Bizco 5.3.2

Bizco

Bizco is a professional theme targeted at business and product based websites. This theme is great for showcasing features of your service or product to your readers. With the custom page template, you can change the display of your pages and posts easily with our visual custom panel.

Bizco Features

• Responsive design (view demo)
• Threaded comments and custom menus.
• Feature slider handled by WordPress 3.0 custom post type.
• Homepage hightlights handled by custom post type.
• Optional 1 – 4 homepage and footer widgets.
• Multiple layout options: default, 3 columns, and 4 columns with or without sidebar.
• Sidebar visibility control in posts and pages.
• Top bar widget area for displaying social media buttons.
• Shortcode buttons and columns.
• Custom footer text.
• Six theme skins.
• Child theme support.
• Note: this theme requires WordPress 3.0+

Bizco Demo Import

If you are starting a fresh site, importing the demo content will help you understand how the theme demo is built. The Demo Import feature will import the contents (posts, pages, comments, etc.), Themify panel settings, menus, and widgets setup from our demo to your site. You can erase the demo content afterward.

Bizco Main Navigation Menu

To create a custom navigation menu:

• Go to WP Admin > Appearance > Menus.
• Click on “create a new menu” to create a new menu (eg. Main Menu).
• Add the menu items from the left panels.
• To create a dropdown menu: drag the menu item towards the right (the item(s) will be indented).
• When you are done adding the menu items, click “Save Menu”.
• To assign menu locations:
  • Scroll down to the bottom where it says “Theme locations” and tick the menu location checkbox.
  • Main Navigation = main menu on the header
  • Footer Navigation = footer menu on the footer (Note: some themes might not have Footer Navigation).

Bizco Setting Up the Social Links

Step 1) To set up the social media links:

• Go to WP Admin > Themify > Settings > Social Links tab.
• The theme comes with some pre-filled social links. Simply enter your social profile URL in the Link input field. For example, enter ‘https://twitter.com/themify’ for the Twitter link.
• You can choose to display either “Icon Font” or “Image”.
  • If “Icon Font” is selected, click on “Insert Icon” to select an icon (over 320+ icons available).
  • If “Image” is selected, you can upload your own graphic icon by clicking on the Upload button.
• To add more links, click on the Add Link button at the bottom.
• To remove a link, click on the delete icon.
• To arrange the display order, drag and drop the link container.

Step 2) Displaying the Social Links:

• Once you have the Social Links setup, go to WP Admin > Appearance > Widgets. Drag and drop the Themify – Social Links from the Available Widgets panel to the Social Widget panel.
• Optional: Customize Widget Title – such as “Follow Us”. You can also “Show link name” and adjust icon size.

Bizco Hiding the RSS Icon

To hide the default RSS icon in the header:

• Go to WP Admin > Themify > Settings > Theme Settings.
• Under the “Exclude RSS Link”, tick the checkbox that says “Check here to exclude RSS icon/button in the header”.

Bizco Hiding the Search Form

Bizco To hide the default search form in the header:

• Go to WP Admin > Themify > Settings > Theme Settings.
• Under the “Exclude Search Form”, tick the checkbox that says “Check here to exclude search form in the header”.

Custom Homepage

CREATING THE HOMEPAGE WITH THEMIFY BUILDER

To create a custom Page as shown on our demo:

• Create a new Page (eg. Custom Homepage)
• View the page frontend
• On the top admin bar, select Themify Builder > Turn On Builder (view Builder documentation for more info)
• Expand the first row to full width column, then drop in a Builder – Highlight module, select the grid3 layout icon for the Highlight posts
• Then drop a Builder – Divider module below the Highlight module, set the divider color as you like
• On the next row, create 3-column grid (drag the column dividers left/right to merge or expand columns), then:
  • In the first column: drop a Builder – Widget module, select Themify – Feature Post widget and the configure the widget options as you like
  •  In the second column: drop a Builder – Widget module, select Themify – Twitter and enter your Twitter ID in the options (note: you need to create a required access token from Twitter API in order to show the tweets)
  • In the third column: drop a Builder – Text module and enter any text as you like. You can insert Heading tags (H1 – H6) and shortcodes as you like

Bizco SET CUSTOM FRONT PAGE

After you set the page as front page, the home slider and welcome message will appear. To set the front page:

• Go to wp-admin > Settings > Reading
• Select a static page under the “Front page displays”
• Then select “Custom Homepage” in the dropdown

Bizco Homepage Slider

To display the slider on the homepage:

• Go to wp-admin, click on the “Add New” link under the Slider menu.
• Choose the layout option:
  • default: display the feature image on left, title and content on the right
  • image-only: display the feature image only (no title or content)
  • content-only: display the content only (title and feature image will not be displayed)
  • gallery: display the feature image, title, and content in gallery style

• Upload a feature image.
• Image width and height is optional. If the field is empty, default image size will apply.
• Image link is optional.

Slider Options can be found at Themify > Theme Settings.

Welcome Message

To display a welcome message on the homepage, go to Themify panel > Settings > Theme Settings, enter the text in the Welcome Text box. The content can be plain text or HTML code.

Highlight Post Type

To display the homepage highlights:

• Go to wp-admin, click on the “Add New” link under the Highlights menu.
• Icon image is optional.
• Image width and height is also optional. If the field is empty, default setting will apply.

Bizco Custom Page Layout

To display posts from specific category(ies) using pre-designed layouts:

• Create a new WordPress page.
• Select the Sidebar Option
• Select the category that you want to display or enter multiple category IDs in the Query Category text field.
• Posts per page = the number of posts to be displayed per page.
• Select the Layout option.
• Image width & height is optional.
• Page navigation = pagination menu (page 1, 2, 3, 4…)

Bizco Creating a Blog Page (Query Posts)

To display/query posts on a page:

• First, create a new Page (in admin, select “Add New” under the “Pages” admin menu).
• In Themify Custom Panel, click “Query Posts” tab, select either “All Categories” or a Post category and select the other options as you like:
  • Bizco Order = This option is used to set whether posts will be ordered in ascending or descending order.
  • Bizco Order By = This option is used to set the attribute that the order of the post will be based on.
  • Query Post Layout = This option is used to set the layout of posts such as grid columns, list posts, etc.
  • Post Per Page = This option is used to set the number of posts shown per page.
  • Bizco Display Content = This option is used to set what content is output for each post (None, Excerpt, or Full Content).
  • Bizco Image Dimensions = This option is used to set the dimensions the posts images will be displayed at.
  • Hide Post Title = This option is used to set whether the post title will be displayed.
  • Bizco Unlink Post Title = This option is used to set whether the post title will operate as a link.
  • Hide Post Date = This option is used to set whether the post date will be displayed.
  • Hide Post Meta = This option is used to set whether the post meta will be displayed.
  • Hide Featured Image = This option is used to set whether the featured image will be displayed.
  • Unlink Featured Image = This option is used to set whether the featured image will operate as a link.
  • Hide Page Navigation = This option is used to set whether the page navigation for posts will be displayed.