BestBrand:Documentation
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Overview
Content types
Best Brand comes with four build in Content types
- Product
- Blog post
- Testimonial
- Slideshow entry
Of course Best Brand also supports the rest of Drupal's default content types: Article and Basic page.
Product
A Product post is ideal for creating and displaying products. It has the option to be displayed into front page slide show. It provides the ability to attach an image which is automatically adjusted to fit into the websites layout. What’s particularly cool about a Product post, is that it provides the ability to attach a series of images, thumbnails of which are automatically created and adjusted to fit into the website layout. Product post enables free tagging (just like labels), taking the bests from the taxonomy system.
Blog post
A blog post, similar in form to a story, is ideal for creating and displaying content that carries images and informs or engages website visitors. Press releases, site announcements, and informal blog entries may all be created with a blog post entry. By default, a blog post entry is automatically featured on the site's initial home page, and provides the ability to post comments. It has the option to be displayed into front page slide show. It provides the ability to attach an image which is automatically adjusted to fit into the websites layout. Blog post enables free tagging (just like labels), taking the taxonomy one step further.
Testimonial
The Testimonial entry is perfect to showcase the words of love from your users and customers. Use it to easily publish testimonials on your site. A special View Block and a View Page are already configured to show them off perfectly.
Slideshow entry
A Slideshow entry is ideal for creating commercial banners as well as messages for your website. Use it to promote any page of your website or URL into the front page slide show. It can carry a title, a teaser and an image linking to an internal path or external link.
Image handling
Best Brand comes with pre-configured image presets ready to be used. All the content types, Blog post, Product and Slideshow entry make use of this and produce all necessary thumbnails and other derived images.
Just upload your images and Best Brand will use them for the Front Page, the Showcase and any other place where a derived image is needed.
Pre-configured Blocks
Best Brand comes with a set of pre-configured ready-to-use blocks and view blocks:
Promoted posts
This view block collects and displays the promoted to front page Products and Blog posts.
Contact us map
This block displays the corresponding Google map configured through the theme settings.
Latest products
This view block collects and displays the latest Products on your site.
Other Products in category
This view block collects and displays the Products that belong to the same category as the currently displayed product.
Latest posts
This view block collects and displays the latest blog posts on your site.
Recent Comments
This block collects and displays the latest comments on your site.
A word from our clients
This view block collects and displays the latest Testimonials on your site.
Twitter updates
Connects with your twitter account and displays automatically the latest tweets. Requires that you create the corresponding API keys through your twitter account.
Popular tags
This view block collects and displays the tags of all the taxonomy vocabularies of your site as well as the number of the corresponding nodes that were tagged with this term.
Connect with us
Ready made, html block with eye-candy social icons.
Company info
How to
Add a new Product or Blog entry
- Select "Add Content" and click on the content type you want
- Enter a title
- Enter the body text
- Upload as many images as you like
- Optionally enter the taxonomy tags you prefer
Add a new Testimonial
- Select "Add Content" and click on "Testimonial" link
- Enter a title
- Enter a subtitle
- Enter the Company
- Enter the Body text
Promote a Product or Blog post on the front page promoted block
In order to promote a Product or Blog post on the front page you should enable the "Promoted to front page" checkbox of the corresponding node.
Publish a post on the front-page slideshow
Product or Blog post
- Create a new or edit an existing Product or Blog post
- Check the "Promoted on slideshow" option
- Upload a Slideshow image using the Image field
- Optionally enter a "Teaser Text" to appear on the slide.
Your image will automatically be uploaded and resized to fit in the Slideshow. Your post now is part of the front page Slideshow.
Slideshow entry
- Create a new Slideshow Entry
- Enter the title and upload an image using the Image field
- Set the target path. It can also be an external link.
- Optionally enter a "Slideshow Text" to appear on the slide.
- Make sure the "Promoted on slideshow" check box is enabled.
All customizations regarding the mobile menu can be found at the theme settings.
Enable optgroups
Optgroups support up to 1 sub-menu level. To be able to display the responsive menu with the use of optgroups:
- Enable the corresponding options in the theme settings
- Disable the Superfish "sf-Smallscreen" plugin for the corresponding menu block
The result will look like this
