Templatic tips of the day for January 2012

January 2
If you have any trouble deleting the dummy data from your theme just hit the “Delete” button again

January 4
Guys at WP Beginner created the ultimate list of all their tutorials and tips. Be sure to check it out http://bit.ly/zpyJUg

January 5
Can’t see custom fields while editing a post? Click on Screen Options in the upper right corner and turn them on!

January 6
Almost every theme in our community forum has a Theme tips & customizations thread; they can help a lot while customizing

January 7
Want to know how you can reisize the gallery in GeoPlaces v3 detail pages? Check out this forum thread http://bit.ly/AzauhA

January 8
Before updating your WordPress install always make sure you check your plugins and themes for updates

January 9
WordPress (3.3) now supports /%postname%/ custom permalink with no performance issues

January 11
If you’re not happy with the current design keep in mind that you’re free to customize your theme in any way you like. Same goes for the functionality.

January 13
For some basic questions about the theme Templatic community forum is the way to go -> http://templatic.com/forums

January 14
Don’t worry too much about your content while you’re updating your theme, nothing should happen to it. That said, you’ll never regret creating a backup!

January 15
Trying to upload attachments to our Helpdesk and Forum but can’t? Just compress them using tools like 7zip

January 16
Here’s a great Templatic tutorial on how to integrate Google Custom Search with WordPress http://templatic.com/wordpress-tutorials/integrate-custom-google-search-engine-to-your-wordpress-site/

January 17
Created a site with one of our themes? Don’t foget to include it in our Showcase -> http://templatic.com/showcase

January 18
All in One SEO pack is supported by all Templatic themes. Click to learn how to setup the plugin http://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/users-guide-for-all-in-one-seo-pack/

January 19
I know it’s hard but try to sustain from customizing the GeoPlaces v4 beta. Upgrade to the final version will be sooo much easier if you haven’t customized anything.

January 20
We released a pretty big GeoPlaces v4 beta update today. Click on the link to download it http://bit.ly/vZW3Wh

January 21
Can’t decide whether to purchase a theme or not? http://test.templatic.com will solve all your dilemmas

January 23
Want to know how you can increase your pageviews and reduce bounce rate? Read the following article and get on the right track http://bit.ly/xrhUOR

January 24
We just created a section for video tutorials on the forum. We added two new videos today -> http://bit.ly/zclpdw

January 25
Want to set up WordPress MultiSite but with unique domains? It can be done fairly easy. Read more in the following article http://www.doitwithwp.com/domain-mapping-for-wordpress-multisite/

January 26
Your homepage not working as it should? Make sure you don’t have a static page entered in Settings -> Reading

January 27
Want more coverage for your product or service? Don’t miss this article -> http://bit.ly/zmMye3

January 30
All of you without access to GPv4 beta should not miss a video overview of the theme that’s coming later today. Stay tuned!
Video URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qSsSwBOTBo

January 31
Using RealEstate? Want to make the bathroom dropdown (submit prprty form) use 1/2 numbers? Click here http://bit.ly/A3hVXN

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  Rating feature

  You can rate a product and gather ratings from your visitors and show them on your site. Ratings for custom fields can also be shown easily.

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  Awesome shortcodes

  Shortcodes are cool and make you a power-user. You can show your content in a specilized layout, show buttons, put an alert/notification box, etc. without having to code anything.

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  Out of the box Auto-install

  Confused on how to get started? Our 1-click auto-install feature helps you out. Once you activate this theme, you will have the option to populate all of the required sample data with a click of a button.

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  Custom Fields

  Custom fields enhance the functionality of your site. It helps you provide extra information about a place and show them in the sidebar. Setting up custom fields is easy too.

Standard Features of our WordPress Themes

• Unlimited skin colors
• Excellent Support
• Custom fields
• Theme Guide & Tutorials
• PSD File Included with multiple use license
• Drop Down menu
• Gravatar Support & Threaded Comments
• Integrated 30 short-codes
• Built in SEO options
• Widget Ready with custom widgets

Create your own Review site now and start rating products, services, etc!

With Reviews you (as admin) can add multiple products or services, show descriptions in tabs (with a specially created ‘tabber’ shortcode) insert images and your rating. Also, there are category specific custom fields to show customized information for different kinds of products or services.

Visitors can post their reviews with their rating for the product or service. The review detail page will display your rating for the product separately and it will also display the average rating from ratings posted by all the users.

The attractive and well organized theme structure is best to score you high on search engine rankings. Other exciting features of the Reviews WordPress theme include the homepage slider, rating custom field, list or grid view widgets, etc. Also there are two other widgets for sidebar which will display recent and top reviews.

The theme also comes with unlimited colors that enable you to develop your own style.

Like what you just read? Click here to purchase Reviews. For a better look be sure to check out the demo

Share & Win 

Like this theme? Want to have it? Help us spread the word about it and who knows, maybe you’ll be among 3 lucky winners who will get it. Just like the past couple of Share&Win contests, the same rules apply here. You can win the theme by tweeting about it (clicking on the Tweet icon below), by sharing/liking this on Facebook (the Share icon below will take you to the Facebook post) or by being the fastest one to provide a correct answer to our contest question. The question will be posted on our Twitter and Facebook feeds sometime in the next 2 weeks. If you have any questions about the contest feel free to post them here, on Facebook or on Twitter.

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In short, Google Custom Search is an offering by Google, that provides you your own version of Google search engine, that can be configured and integrated into your website. There are many configuration options offered, to completely customize the looks, search results and many more options.

Why Use Google Search instead of Native WordPress Search Feature

• WordPress default search results quality is often questionable, its not perfect and sometimes user can’t find what they are looking for.
• Google search results are of better quality
• Monetization of search results page (with Adsense for Search)
• Good and familiar user interface of Google search
• Everyone feels comfortable to search with Google
• Customize the look and feel of the results to match your site with Google
• Enable autocompletions for your Google search engine

Now that we know why should we use Google search and what are its advantages, let’s integrate Google Custom Search to your WordPress site.

Integrating Google Custom Search in WordPress

Step1: Creating a Search Engine:
Head over to www.google.com/cse and sign in with your Google account. If you don’t have one, then you can also create one. After signing in, click on the big “Create a Custom Search Engine” button.

A three step process will begin. The first step is to set up your search engine. Fill out name, description, language, sites to search (enter your site URL here, in most cases this would be the URL of only one site), select the standard edition, accept terms of service and finally click on “Next”. (click on the below image to enlarge)

Now comes the part where we have to customize the looks. There are some pre-defined themes ready for you to get started. Select any of these theme and click on “Customize”.

Customize the search bar and search results page as per your wish and click on “Next”. Note the various color options, you can choose color that suits your WordPress theme.

In the third step, you will get the code. Don’t copy this code yet. From the bottom of the page, click on “look and feel”.

From “Choose a Layout” section, select “Two page”. This means that we can display the search box on any page and get the results on another page, in the same window.

Click on “Save & Get Code”, you’ll get the code in the next page. Let this page remain open for now.

Step2: Adding Custom Search to WordPress
Now that the search engine is ready and all settings done, we’ll need to integrate the code to WordPress. The first thing we’ll be doing for this is to create a page template. To do this, copy and paste the below code and save it as a PHP file.

<?php
Template Name: Google Search
?>
<?php get_header(); ?>
<div id=”content” class=”widecolumn”>
<!– Google Search Result Code Begins –>
Google Search Results Code Here
<!– Google Search Result Code Ends –>
</div>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

Observe this code carefully, instead of “Google Search Results Code Here”, you need to enter the “search results” code, that’s because we want the results to appear in this page. Save that PHP file, name it something like googlesearch.php and upload it to your active theme’s directory. For e.g. if you are using twentyeleven theme, then the path would be: “wp-content/themes/twentyeleven”. To upload this file, use a FTP client or File Manager from cPanel. With this step done, page template is created and uploaded.

In this get code page, there is a field for “Specify the url in your site where you want the search results to appear”. In this field, enter the page permalink which we created in above step. For e.g. it can be www.yoursite.com/search (where search is the name of the page).

Create a new page and name it something like “Search”. Search results will be displayed in this page. From the “Page Template” drop down menu, select “Google search” as your page template and hit the “Publish” button.

Now, decide where would you like to place that “Search box”. You can place it in sidebar, footer, below posts or any other place. If in the sidebar, then just drag and drop the “Text” widget to the sidebar widget area and paste that “search box” code. If you want to edit this search box in some other area, then you’ll need to edit the respective theme file. But adding the code in the text widget is by far the simplest method to do this. This completes the integration of Google Custom Search to WordPress site.

Google Custom search is constantly evolving and they keep on adding more and more features. The most recent addition was the “autocompletions”. You can also check out documentation on Google custom search if you’re stuck somewhere.

Let’s see what’s coming soon!

The following theme will be the first one to land at Templatic this month. As the screenshot suggests, it is a review theme targeted for bloggers and affiliate marketers who wish to create a review site for different product and services.

Though simple, we’re confident it will be useful for a great deal of WordPress users.

Then comes a totally different, first of it’s kind – Price Compare theme. The theme will prove to be challenging for us to create but once done, we are sure you’d love its design, simplicity and most of all, how it works automagically from the back end.

Lastly, here’s a cool, neat e-commerce theme which is also coming soon. Everything about it is already said earlier so he’re just a fancy screenshot :)

That’s about it for now. Along with this new theme, our team is also working on upgrading existing themes so things might go a bit slow but once it land, it will be firm and solid.

Hope you’ll love what’s coming at Templatic. Don’t forget to let us know via comments :)

If you’re a twitter user you can access all our tips with the #templatictip hashtag

Templatic tips of the day for December 2011

December 1
Having problems with spammers in RealEstate? Visits the following link and get rid of them forever http://templatic.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=37&t=5928
 
December 2
Here’s a very interesting tutorial on how to exclude specific content from WordPress search http://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/how-to-exclude-specific-pages-authors-and-more-from-wordpress-search/
 
December 3
In case you missed some of the tips this past month be sure to check out this article http://ow.ly/7N37F
 
December 4
We made small tweaks to our support forum. Make sure you check it out -> http://templatic.com/forums. You can expect more changes within the next few days.
 
December 5
To read more about the changes made to our support forum check out this article -> http://ow.ly/7PwVD
 
December 6
Need a clean price table for your WordPress site? Look no further http://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/how-to-create-a-clean-price-table-in-wordpress/
 
December 7
If you haven’t already be sure to check out our new forum/support guidelines http://ow.ly/7RNCv
 
December 8
Are you a Vacation Rental user? This tutorial is for you -> http://ow.ly/7TAfI
 
December 10
We updated our Job Board theme with some new functionality. You can check it out here http://ow.ly/7VlfI
 
December 12
Create an iPhone app with a WordPress plugin. Too good or what? http://ow.ly/7VlfI
 
December 14
Using GeoPlaces? One of our forum members just posted a useful tip on how to connect your theme with booking.com
http://templatic.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=6133
 
December 15
We published some highly anticipated GeoPlaces v4 news today. Make sure you read all about it http://ow.ly/80XKH
 
December 16
Using our Events theme? Want to know how you can add custom fields to it? Read on http://ow.ly/81vAt
 
December 17
Thinking about starting your first (WordPress) site? Everything you need to know is in this article by Smashing Magazine.
http://wp.smashingmagazine.com/2011/12/14/15-step-checklist-creating-perfect-wordpress-website/
 
December 18
Here are some tips from on how you can optimize your site http://ow.ly/83hOm
 
December 19
Using Classifieds? Click on the following link and see how you can make your categories show post count http://ow.ly/84yLd
 
December 20
We updated our translation tutorial since Google deprecated the Translate API http://ow.ly/85cho. Are you running a localized site? Were you using Google Translate to localize your site or you translated everything manually?
 
December 21
Want to know how you can add customer review to your site? Read on -> http://ow.ly/879Ix
 
December 22
Want to enable Facebook comments in GeoPlaces v3? Visit the following thread and make it happen http://ow.ly/87Wax
 
December 23
If you get an error while installing GPv4 beta just open the mentioned file and comment out the line (line no. 4)
 
December 24
Want to tweak your Store Front product details page? This is the topic for you -> http://ow.ly/89HHX
 
December 26
We released another GeoPlaces v4 beta update today so make sure download and update your theme http://bit.ly/GPv4DL
 
December 27
Want to change the default WordPress login screen logo? Check out our newest tutorial -> http://bit.ly/vp3eVL
 
December 28
WP Locator contest question will be published tomorrow! You can still participate in the contest http://bit.ly/v5GC5R
 
December 30
Want to track everything there is to track on your site? Check out this article by @wpbeginner -> http://bit.ly/sExlsS
 
December 31
Today is the last day of our Christmas “Buy 1 get 2 free” promotion; you can still participate http://bit.ly/tG6Xdo
 

How to Change WordPress Login Logo

• The first thing we’ll need to do is to create your logo with the following parameters:
  - Image format should be PNG
  - Transparent background
  - Size should be: 274px wide and 63px height
  - Save it with this name: logo-login.png
• Now that your new logo is ready with above parameters, connect to your FTP client (e.g. Filezilla) or use File Manager from cPanel. Navigate to wp-admin/images folder. If you’re new to FTP be sure to check out our FTP tutorial
• On this path, you will find an image with the following name: logo-login.png. Rename this image to something like logo-login-backup.png or download the image to your hard drive (and delete the copy on the server). This is so you have the original in case you decide not to use the custom logo anymore.
• Upload your newly created logo at the same path – wp-admin/images.

That’s done. Your new logo should be live on the website. Check it out by navigating to your login page at: yoursite.com/wp-admin

Here’s a preview of what we can achieve with this useful trick.

See, the login logo has changed which can give the site that unique and professional touch. Just in case, if in future you change the mind, then just replace the old logo-login.png image and the default WordPress image will be restored.

Plugin to Change WordPress Login Image

For those who are afraid to follow this manual method, can use a plugin named Custom Login Logo Lite. Just install this plugin, activate it from your WordPress plugins page and then you will see a new option in settings > Custom Login Logo.

Now all we need to do is to enter the full URL (full path) of the login logo image. Configuring this plugin is a piece of cake. To upload the logo image, go to Media > Add New and upload the image. Now copy the full image URL and paste it in the options of this plugin.

Changing login logo image will only take a couple of minutes. Those who have registration enabled on their website’s, can benefit by displaying this custom logo, instead of the old boring WordPress logo.

Remember: Whenever you update to the latest version of WordPress, you will need to follow this procedure again. Basically, all you need is to just upload the custom logo at wp-admin/images path. That’s all it needs to be done.

First download the latest version of GeoPlaces v3 from the member area and update your existing GeoPlaces 3 theme. If you do not wish to update the entire theme, just take a look at the changelog of the downloaded one and add/replace only the required files to enable bulk upload feature in GeoPlaces 3.

Now, go to wp-admin > GeoPlaces > Bulk upload. Scroll down to section: ‘Export to CSV’. Select the post type you wish to export and click the link ‘Export to CSV’. You will notice that the links to download CSVs for available cities are already present over there. Download data for required city to your computer. Now proceed to import these data to GeoPlaces v4 enabled theme.

Impor listing and city data to GeoPlaces v4 enabled theme

Go to wp-admin > GeoPlaces > Advanced Settings > Bulk upload. In the ‘Import’ section, select the post-type to upload listings data into. Then upload the CSV. To upload city data, upload the respective CSV file to the ‘Import city data from GeoPlaces (older versions)’ section.

Please ensure that you are running WordPress 3.0 or higher

Setting Up GeoPlaces v4

Initial Setup & Configuring Homepage

Installing and Activating GeoPlaces
Auto install dummy content
Basic settings
Advanced settings
How do I setup various widgets in their respective regions? (Configuring homepage)

Registration & Manage Listings (Place & Event)

User Sign In / Register (Gigya plugin support integrated)
How to add a Place or an Event Listing
How to delete a Place or an Event listing
Setting up widgets for Category pages (Place & Event)
Setting up widgets for Listing detail page (Place & Event)

User Profile

Author dashboard page
How authors would edit their profile
How to setup custom user info fields

Manage Cities

How to add/edit/manage a city
How to set default city
How to enable splash page for first-time visitors?

Manage Pricing

Creating a price package
How to setup individual pricing for featured listings on homepage/category pages
How to setup recurring payments
How to manage currency?
How to specify category pricing? Can I have individual pricing for each category?
How to select or manage payment options? (e.g. setting up paypal)
How to add, edit or delete discount coupons

Email notifications

How to setup email notifications?
How to setup on-site messages?

Misc. settings

How to setup mega menu?
How to add or delete custom fields ?
How to upgrade from old version to Geoplaces v3 (Bulk upload intructions)
Which Permalink Structure can I use with this theme?
How to find category ID?
Which permalink structure can I use with this theme?

Blog setup

How to add a new Blog post
Blog listing page
Blog detail page
How to add a new Page and use Page Templates

Here’s a step by step installation guide for Geo Places theme where we will explain how you can do the basic setup of this theme.

Initial Setup & Configuring Homepage

Installing and Activating GeoPlaces

Upload Geo Places theme under wp-content/themes directory and then Activate the theme from your WordPress admin panel > Appearance > Themes. Installing this theme is just like any other WordPress theme. For further details, please click here.

Auto-install dummy content

If you want to auto install the dummy data then just click on “Yes insert sample data please”. Theme will be activated & completely installed with some added dummy content and categories by default so you can start using it right away.

If you wish to delete the dummy data that we populated in your site then you can remove it by clicking on Yes Delete Please!

Note: Do not edit the dummy data because in case you delete it, your modifications will be lost. Always insert fresh data.

Basic Settings

Go to wp-admin > Appearance > GeoPlaces > Basic Settings and take a thorough look at all the flexible options available to you. Do the settings as per your wish and then save them. Don’t forget to enter Google Map API key and also specify important options related to listings.

Advanced Settings

To setup advanced options, go to wp-admin > Appearance > GeoPlaces > Advanced Settings. Here you will be able to setup email notifications, custom fields, add/edit cities and price packages, set individual price-weightage for each category, configure payment options and even block IPs.

How do I setup various widgets in their respective regions? (Configuring homepage)

We have provided some useful widgets to jazz up your geo-based theme. There are several widget locations (also known as widget regions) where you can drag n’ drop the following widgets.

Registration & Manage Listings (Place & Event)

User Sign in / Register (Gigya plugin support integrated)

First activate the ‘PT → Login & Add listing widget’ (as shown above). This will enable the ‘Signin’ & ‘Register’ links in the header. Click on ‘Register’ to sign up as a new user.
We have provided support for Gigya Login plugin, so if you have installed it, you will see its login module on the Registration page. (As for the Gigya login widget, which gets installed with the plugin, we recommend you place it in sidebar.)

How to add a Place or an Event listing?

As an admin: You can add/edit a place or an event from the front-end as well as the back-end.
As a user: One can add/edit a place or an event from front-end only.

After signing up click on “Add Place” or “Add event” to add a new Listing. Both of them can have different fields as per the requirement. Once you add a listing, you will are taken to the preview page. Users can edit back changes and finally do the payment and publish the listing.

Use the required widgets in the sidebar. There are several regions like ‘Place Listing Sidebar’, ‘Place Detail Sidebar’, ‘Event Listing Sidebar’, ‘Event Detail Sidebar’, etc. to show appropriate widgets on appropriate pages.

How to delete a Place or an Event listing

As an admin: You can delete a listing by navigating to wp-admin > Places > Deleting the listing, just like a regular WordPress post.

As a user: One has to navigate to the Dashboard by clicking the username (on top) and then navigate to the required listing and click on “Delete”. You will be presented with a confirmation, click on “YES DELETE PLEASE!” to delete the listing.

Setting up widgets for Category pages (Place & Event)

So finally the listing is submitted and you can view the listing in this page. Go to the category where you submitted the listing. E.g. We have submitted the listing in “Attractions” category, therefore we clicked on “Attractions” to view that listing.

Use the required widgets in the sidebar. There are several regions like ‘Place Listing Sidebar’, ‘Place Detail Sidebar’, ‘Event Listing Sidebar’, ‘Event Detail Sidebar’, etc. to show appropriate widgets on appropriate pages.

Setting up widgets for Listing detail page (Place & Event)

Use the required widgets in the sidebar. There are several regions like ‘Place Listing Sidebar’, ‘Place Detail Sidebar’, ‘Event Listing Sidebar’, ‘Event Detail Sidebar’, etc. to show appropriate widgets on appropriate pages.

User Profile

Author dashboard page

Authors, i.e. the listing adders on your site, will have their own dashboard after they create an account on your Geo site. They will be able to add/edit their personal information, edit/delete/renew their submissions and can view their favorite listings. To go to the authors page, they’ll simply need to click their username via ‘PT → Login & Add listing widget’ on top.

How authors would edit their profile?

Authors would edit their personal data like profile picture, website, links to their social media profiles, etc. by clicking on their username via ‘PT → Login & Add listing widget’ on top. They will be taken to the Author Dashboard page.

How to setup custom user info fields?

You, as an admin, can specify what kind of personal data you’d like your authors to submit in their profiles. This can be done by adding custom fields to Author Dashboard pages. Simply go to wp-admin > GeoPlaces > Advanced settings > User info fields. Here you can create fields which will be displayed in the Author profile edit page which they are required to fill in.

Manage Cities

How to add/edit/manage a city

To add/edit/manage a city, go to wp-admin > GeoPlaces > Advanced settings > Manage cities. Here you can add a new city or edit an existing one. Select appropriate country, state/region and type down the city name. Then click the button ‘Set on map address’ to pin-point the city on Map. You can drag the zoom slider and set it to desired level.

How to set default city

Go to wp-admin > GeoPlaces > Advanced settings > Manage cities. Here, select the radio button ‘Default city:’ and choose a city from the dropdown. This city will be pre-selected when the user first lands on your website.

How to enable splash page for first-time visitors?

Go to wp-admin > GeoPlaces > Advanced settings > Manage cities. Here, select the radio button ‘Show a splash page…’ When a visitors first land on your website, they are greeted with a splash-page with a dropdown to select the city of their choice. For the rest of their session, the selected city will act as their default city.

Manage pricing

Creating a price package

Go to wp-admin > GeoPlaces > Advanced settings > Manage Price packages. Here, click the ‘Add new Price package’ link. You can create as many price packages you want.

How to setup individual pricing for featured listings on homepage/category pages

Go to wp-admin > GeoPlaces > Advanced settings > Manage Price packages. Here, create a new price package or edit an existing one. Scroll down to the section ‘Price settings for featured listings’ Specify different pricing for featuring on homepage and category.

How to setup recurring payments

Go to wp-admin > GeoPlaces > Advanced settings > Manage Price packages. Here, create a new price package or edit an existing one. Scroll down to ‘Recurring payments’ and specify the billing period and number of times the recurring process should occur.

How to manage currency?

Go to wp-admin > GeoPlaces > Advanced settings > Manage Currency. Here, you can add a new currency and specify its symbol.

How to specify category pricing? Can I have individual pricing for each category?

Yes, you can set different pricing for each category here: wp-admin > GeoPlaces > Advanced Settings > Category settings. Choose the post-type from the dropdown to list the categories pertaining to that post-type. You can then change category icons and their pricing by editing them. Don’t forget to click the ‘Save’ icon.

How to select or manage payment options? (e.g. setting up PayPal)

Go to wp-admin > GeoPlaces > Advanced settings > Payment Options. You can edit/activate/de-adtivate the available payment options.

How to add, edit or delete discount coupons?

Go to wp-admin > GeoPlaces > Advanced settings > Manage coupons. Add discount coupons here which are shown to your users while adding a place or an event listing.

Email notifications

How to setup email notifications?

Go to wp-admin > GeoPlaces > Advanced settings > Email notifications and messages. Here, you can change the content of the emails that are sent to admin and users. Use the shortcode-legends specified.

How to setup on-site messages?

Go to wp-admin > GeoPlaces > Advanced settings > Email notifications and messages. Here, you can modify instructional messages displayed on-site like when a payment is successful. Use the shortcode-legends specified.

Misc. Settings

How to setup mega menu ?

Create a 3 tier menu as you’d normally do in WordPress (wp-admin > Appearance > Menus). Now go to wp-admin > Appearance > Widgets. Drag n’ drop the widget ‘jQuery Mega Menu’ in the ‘Header

How to add or delete custom fields ?

Go to wp-admin > GeoPlaces > Advanced Settings > Custom Fields. You can add/edit and manage custom fields here with options to show them in the backend, frontend or both.

How to upgrade from old version to Geoplaces v3 (Bulk upload intructions)

NOTE: Because GeoPlaces v4 has undergone massive changes under-the-hood, upgrading from older versions would require a bit of patience. Don’t worry, you won’t lose any of your listing or blog data, but you will need to setup some settings again. This is because version 4 is developed on Templatic framework while the previous versions were simply stand-alone products.

To upgrade your existing GeoPlaces v3 theme, we recommend you first export all your listing and blog data in CSV format. (How to export data from GeoPlaces v3 or older)
You will require posts/events/place data as well as the city data exported as CSV files from site running older GeoPlaces version.
Now activate the new GeoPlaces v4 theme and proceed to import your data. Go to wp-admin > GeoPlaces > Advanced Settings > Bulk upload. Here, upload the data as required. Remember that, you are required to import city data individually. Then, proceed towards making further changes to your site.

How to find Category ID ?

To know the category ID, just go to Posts > Categories and hover your mouse over the category name E.g. Attractions. and notice its URL, it would be something like id=3. This 3 is your category ID.

Which permalink structure can I use with this theme?

To change Permalink strucutre go to Settings > Permalinks.

You can use only two types of Permalinks with Geoplaces theme.

1. Default
2. Custom Structure: In “custom structure”, you can only use “/%postname%” permalink.

Please ensure that you don’t use any other permalink, other than these two.

Misc. Settings

How to add a new Blog Post

Login to WordPress admin and click on Posts > Add New

1. Blog Post Title
2. Description
3. Geo Places Custom Settings > Detail page image position setting
4. Select a Category. Note: It should be your Blog category.
5. Select Your Featured Image

Blog listing page

Use the required widgets in the ‘Blog Listings-Sidebar’ region to show appropriate widgets on the blog listing page.

Blog detail page

Use the required widgets in the ‘Blog Details-Sidebar’ region to show appropriate widgets on the blog listing page.

How to add a new Page and use Page Templates

Now lets add a new page. Go to Pages > Add New.

1. Enter the page title
2. Enter the page description
3. And finally select the template and click on “Publish”.

There are 6 page templates which you can use namely:

1. Archives
2. Full Page
3. Homepage
4. Post Listing Form
5. Right Sidebar
6. Sitemap

Don’t forget to visit Helpdesk or Support Forum if you have any queries, after all we’re here to help you.