Baylys Theme Documentation

Theme Installation

To install the Baylys theme, you can follow these steps:

1. After purchasing the theme, you will receive an email with a download link for the theme folder.
2. Download the Baylys theme folder (.zip file).
3. Go to “Appearance / Themes” in your WordPress admin panel.
4. Choose the “Install themes” tab menu.
5. Upload the baylys.zip file and click the “Install now” button.
6. The Baylys theme will now be installed and active.

Alternatively, you can also install the theme via FTP by following these steps:

1. Un-zip the Baylys theme folder on your computer.
2. Use an FTP client (e.g. Filezilla) to connect to your server.
3. Drop the un-zipped Baylys theme folder into the …/wp-content/themes/ folder.
4. Go to “Appearance / Themes / Available Themes” in your WordPress admin panel.
5. Activate the Baylys theme.

Theme Options

The Baylys theme offers several easy-to-use options to customize your theme. These options can be found in the “Appearance / Theme Options” page.

• Custom Colors: Choose your own link color, link hover color, and footer background color.
• Layout Options: Choose between a right sidebar, a left sidebar, or a single-column layout.
• Logo, Post Excerpts, and Footer Text: Upload your own logo image, show post excerpts, and customize the footer text.
• Portfolio Category: Choose the category to use for the portfolio page template.
• Favicon and Apple Touch Icon: Include your own favicon and Apple touch icon.
• Share Buttons: Activate share buttons for Twitter, Google+, Facebook, and Pinterest.
• Responsive Slider: Use the Responsive Slider plugin for an image slider on the front page.
• Custom Header Image and Custom Background: Customize the header image and background of your blog.

Custom Menus

You can set up custom menus for the Primary Navigation and the optional Footer Navigation in the “Appearance / Menus” page. Create custom menus by adding custom links, pages, categories, tags, post formats, or posts. Drag and drop menu items to create submenus. Choose the menus to be used in your theme via the “Theme Locations” box.

Widgets

The Baylys theme offers three main widget areas: Left Sidebar, Right Sidebar, and Footer Widget Area. In addition to the standard WordPress widgets, you can use custom Baylys widgets:

• Baylys Social Links Widget: Link to your social profiles with nice-looking social icons.
• Baylys Flickr Widget: Include a preview of your latest or random Flickr images.
• Baylys Featured Video Widget: Show a YouTube or Vimeo video in your sidebar or footer.
• Baylys About Widget: Tell your readers more about you and include a profile picture.

Post Formats

The Baylys theme supports all WordPress post formats. You can choose a post format while writing or editing your posts. Some examples of post formats are:

• Quote: Use the blockquote tag to create a quote with or without the quote author.
• Video: Post a video by pasting the embed iframe code from YouTube or Vimeo.
• Link: Include a link in your post with a CSS class of “link”.
• Gallery: Create a gallery using the WordPress media uploader.
• Image: Include an image in your post using the “Upload/Insert” media uploader.
• Audio: Embed audio using the Soundcloud iframe widget or any other audio player.
• Chat: Style a chat post content using ul and li tags with the class of “chat”.

Page Templates

The Baylys theme offers custom page templates that can be selected in the “Page Attributes / Template” section. The available templates are No Sidebar, Full Width, and Portfolio. The Full Width template is great for including multicolumn shortcodes. The Portfolio template allows you to create a page showing a preview of all posts in the portfolio category.

Author Box on Single Posts

You can show an author description text at the end of each standard post by filling out the “Biographical Info” in the WordPress user profile. You can also insert links or other HTML.

Shortcodes

Baylys offers shortcodes for multicolumn content, info boxes, and buttons. You can find all shortcode codes ready to copy and paste on the Shortcode example page at the Baylys live demo.

Theme Translations

Baylys is ready for theme translations. You can add your own translation or customize an existing translation easily using the WordPress plugin Codestyling Localization.

Child Theme for Customizations

If you want to customize the Baylys theme further, it is recommended to create a child theme. This will prevent your changes from being overwritten by future updates of the Baylys parent theme. You can find more information on creating a child theme in the article “WordPress Child Theme Basics” on the Themeshaper blog. A sample child theme folder is available for download on the Baylys theme page.