Giornalismo

Installation

Via WordPress Admin

• From your sites admin, go to Themes > Install Themes.
• In the search box, type ‘Giornalismo’ and press enter.
• Locate the entry for ‘Giornalismo’ (there should be only one) and click the ‘Install’ link.
• When installation is finished, click the ‘Activate’ link.

Manual Install

• Download the file from the theme page.
• Unzip the file.
• Using an FTP client (I recommend FireZilla), upload the ‘giornalismo’ file to your WordPress theme folder. Make sure the file you upload simply says ‘Giornalismo’ with no numbers after it. Otherwise, it won’t work.
• Go into your WordPress Admin, navigate to ‘Appearance > Themes’.
• Find the Giornalismo listing on this page and click ‘Activate’.

Setting Up the Giornalismo Story Details Plugin

• In the WordPress Dashboard, go to Plugins->Add New.
• Search for “Giornalismo Story Details” and install and activate the plugin.
• In the post editor screen, the write panel should show up below the editor.
• For the YouTube video field, the link must be from the URL bar at the top of the browser. Please note that this is different than what is said in the tutorial video above.

Setting Up the JM Breaking News Plugin

• In the WordPress Dashboard, go to Plugins->Add New.
• Search for “JM Breaking News” and install and activate the plugin.
• Add a new breaking news post. The title is the text that will be on the banner. Add the link if there is one, determine if the link should open in a new window and set a time length for the banner to show on the site.

Setting Up the Extra User Details Plugin

• In the WordPress Dashboard, go to Plugins->Add New.
• Search for “Extra User Details” and install and activate the plugin.
• Go to Users->Extra User Details to add the extra fields.
• The field name can be anything you want it, but you must use the following meta keys for it to work: facebook, twitter-link, twitter-handle, google-plus and author-position.
• The fields will show up on the author’s profile page in the admin and the links will show up in the author bios on the front end once they are filled out.

Setting Up a Child Theme

When customizing a theme, the best practice is to create a child theme. This way, when you update the parent theme, all of your changes will still remain intact. Creating a child theme is very simple if you use the steps below.

• Using your preferred FTP client, navigate to the “themes” directy inside the “wp-content” directory and create a directory titled “giornalismo-child”.
• Once there, create a style.css file and add the following lines of code in there and save.

  /*
  Theme Name: Giornalimso Child
  Description: Child theme for Giornalismo theme
  Author: Giornalismo
  Template: giornalismo
  */

• Then create a functions.php file and add the following code and save.

  <?php function giornalismo_child_theme_styles() {
  wp_enqueue_style( 'main_css', get_stylesheet_uri() );
  }
  add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'giornalismo_child_theme_styles', 10 ); ?>

• Any template files, such as header.php or single.php, in this directory will override the parent template files. Any style changes will also override the parent theme.