To have a fully working menu, you need to create your menu via Appearance - Menus and select the menu you created as "The Main Menu".

For more information about menus please scroll down to "Menu" section.

You can add intro text in the front page through the Theme Options Panel, under General tab.

If you are using the Visual editor, you can increase the space between paragraphs or elements by creating two line breaks using "Enter/Return" key.

If you are using the HTML editor, you can use

 

Images in the galleries and are generated using TimThumb. If you receive an error for the automatically generated thumbnails or if they are not being generated at all, please check folder permissions of cache folder in functions/img_resize are set to 777. If you continue to have the issue please contact your hosting provider.

If you don't want to display your full posts in the blog, you can specify text to be excerpted using the "more" button in the text editor.

You can enter your social media profile URLs through "Social" tab in the theme options panel, and display icons by using the following shortcode:

[social_links]

To enable social sharing on posts like on the live preview, you can use Social Sharing Toolkit plugin [Source]. After installing the plugin you can edit its settings through Settings - Social Sharing Toolkit and choose where to display the buttons under General Settings tab.

Please make sure you enable "Open Graph" through "Advanced Settings" for the thumbnails to be displayed in Facebook shares. But you also need to assign featured images to each of your posts for this to work.

To be able to use Socialike Wordpress, you need to install Wordpress on your server. If you don't know how to do it, please visit: http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress

You have two options to install the theme:

1. FTP: Please unzip the socialike.zip that is inside the theme directory of the theme package and upload it into wp-content/themes.
2. Wordpress: Or you can simply upload the "socialike.zip" that is inside the theme directory, using "Appearance - Add New Themes - Upload" in Wordpress admin.

After uploading the theme you need to activate it from "Appearance - Themes"

There are two plugins available in the theme package under sources/plugins folder. They are:

1. Soundcloud: soundcloud-is-gold.zip (Optional)
2. FB LinkedIn Resume: fb-linkedin-resume.zip (Optional)

If you are not planning to use SoundCloud or LinkedIn social pages, then you are not obliged to install these plugins.

We recommend you install the dummy content which will guide you on creating posts and pages compatible to Socialike Wordpress theme.

But please note that before installing the dummy content you must delete your existing posts and you must have the WooTumblog plugin installed. So if you still haven't installed WooTumblog plugin please do that first.

To import the dummy content please go to "Tools - Import - Wordpress" and browse for dummy-content/dummy-content.xml in template package. Then after the upload, don't forget to check "Download and import file attachments" under Important attachments.

You can create a menu from Appearance - Menus in Wordpress admin. If you don't know how to create Wordpress 3.0 Menus please watch the video below or read here.

To have a fully working menu, you need to create your menu via Appearance - Menus and select the menu you created as "The Main Menu" at top left.

You can apply your own colors to the elements via the Styling tab in the theme options panel.

You can apply different colors to different buttons using the button shortcode (See Shortcode Generator - Buttons for more info). But if you don't apply any colors in the shortcode generator, the buttons will have the colors selected in Appearance - Theme Options - Styling - Default Button. Note that the form submit buttons use these default colors.

You can choose the fonts you want to use in Appearance - Theme Options - Typography and also apply the font-size and line-height values of your own choice to the elements.

There 27 background image options available in the theme. You can choose the one you would like to use via Appearance - Theme Options - Background. Or you can upload your own background image through Appearance - Background.

To create a standard post format, you will need to select Standard through the Format box in Posts - Add New.

To create a post using image post format, first you will need to select Image through the Format box in Posts - Add New.

Then you will need to upload your image using the Add media button and select this image as the featured image.

If you upload an image with 660px of width or higher, it will be displayed as full size in the blog (without margins). But if you upload one that has a smaller width, then it will be displayed aligned left with margins.

If you would like to display multiple images then you will need to use the "Gallery" post format.

To create a post using gallery post format, first you will need to select Gallery through the Format box in Posts - Add New.

Then you will need to upload your images using the Add media button. After the upload is finished close the image upload dialog box. (Please avoid pressing Insert gallery button)

If you select one of the images as the featured image, then this image will be displayed as the post thumbnail in popular posts widget. Adding a featured image is simple. Open your post in Wordpress post editor and click on "Set Featured Image" on right hand corner and upload your image. Then click on "Use as Featured Image".

Images in the gallery slider are generated using TimThumb. If you receive an error for the automatically generated images or if they are not being generated at all, please check folder permissions of cache folder in functions/img_resize are set to 777. If you continue to have the issue please contact your hosting provider.

To create a post using video post format, first you will need to select Video through the Format box in Posts - Add New.

Then you will need to paste the video embed code into the Video Embed Code field.

To create a post using audio post format, first you will need to select Audio through the Format box in Posts - Add New.

If you would like to insert a self hosted audio file, you need to have both .mp3 and .ogg formats of your audio file. You can use, http://media.io/, online audio converter to convert your audio files.

After uploading your .mp3 and .ogg files in your server you need to paste their URLs into the "Audio .mp3 URL" and "Audio .ogg URL" meta boxes in the post editor.

You also have the option to embed songs from SoundCloud instead of self hosted audio files. Simply paste the embed code into the SoundCloud meta box.

To get the embed code in SoundCloud, click on the Share button in the song player, and copy the Embed Code:

To create a post using quote post format, first you will need to select Quote through the Format box in Posts - Add New.

Then you will need enter the quote in the Quote field.

If you would like to enter quote author, please use the Quote Author field.

To create a post using chat post format, first you will need to select Chat through the Format box in Posts - Add New.

Then you will need to wrap each participant with list tag, so the dialog can be displayed in the chat format style.

To create a post using link post format, first you will need to select Link through the Format box in Posts - Add New.

Then you will need to add the link you would like to share in the Link URL field. Please make sure you have "http://" at the beginning of the URL.

Creating a gallery page is similar to creating a post with gallery post format.

You will need to upload your images using the Add media button. After the upload is finished close the image upload dialog box. (Please avoid pressing Insert gallery button) and that's it.

Differently from the gallery format, in the gallery pages, you have the option to choose number of columns of thumbnails. You can pick number of columns (5, 4, or 3) with the Gallery Columns meta box in the page editor.

Thumbnails in the galleries are generated using TimThumb. If you receive an error for the automatically generated thumbnails or if they are not being generated at all, please check folder permissions of cache folder in functions/img_resize are set to 777. If you continue to have the issue please contact your hosting provider.

By default, the homepage will display your latest posts (and you can enter your intro from Theme Options Panel, under General tab).

If you would like to make some other page your homepage, you will need to select this page as Front Page Displays in Settings - Reading.

Please leave "Posts page" blank.

You can find an example contact page in dummy content named "Contact". You can add your own email to the existing form shortcode by editing the email address:

If you would like to add different fields to the contact form and create your own form using the "forms" shortcode in shortcode generator. Please scroll down to Shortcode Generator - Forms to find out information about creating forms using the shortcode generator.

If your hosting requires SMTP authentication, you can enter your STMP details in Appearance - Theme Options - Contact. If you don't know your SMTP details, please contact your hosting provider.

You can change the success/error messages of the forms from Appearance - Theme Options - Contact

To display a Google map at top of the contact page, you need to enter Google map shortcode in Appearance - Theme Options - Contact.

You can find an example Dribbble page in dummy content. If you haven't installed the dummy content then please create a new page and select Dribbble Page as the page template. Then go to "Appearance - Theme Options - Social Pages" and enter your Dribbble username so your latest Dribbble shots are drawn into this page.

You can find an example Flickr page in dummy content. If you haven't installed the dummy content then please create a new page and select Flickr Page as the page template. Then go to "Appearance - Theme Options - Social Pages" and enter your Flickr ID so your latest images in Flickr are drawn into this page.

To find out your Flickr ID please go to IDgettr (click →).

You can find an example Lastfm page in dummy content. If you haven't installed the dummy content then please create a new page and select Lastfm Page as the page template. Then go to "Appearance - Theme Options - Social Pages" and enter your last.fm username so the songs you recently listened in last.fm are drawn into this page.

In order to have a LinkedIn page, first you need to install FB LinkedIn Resume plugin (fb-linkedin-resume.zip) which is inside the sources/plugins folder of the theme package. After activating the plugin, go to Settings - FB LinkedIn Resume in Wordpress admin and enter your LinkedIn username.

If you have installed the dummmy content you should have a page called LinkedIn which will now draw the data from your LinkedIn account. If you haven't installed the dummy content then please create a new page and select LinkedIn Page as the page template.

Please make sure you install the plugin that is inside the theme package. Because it contains custom changes to be compatible with Socialike theme. If an update of the plugin is released, please contact us before upgrading.

In order to have a SoundCloud page, first you need to install SoundCloud plugin (soundcloud.zip) which is inside the sources/plugins folder of the theme package. After activating the plugin, go to SoundCloud is Gold in Wordpress admin and enter your Soundcloud username. You can also change the settings of the player on this page.

If you have installed the dummmy content you should have a page called SoundCloud. If you haven't installed the dummy content then please create a new page and select Soundcloud Page as the page template.

When you click on orange Souncloud button in the page editor, you will notice that all of the audio files from your Soundcloud account. You can copy the shortcode of any music file and paste it in the post editor.

First of all to create a custom sidebar go to Appearance - Sidebar Generator and click on Add Sidebar.

Go to Appearance - Widgets to insert widgets to your new custom sidebar.

Lastly, to make this custom sidebar to appear on a post/page, go to post/page editor and select the custom sidebar you just created as the Sidebar of the post/page.

If you haven't created any custom sidebars the default sidebar will be in use in every post/page.

The below screencast shows how you can create and use a custom sidebar:

If you would like to show thumbnails of posts on the popular posts widget, you will need to assign featured images to each of your posts. Adding a featured image is simple. Open your post in Wordpress post editor and click on "Set Featured Image" on right hand corner and upload your image. Then click on "Use as Featured Image"

To translate the theme, you need to find the file named en_EN.po located in the languages folder inside the theme folder. Open it.

From this point, you must go through every line of text and translate it to your language.

You must first click the text string you want to translate. Then, you type it in your language at the bottom of the screen.

Once you’ve translated the theme, you’ll want to save it two times. Once as a .po file and once as as .mo file. You must save this according to your language code. A list of language codes can be found here: http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_in_Your_Language.

For example, French is fr_FR, so you need to save the translation as fr_FR.po first. Then, you need to save it as fr_FR.mo

To use a translation, you first need to add the .mo and .po files to languages directory of the theme folder.

Then, you’ll need to make sure your wp-config.php file matches your language files.

For example, if using a French translation, you’ll need to add the fr_FR.po and fr_FR.mo files to languages folder. Then, you’ll want to set your language in wp-config.php, like this:

define ('WPLANG', 'fr_FR');

Once you save that file, the theme will be in your language.

• Superfish: [Source]
• jQuery Tools: [Source]
• Fancybox: [Source]
• Masonry: [Source]
• jRibbble: [Source]
• Lastfm: [Source]
• Fitvids: [Source]
• Flexslider: [Source]
• Selectnav: [Source]
• Audio Player: [Source]
• LinkedIn plugin: [Source]
• SoundCloud plugin: [Source]

• Meta: [Source]
• Social Media: [Source]
• Music: [Source]

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