Thursday May 24 , 2012

Tutorials

Control the template settings from the Nexus Settings page in the dashboard, access instructions below:

FrontPage Post Thumbnails

If you would like to see a thumbnail next to your post on frontpage :

Method 1

Using introduced in WordPress 2.9 – Set Thumbnail

  • Login into the WordPress administrator at http://www.yoursite.com/wp-admin/
  • Go to the edit mode of the page/post you wish to add your thumbnail
  • Select Set Thumbnail from the right menu
  • Setup your image
Method 2

Using ‘thumb’ custom field.

  • Enter into edit mode of post next to which you’d like to display your thumbnail
  • In the section “Custom Fields” from the dropdown menu please choose “thumb” – if it doesn’t exist you have to press “Enter new” to create it
  • In the field “Value” next to “thumb” please enter URL to your thumbnail ie. http://www.yoursite.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/thumb.jpg

To check path to an image please go to the Media page in your administration dashboard, click Edit under the image you wish to use, and copy the path from the File URL field.

IE6 PNG Fix

The template has an integrated PNG fix for IE6 that allows transparent PNG32 images to show, as intended, in the IE6 browser. All you need to do is add class=”png” to the element such as the change in the following examples:-

<img src="images/sample1.jpg" alt="sample" />

Change to

<img src="images/sample1.jpg" alt="sample" class="png" />

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Custom Fonts

Using the CSS font-face facility, Nexus can use non-standard fonts as you would expect from flash solutions such as sIFR. Using CSS increases performance and is wide reaching. The feature is IE compatible.

User 3 Position

This widget is placed in the User 3 Position. You can find an image representing all theme widget positions under Features > Widget Positions. Nexus offers you a huge amount of 26 widget positions.

RokStories

ImageRokStories Widget

Functional showcase module for displaying content items and their accompanying images in an interactive and versatile manner.

RokTabs

ImageRokTabs Widget

Tabbed content module, perfect for maximising content exposure without sacrificing on site real estate. Built-in mootools effects.

Integrated Extensions

ImageComplimentary Addons

A selection of integrated RocketTheme extensions to extend the features of Nexus such as Fusion menu, RokStories and RokTabs.