a URL with a page is not what WordPress considers to be the home page, then the layout in the Home tab is not used, but the layout attached to that page is.

Theme Structure

• custom-sample.folder (rename to’ custom’ on activation) ***
• lib_frame.folder (framework files)
• lib_theme.folder (only theme-specic files)
• index.php
• functions.php
• comments.php
• custom_template.php
• style.css

*** edit your theme code through ‘custom’ folder files. Leave all other files intact, otherwise updating your theme will become much harder, when new versions are available.

Builder (Layouts Engine)

How it Works?

Layout engine was designed to replace current custom page templates and extends current widgets adminstration. Think of it as widgets administration, where the whole theme is constructed of sidebar areas, where you may drop your widgets. Also, you may move your sidebars and even put them into hierarchical order.

Template Hierarchy

Template hierarchy used inside Builder extends default WordPress template hierarchy and is used to power grids and widgets hierarchical system. Site-wide tab is on top of hierarchy and is followed by other layout tabs. If you edit your grids or widgets inside parent tab, it will be visible inside all child tabs. Example: Navigation widget added inside Site-wide tab, will be visible on all pages, whereas if you add Navigation widget inside Archive tab, it will be visible on archive pages only. Learn more about WordPress template hierarchy: http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy.

Hierarchical system:

• Site-wide
  • Home
  • Single
    • Single Post Type
      • Single Post ID
  • Archive
    • Archive Post Type
      • Taxonomy ID
  • Search
  • 404

Layout Grids

Move your grids vertically and even disable them if you feel they’re not needed for some pages.

Layout Widgets

Move widgets from Available widgets in your left panel to your right widget ready grids.

Frame Options

Images & Thumbnails

Image & Thumbnails script is pretty advanced, yet very simple to use. What is important here is to Setup Image script correctly by checking all options you would like use when resizing thumbnails. These options don’t apply to Slider images and Front Page icons which have default sizes & alignments already built-in.

Complete SEO Options

BizzThemes is the framework of choice for serious Internet professionals, and efficiency is just one of the many reasons why they consider it indispensable. SEO was our priority upon development of our themes so most SEO options are already built-in. However, you have more options you may consider in Settings panel – we recommend you to use default ones as they will make the most use of your site.

Translations

If you are familiar with WordPress and the many plugins and themes available for it, you’ve probably come across some strangely named files like .mo, .po, and .pot. This file explains how to take a .po file that is included with this theme and translate it into your native language.

## SUMMARIZED INSTRUCTIONS

1. Download a gettext file editor like poedit and install it.
2. Open the English .po file that came with this theme (custom/lang/en_EN.po).
3. Now go through it and translate all the text one line at a time in the bottom box.
4. hen ‘File’ => ‘Save as’ to ‘custom/lang/’ folder, where .po file is located. This will output a .po and .mo file.
5. 5. Open wp-config.php, located in WordPress root directory and search for this line of code: define (‘WPLANG’, ”); Add your own country code, Brasil as an example: define (‘WPLANG’, ‘pt_BR’);
6. Add the same country code to .mo file you’ve saved in ‘custom/lang/’ folder. Example for Brasil: pt_BR.mo
7. 6. You’re done!

Total Branding Control

You have option to edit all theme branding areas, in front-end as well as in back-end. For instance you may change our credits in theme footer area, add you own logo or remove it altogether. In back-end you may remove all our credits and put your own links instead of ours. But wait, there’s more. You may also rename the theme if you like, which is great if you’re designing a site for your clients and want to put custom theme name on top of your work.

Design Control [video]

Theme Specific

Custom Widgets

Practices Widget

Practices widget pulls out all of practices of law you posted under Practices post type. You may also display practices hierarchically and put the in custom order if you like.

Slider Widget

Display any post type inside your sliders. You may use as many sliders as you like, even on the same page. Slider script is also very customizable, so be creative and impress your clients or site visitors.

Social Widget

Display your popular social profile links wherever you want on your website.

Updates Control

• Theme Update Control
  1. Backup your old theme files and database (preferably via FTP)
  2. Replace all theme files, except ‘custom’ folder in root theme directory, which you should leave intact.
  3. That’s it.

• Framework Update Control
  1. Automatically update your framework by clicking Update Framework button, when new update is available.
  2. That’s it.

License Control

There is only one theme version, which is locked down by default. Standard and Agency features open up, when you enter your theme API key inside License Control section inside theme options.

Where to find your license key?

Go to your membership account and find your theme under Your Products Downloads.

Custom Templates

Even though most pages are editable through Layout engine, you have an option to use custom templates for pages, you want to design and code your way. This exceptionally usable, when you’re building a separate page, which design is very different from your theme or a page that is stripped from any header/footer scripts, except your own.

Instructions:

1. Open custom/custom_function.php
2. Add/edit code below:
   <code>
   add_action( ‘bizz_hook_custom_template’, my_custom_template’ );
   function my_custom_template() {
   // here goes your custom template code
   }
   </code>
3. Open your page through WordPress admin: Pages/Pages/your_page
4. Select ‘Custom Template’ as your page template

Shortcodes

Theme comes predefined with a number of custom short codes, which are listed on this page: http://bizzthemes.com/demo/megusta/shortcodes/.

Instructions:

1. Open your post/page and simply add shortcode inside content editor, preferably in Visual mode (not HTML).
2. That’s it.

Everything you need to know about short codes: http://codex.wordpress.org/Shortcode_API.

Change-log

Open Theme Change-log Document

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How it works?

1. Open custom/custom_functions.php
2. Add new filters, examples below.

Filter 1 example: Widget Title (all themes)

add_filter('widget_title', 'my_widget_title');
function my_widget_title($title) {
	return '<h6>' . $title . '</h6>';
}

Filter 2 example:  Slider widget (Polar Media)

// slide title
add_filter('wslider_post_title', 'my_slide_title');
function my_slide_title($title) {
	return '<h6>' . $title . '</h6>';
}
// slide content
add_filter('wslider_post_content', 'my_slide_content');
function my_slide_content() {
	return 'my custom slide content';
}
// slider query arguments
add_filter('wslider_args', 'my_slide_args');
function my_slide_args() {
	$slide_args = array(
		'post_type'     => 'page',
		'include'       => '',
		'exclude'       => '',
		'order'         => 'ASC',
		'orderby'       => 'date'
		);
				return $slide_args;
}

Works with 7.0+ theme framework

Edit your WordPress Loop widget content programatically:

1. Open custom/custom_functions.php
2. Define your custom PHP class:

       $my_custom_loop = new my_loops;
   

3. Edit content for desired position (home in our case):

       class my_loops extends bizz_custom_loop {
           function home() { // edit home() content
               echo "Hello world!";
           }
       }
   

List of available positions:

• front — Front page of your site. Note: front page display must be set to a static page inside WordPress for this to have effect.
• page — Every page of your site except the front page if one is enabled.
• home — Your home page or, if a front page is enabled, your blog’s home page.
• single — All posts (often confusingly referred to as “single-entry pages”).
• attachment — Individual pages for post attachments (usually images).
• category — Category archive pages.
• tax — Taxonomy archive pages.
• tag — Tag archive pages.
• day — Daily archive pages.
• month — Monthly archive pages.
• year — Yearly archive pages.
• author — Author archive pages.
• archive — Generic archive pages; this loop is the default for category, tax, tag, day, month, year, author, and search pages.
• search — Search results pages. Note: This loop should also account for searches that do not return any results.
• fourohfour — 404 pages.
• nothing — This loop will run if there is nothing in the database to display.

Note: This feature would not be possible without Thesis theme and their GPL license, so thumbs up for their big contribution to the WordPress community.