Holder

The perfect ‘coming soon’ theme for your new project, site or service.

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Entrepreneurs.  We know you.  You love getting started on that hot new idea as soon as possible – and today the barrier to entry on a new web venture is almost nothing.

Simply purchase your domain name, set up WordPress with a decent host provider, and you’re ready to go – right?

Sometimes, as they say, the devil is in the details.

That’s why we created Holder.Holder themeWhat is holder?

We like to call holder “the most charming theme for the time in between.”

And we’re serious!  It can take weeks or months to get your project completely off the ground.  As you’re busy putting together the next big thing, what are your visitors treated with?

Maintenance pages are okay, but how do you keep interested parties informed?  How do you present your vision quickly and easily to the world?  How can you display the professionalism and polish your idea is meant to convey?

Holder is our answer to these questions and so much more!

To put it simply, Holder is a holding page / coming soon theme and starter
theme. However, Holder is not that simplistic by any stretch of the
imagination. With the built-in blog and page styling you may even find that
Holder is the only theme you want. On top of that we put together 13 separate theme styles and many more customization possibilities in one theme -
we think you’ll agree that is great!

You only have one chance to make that first impression.  Use the Holder Theme.  “Wow” your visitors right away and keep them coming back for more as you continue development behind the scenes.

You want a feature list?  Oh, we’ve got your feature list.

Here are just some of the many things included in Holder:

  • 13 themes – each able to be customized by you – yes you can create
    your own theme based on ANY of our themes using our branding theme
    options and color picker! We’ve done away with the ‘select default.css’
    and made any theme style customizable. Hows that for flexibility? We
    even chucked a parent and child theme in there.
  • Built in blog styling – we felt the number one thing lacking in
    holding themes was the ability to have a blog… we fixed that with
    Holder. Full threaded comments and all the things you expect from a
    normal WordPress theme comes as standard in Holder.
  • Built in page styling – we added a page template so you can entice your future users
  • Simple SEO – last thing you want to have to do on setting a site up is
    add plugins at the start – no problem we’ve got your SEO covered with
    this simple feature.
  • Widget areas – want to add widgets? No problem Holder in each style has widget ready areas.
  • Form code area – add a form just copy and paste (subject to the method
    you use this may or may need adjustment in child theme).
  • Google analytics – place Google code in your footer
  • Google fonts – bored of the web safe fonts? Try a fancy Google font using our great method previewed in our last theme Studio
  • Social buttons – Want to link to Flickr, Rss, Facebook, Twitter,
    Vimeo, Del.icio.us? No problem just put in your url and a button will
    appear on the site. We made these buttons custom for you and this
    theme.
  • Text areas – Add 2 headers, description and footer links just by typing in theme options.
  • WordPress 3.0 menus – turn on and off navigation with a simple drop
    down setting and if on we have made Holder work with the built in
    WordPress menu system to give you ultimate control.
  • Branding options – upload a logo, image or even choose to have text – build your own Holder theme.

We hope you agree that’s quite a list from a Holder theme!

Check out the demo right here using the default style:

http://themetastic.com/wordpress/?wptheme=Holder

 

 

Usage

Installing a theme from WPMU DEV

  1. Download the theme file
  2. Unzip the file into a folder on your hard drive
  3. Upload the folder to /wp-content/themes/ folder on your site
  • If you’re using multi-site you’ll need to visit Network Admin -> Themes and Activate it there.

4.
Make sure your install path is correct for example:
/www/var/site/wp-content/themes/thethemename not
/www/var/site/wp-content/themes/themes/thethemename

5. You’ll see several files and folders depending on the theme
package.  Most themes contain a folder for the parent and child theme
within the folder called themes.

6. Launch FileZilla or your FTP client – read more about using FTP and FTP clients here.

7. Enter your domain name, your username and password. NOTE: the
same username and password that you use to log into your cPanel.

8. Click Quickconnect

9. Upload both the parent theme folder and child theme folder to wp-content/themes/

  • For example, with BuddyPress Daily theme you need to upload bp-daily and bp-daily-child to wp-content/themes/ (bp-daily folder is the parent theme folder)
  • With Gallery you need to upload gallery and gallery-child
    to wp-content/themes/ (gallery folder is the parent theme folder)
  • We provide child themes with themes to enable you to customize your own files without having those changes
    overwritten when we update a theme.
  • To find out more about parent and
    children themes please visit our guide to parent and child themes.

Uploading parent and child themes to your theme folder on your site

10.  Dragging the theme folders from your computer into theme folder in
your WordPress directory uploads these new themes to your WordPress
install however they aren’t enabled on a WordPress Multisite install.

11. As Super Admin user on WordPress Multisite you have the choice to enable:

a) The theme network wide so that all users can use the theme
b) Enable access to the theme on a per site basis
c) Use Supporter plugin via supporter-themes.php to make it available as a premium theme for supporter sites only

Enabling The Theme network wide

Here’s how to enable Sleek Photo network wide so that all your users can use the theme:

1. On your Network Admin dashboard click on the Themes menu
2. Select Enable underneath the theme name to enable its access network wide.
3. Then click Apply Changes

To enable more than one theme at once:

Enabling themes on a per site basis

Any theme that has not been activated for the entire network can be activated on a site as follows:

1. Locate the site you want to enable specific themes on by searching for the specific site by clicking on Sites > All Sites

2. Once you have located the site click on Edit (hovering your mouse over the domain name brings up the action menu)

3. Click the Themes tab

  • Only themes that haven’t been enabled network wide appear on the site theme list

 

  • You can also enable more than one theme at the same time:

 

Using Supporter Plugin for Premium Themes

The supporter plugin allows you to select premium themes for supporter sites only.

The idea is you make the best and nicest themes available on
supporter sites so users will want to sign up to access the themes.

To install:

1.  Install the Supporter plugin as per the installation instructions.
2.  Upload supporter-themes.php to wp-content/mu-plugins

How it works is:

1.  A Premium Themes page is added to Settings > Supporter in the Network Admin dashboard, where you can select the themes that you want to enable for Supporter sites only.

  • Only themes that haven’t been enabled network wide on Network Admin >Themes will be listed on this page

2.  A Premium Themes sub-menu item is added to the dashboard of all
sites under both Supporter and Appearance – but only users using
supporter site can activate a Premium theme.

3.  Whereas users on non-supporter sites can see all the Premium
themes but can’t activate them – instead they see a message saying
‘This feature is limited to supporters only’


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