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TEDxTheme

This theme has been designed and coded by The Working Group and TEDxToronto in the hopes that other TEDx organizations will find this easy to use to promote and manage their own events.

Requirements

• PHP 5.4 or greater
• MySQL 5.0 or greater
• The mod_rewrite Apache module
• A recent version of WordPress

Installing

Assumption: This guide assumes you have a fresh install of WordPress. Without any existing contents.

• A latest and working version (3.9.1) of WordPress installed.
• Download a copy of the theme from: , it will be saved to a file called tedx.zip on your computer.
• Upload the Theme to WordPress by: Appearance > Themes > Add New then select the tedx.zip from your computer.
• Once the theme is uploaded, activate the Theme.

Configuring The Theme

• Go to Plugins > Add New to install and activate the following list of required plugins:

• [Required] Advanced Custom Fields (By By Elliot Condon.)
• [Optional] Wufoo Shortcode Plugin (By Chris Coyier / Wufoo.)
• [Optional] WP Canvas - Gallery (By Chris Baldelomar.)

• Go to Pages > Add New

• Page Title: Home
• Page Template: Homepage (This is selected from the right hand drop down)
• Now

Then Save the page.

• Go to Pages > Add New

• Page Title: Blog

Then Save the page.

• Go to Settings > Reading

• In the Front page displays section, set Front Page to Home (The page we just created) and Posts Page to Blog (The page we just created)

• Go to Settings > Permalinks

Select Custom Structure and use /blog/%postname%/ as the setting.

Custom Post Type

Speaker

Adding a speaker

1. Start with adding the Event Year go to Admin > Speakers > Event Year.

A sample event year could be:

Name: 2013
Slug: 2013
Description: The event year for 2013

Talk

Schedule

Partner

Team