Executive Pro theme SetUp

A video and screen-shot guide for the Executive Pro theme

This step by step how-to video guide is designed to help you to setup the StudioPress Executive Pro theme. Jump to first video

Add your own logo, site name and tagline

(Executive Pro theme does not show the tagline)

Add your title and tagline

Go to Settings > General
then…
Type your site title and tagline text in the boxes SAVE your settings

Add your own image logo to Executive Pro theme

Go to Appearance > Header
Click the – Choose File – button
Navigate to your Desktop and find the logo you have made (make sure it’s 260 x 100 pixels in size)
Click the Upload button
Save your changes.

Navigation bar for Executive Pro theme

In the WordPress Dashboard go to…

Appearance > Menus
Click the text link that says Create a new menu
Type a name for your menu
Click the blue Create Menu button
On the left of your screen click Pages to open the drop-down
Click View All to see all of the web pages you’ve made (not blog posts)
Select any pages you want to appear in your menu
Click the Add to Menu button
Drag the menu items up or down to re arrange them, or drag in sideways to make a drop down list
Click Save Menu button

Before moving on, click the Manage Locations tab and make sure Primary Navigation Menu: and Secondary Navigation Menu: are both set to – Select a Menu –

Put navigation bar in header right widget area…

Go to Appearance > Widgets

Drag a Custom Menu widget in to the Header Right widget area
Select the menu you made from the drop down list
Click Save

In the WordPress Dashboard choose Appearance > Menus to set a menu for your Executive Pro theme

Type a name for your menu and click Save Menu button

Choose the pages you want to include in your menu then click the Add to Menu button

Your menu is now built so click the Save Menu button

Click Manage Locations and make sure primary and secondary menus say – Select a Menu

Drag a Custom Menu widget into the Header Right widget area. Select your menu form the drop-down list

Adding a slider to Executive Pro theme

Install the plugin

Go to Plugins > Add New

Search for Genesis Responsive Slider
Click – install now
Click the Activate link

Setup the slider

Go to Appearance > Widgets

Drag the Genesis – Responsive Slider widget into the Home – Slider widget area

Some important points…

The slider should now work BUT only…

IF – your 3 most recent blog posts have featured images. AND those featured images are1140px wide by 445px high.

Every time you add a new blog post to your site, it will automatically be used in the slider. And one of the old posts will be removed from the slider.

A better way to set up your slider…

Make a category called Slider
Make 3 blog posts. Assign these 3 posts to Slider category
Assign 1140 x 445px featured images to these 3 posts
Go to Genesis > Slider Settings and in the By Taxonomy and Terms: drop down choose -Slider

Now your slider will only display the 3 posts you chose. New and old blog posts will not affect your slider.

Go to Plugins > Add New and search for Genesis Responsive Slider

Click the Install Now link to install Genesis Responsive slider on your Executive Pro theme

Go to Appearance > Widgets and drag the Genesis - Responsive Slider widget into the Home- Slider widget area

Go to Genesis > Slider settings and look for By Taxonomy and Terms. Choose Slider category from the drop-down list

The slider settings should work straight out of the box

If you have problems, try clicking Reset Settings

The 6 clickable “teaser” widget areas on Executive Pro theme homepage

You will need…

6 pages NOT blog posts
With 300 x 100px featured images assigned to them

The settings…

Go to Appearance > Widgets
Drag the Genesis – Featured Page widget into the Home – Top widget area. Do this 3 times
Drag the Genesis – Featured Page widget into the Home – Middle widget area. Do this 3 times
Make sure you used Featured Page widgets. Not featured Post widgets

You now have 6 Featured Page widgets that need setting up. Open each widget, one at a time. And…

Type a Title:
Choose a page from the drop-down list
Tick “Show Featured image”
Image Size: featured (300×100)
Image Alignment: None
Do NOT tick Show Page Title tick box
Tick Show Page Content
Content Character Limit: 140
More Text: Red More…

Do this for all 6 featured page widgets.

Executive Pro theme uses the Featured Page widget to display 6 teaser boxes on the home page

Go to Appearance > Widgets and drag the Featured page widget into Home – Top widget area and Home – Middle widget area. Do this 3 times for each widget area.

These are the Featured page widget settings used on the StudioPress demo site for Executive Pro theme

The Call To Action box in Executive Pro theme

Go to WordPress Dashboard > Appearance > Widgets

Drag a Text Widget into Home – Call To Action widget area
Type your text or html in the text box
Click Save

The StudioPress demo site uses custom code for column classes and a CSS button. Click the link below for the code you need…

Call to Action code

Replace the # with your own link.

The Footer Widget area in Executive Pro theme

At the bottom of the Executive pro theme there is a black box with 3 columns of content.

A text widget, company profile
Recent posts widget showing 8 posts
Search and tag cloud widgets

To set these up, just…

Go to Appearance > Widgets
Drag any widget you like into Footer 1,2 and 3 widget areas. Then change any widget settings and configuration that’s needed.