Activate JetPack Modules
From the Dashboard
Click Jetpack in the top left, setup by connecting to your wordpress.com account. No fee is required.
Once setup. Mouseover Jetpack in the top left, and select Settings, scroll to the footer and click Debug,
Next click “Access the full list of Jetpack modules available on your site.” at the bottom of the page.
Activate Carousel, and Tiled Gallery
Import Demo Data
From the Dashboard on the left panel click Appearance > Import Demo Data
Click the Import Button on Photograph Free. It will prompt you to recommend plugins but no worries, all required plugins are already installed and activated.
Once the demo import is complete, Click Plugins > Installed Plugins, Deactivate and delete the Demo Import Plugin to avoid accidental overwrites.
Replace Essential Photos
You will noticed 3 main photos set as the background on the Homepage, Contact, and About Us page.
From the Dashboard on the left panel click Media, Click the photo to be replaced, On the bottom right next to Replace media you may Upload a new file. and Select Just Replace File
Once the images are replaced they will not display on the front end until your browser cache is cleared, or the page is accessed from another device.
Disable Demo Posts
From the Dashboard on the left panel click Posts > All Posts. Select all posts by checking the box at the top. Deselect the post “Mansory, Fullscreen Gallery and Portfolio Templates“, the featured image of this post is the main homepage image and should not be disabled. It can be edited to say what ever you want. Once all posts are selected, Under Bulk Actions select Edit and Click Apply, Change status on the right side to draft, and click update.
We draft them because we can use these posts as examples later.
Integrate Your Instagram
From the Dashboard on the left panel click Settings > Intagrate Lite.
Login to you Instagram by clicking login.
Once connect choose the last image, every image after this image will be posted.
Image Saving: Save to Gallery
Featured Image Config: Featured Only
Post Category: Gallery
Custom Title: From Instagram
Custom Body Text: %%title%% (this field is required for hashtagger plugin to work.)
Check: Check this to bypass the is_home() check when the plugin auto posts.
Click Update Options
From your blogs home page while logged in as admin, at the top of the page click customize.
At the bottom of list click Additional CSS, paste in this code.
.copyright { display: none; }
Click Publish
Add Home Page Photo Tags
From the Dashboard on the left panel click Posts > Tags
Remove the Current Tags and Add new tags to be displayed on the home page.
Next click Posts > All Posts, click edit on one of your Instagram posts, and link the Tag on the right panel. Update post.
To change what tags are shown on the home page, visit your blogs homepage, while being logged in and click Customize > Frontpage > Featured Gallery.
Hashtagger Plugin Explained
Hashtagger is a plugin that allows you to use #hashtags on Instagram. These #hashtags will be converted to wordpress tags allowing you to manage the frontpage gallery from your Instagram using tags.
HashTagger is installed but disabled by default.
Once the hashtagger plugin is activated, you can no longer change tags on the WordPress backend. Get your house in order, then activate the hashtagger plugin
To activate it Click Plugins > Installed Plugins, Click Inactive at the top and activate the hashtagger plugin.
GS Pins For Pinterest Explained
From the dashboard on the left side click GS Plugins > Pinterest Settings.
Fill in your Pinterest Settings. Save
To include your Pinterest Gallery in a post or page you may use a short code. Examples below.
GS Pinterest Portfolio’s shortcode usage
[gs_pinterest]
GS Pinterest Portfolio’s Shortcode attributes Usage
[gs_pinterest user="pinterest" board="breakfast-favorites" count="20" theme="gs_pin_theme5" cols="4"]
More Info
Create Pinterest Page
From the dashboard click Pages > Add New.
Enter a title, ie “Pins”
Paste the short code
[gs_pinterest]
Click Publish
From the left panel click Appearance > Menus
Add the “Pins” Page to the menu bar.
Twitter Auto Publish
From the dashboard on the left side click WP Twitter Auto Publish > Settings
Follow the tutorial on how to create a twitter application. Before saving make sure Attach Image to twitter post is set to yes .
Contact us for assistance.
Auto Pin Pinterest Addon – $49.99 (Setup & License)
From the Dashboard Click Pinterest Automatic > Settings
Follow the tutorial to obtain your Pinterest session key. Contact us for assistance.
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