Process

Section 1: Theme setup – 10 mins

1. Get plugins
   1. Activate “Child Themify” plugin
   2. Activate “Hide Title” plugin
2. Child theme setup
   1. Install “Tuto” theme
   2. Go to “Theme Details”
   3. Click “Create a Child Theme”
   4. Name it “Tuto-child” and confirm
   5. Go back to Theme page and Activate “Tuto-child”

Section 2: Theme customization – 10 mins

1. Upload Logo and Favicon
   1. Go to: Appearance>Customize>Site Identity
   2. Select Logo (500px wide max looks best)
   3. Uncheck “Display site title and tagline”
   4. Select Icon (512px X 512px)
   5. Click “Save and Publish”
2. Upload Background
   1. Go to: Appearance>Customize>Background Image
   2. Select Background image (1200px X 800px looks best)
   3. Check Settings: “No repeat”, “Center”, “Fixed”, “Scale background image to full size”
   4. Click “Save and Publish”

Section 3: Menu setup – 10 mins

1. Add pages
   1. Go to: “Pages>Add New”, and add all required pages, including a “Home” page.
   2. Go to “Settings>Reading” and setup “Home” as Front Page Display.
2. Create main menu
   1. Go to: “Appearance>Menus”
   2. Create a new menu called “Main”
   3. Add all pages to “Main” and structure menu items
   4. *If a 1st level menu item has subpages, you may need to add that 1st level page as a Custom Link, so that it doesn’t take the user to a blank page”
   5. Check “Theme Locations – Main Navigation”
   6. Save Menu
3. Create header menu
   1. Go to: “Appearance>Menus”
   2. Click “Create a New Menu”, label it “Header”
   3. Go to Custom Link, and add client phone number
   4. Go to Custom Link , and add client email
   5. Check “Theme Locations – Header Navigation”
   6. Save Menu
4. Create social media menu
   1. Go to: “Appearance>Menus”
   2. Click “Create a New Menu”, label it “Social”
   3. Go to Custom Link, and add Facebook link
   4. Go to Custom Link , and add Instagram link
   5. Go to Custom Link , and add Twitter link
   6. Go to Custom Link , and add YouTube link
   7. Check “Theme Locations – Social Icons”
   8. Save Menu
5. Setup Widgets
   1. Go to: “Appearance>Widgets”
   2. Delete all existing widgets under “Sidebar”
   3. Add appropriate Widgets per client request

Section 4: TicketWeb Events plugin – 10 mins

1. Initial Settings
   1. Go to “TicketWeb>TicketWeb”
   2. Add API Key, Venue ID and Org ID
   3. Save
2. Update “page.php” (Installing the Feature Slider)
   1. Go to: “Appearance>Editor”
   2. Select Theme to Edit: “Tuto”
   3. Go to: “Single Page (page.php)”
   4. Add this Code after:
   5. Go to: “TicketWeb>Events – TW”
   6. Choose events to feature, and select “Yes” to display in Slider.
   7. Click “Save”
3. Activate list view
   1. Go to: “Pages>Home”
   2. Add shortcode:
   3. Check “Hide Title”, located on right sidebar
   4. Click Publish

Section 5: Footer setup – 15 mins

1. Phone number, email address
2. Physical address with Google Maps shortlink, Hours of operation
3. Small logo
4. Update “footer.php”

Section 6: Subpages

1. How to build a subpage

Section 7: Custom CSS

1. Styling the theme
2. Styling the slider
3. Styling the list view
4. Styling the widget