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I NEED HELP FOR MY NEW WEBSITE
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Seth
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Nov 9, 2015 - 6:02 pm

Hello Guys,

I am new here and i just installed wp and simple press plugin and i want you guys help.

1. please kindly sugest to me all necessary and useful plugins i have to install for better and friendly view.

2. what best theme you guys have in mind that you think will give no issues.

3. my website gat nothing yet like customisation arrangement etc.

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Mr Papa
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Nov 9, 2015 - 6:25 pm

wow. nearly impossible questions to answer... without tons more details 🙂

what do you want to do with your site?  that will largely drive what plugins you want...  and if you ask a dozen folks, you might get a dozen different answers...

personally, I would couldn't live without private messaging, subscriptions, tinymce, file uploader and syntax highlighting... probably not thinking of few either...

but perhaps you could explain how you want your site to work - that will dictate what plugins you want or need...

as to themes, again a personal preference...  if you are running a mobile responsive wp theme and your users need a strong mobile experience, then I would recommend either the reboot or unified themes as they are our mobile responsive ones..  both offer multiple overlays (color schemes) as well...

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Seth
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Nov 10, 2015 - 1:00 am

Thank you so much Mr. Papa.

I actually need a forum website with simple and mobile friend design where members can easily interact with one anothe. The forum that will have a simple landing page and that will be fast in loading like simplepress.

In term of plugins, i mean the plugins that i can use for seo optimization, social media plugin that will have features of like and share under every posts, nice and simple plugins for easy ads placement ot page creation. The plugins that even if i update them to newer version, that will not affect my website customisation and arrangement.

so, the roottheme you suggested, it is just a mobile them?

Is it easy to customise because am a new bie with litle knowledge of html?

 

and also, if there are other helpful tutorial links or videos material i can use to perfect my simplepress forum customisation.

 

Lastly, please what can you say about this theme"Genesis Framework"

Thank you sir.

Thanks

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Ike
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Nov 10, 2015 - 5:55 am

As for the plugins you've mentioned I'll try and give a quick run down on each one.

SEO Optimisation - The only plugin we offer for SP is the Google XML Sitemap plugin which isn't a 'stand alone' plugin and instead it integrates with any of the WP plugins listed on the plugin page. The rest of SP's SEO options can be found in the admin panel under Forum > Components > SEO.

Social Media - We have a nice selection of plugins that could work here for you, Share This, BuddyPress Integration, Thank Posts is probably the closest thing to 'Like' although we also offer Answers Topic and Reputation which should probably be considered for giving your community more interaction with each other.

Displaying adverts within the forum is a straightforward process. See How to display ads in the forum, and of course Creating a child theme.

Not sure what you mean by 'roottheme'.. Unified and Reboot are both desktop and mobile themes all in one. We use Reboot here so you can see how it looks on desktop and viewing this forum on a mobile will give you a good idea of how it looks in responsive mode too.

I'd like to say that if you don't know much about HTML / CSS then customising Simple:Press is relatively easy but only if you are willing to read documentation. If you are just installing forum plugins, a theme and setting up options then you shouldn't have any trouble.

Unfortunately we don't have any video tutorials but there is plenty of information in our codex in the sidebar on the right hand side here. It's always worth searching the forum here to see if you can find what you're looking for and of course open up a topic if you need any help we are always here.

As for Genesis, I've never used it personally. Mr Papa set up our WP theme here and from memory has nothing but praise for Genesis. It's definitely something I've been meaning to try out but as far as I can see it requires quite a lot of user input / customisation which is great for some, not so great for others!..

Hope that helps.

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Seth
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Nov 10, 2015 - 1:48 pm

Thank you so much Mr. Ike for these great contribution.

But i have an issue about the theme reboot.

after i downloaded it, i got and error message :

Installing Theme from uploaded file: reboot.zip

Unpacking the package…

Installing the theme…

The package could not be installed. The theme is missing the style.css stylesheet.

Theme install failed.

what do i do?

Also, link to download the free plugin entitle to bronze member.

Thanks

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Yellow Swordfish
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Nov 10, 2015 - 3:00 pm

Are you installing the theme into the correct Simple:Press theme location? using the forum admin > Themes > Theme Uploader?

See https://simple-press.com/docum.....ng-themes/ for further information.

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Seth
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Nov 10, 2015 - 3:56 pm

Thanks yellowswordfish, that was the mistake i made but later got it right.laugh

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Yellow Swordfish
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Nov 10, 2015 - 4:01 pm

Good news.

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Seth
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Nov 10, 2015 - 6:14 pm

Please did any know the theme called generatepress?

And is there anyway i can change the colour of styleheet of the footer?

Also, how one can add menu bar like the one simplepre eg, store, membersip etc?

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Mr Papa
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Nov 10, 2015 - 9:10 pm

sorry, never heard of generatepress...

you want to change color of your wp theme footer?? or the simple press footer?  if former, with a bit more info, and a link to site, we can provide some help... if latter, we can definitely help... but really need to know what you want to change... ie text color, background color, border color, etc...

and our nav menu is a part of the wp theme...  hard to imagine your wp theme does not support menus...  you might check wp - appearance - menus (or the customizer) and see if supported... if theme does not support menus these days, I would be tempted to find a real theme...

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