Installation
1. Download the product zip folder from the downloads area
2. Unzip the folder and upload the interior folder without the version number to your WordPress themes directory
3. Activate Affiliate & Review Theme
4. Enjoy!
Product Post Types
One of the main features of the Product Review Affiliate Theme is the ability to store and promote different products.
A post type called “Products” was created to store this information.
Here are the fields for Products:
1. Product Name – name here
2. Brand – enter the brand of product (optional)
3. Tagline – a tagline or a couple words to describe product – to be shown on Review Page 2
4. Affiliate URL – the outbound url will you will be sending customers which will most likely be an affiliate url. Enter full url here.
5. Redirect key – enter a word to be use to shorten the outbound link.
6. Price – enter price of product if you want it to be shown.
7. Features – enter a list of features separated by commas
8. Rating criteria and Rating – create your own rating criteria which you can rate 1 to 5. You do not have to have all 10 rating criteria. Only ones you input will be shown.
9. Overall rating – be sure to enter overall rating (5= the best), which will be shown as editor’s rating throughout the site.
10. Overall rating word – examples: Excellent, Poor, or Best
11. Ranking for sorting – enter a number here is you want to manually order a product in one of the custom widgets or custom shortcodes. 1 would be first.
12. Use in slider – select yes if you want this to appear in the slider if you choose to show featured products.
Featured image – be sure to input a featured image for each product. This will be shown in the review pages, widgets, and shortcodes for this product. Use a larger picture which will be resized accordingly.
Screenshots:
Promotion Post Types
Promotion post type allows you to store and display promotions for your products.
Some of the fields include:
- Coupon code: enter if there is a code connected to this promo or discount
- Expire date: if you want the promotion to disappear in widgets and shortcodes automatically then enter an expire date here. Use the format Year-month-date: 2014-12-21.
- Promo URL: url to direct users to (usually some type of affiliate url)
- Promo for: Site the promotion is connected to.
- Ranking: manual rank for the discount or promotion so you can easily sort it.
Do not forget about tags to filter the promotions as well!
Theme Options
There are a widget range of theme options and settings you can control with the theme. Please read below for details on the items.
Branding
- Logo – choose to show a logo instead of the blog title. Recommended size is less than 250px wide and 90px in height.
- Favicon url – if you have a favicon, please enter the url here. The default one is located in the images folder of the theme.
- Logo logo, url, and alt text – these items are what is shown on the WordPress login page.
Header
- Header script – enter any custom scripts you would like to place before the closing of the head tag. One example would tracking script like Google Analytics
General Options
- Article Thumbnail – enter an image here for the default thumbnail to be shown in post excerpts if no featured image is set.
- Product Thumbnail – enter an image here for the default thumbnail to be shown in all product shortcodes and widgets if no featured product image is set.
- Author Image – enter an image here for the default thumbnail to be shown in the author bio section for all authors. You can add individual author images in the user profile areas.
- Show bio info – check to show an author box below the articles on single posts.
- Review page slug – enter the slug to replace “review” for individual product pages. Please resave permalinks after changing this item.
Bylines and Breadcrumbs
- Check to show/hide different parts of bylines and breadcrumbs throughout the theme. Breadcrumbs are hidden by default and all bylines are shown by default.
Footer Options
- Footer script – enter any scripts you would like to insert right above closing of body tag.
- Hide footer widget area and bottom footer areas – check these boxes to completely hide these sections.
- Hide theme credit – check to hide the “Flytonic” theme credit.
- Bottom footer text – enter text to replace copyright and theme credit text.
Redirect Options
- Link Redirect Options – click to have affiliate outbound urls open in new window.
- Banner Redirect Options – click to have affiliate outbound urls open in new window. when a banner is manually uploaded.
- Outbound redirect slug – check to change the word “visit” in the outbound cloaked url.
Excerpts
- Change the length of the excerpt. Enter the number of characters to limit the excerpt to when one is not entered for a post.
Promotion Widget
The Featured Promotions widget allows you to display a list of promotions with filtering and other options.
Here are the options:
Number: choose number of promotions to display
Sort By: You can choose to sort by date added (most recent first) or manual rank set in the promotions post type field.
Filter by: You can choose to show only the sites that have a certain promotion “tag”, which is set when adding/editing the Promotions. For example you might only want to show reload bonuses and you can filter promotions to show only those tagged as “reload”.
Link directly: check the box if you want the link directed to outbound url instead of the promotion review.
Include Read More button: click to display a read more button below the title of the promotion.
Note on expiration date – if your promo has an expiration date then it will not be shown in the display if that date has already passed.
Preview of options:
Top Products Widget
This widget will allow you to display a table of products that you have entered in the “Products” post type.
Here are the options you have for the widget:
Number of Products: Pick number of products to display in the table
Sort by: Choose how to sort the products. Options are recently added, Name (alphabetical order), Rank (lowest manual rank), and Rating (highest first).
Filter by tag: Choose to filter products by tags. Basically by using this option the table will only show products that have that tag.
Widget Variation: Choose between 5 different styles of the table. Each offers a different layout or with different content/links.
Screenshot of options:
Product Reviews Widget
This widget will allow you to display a list of products that you have entered in the “Products” post type.
Here are the options you have for the widget:
Number of Products: Pick number of products to display
Sort by: Choose how to sort the products. Options are recently added, Name (alphabetical order), Rank (lowest manual rank), and Rating (highest first).
Filter by tag: Choose to filter products by tags. Basically by using this option, it will only show products that have that tag.
Widget Variation: Choose between 5 different styles of the table. Each offers a different layout or with different content/links.
See screenshot of options:
Product Listings Shortcode
The Product Listings shortcode displays columns of products with screenshot within a post or a page.
You can easily insert the shortcode and configure it by select “Product Listings” from the Flytonic dropdown menu in the post/page editor.
Here is all the options and to manually create it yourself:
Shortcode:
[fst_productlist]
Shortcode with all attributes blank:
[fst_productlist num=’ ‘ fst_orderby=’ ‘ fst_sort=’ ‘ fst_tag=’ ‘ showrate=’ ‘ visit=’ ‘ version=’ ‘ ]
Attribute options:
1. num: this is the number of products you would like to show. Default is 3.
2. fst_orderby: choose how you would like you table to be ordered by. Default is date.
Options are:
- fst_orderby=’ date’ – the date published
- fst_orderby=’_as_roomname’ – the product name
- fst_orderby=’_as_rating’ – the overall rating of the product
- fst_orderby=’_as_manualrank’ – the manual rank of the product
3. fst_sort: how to sort the order by: fst_sort=’ASC’ or fst_sort=’DESC’. Default is DESC
4. fst_tag: Enter a tag here if you want to filter the output by a certain product tag
5. showrate: enter showrate=’y’ if you would like to hide the rating stars
6. visit: enter visit=’y’ if you would like to show a visit button instead of a read more button
7. version: Options are version=’1′ or version=’2′. This is the variation of the output. Default is 1.
Featured Product Shortcode
The Featured Product shortcode will display one featured product inside a post or page.
You can easily insert the shortcode and configure it by selecting “Featured Product” from the Flytonic dropdown menu in the post/page editor.
Here is all the options and to manually create it yourself
Shortcode:
[ft_featpro] [/ft_featpro]
Shortcode with all attributes blank:
[ft_featpro headline=’ ‘ product=’ ‘ tag=’ ‘ hiderate=’ ‘ showrate=’ ‘ hidereview=’ ‘ hidevisit=’ ‘ showdate=” ] Content here [/ft_featpro]
Attribute options:
1. headline: enter a headline for the product. If it is left blank the title of the product will be show instead.
2. product: enter name of product to show. If this is blank a random one will be shown.
3. tag: Enter a tag here if you want to filter the output by a certain product tag if it is random.
4. hiderate: Enter hiderate=’y’ if you do not want to display rating stars.
5. hidereview: Enter hidereview=’y’ if you want to hide the review button.
6. hidevisit: Enter hidevisit=’y’ if you want to hide the visit button.
7. showdate: Enter showdate=’y’ if you want to display published date.
Promotion Shortcode
Add promotions and call to action boxes from using content from Promotion post types inside posts or pages with this shortcode.
You can easily insert the shortcode and configure it by selecting “Promotion” from the Flytonic dropdown menu in the post/page editor.
Clicking on the promotion shortcode window, you will see these options:
Manually add the shortcode:
Use the shortcode: [fly_promolist]
Full shortcode with attributes: [fly_promolist num=3 orderby=’ ‘ sort=’ ‘ tag=’ ‘ version=” directlink=”]
num: number of promotions to show
orderby: what to sort the promotions by with options:
- date = sort by published date
- _bc_manualrank = sort by manual rank
sort: how to order the site with options:
- asc = ascending
- desc = descending
tag: name of tag to filter by
version: which type of style to use:
- 1 = Version 1
- 2 =Version 2
directlink: link to promo outbound page:
- y = link to promo outbound page
Product and Post Sliders
Product Slider
The product slider allows you to show either recently posted products or products you have selected to show in the slider.
To create a product slider follow these steps:
1. First make sure you have added at least one product (read here about product post types)
2. Create a new page
3. Select page template “Product Slider Template”
4. Look for the “Product Slider Template Options” and choose number of products to show and to show either the latest products or only those marked as featured. To use featured products – see the last field on the product post type which you can select “Yes” to use in slider.
5. Publish page and that is it. You can add your normal page content inside the slider page and also set this as a home page.
* The default options are to show 5 of the most recent products published.
Screenshot – Page template:
Screenshot – Options:
Recent Posts Slider
The recent post slider is created in a similar manner
1. Select the page template “Post Slider Template”
2. Choose the options for number of posts to show and to show either recent posts or post that have been marked as featured
3. To mark posts as featured look for the option on posts to use in slider. See screenshot:
4. Publish page and it will show posts as slider on top.
* The default options are to show 5 of the most recent posts.
Screenshot of options:
Review Page Template Options
There are currently 3 page options for your product review pages. You can see the different ones in the demo:
To change from the default review page, look for the Custom Page Template and select either option 2 or option 3.
