Documentation

Important Note:

We highly recommend swapping content when installing this theme. Swapping content will erase your sites current data while adding this themes content.

 

Blocks included in this theme:

Simple Contacts Block - Adds email, phone and mobile numbers with icons in an area. This block is ideal for the header.

Page List custom template - Display pages with thumbnails. This block is used on the home page.

Weather Forecast Block - Adds weather details in an area. Shows humidity, wind, temperature, and icons corresponding the the current weather. This block is installed on the right side bar. You can edit it and enter the location.

Image content 2 - Adds a media box type block that asks for image and content. It displays the content by putting the image on the left hand side and the content on the right.

Basic Gallery Block - Adds a gallery block to your area.

Aqua Slider - A custom made slider that goes well with this theme. A sample of this slider is found on the homepage.

Social Connections - Adds social icons with link in an area.

 

Making the most out of this theme.

Add this to your package folder and install. When asked if you want to install this theme contents to your site, we strongly recommend you do so unless you have important content on your site. Swapping contents basically means wiping your site's data and replacing it with the content this theme has.

 

Customizing the theme.

 

 

Using Courses Custom page list

Go to the pages you want to be displayed with the custome page list feature and click properties and go to custom attributes. You should see a thumbnail attribute. Choose an image with the same width and height (square) as the thumbnail.

Go to the area you want the pagelist block to show and click add block and choose pagelist. choose the right options to show the pages you have with the thumbnail. Once the page list block is shown, click it again and click custom template and choose courses page list. The image below should show you how it should look like after.

 

How to setup composer for blog

Read this guide before following the steps below: Setup Composer on Concrete5

Be sure to include tags as attributes for your composer.

Make sure to use Blog Page as your composer. After clicking default on the Blog Page page type you should see an Thumbnail Image area. Add an image block to this area and choose any image that would be appropriate as default thumbnail for your blog pages. After applying the image click the block and choose Custom Template. Tick on Include block in composer. Enter a name for your Block name, you can use Blog Image. For custom composer template choose Thumbnail.

Do the same steps for creating your blog header. Make sure the header is not inside the Thumbnail Image Area. After doing the steps choose Header when selecting the setting for custom composer template.

Do the same steps for the blog content. Again, make sure its inside the Main Area.

Now after everything has been setup you should be able to use the composer in the dashboard.