Viewed Theme Setup - WordPress

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Set your permalinks
Add a new gallery
Add a new photo post
Set your featured image
Set the home page featured content

From your site's dashboard:

Activate theme and dependent plugins

  1. Activate theme: Appearance > Themes > Viewed and click Activate
  2. Activate plugin: Plugins > Options Framework and click Activate


Configure permalinks

  1. Go Settings > Permalinks
  2. Choose Post name and hit Save changes

Create an image gallery for the front page of site

Create a gallery

  1. Go Photos > Galleries
  2. Add a new gallery by entering a Name and clicking Add New Gallery

Add Photo Posts to your Gallery

  1. Go Photos > Add New
  2. Title your post
  3. Choose a gallery to assign the photo to
  4. Click Set the featured image - this is where you will upload your image or choose from an image already uploaded to your media folder
    • Add Media file from your computer
    • Add a title for the image
    • Click Use as featured image and close out window
  5. Publish your post

Configure theme to display gallery on front page

  1. Go Appearance > Theme options > Featured Content
  2. Choose the Image Gallery you'd like to feature on the front page
  3. Click Save Options

Set widgets at top of page

in Appearance > Widgets drag and drop available widgets into (to add) and away from (to remove) the Header Widget Area