You just purchased WyntonMagazine and want to make a quick start? Thanks to the themes optionspage, setting up WyntonMagazine for the first time is pretty easy. Here I explain it step-by-step.
Download, Unpack and Upload
After you downloaded and unpacked the zip-archive, you have a folder called PRiNZ_WyntonMagazine_pro. This folder contains two more folders, the readme files in English and German and a logo.
Now take only the folder “wyntonmagazine-pro” not the whole PRiNZ_WyntonMagazine_pro folder and upload it to your WordPress themes folder which is normally located at /wp-content/themes in your servers WordPress installation. If you upload the whole unpacked PRiNZ_WyntonMagazine_pro folder you might encounter several issues (like “missing stylesheet”). You will need an FTP program to do this.
Do NOT use the WordPress theme installation functionality for that. The installation functionality tries to upload the whole zip-archive and will create errors.
Setup the Theme Options
Now go to your WordPress admin and open the themes options under Appearance > Branfordmagazine Options.
At this options page you need to make some settings to make the theme work properly. To be very explicit on that: The theme works, there are no known bugs or major issues. If something doesn´t work double check if your settings are correct. In most cases it´s a users failure and not a themes issue. That´s the truth 
Header and Footer
In this section you select if you want to use the blogname and description text that is defined in your WordPress settings or a graphical logo in the header of your site. Default is blogname/description and if you want to use a logo image you need to upload one by using the WordPress “Header” option under the Appearance menu (otherwise the default logo will be used).
The alternative Footer provides four additional widget areas that you can use to put additional content in four columns at the footer of your site. If this is switched off you will just see the regular footer with the credit links. The grey 4-column footer in the demo is the alternative footer.
Navigation Menus
The theme offers two menu locations in the top menu bar. You can use both or only one to display a menu for pages, categories etc. Be aware that you need to create a custom menu and assign it it to the location in the theme. First you need to check the box(es) and then you need to create a custom menu.
Since WordPress 3.0 there is a powerful functionality available called “Custom Menus”. You find this under Appearance > Menus. With this custom menus you can create very flexible menus, you can mix pages and categories, add external links and define your own order of menu items completely independent from the WordPress defaults. See also this screencast that explains the custom menu function in detail.
There are two areas (or locations) where custom menus can be put. The primary menu is the top menu and the secondary is the menubar right below the primary.
Leadarticle and featured Articles
The leadarticle is the most recent newsarticle displayed in the top-left area of the homepage. You need to define the ID of the category you want do show here. It makes sense to create for example a “news” category and use it for the leadarticles only. If there is no article assigned to this category, nothing can be displayed.
The featured articles are the articles (three by default) on the right side of the Leadarticle of the homepage. They are taken from one specific category, typicallly the same as the Leadarticle. By default it´s the second, third and fourth article of this category. The offset value (1 by default) defines the order in which the articles appear. “1″ means not the first but the second article of the specified category appears. That makes sense if you display the first article as the leadarticle and the second, third and fourth as featured articles. And remember: If there is no article assigned to this category, nothing can be displayed.
Homepage bottom Columns
In the lower area of the homepage three columns (left, center, right) with different categories are displayed. Here you can define which ones. In every column you can define as many different categories and number of posts per category as you like.
Images
Here you can define the dimensions (width and height in pixels) of the various images on the homepage and the archive pages. This works only if you use the TimThumb image resizer script.
You can also define if you want to use TimThumb or the default WordPress Post Thumbnail (featured image) function.
If you don´t use TimThumb and need to change image dimensions this plugin might become very handy.
And you can switch the prettyPhoto image lightbox effect on or off. The image size function is a very powerful feature that allows you to change the image dimensions whenever you like. Thanks to the TimThumb image script all images are croped and scaled “on the fly” and can be changed as often as you like. Imagehandling has never been so easy. The settings effect the images of the leadarticle, the featured articles , the hompage right colum (categories) and the archive (category overview) pages.
Be aware that you only have this great flexibility if you use TimThumb (tick the box to use it). If you don´t use it for some reason, you can use the bild-in WordPress post thumbnail / featured image function. If that´s your choice you need to set a featured image in every post you write. There is a very detailed tutorial about the WordPress featured image function written by Justin Tadlock here.
Setup the 3-colum Page Template
The 3-column page is a special template to display content from three different categories in a very prominent way. Take a look at the demo and see how it can look like. All relevant settings can be made here. See the tutorial to this template for more details.
Custom Scripts
Here you can enter custom scripts to the header and footer like Goolge Analytics or other Javascripts. And you can use custom CSS for simple editing of fonts, colors etc.
Troubleshooting
Installation Error
Do NOT use the WordPress theme installation functionality to install your theme. Always use FTP to transfer the theme files to your server. The installation functionality tries to upload the whole zip-archive and will create errors.
No Categories
Make sure you use correct category IDs otherwise you will see “no categories” where you expect the name of a category (e.g featured articles)
Images do not show up
If you have issues displaying the image thumbnails on the homepage have a look at this tutorial that shows you how to use images. Another tutorial which can be found here, deals with potential issues with the image handling script. Don´t worry: there is a solution in 99,9% of all cases.
No articles appear
The reason why no articles appear for example in the lead article area is because you have no articles in that category. Once you write an article it will apear. So always make sure your categories have articles.
It´s quite a good helper to write e.g. 3 testarticles and assign them to each category. That gives you a good overview how it works.
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