You have chosen Ashford to build, customize and maintain your new web site. This tutorial provides you with a step-by-step tutorial for getting started.
What is the Welcome message?
This is an Administer InPlace feature of Ashford. If you install Ashford and are logged-in, you will see a blank slate “Welcome” (click on thumbnail to see sample). This screen will help you get your site built as quickly as possible.
When you are ready, you can turn off the Welcome message in the Theme Configurator.
- Dashboard → Design subpanel
- Click on Ashford BASIC subpanel
- “Display the WELCOME message” select No
- This will turn off the Welcome message
What are HINTS?
This is an Administer InPlace feature of Ashford. If you install Ashford and are logged-in, you will see HINTS. These HINTS will display instructions in place helping you quickly build your site.
When you are ready, you can turn off HINTS in the Theme Configurator.
- Dashboard → Design subpanel
- Click on “Ashford BASIC”
- For “Display the HINTS” select No
- This will turn off all the HINTS message.
How do set up the Ashford Theme Configurator?
If you are familiar with WordPress, this is also called “Theme Options” subpanel.
- Dashboard → Design subpanel
- Click on “Ashford BASIC”
- Enter values to customize your web site
- If you leave a field blank, it will not be activated (e.g. if you are not going to use Feedburner for your RSS feeds then you can leave this field blank)
Enter your background color
Select a hexadecimal color to change the default background color (#EDEDD1). The white transparent gradient fill at the top of the page works best with light colors.
Enter your Speed Dial category name
Select a category name (e.g. Features) to activate “Speed Dial”buttons. These buttons appear above the footer on every page. They are useful for highlighting content of immediate concern to your audience.
To to add a category
- Dashboard → Manage → Categories
- Click (add new) category
- Enter Category Name - this is the display name (e.g. category name used for Speed Dial on this site is “Featured Posts”)
- Enter Category Slug - this is used only by WordPress (e.g. featured-posts)
- Enter Description - not used by Ashford
- Click save
- Learn more »
Enter Feedburner URL
If you choose to use Feedburner to track your RSS feed, you can enter the URL (e.g. http://feeds.feedburner.com/ashfordwordpresstheme). It will be used throughout your site as the default RSS feed.
If you do not use Feedburner, you can leave this blank and the WordPress default feed will be used.
Enter Google Analytics code
If you choose to use Google Analytics, you can enter the code here. This will be appended automatically to all your sites pages so you can monitor the performance of your site.
Display HINTS
You can toggle on and off HINTS in the Theme Configurator.
- Dashboard → Design subpanel
- Click on “Ashford BASIC”
- For “Display the HINTS” select No
- This will turn off all the HINTS message.
Display the WELCOME Message
You can toggle on and off the Welcome message in the Theme Configurator.
- Dashboard → Design subpanel
- Click on Ashford BASIC subpanel
- “Display the WELCOME message” select No
- This will turn off the Welcome message
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