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Installing Neuro Pro
If this is your first WordPress theme, this section will walk you through the steps necessary to install Neuro Pro.
First login to WordPress. Typically located at http://www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin
Once logged in press the “Appearance” tab in the left-hand menu of WP-Admin Dashboard and press “Themes”. Then press the “Install Themes” tab at the top of the page.
Next, press the “Upload” tab and press the “Choose File” button and browse to the location where you downloaded neuropro.zip. Once the file has been selected, press the “Install Now” button. Once the theme has been uploaded, and installed, simply activate the theme and you are ready to begin using Neuro Pro.
Did this documentation not suffice? Have more questions? Please post a support topic in the forum. http://cyberchimps.com/forum/pro/neuro-pro/
Setting the Neuro Pro Homepage
To set the Neuro Pro Homepage layout, and template create a new Page for example called “Home” then use the instructions above to assign the Page the Neuro Pro Homepage template. Then create a new Page titled “Blog” or whatever you would like to name your Blog page to be named (no need to select a template here).
Once you have created a “Blog” Page and assigned the Page “Home” with the Neuro Pro Homepage template then go to your WP-Admin dashboard, on the left-hand side locate “Settings” expand the menu, and select “Reading”.
Once you are on the “Reading Settings” page, under “Front page displays” select “A static page (select below).” Then select the Page you created that has your Neuro Pro Homepage template selected (“Home”).
Now under “Post page” select the Page that will display your standard WordPress blog. Simply select the “Blog” Page we created earlier, hit “Save Changes” at the bottom, and your Homepage is now using the Neuro Pro Homepage template, and your Blog can be found on your “Blog” Page.
For more info:
http://cyberchimps.com/forum-topic/how-to-create-a-static-frontpage-and-separate-blog-page/
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Using the Menu
For complete control over Neuro Pro’s Menu, we highly recommend using the WordPress menu system. By default, any page you make becomes a link in the menu.
To begin creating your own custom menu, visit Appearance > Menus while logged into WP-Admin. Assign a name for your menu (navigation for example) and begin adding your menu items by using the options available to you in the left-hand menu. You can either make your own custom links by entering in the URL and the Label (the text that will actually show up in the menu), or by selecting and adding currently existing pages.
You may then drag and drop each item to re-order them, or to create your own custom drop-down menus by dragging pages under a parent page. Once you are done creating your menu, select it from the Header Menu drop-down list and press save menu. Now your new custom menu will appear in your menu.
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How to Use the Widgets
Neuro Pro offers several Widgetized areas using WordPress’s built-in Widget dashboard. Neuro Pro offers Sidebar Widgets, Widget Boxes, and Footer Widgets.
To make changes to Widgets go to the Appearance tab in WP-Admin, and select “Widgets”.
Grab the widgets you wish to use into the designated area to the right within the Widgets dashboard.
Sidebar Widgets
Sidebar Widgets supports multiple Widgets, simply drag and drop them in the order you would like and they will display on sidebar section of your website.
Widget Boxes
The Widget Boxes are currently only for the Neuro Pro Homepage template and are on by default.
To put a Widget in the left box place the Widget in “Box Left” of the Widget dashboard area, to place a Widget in the middle place a widget in “Box Middle” of the Widget dashboard area, to place a Widget in the right box place the Widget in “Box Right” of the Widget dashboard area.
Footer Widgets
The Footer also uses Widgets, and supports up to 4 widgets that are displayed horizontally left-to-right. Simply drag and drop them in the order you would like and they will display in Widgetized Footer area of your website.
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Using the Neuro Pro Settings Page in WP-Admin
In order to begin customizing your install of Neuro Pro, click on “Neuro Pro” just above Appearance in the left-hand menu of WP-Admin. Here you will find eight different option categories: “Design” “Header”, “Blog”, “Templates”, “Footer” and “Import/Export”. To edit one of these categories, simply click the tab you wish to edit.
When you are done editing your options, press the “Save Options” button. If you ever want to revert back to the default Neuro Pro settings, press the “Restore Defaults” button at the bottom of the page (this will delete all of your settings so make sure you backed up all of your setting information separately). There you will also find links to the official Neuro Pro support forum and the web version of this documentation.
Continue reading for a detailed explanation of the settings within each option category.
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Blog Options
Drag & Drop Blog Element:
Drag & Drop Elements provides an easy and powerful way to control the availability and order of elements displayed on pages individually.
To access the Blog Options, in your WordPress Administration Panels go to Appearance > Neuro Pro > Neuro Pro Options > Blog
To enable an “Inactive Element” section on your Blog:
- Drag and drop the Inactive Element to the “Active Elements”. It will now be activated. Please note that you can control where it appears by its location among the other active elements. Simply drag and drop the Active Element above or below other Active Elements.
- Once you have the Active Element in place, you will now have access to the Active Element Options.
- To disable the Active Element section for that Page, drag and drop the Active element to “Inactive Elements” or click on the minus “-” symbol to the left of the Active Element.
- Click “Save Options” when done.
Please note that these elements are best utilized when your Blog is your home page. If you have a static home page, then it would be better to utilize the available elements for a Page. Which are accessible when editing the page. To make your Blog (Your latest posts) your home page go to Settings > Reading > Front page displays and select “Your latest posts”.
FYI: The “Post Page” Element is a just a place holder. It is available so that you can place an Active Element above or below your posts. Beyond that it has NO functionality.
Neuro Free comes with two Elements. The “Callout Section” and the “Feature Slider”.
Blog Options:
Blog Options allow you to control the Post layout. Including sidebar location, posts excerpts, featured images, and meta data like Author name.
To access the Blog Options, in your WordPress Administration Panels go to Appearance > Neuro Pro > Neuro Pro Options > Blog > Blog Options.
- Sidebar Options – Select the image that represents the sidebar configuration you would like to use. The options are: No Sidebar, Sidebar Right, Sidebar Left, Two Sidebar Right and Sidebar Left and Right.
- Post Formats Icons – On/Off default is Off. To read more about Post Formats go here http://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Formats. The icons are: aside, audio, chat, default, gallery, image, link, quote, status, and video.
- Post Excerpts – On/Off default is Off. When set to “On”, two options will appear below which allow you to customize the Post Excerpt. A Post Excerpt is a summary or brief teaser of your post.
- Read More Text – Allows you to customize the link text. Default is “Read More…”.
- Excerpt Length – Allows you to customize the length of the excerpt before the link appears. Default is 55 characters.
- Featured Images – On/Off default is Off. Use this to enable or disable the use of post featured images
- Featured Image Alignment – Left/Center/Right. Default is Left.
- Featured Image Height – Set the desired height in px (pixels). 100 is the default.
- Featured Image Width – Set the desired width in px (pixels). 100 is the default.
- Post Byline Author – On/Off default is Off. Use this to show or hide the Author meta data. SEO recommendation is On.
- Post Byline Categories – On/Off default is Off. Use this to show or hide the Category meta data. SEO recommendation is On.
- Post Byline Date – On/Off default is Off. Use this to show or hide the post Date creation meta data. SEO recommendation is On.
- Post Byline Comments – On/Off default is Off. Use this to show or hide the comments meta data. SEO recommendation is On.
- Post Byline Tags – On/Off default is Off. Use this to show or hide the Tags meta data. SEO recommendation is On.
- Click “Save Options” when done.
Please note that the Post Byline meta data are often considered SEO tools. Also, if none of these features are working correctly on you Blog Home/Front page, please check your settings under Appearance > Neuro Pro > Neuro Pro Options > Templates > Archive
Feature Slider:
Here you can upload images for the slider that you have set for your Blog or enter the URL of the image. You also have the option to include a hyperlink for the image when the user clicks on it.
Did this documentation not suffice? Have more questions? Please post a support topic in the forum. http://cyberchimps.com/forum/pro/neuro-pro/
Custom CSS
Using Custom CSS
Custom CSS can be used to further change the visual aspects of Neuro Pro to your liking. Some knowledge of CSS is useful, but is not required to begin using this option. We highly recommend using one of the following tools to help you determine the necessary CSS selectors to apply your custom changes: Firebug (http://getfirebug.com/) or Inspect Element (available in Google Chrome or Apple’s Safari).
Finding the selector
(note for this example we will be using Inspect Element)
Let’s say you want to change the color of the site name that is displayed in the top left corner of the header. Right click on the text and press inspect element. A new panel will open up at the bottom of your screen as shown above. The left side shows the HTML code that actually calls each element, and the right side shows the CSS class or ID. From there you would learn that the selector controlling the color is “.sitename a”. So, to change the color one would enter the following in Custom CSS:
.sitename a {color: red;}
Now the site name will display as red.
This is just one example, but there is really no limit to what you can accomplish with Custom CSS.
For more CSS resources, we recommend the following links:
http://htmlhelp.com/reference/css/
http://www.htmldog.com/guides/cssbeginner/
You may also post questions in the Neuro Pro Customization forum for help in achieving your desired customizations.
http://cyberchimps.com/forum/customization/
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Using the Neuro Pro Slider
To use custom slides with the Feature Slider you’ll need to create them first.
In your WordPress Administration Panels go to “Feature Slides”
You should see three options. Feature Slides, Add New, and Slide Categories. You will also see Re-Order if you have the Post Types Order Plugin (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/post-types-order/) to control the order of your custom slides.
Before you create a slide, it would be best if you create at least one category. You can always create one or more later, but it’s best if you create one before you create the custom slide, that way you’ll have it ready when you create the custom slide. It’s also best that you categorize your slides in a naming convention that’s easy for you to relate with your slides. Like “news”, products”, or even something like Feature Slide Category 1.
To create a category you’ll need to select “Slide Categories” 
- Name – Give your Slide Category a Name
- Slug – Give your Slide Category a Slug (by default WordPress will use the “Name” that was used above if nothing is inserted).
- Parent – Select a Parent category if one is available. If you haven’t created any categories, there will only be the “None” option.
- Description – Give your Slide Category if a Description if you like. Can be left blank if you so choose.
- Click “Add New Slide Category”
Now create your Slide(s)
- Select Feature Slides
- Select “Add New”. Under “Add New Post” enter the title for your slide.
- Next you’ll see the “Custom Slide Options”.
- Custom Slide Caption – Insert the text that you would like to appear at the bottom of the slider image.
- Custom Slide Link – Insert the URL of the post/page that you want the image to link to here. For example, if it’s your contact page, something similar to http://www.example.com/contact-us/ would go there.
- Custom Slide Image – Here you can add an image with the built in media uploader. Select “Choose File” than navigate to the file or you can manually enter the URL of the image location (if you have an image in your “uploads” directory you can insert the URL there).
- Slide Title Bar – On/Off. Default is On. Here you can display the title that you set earlier if you choose to. If you do not want it to show, then set this to “Off”.
- Custom Thumbnail – If you are using thumbnails with your slider, you have the option of uploading a custom thumbnail for your slide (thumbnails are generated from the slider image by default).
Slides are ordered chronologically by the post date. The newest slide will display first.
If you would like to Re-Order your custom slides, just go to Slides > Re-Order (Post Type Order plugin installation and activation required http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/post-types-order/). From there you can drag and drop your custom slides in any order, regardless of the order that they were created in.
Once you have these created you’ll then be able to activate the Feature Slider element within the page where you would like for it to appear.
To enable the Feature Slider section on Pages, navigate to that particular Edit Page in your WordPress Administration Panels by first selecting the “Pages” option directly under the “Links” option.
- Look for “Page Options”. Within that you should see “Page Elements”.
- Drag and drop the “Feature Slider” Inactive Element to the “Active Elements”. It will now be activated. Please note that you can control where it appears by its location among the other active elements. Simply drag and drop the “Feature Slider” Element above or below other Active Elements.
- Once you have the “Feature Slider” element active, you will have access to the “Neuro Pro Slider Options”. See below.
- Select Slider Type – Custom Slides/Blog Posts. Default is Custom Slides
- Custom Slide Category – Choose from the slider categories that you created earlier.
- Number of Featured Blog Posts – Default is 5.
- Slider Height – In pixels (px). Default is 330.
- Slider Delay Time (MS) – In milliseconds. 1000 milliseconds = 1 second. Default is 3500.
- Slider Animation Type – Choose how you would like your slider to animate. Horizontal-Push (default), Fade, Horizontal-Slide, Vertical Slide.
- Slider Caption Style – Choose where you would like your slider caption to be displayed. None (default), Bottom, Left, Right.
- Navigation Arrows –On/Off. Default is On. Choose whether or not you would like to display directional arrows on your slider.
- WordThumb Image Resizing – On/Off. Default is Off. This was provided in case you’re having issues with the sizes of your slider images. It is recommended to leave this off. (Due to issues in the past this feature will be depreciated and therefor is no longer recommended.)
- To disable the “Feature Slider” section for that Page, drag and drop the “Feature Slider” element to “Inactive Elements” or click on the minus “-” symbol to the left of the word “Feature Slider”.
- Click “Update” when done.
Did this documentation not suffice? Have more questions? Please post a support topic in the forum. http://cyberchimps.com/forum/pro/neuro-pro/
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