Response Theme Legend

David Morgan on January 1, 2013 27 Comments

This legend explains the distribution of content and management for the Response Theme, as seen in the demo. The theme requires the Options Framework plugin to manage theme options, and the WooCommerce plugin to sell products.

1. Custom Header

You can optionally display a custom header image or the site title within the navigation bar within the Appearance > Header settings. Remove the header image within the options to display the site title and tagline in its place.

2. The Menu

You can manage the pages, categories and links added to your menu within the Appearance > Menus settings of the WordPress administration. View the Custom Menu tutorial.

3. The Featured Slideshow

Content is added to the featured slideshow as posts of a category selected within the Appearance > Theme Options > Homepage settings. Images are added using Featured Images, and video is added using the Featured Video field within the post.

The title and excerpt can be displayed by adding an excerpt to the post.

The slideshow background can be further modified within Slideshow Post Background Settings in the post editor, as seen in the image below. Upload and save an image to display a full width background image. In addition, there are options to repeat a background image or change the color.

: Add and edit the background using these settings.

4. Featured Page

This section displays content of the page selected within the Appearance > Theme Options > Homepage settings. The bottom section beneath the slideshow can optionally be displayed within Appearance > Theme Options > Homepage settings.

4a. Headline Shortcode

This is an example of the Headline Shortcode. All available shortcodes are displayed in the demo.

4b. Column Shortcode

This is an example of the Column Shortcode. All available shortcodes are displayed in the demo.

4c. Tabs Shortcode

This is an example of the Tabs Shortcode. All available shortcodes are displayed in the demo.

8. Footer Social Links

You can optionally display the social link icons within the Appearance > Theme Options > Social settings.

Additional Theme Options

Background

The main background image and color can be changed within the Appearance > Background settings of the WordPress administration. View the tutorial here.

Custom Navigation Menu

The main navigation menu links can be customized within the Appearance > Menus settings. View the tutorial here.

Slideshow Page Template

You can create a slideshow page template following the instructions here. Images are added to the slideshow by simply uploading your image files to the page using the Upload/Insert media button. The slideshow page template will then display all images uploaded to the page in the slideshow.

Link and Highlight Colors

Link and highlight colors can be changed within the Appearance > Theme Options > Colors settings.

View additional Tutorials about managing and customizing your theme.

27 Comments on “Response Theme Legend”

January 17, 2013 by Cindy
We bought the response theme legend. Our question is how do you display the title and excerpt in the slide show? We found the section that says you can display it but what do you consider an excerpt and can you give us instruction how to put the wording into the slideshow with a picture in the background?

Thanks,

Cindy Sommer
Donovan Jefferson
Lifeline Healing

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January 22, 2013 by Mnl
Hello
How can I remove an image from a slideshow ? It is easy to add one but the button disapear and I can’t see any menu.
Thank you
Mnl

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January 26, 2013 by arturodelhierro
how do i add the short codes?

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January 28, 2013 by surerword
Hi,

Is it possible to make the homepage to have the blog instead of a featured page?

Thanks

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- February 17, 2013 by Matt McGee
  surerword, did you ever get a reply on that question? I’m wondering the same thing.
  
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  - May 10, 2013 by Jaime Borschuk
    I am also seeking to answer this question. I am usually able to do this in the settings/reading section, but that doesn’t seem to work for this theme. Any help appreciated. Jeremy?
    
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    - May 10, 2013 by Jaime Borschuk
      Figured it out: you have to create a page as a blog formatted page and then in the settings area, assign that page as the static page for the home page. Leave the blog page part blank.
      
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      - May 10, 2013 by Jeremy
        Jaime,
        
        Please note that the appropriate place to ask support questions is here: http://www.organicthemes.com/support.
        
        If you set a static page as the blog page then you will break pagination (because the page is static). If you want the blog page as the homepage, one way would be to replace the contents of home.php with the contents of page-blog.php.
        
        Thanks!
March 21, 2013 by Shayne Trimbell
I am noticing that the slideshow loads very slow. Is this a function of the code? Does image size impact this, because the images are around 200kb. I like the slideshow, but it does me no good if it takes more time to load than what people spend on the page. any input is valued.

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- March 21, 2013 by Jeremy
  Hi Shayne,
  
  It should be loading in about the same time as it takes to load in the demo. If you’re running into problems, please submit a support ticket (organicthemes.com/support) and we would be glad to look into this with you.
  
  Thanks!
  
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April 21, 2013 by Shane Robinson
Could you please explain, or update the Response Theme Legend, to cover what the “Post Format” options do???

The Response Theme lists the following “Format” radio buttons options in the right column of Post Entries:

* Standard
* Gallery
* Link
* Image
* Quote
* Video

But selecting any of them has no effect on the display of the Post. They are referenced in the description of the theme but I can find no coverage of what they are or do in the forums, Legend, etc.

Thanks in advance for your reply.

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April 21, 2013 by Shane Robinson
After a bit more research, I’m guessing that the Response Theme just supports Post Formats as outlined in the WP Codex: http://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Formats

The theme doesn’t actually provide add’l templates/layouts for the different formats?

Is that correct?

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- April 22, 2013 by Jeremy
  Hi Shane,
  
  The post formats covered in the Codex entry are the post formats the theme supports. Depending on the post format, the layout will change, e.g. “gallery” formatted posts will have a post gallery, “link” formatted posts probably won’t use a template at all due to the link (usually external). The various post format templates are prefixed with ‘format-’, e.g. ‘format-gallery.php’, ‘format-link.php’, ‘format-quote.php’, etc. Do note that these templates are applied automatically (that is, aren’t selectable through the Page Attributes meta box on the post editor screen), and that the various layouts won’t differ too much from the default template.
  
  Thanks!
  
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April 22, 2013 by Wolfgang
We bought the response theme. Now we have the same question as Cindy. “Our question is how do you display the title and excerpt in the slide show?” There is title and text in the post and in the media, but nothing appears.
In German language setup the ‘featured image’ link is NOT there. Took me a while to find out this bug…

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- April 22, 2013 by Jeremy
  Hi Wolfgang,
  
  You will need to add a manual excerpt to your posts to have the title and excerpt show in the slider. There should be an ‘Excerpt’ box beneath the primary post editor (TinyMCE), but in case you don’t see one you will need to click ‘Screen Options’ top right, and check the box beside the word ‘Excerpt’.
  
  Thanks!
  
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  - April 23, 2013 by Wolfgang
    thx for your answer. Now it works.
    
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April 23, 2013 by Wolfgang
Hi Jeremy,

another one: When I add a link to the excerpt the page brakes. Content below is then part of the slideshow….
The link is added as recommended: http://codex.wordpress.org/Excerpt
The code added is: <a href="”> Read More…
Any idea?

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- April 24, 2013 by Jeremy
  That’s strange behavior. If you submit a support ticket (organicthemes.com/support) with a link to your site, I’ll take a look.
  
  Thanks!
  
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April 24, 2013 by Tina
Using the Organic Themes and it doesn’t appear that we can use more than one menu at a time. We want to use a menu under the header as well as a different one in the side bar. But once we create a menu, it overwrites the main one. What can be done about this? Thanks.

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- April 25, 2013 by Jeremy
  Tina,
  
  You would need to register additional custom menus and menu locations: http://codex.wordpress.org/Navigation_Menus
  
  Thanks!
  
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May 15, 2013 by Wolfgang
Hmm,
we got two homepage links now. The ‘standard’ home linked to the root of the domain, and the second one (called heimat in this case) which is linked to a page id.
In Appearance » Theme options » Homepage I did the settings as recommended
Display Slideshow? » avtivated
Select Featured Page » the page “heimat”

The plan is that the content of heimat is displayed below the featured slideshow.
I would expect that home (in menu) is shown and heimat isn’t!?
How to solve?

AND

How to change the homepage name “home”?
thx

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- May 15, 2013 by Wolfgang
  Last point I already resolved.
  For the first issue I did a dirty one, with css » display: none of this li item.
  Is there a clean solution possible?
  
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May 15, 2013 by Jeremy
Wolfgang,

If you create a custom menu (Appearance –> Menus), you can resolve your menu issue without the need for additional CSS.

Thanks!

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May 16, 2013 by Wolfgang
Thx Jeremy,
that worked!

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May 16, 2013 by Jaime Borschuk
Thank you Jeremy! Your homepage blog suggestion worked perfectly.

Jaime

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May 18, 2013 by Stephen
The documentation for this theme is terrible. Can someone please upgrade it?

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- May 20, 2013 by Jeremy
  Hi Stephen,
  
  We are in the process of updating the documentation.
  
  Thanks!
  
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