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Introduction
Thank you for purchasing my theme. If you have any questions that are beyond the scope of this
help file, please feel free to email via my user page contact form here. Thanks so much!
Black Eve was conceived to be used on a wide range of online business. It’s clean style and
flexibility gives you the advantage to create a powerful and rapid online image. It has 6
widget areas that can be filed with 5 custom widgets (recent posts, testimonials, twitter,
flickr, follow us). Following different business models it comes with 7 different page
templates (services template, blog template pages 1,2,3 columns, portfolio template, contact
template, one page template ), in this way you can customize the theme as you wish.
For proper installation please follow the next steps. Also please check the Wordpress
installation guide, which you find here Installing WordPress
1. First of all, your server should support PHP. You will also need an installation of
Wordpress. If you already don’t have one, download it from here and follow
instructions on the wordpress site to install it correctly.
2. If you have a running installation of wordpress, place the theme files from the
download into the “themes” folder. The path to this folder should be something like
/wordpress_install_dir/wp-content/themes/. Make sure that all theme files
(without the PSDs and help files !) are in the separate folder called “eagle”. The path
to the theme files should be /wordpress_install_dir/wp-
content/themes/balckeve upon completition of this step.
3. Put 0777 permissions on “cache” folder, from the theme folder (it’s used for
timthumb.php – a custom image-resize script)
4. Enter you Wordpress Admin Interface. It should be available at
http://yourdomain.com/wp-admin.
5. In the left menu, find Appearance tab. Click it. A submenu should appear. Click
Themes.
6. The themes screen should show all of your installed themes. Find Blackeve theme.
7. Click Activate.
Note: This theme has included the jQuery script. So, if you install plugins please be aware that a lot
of them comes with their own version of jQuery. What that means =>jQuery being loaded twice in
the same theme, will cause some parts of the javascript to fail, for example the slideshow.
What can be done=>You can delete the jQuery script from the theme (/wordpress_install_dir/wp-
content/themes/blackeve/js/jquery.js) or from the plugin.
Now your theme is installed and ready to go. First we need to create the site/page structure.
ii. Add all the pages and arrange them as you want (drag the box with the page
left or right to arrange them as you want). Save and preview.
iv. Now we have to assign the pages with the predefined templates. For this we
have to go on each page tab (from Black Eve theme options) and select
what pages to show. For example to assign the Portfolio page with the
Portfolio template we have to do the following:
1. Go to “Black Eve theme options >> Portfolio page”
2. Select from “Select portfolio page” >> “Portfolio” – this is the page we
created earlier. Now we have assigned the proper template.
3. In order to display the categories we need to have posts in them, so let’s create some posts
a. Go to “Posts”
b. Delete the “Hello world” post
c. Go to “Posts>>Add new”
e. Do the same operation until you have at least one post in each category.
4. Now we have to assign the categories for the pages we want them to display. (and the main
page slider)
a. First go to “Posts >> Categories”
b. Delete the “Uncategorized” category
c. Hover on “Blog 1 column” category and remember the category id. See the
screenshot. The id is “5” in this example.
e. Save and preview. Your blog 1 column page must look like this
f. Now, do the same operation for the Services, other blog pages, Portfolio page. For
the main page slider you can select the category from a dropdown in the
“Slideshow” tab, so you don’t have to remember anything.
At this point we have created the site structure. That was the “difficult” part, if we can call it that. In
the next sections of the tutorial I will show you how to configure the site to achieve the live preview
structure.
8. In the right side of the page under “Categories”, select “Blog Standard”
9. Publish and preview
10. Your “Blog standard” page should look like this
1. Go to “Post>>Add new”
2. Give the post a title
8. Now we have to paste the url for the “Large image”. Do the same steps, and paste the
URL of the large image in “Portfolio-Large image URL”
Create a post for the Main page slider (Featured posts) category
The theme makes use of custom fields to display posts thumb images. In this example I will show
you how to create a post for the “Featured posts” category.
1. Go to “Post>>Add new”
2. Give the post a title
3. Now we have to insert the post image (960x429px, if you upload image bigger than that
resolution, don’t worry the image resize script comes into action)
4. Click on the Insert Image icon to upload a new image.
5. Upload your image using WordPress' built-in image uploader.
6. When your image has successfully been uploaded, click on File URL. A URL should appear in
the field above the button (Link URL field). Copy that value.
8. Now, in the “Slideshow ⇒ Large image LINK” input, insert the link for the post (e.g.
www.google.com)
9. In the right side of the page under “Categories”, select “Featured posts”
10. Publish
11. Assuming that you didn’t choose what version of the slider will display on the main page,
you must follow this steps:
a. Go to Black Eve theme options >> Main page
b. From “Choose slideshow” select the slider that you like (for this example we choose
default1)
c. Then go to “Slideshow” tab and select the slideshow featured category.
d. Save
12. Preview the main page
The main page is divided into 5 sections (logo and menu, featured posts, information box, posts and
footer).
Information box
You have the possibility to insert a custom message, title, image, hover image and attach a link to it.
f.
g. Save and preview
3. Repeat the steps for the next ones. Of course, … if you need them.
Posts
You have the possibility to choose what post category must be displayed on the main page and the
number of post shown.
You can configure this from “Black Eve theme options” >> “Main page” >> Posts display
Footer
You have the possibility to insert copyright notice.
For example if our main page “Theme pages” has subpages, it will display them.
If you want the menu to NOT have a dropdown, go into “Black Eve theme options”, under
“Navigation”, check “Disable dropdown menu”
1. Black Eve Recent Posts – Displays the recent posts with the possibility to exclude
categories
2. Black Eve Twitter widget– Displays your Twitter updates. Can display up to 10 updates.
3. Black Eve Testimonials Widget – Displays your testimonials, having the option to insert
client name and website.
4. Flickr – Displays your flickr images.
5. Black Eve Follow us – Displays your social links. This can be configured through
“Miscellaneous” tab, in the theme options
Donncha O Caoimh for the Flickr Widget which we modified and merged with the
theme.
Dinu Florin for Pt which we trimmed down a little and used for some features.
All the images used are my personal creations
The social icons are from http://www.komodomedia.com/blog/2008/12/social-media-
mini-iconpack/
The services icons are from
http://www.vistaicons.com/icon/i143s0/ivista_icon_pack_2.htm
Fonts used: Arial free system font
Fonts used: MgOpen Modata free font http://www.zvr.gr/typo/mgopen/index
jquery-1.3.2.min.js http://jquery.com/ -
cufon-yui.js http://cufon.shoqolate.com/generate/ used to include the font used in this
theme as text not as an image.
Once again, thank you so much for purchasing this theme. As I said at the beginning, I'd be glad to
help you if you have any questions relating to this theme. No guarantees, but I'll do my best to
assist. 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.