Table of Contents
- Installation
- Install Theme Using WordPress Dashboard
- Install Theme by Using cPanel
- Install Theme Manually Using FTP
- Front Page & Posts Page Settings
- Navigation Menus
- Theme Panel
- General
- Top Bar
- Homepage
- Events Settings
- Albums Settings
- Videos Settings
- Galleries Settings
- Artists Settings
- Blog Settings
- Footer Settings
- Contact Us Settings
- 404 Page
- Social Profiles
- Twitter API
- Custom CSS
- Import / Export Options
- Events Manager
- Albums Manager
- Artists Manager
- Blog Posts
- Page Templates
- Custom Widgets
- Jetpack Plugin
Installation
- Install Theme Using WordPress Dashboard (Recommend)
- Download the theme file “ta-music.zip” to your local machine.
- Log in to the WordPress Dashboard. Select the Appearance panel, then Themes. Select Upload Theme. Upload the “ta-music.zip” file and install it.
- Active the theme.
- Install Theme by Using cPanel
- Download the theme file “ta-music.zip” to your local machine.
- In cPanel File Manager, navigate to your themes folder. If your WordPress is installed in the document root folder of your web server you would navigate to “public_html/wp-content/themes” and if you have WordPress installed in a sub-folder called wordpress, you would navigate to “public_html/wordpress/wp-content/themes”.
- Once you’ve navigated to the themes folder in cPanel File Manager, click on Upload file(s) and upload the “ta-music.zip” file you saved.
- Once the theme file is uploaded, click on the name of that file in cPanel, then in the panel to the right, click on “Extract File Contents”, and that .zip file will be uncompressed.
- Log in to the WordPress Dashboard. Select the Appearance panel, then Themes. Active the theme just uploaded.
- Install Theme Manually Using FTP
- Download the theme file “ta-music.zip” and extract the files it contains.
- Using an FTP client to access your host web server. Upload the theme directory “ta-music” to the “wp-content/themes” directory on your host server.
- Once the theme directory is uploaded. Log in to the WordPress Dashboard. Select the Appearance panel, then Themes. Active the theme just uploaded.
Front Page & Posts Page Settings
- Set Front Page
- Go to: Pages → Add New.
- Add a page title (ex. ‘FrontPage’)
- Go to: Page Attributes → Template just below the publish module to select the FrontPage template.
- Publish the page.
- Next, go to: Settings → Reading → Front Page Displays and select the Static Page > Front Page as your newly created FrontPage (instead of the recent posts setting).
- Save changes.
- Set Posts Page
Create a new page using the Blog template and set it as the “Posts Page”.
Navigation Menus
Here you can define a menu to this location. Before you can assign a menu, you first need to create a menu via the Appearances → Menus system. Once your menu has been created, you will have the option to select it from the Primary Menu dropdown field in the customizer. The primary menu is display in the primary header area, to the right of your logo.
Theme Panel
- General Settings
- Top Bar
- Homepage
- Events Settings
- Albums Settings
- Videos Settings
- Galleries Settings
- Artists Settings
- Blog Settings
- Google Map Settings
- Enter your address in the search box at Google Maps.
- Click the setting icon in the bottom right corner and select share or embed map.
- Select embed map option and copy the iFrame code.
- 404 Page
- Twitter API
- The first thing you need to do to get your Twitter API key is to create a Twitter Application. Visit apps.twitter.com and login to your Twitter account. Then just fill out the basic information for the application and it’s ready to be published.
- Now that you’ve created your application, Twitter has assigned you a few data points to work with.
- Custom CSS
- Import / Export Options
Here you can upload site logo and favicon, and choose your favourite color scheme.
Here you can enable/disable various modules of site header, such as Login & Register Module, Social Module, Search Module and so on.
Here you can set Header Slider and Features sections. Upload your background image for Header Slider module. Select to enable/disable display Features module. Set Header Slider and Features Box with drag and drop sortings.
Here you can set layouts for .
Here you can set layouts for Albums Listing Page.
Here you can set layouts for Videos Listing Page.
Here you can set layouts for Galleries Listing Page.
Here you can set layouts for Artists Listing Page.
Here you can set layouts for Blog Listing Page.
Here you can set site copyright information.
How to Embed a Google Map with iFrame.
Here you can set information for 404 page.
Here you can arrange your social icons and add URLs to your social profiles. The social icons will be displayed on your footer.
In order to use the Twitter API Key to pull tweets from your Twitter in the theme, you’ll need to create a Twitter Application through your account. It may seem super-technical, but it’s actually very simple to do.
You must create a personal Access Token and Secret key to allow you to unlock personal account functions with your application – just click “Create Access Token” and Twitter will add these data points as well.
Here you can arrange your social icons and add URLs to your social profiles. The social icons will be displayed on your footer.
Here you can insert any custom CSS to the theme using the ACE Editor, which offers the ability to edit back-end code in an easy to use and easy to read embedded interface. Also ACE Editor offers real-time checking for code accuracy.
Here you can back up and restore your options data in one of three ways: raw data, file and URL.
Events Manager
- Add A Event Post
- Go to: Events → Add New.
- Add a title.
- Add text in the content area to describe your event.
- Add some tags in the Event Tags area.
- Add some additional information in the Event Metabox area. Configure dates, time, location, map ticket supply.
- Click Set Featured Image and upload your image(s) and set one as the featured image.
- Click Publish.
The event section uses a custom post type called Event. This is how you add a new event post:
Albums Manager
- Add An Album Post
- Go to: Posts → Add New.
- Select “Audio” on the right Format area.
- Add a title.
- Add text in the content area to describe the album.
- Add some tags in the Tags area.
- Add some additional information in the Album Post Metabox area. You can add Release Date, buy links and upload tracks. If you want to embedded playlist from other music sites such as SoundCloud, just copy the code and paste it.
- Click Set Featured Image and upload your image(s) and set one as the featured image.
- Click Publish.
The album post uses a custom post type called Audio. This is how you add a new album post:
Artists Manager
- Add Artist Page
- Go to: Pages → Add New.
- Add a page title (ex. ‘Artists’)
- Go to: Page Attributes → Template just below the publish module to select the Artists Page template.
- Publish the page.
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After you created the page, you need to set it as Artists page via Theme Panel → Artists Settings.
- Edit Artist Information
- Go to: Users → Select user to edit.
- Add a brief description in Biographical Info area.
- Upload your Avatar if you don’t want to use Gravatar.
- Add some social links and skills.
- Add the full biography for the artist.
TA Music provides various options for artist information. This is how to edit artist biography:
Blog Posts
- Standard Post
- Video Post
- Gallery Post
This is the default option. It will automatically include a featured image at the top of the post. It’s simply a standard post that shows article text.
All you need to do is to select video format, and paste the embed code in one of the two fields below the large text box.
Shows all images attached to the post as a slider at the top of the article. Simply upload images to a specific post in WordPress, and select the “Gallery” post format, and it will automatically turn into a nice slider. It also smoothly resizes the slider height depending on each image’s size. Images will only show up if attached to the post.
Page Templates
- Go to Pages → Add New.
- Go to Page Attributes panel in the right sidebar.
- Select a Template.
- Full Width Page Template
A full width page template without the sidebar, you can view the demo page here.
Custom Widgets
The TA Music theme includes various Custom Widgets which are ready to use:
- Post Tabs Widget
- Tweets Widget
- Quick Links Widget
This widget displays popular posts, recent posts and comments in tabbed format.
Add a widget to your sidebar to show your latest tweet(s) with style. Retweet, Favorite and Reply links are available.
Adds a WordPress widget that allows your users to sign up for your MailChimp mailing list. Please visit MailChimp Knowledge Base to get your Signup Form URL, User ID and List ID.
Add one of your custom menu as a link list widget.
Jetpack Plugin
The Related Posts feature pulls relevant content from your blog to display at the bottom of your posts. To start using Related Posts, head to the Jetpack page in your dashboard and click the Activate button for Related Posts.
Sharing adds buttons to your posts that your readers can use to share your content on popular social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and more!