Ashford Pro

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You need Pro if…

  1. You are a developer looking for an modular, extensible framework
  2. You are an owner who wants total control
  3. You are an online professional that needs UNLIMITED SUPPORT to customize, build and grow your site(s)

Exclusive features

  • Unlimited email support for an unlimited number of sites
  • Ashford credits and links removed from footer text
  • Bundled with the new Ashford Pro Blogger page template
  • Bundled with the Ashford Lightbox Plug-in which automagically adds lighbox affects to images that you upload to posts or page. It even works using the WordPress gallery short code. See an example on our Ashford test site.
  • Bundled with a child theme starter kit for developers and online professions to customize their sites

Additional benefits

  • Get the latest release of Ashford and Ashford Pro
  • Buy it once and get access to all future Pro releases, upgrades and features
  • Automatically remove the default footer credits and links
  • Use it on an unlimited number of WordPress sites
  • Join the Ashford Pro Cohort Google Group for unlimited email support

Coming soon in the fall of 2009, there will be Ashford child themes available in our store. All existing and new Pro users will be able to buy these themes at a discount.

Activating Ashford Pro

Ashford Pro is child theme and is bundled with the base version Ashford. Both must be exist in your themes folder. Ashford Pro requires that you are running v0.5 of the base version of Ashford.

  1. Buy Ashford Pro
  2. Download and save Ashford Pro WinZip file (ashford_pro.zip)
  3. Log in to the WordPress
  4. Click the Appearance → Add New Themes → Upload
  5. Upload ashford.zip
  6. Upload ashford_pro.zip
  7. Click the Design panel menu tab
  8. From the Themes subpanel find Ashford in the Available Themes section
  9. Click Ashford Pro to make it your current them
  10. If this was successful, you will see Ashford Pro listed as your current theme and when you view the Ashford Options panel, you will see “You own and are running Ashford Pro”
  11. To view the new theme, click View Site at the top of the screen
  12. When Ashford Pro is active, the footer credits will not display

Activating the Ashford Lighbox Plugin

  1. Unzip the files it contains
  2. Using an FTP client to access your host web server
  3. Copy ashford_jquery_lighbox folder to the /wp-content/plugins folder
  4. Login to WordPress
  5. Click on Plugins panel
  6. Find the Ashford Lighbox plugin and click “Activate”

Click here to learn how to use Ashford Lighbox »