WordPress Club Themes
Affinity WordPress Theme
Affinity is the January 2010 release from RocketTheme and features great new widgets like RokStories and RokTabs, and brand new theme settings page giving you more freedom than ever!
The perfect compliment to its Joomla and PHPBB3 counterpart.
Features and Screenshots
- SEF Optimised Layout
- New Theme Settings Page
- RokTabs Widget
- RokStories Widget
- RokBox
- 6 Preset Styles - Light / Dark Variations
- Widget Variations
- 20 Widget Positions
- Fully translatable
- Stylish, Professional Typography
- IE6 Warning Message
- FF3.5, Opera 10, Safari 4, IE6,7,8 Compatible
- W3C XHTML 1.0 Transitional. W3C CSS 3 Valid
Source Ordered Layout
Affinity continues the latest trend of SEO optimised templates. The layout of the template has been constructed differently to the norm. A typical WordPress template, in regards to the mainbody source, will load the left column first, then the right column and finally the main column (where your main articles are loaded). Affinity takes a different approach and loads the main column code before the left and right columns. Therefore, this template loads in this order: Header, Menu, Showcase, Main Column, Left Column, Right Column, Bottom, Footer. This is perfect for SEO purposes as the search crawlers will find your main content before your subsidiary content in your side columns. This is a major step forward and will improve your search engine results for your pages.
Affinity Documentation
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Installation
Downloading the Theme Files
To install the theme, you only need one file:-
- Affinity Theme (rt_affinity_wp.zip) – This file is the theme package you will use to install your theme into WordPress.
There are other files that you may wish to download that accompany the release, but are not required for the theme to work.
- Affinity Sample Content (rt_affinity_wp-sample-(version).zip) – This file contains XML file with sample posts, comments etc. and the "wp-content" directory with all images used in our sample content.
- Affinity Source PNG(s) (rt_affinity_wp-sources-(version).zip) – This contains all the Adobe Fireworks PNG source files for the theme, and if applicable, the logo font.
Using the WordPress installer
- Login into the WordPress administrator dashboard (http://www.yoursite.com/wp-admin/)
- In the left menu sidebar, go to Appearance → Add New Themes → Upload
- Select the Choose File button
- Locate the rt_affinity_wp.zip file on your computer
- Click Install Now
- On the post-install page (with the theme name, description and thumbnail), select Activate
- Affinity will now be installed
Using FTP
- Extract rt_affinity_wp.zip
- Load your FTP client, such as FileZilla
- Upload the rt_affinity_wp folder to the http://www.yoursite.com/wp-content/themes
- Login into the WordPress administrator dashboard (http://www.yoursite.com/wp-admin/)
- In the left menu sidebar, go to Appearance → Themes
- Click Activate underneath the Affinity section
Importing Sample Content
- Extract rt_affinity_wp-sample-(version).zip
- Enter the wp-content folder from inside of the sample package
- Upload from it "rockettheme" folder using your favorite FTP client to your WordPress wp-content directory.
- Locate sample_data.xml
- Login into the WordPress administrator dashboard (http://www.yoursite.com/wp-admin/)
- In the left menu sidebar, go to Tools → Import
- Select WordPress from the numerous options
- Click Choose File and select sample_data.xml from your computer
- Click Upload File and Import
- Now you can create a new author for sample posts or map it to existing user.
- Press the Submit button and let the Wordpress do the rest.
Frequently Asked Questions
- Login into the WordPress administrator at http://www.yoursite.com/wp-admin/
- Select the Appearance tab on the left of the dashboard
- Select Affinity Settings from within the tab
