Installation
You need to upload both the Flytonic theme and Fantasy Sports theme to your WordPress theme directory for installation.
How to Install the Fantasy Sports Theme:
- Download and install wordpress 3.5+ on your site. See wordpress.org for info.
- Download both Flytonic and Fantasy Sports themes
- Unzip each one and upload the interior folders without the version number to your themes folder (wp-content/themes/). So each theme should be there separate. I recommended using FTP software such as filezilla.
- Go to your appearance section in your wordpress admin and click themes. Look for the Fantasy Sports Theme and activate it.
Fantasy Sport Sites and Promotions Post Types
One of the unique features of the fantasy sports site is the ability to add and store Fantasy Sports sites you promote as well as promotions or bonuses.
1. Fantasy Sports Post Type
You will see the Fantasy Sports tab on the left side in your WordPress admin area.
Adding/editing this is just like a normal WordPress post. You can also add tags to be able to filter sites within shortcodes and widgets.
When you add a new site you will see a variety of fields:
An explanation of some of the fields:
- Site affiliate url: this is the url for the site you are promoting. Usually this is given to you by the affiliate program and contains your tracking info in the url.
- Redirect Key: this is just a made up word used to hide the full affiliate url. All outbound links are no follow and are in the format: yoursite.com/visit/key/
- Screenshots and thumbnails: the 3 thumbnails are shown on the review page. The screenshots are what the screenshots are linked to so the user can view the bigger image. You can choose to use the same images for both.
- Bonus code: if you are provide with a bonus code unique to this site you can enter one here.
- Bonus info: Enter any signup bonus info here – just a simple headline will do.
- Overall rating: Enter the rating you give the site ( 5 is the best) – this will be displayed as star ratings on the site.
- Ranking: manual rank you give the site that can be used to easily sort the site in custom widgets or custom shortcodes.
Adding Tags: Add tags to filter sites – usually shown on the right side:
2. Promotions Post Type
Promotion post type allows you to store and display promotions for Fantasy Sites your are promoting.
Some of the fields include:
- Bonus code: enter if there is a code connected to this promo or bonus
- 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.
- Bonus URL: url to direct users to (usually some type of affiliate url)
- Bonus for: Site the bonus is connected to.
- Ranking: manual rank for the bonus or promotion so you can easily sort it.
Do not forget about tags to filter the promotions as well!
Fantasy Sports Theme Custom Widgets
The fantasy sports theme has 3 custom widgets as well as the design to create your own newsletter widget.
1. Top Fantasy Sports Widget
Displays a list of Fantasy Sports sites with sorting and filtering options. Here is the display:
To add this to your sidebar look for the Fantasy Sports Widget in your sidebar area. You have the following options:
Number: choose number to display
Sort By: You can sort be name (alphabetical), rank (lowest first), or rating (highest first). The rank and rating area set in your Fantasy Sports post type fields.
Filter by: You can choose to show only the sites that have a certain fantasy sports “tag”, which is set when adding/editing the Fantasy Sports Site.
Link directly: check the box if you want the review links to become visit links which are directed to the affiliate url set for that site.
2. Top Promotion Widget
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.
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.
3. Banner Widget
You can read all about banners and adding banner widgets here.
Custom Fantasy Sports Theme Shortcodes
There are 3 custom shortcodes within the Fantasy Sports theme. You can access them by clicking the custom shortcode buttons in the editor or manually typing the shortcode as displayed below in each section.
Shortcode buttons in editor menu:
1. Top Fantasy Site Shortcode (Graph button)
This will display a list of Fantasy Sports sites as seen below:
Displaying the table shortcode: [fst_topsites]
Full shortcode: [fst_topsites num=3 orderby=’ ‘ sort=’ ‘ tag=’ ‘ ]
num: number of sites to show
orderby: what to sort the sites by with options:
- _as_roomname = sort by name of site
- _as_rating = sort by rating
- date = sort by published date
- _as_manualrank = sort by manual rank
sort: how to order the site with options:
- asc = ascending
- desc = descending
tag: name of tag to filter by
You can easily add this code by using the shortcode button and you will see this dialog window to choose the options:
2. Top Promotion Shortcode (Dollar sign button)
This shortcode will list a number of promotions as shown below:
The image that appears will default to the logo of fantasy sports site of the promotion otherwise you can use the featured image for that promotion.
Use the shortcode: [fst_promolist]
Full shortcode with attributes: [fst_promolist num=3 orderby=’ ‘ sort=’ ‘ tag=’ ‘ ]
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
You can easily add this code by using the shortcode button and you will see this dialog window to choose the options:
3. Excerpt (Recent Posts) Shortcode
Read about the excerpt shortcode here
Adding The Newsletter
The newsletter as seen in the demo is provided so you can add a newsletter to your site. You must already have a newsletter service to use this form.
The newsletter block needs to manually added to your sidebar area since every email service varies in their format.
1. Open up the file newsletter.txt. You will see the form information here, which is how it looks on the demo. You can edit the text and format the form to match your email provider.
2. Next step is to then copy the entire div and newsletter code to a text widget in your sidebar.
Footer Theme Options
Here are a few of the fantasy sports theme footer options. To adjust the options go to the theme options area under the Flytonic panel in Wordpres admin.
Hiding footer areas: you can easily hide different footer areas for the theme. There are 3 areas you can hide by clicking the check boxes in the theme options under Footer area.
Editing About us text and image: you can change the about us text as well as the about us image.
Connect with us links: The social media icons will only display id you input your links in the appropriate fields.
Fantasy Sports Theme – Change Colors
There are 4 colors schemes for the Fantasy Sports Theme:
1. Green (Default)
2. Black
3. Blue
4. Red
These can be easily changed in the Theme Options area of the theme as shown in the image:
