Settlement—a 500 child theme

A theme designed for building a crowdfunding platform with IgnitionDeck. Integrates with the free Theme 500 eCommerce framework.

Before you Install the Settlement Theme

To install this theme you must have a working version of WordPress, the IgnitionDeck 500 Framework parent theme, and the IgnitionDeck Crowdfunding plugin already installed, registered, and set up.

• For instructions on how to install WordPress, please see WordPress.org’s documentation.
• For instructions on installing and setting up the IgnitionDeck plugins with the appropriate license, see the main IgnitionDeck Documentation.

Installation

Download the Settlement Theme from your IgnitionDeck Dashboard.  There are two ways to install a WordPress theme:

WordPress Upload: Navigate to Appearance » Themes » Add New » Upload Theme. Click the Choose File button, select the fivehundred-settlement_[version].zip file from your computer and click the Install Now button.  Once the theme package has been uploaded, WordPress will prompt you to activate the theme.

FTP Upload: Unzip the fivehundred-settlement_[version].zip package. Using your FTP program, upload the resulting theme folder to your website’s /wp-content/themes/ directory.  Then log into your WordPress Dashboard, navigate to Appearance » Themes and activate Settlement.

For more information on using WordPress themes, see WordPress.org’s Documentation.

Set Your Homepage in Settings » Reading

1. Navigate to Settings » Reading.  

2. In the “Front page displays” section check the box for “Your Latest Posts”.

   

3. Under "Blog pages show at most", set the number of "posts" to a multiple of 4. This setting will define the maximum number of projects displayed in a project grid widget on the home page unless otherwise specified within the widget's settings, as well as the maximum number of blog posts to display in the blog archive before triggering pagination.

Home Top Content Section

Customize Your Hero-Image/Slider

Settlement’s homepage Hero Unit can be set from the Appeance » Widgets using the 500 Content (wide) widget to set a static image with text, or using a shortcode for a slider, we recommend (Revolution Slider).

• If using a slider, first create the slider image(s) and any buttons within the Slider plugin settings. Copy the generated shortcode for the slider, select the Shortcode widget or block from the options available.

  

  Note: the format for the Revolution Slider shortcode should be [rev_slider slide-name] and not the default format provided by the slider plugin [rev_slider alias=”slide-name”]

• If using a Static Image, set a minimum height for the section to prevent lower content from rolling up (recommend 640px). The background images should be at least 1920 wide and at least as tall as the minumum set height to prevent tiling or pixelation of the image.

  

• For use with Static Images, there is the option to display buttons within the text field.

  Use the class id-button to create a solid button

  Use the class id-button border to create an outlined button

  

  Example code:

  <a href="#" class="id-button">Give Today</a> <a href="#" class="id-button border">Start a Campaign</a>

Home Content Section

Project Grid

Add a project grid (or two or three!) to the page using the Project Grid widget in the Home Content area. This can be set to display all projects as they are published or the projects can be filtered according to various criteria, including:

• project category,
• author,
• publishing date,
• days remaining,
• percentage raised,
• funds raised, and
• title (i.e. alphabetically)

These can be further sorted by ascending or descending values. The number of projects can be set (recommend in multiples of 4) or enter -1 to display all projects limited by the number of "posts" defined in Settings » Reading » Blog pages show at most

Additional Settlement Widgets

The Settlement theme has additional widgets not offered by any other IgnitionDeck theme. These include:

• Settlement CTA widget which creates a call to action with customizable background, FontAwesome 4 icon, and button,
• Settlement Feature widget which creates a 3 column layout with title, text, and FontAwesome 4 icon,
• Settlement Team widget which creates a 3 column layout with titles, names, and photos of your team,
• Settlement Testimonials widget that neatly displays testamonials

All other 500 widgets can also be displayed in this area as well as other WP widgets (classical and block editor).

Top of Footer Section

The Top of Footer section appears directly above the footer and below the Home Content section. It has 4 columns which can accommodate widgets of your choice.

If you wish to put a widget on the far left and far right, leaving the middle two columns empty, you will need to insert a "text" widget into each column with   (invisible text) inserted to prevent the columns from collapsing.

Additional Customizations for the Settlement theme

We’ve included a number of options in the Appearance > Customize panel of your WordPress installation that will allow you to make your Settlement site unique.

• Colors

  Here you can select colors for your Primary Color, Background Color, Text Color, and Container Background Color

• IDC Account Links

  These are added to the main navigation automatically in 500 and 500-child themes.  For more information on IDC Account Links see IDC Account link documentation.

• Icon and Site Identity

  Upload your icon (recommended 512 px x 512 px) to be diplayed in the browser tab as well as on your site's visitors bookmarks.

• Site Logo

  The site's logo is set in Appearance » 500 Settings. Recommended upload size is 300 pixels wide and/or 50 pixels high

Updating Settlement

To update Settlement, please see Updating 500 Child Themes.