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SLIDING DOOR THEME FOR WORDPRESS
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v1.0 First Version!
v1.1 Small improvements: 
	Comments deleted from category.php, 
	removed ShowRelatedPostsForCurrentPost error" in sidebar
	added sidebar entries
	added comments to pages
	added right and left align tags to css
v1.2	added tag and avatar support
v1.3	added blog title and blog tag line (was hard coded as image)
	made the sliding images automatically point to wordpress categories
	added intelligent CSS to blog title (see below)
v1.4	fixed small bug that gave an unknown character before page comments
	allow multiple images horizontally in post.
v1.5	fixed up some minor CSS formatting issues
v1.6	made the background of the slider the same as the page background (imagemenu.css)
		sliding images now appear on every page
		moved the date and comments to under the post
		removed time from posts
		moved footer to bottom of page instead of sidebar.
1.7.1      minor CSS cosmetic tweaks
1.7.2 	Better read-me instructions		
1.8	Major rewrite of header so headings are generated on the fly.
1.8.1	fixed max image width in posts to be 640px
1.8.2   fixed more than 7 pages bug, 
	fixed upside-down explorer pictures 
	fixed validation errors


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HOW TO INSTALL
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	Unzip and then then copy the slidingdoor directory  to /wp-content/themes/ in your wordpress installation. Then choose the theme from your wordpress Design menu.
	OR use the built in wordpress theme installer.
	
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HOW TO CUSTOMISE
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If you have any questions or comments, check out the support page at http://mac-host.com/support

It has an extensive FAQ and discussion.


IMAGE URL's

The images by default point to the first 7 wordpress categories. You can change this to point them wherever you wish, but you will need to edit the header.php file. The URL for the first image is in line 47 of the header.php file.  Line 48 contains the link for the second image and so on. 

SITE HEADING

The theme has the ability to have two colours in the blog heading. To use this optional effect you simply need to place square brackets around any words that you want to be darker. For example on my site I have as the blog name "free[wordpress]theme[!]" so the "wordpress" and "!" is darker. This does not effect the page title where the brackets are replaced by spaces.

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DESCRIPTION
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I found an effect I really liked at phatfusion.com and aaronbirchphotography, which is called image menu. I created a wordpress theme round it called sliding doors.

I also pinched some nice features from Michael Whalan's Elixir theme at whalesalad.com, namely the little comment about how long since the post was made and the groovy search box. 

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LICENSE

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    This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify

    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by

    the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or

    (at your option) any later version.



    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the

    GNU General Public License for more details.



    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License

    along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.


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MORE DETAILS ON CUSTOM IMAGES
(Taken from the FAQ at mac-host.com/support)
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OVERVIEW: To do this you'll need an FTP program (eg filezilla) and a graphic image editing program (eg photoshop). 
THREE STEPS:
1. Copy the sliding door theme files from your wordpress web host server account (where the wordpress blog actually lives) to your home computer.
2. Edit the 6 images on your home computer using a program like photoshop.
3. Move these images back onto your webhost account.

MORE DETAILS:

If you installed the theme straight into your wordpress blog from the built in wordpress 'theme installer' it might be a good idea to go to the theme download page http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/sliding-door and download the theme files to your computer. Otherwise you probably downloaded the theme to your computer first and you already have it.

Unzip the theme files on your home computer
Find the folder called imagemenu. 
Find the folder called images.
You will see 7 jpeg files- the 7 sliding images from the theme. 

For example 6.jpg looks like this:


This is a picture - and the heading 'The Zoo' is part of the picture.

You'll need to re-make your own pictures that look like this. 

They are jpeg files 320 x 200 pixels. You can put in any pictures you want as long as they are 320 x 200 pixels. 

Get any picture, crop it to 320 x 200, then write the text on it, and save it as a jpg.

Try to make the filesize small - in photoshop you do this by 'save for web' and choose medium or low quality - not high.

If you have photoshop, you can download the original photo shop file from the theme homepage here. 

You can then edit the text and the background pictures in different layers and it will be real easy.
Then do 'save for web' to save each picture as a jpg file.

You then need to upload the finished pictures to your wordpress server - your hostaccount. 
You need to put them into the themes/slidingdoor/imagemenu/images folder, overwriting the existing files on the host server. 
Firstly FTP to your wordpress host account, you'll need a login and password, not your wordpress blog login, the host account FTP login.
Then find the wp-content folder.
Then find the themes folder.
Then the slidingdoor folder, the imagemenu folder, then finally the images folder.

Then upload the files one at a time, overwriting the existing files.

Your new 1.jpg replaces the old 1.jpg
2.jpg replaces 2.jpg etc.
leave all the other files untouched.

To do this you will use an ftp program such as filezilla, smartFTP, cyberduck, fetch etc - see next question.

NOTE: Keep a copy of the altered jpg files on your home computer, because if you upgrade the theme at a future date from within wordpress, the new pictures will be deleted and it will default back to the originals, and you will then need to upload your pictures again.


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Wayne