Before you can upload your theme, you first need to download the theme package from the Elegant Themes Members Area. Log in and locate your desired theme on the list and click the "download" link. There will be two download options: Theme Package and PSD Files. Click the "Theme Package" link to download the theme. Next you must upload the .ZIP file you just downloaded to your website via the WordPress Dashboard. Log in to wp-admin and click the Appearances > Themes tab. Next click the "Install Themes" button and then click the "Upload" link. Click "Choose File" and locate the .ZIP file you just downloaded and click "Install Now." Once then theme has been uploaded, you can activate it from within the Appearances > Themes tab.

Thumbnail images are added using Custom Fields. First you should make sure that you have Custom Fields enabled. While editing your post or page, click the "Screen Options" link on the top right of the screen and make sure that "Custom Fields" is checked. Next, scroll down below the text editor and locate the Custom Fields box. Under "Add New Custom Field," click the "Enter New" link. In the "Name" section, input the word "Thumbnail" (this is case sensitive). In the "Value" area, input the url to your thumbnail image. Your image will be automatically resized and cropped. The image must be hosted on your domain name.

You can define your own logo image from within the ePanel theme options page in your WordPress Dashboard. Within ePanel, under the General Settings > General tab, locate the "Logo" field. In the field, input the full URL to your logo image. You can use the "Upload Image" button below the field to upload your logo image if haven't already done so. After uploading, copy and paste the URL to the file into the field and click "Save" to save your ePanel settings.

If you don't already have a logo image, then you can use the included logo.psd file as a starting point. If you have Photoshop, this file can be opened and the logo's text can be easily edited using Photoshop's type tool. If you don't have Photoshop, then you can use included logo_blank.png file as a blank canvas in a different graphic design program. These files (logo.psd and logo_blank.png) are located within the Theme Package inside the /psd/ folder.

On the home page of your blog there are 4 boxes that show recent articles from 4 particular categories. You can choose which category each box pulls from, as well as customize the orange title above the article to match the categories real name. This can all be done by using the custom option pages found in wp-admin. You will need the ID's of each of the categories you would like to pull from. If you don't know what the category ID is, just look at the end of the URL when browsing the category in your web browser.

You can change the images used in each of the advertisements, as well as which URL each ad points to, through the custom option pages found in wp-admin.

You sure can. The number of recent posts being displayed on the homepage can be changed at any time via the custom option pages in wp-admin.

To change the feedburner count you need to go into the theme options page and edit the Feedburner Blog Title section. The feedburner blog title is the unique name you gave your blog that is shown at the end of your feedburner url. If you don't know what yours is you can find out by logging in to feedburner and creating your own feedburner count image. Look at the URL given in the link code.

You need to edit this in the theme options page. Enter your feedburner feed ID in the "Feedburner Feed ID" section.

If you use this theme you will need to have a featured article on your homepage. These featured articles are pulled from a category within your blog. First, you need to make a category called "Featured Articles." You must spell it correctly in order for it to work. (case sensitive!) Once you have created to category, simply add posts to it when you want them to show up as your featured article. Only one featured article is displayed at a time.

On a side note, you can add your article to other categories as well and still have it show up as a featured article by simply adding the article to the Featured Articles section in addition to its normal category.

If you are starting from scratch, and installing Nova onto a WordPress blog that does not have any content yet (posts, pages, categories, etc), then you can choose to import our sample data file, which will populate your new WorPress blog with "dummy content." This dummy content is just a bunch of gibberish text, however, it will give you a good template to work with. Instead of following the above instructions, some people prefer to simply upload the sample data first, and then replace the dummy content with their own. To do this, you can use the Tools > Import feature in wp-admin to import the included sample data file. This sample data file comes with all themes, and is located in your theme folder here: sampledata/sample.xml. When performing the import procedure, be sure to check the "Import epanel settings" box.

All of our themes come with a comprehensive collection of shortcodes. These shortcodes allow you to use pre-made design elements to create advanced page/post layouts without any HTML knowledge. When you install the theme, you will notice that some new buttons have been added to the WordPress text editor. Clicking these buttons will reveal options for adding shortcodes to your post. For complete shortcode documentation you can refer to the video on the left, as well as the following documentation page: http://www.elegantthemes.com/preview/TheProfessional/357-2/

All of our themes come with a collection of page templates that can be used for a variety of purposes. You can apply each of these page templates to any page that you have created. When you edit a page in wp-admin, you will notice a Templates dropdown menu to the right of the text editor. Here you can select from a list of available page templates. Once a template is selected, additional settings will appear in the "ET Page Templates Settings" box below the dropdown menu. These settings should be configured to acheive the desired result, as outlined in this video tutorial.

You can use the included Mo and Po files (located in the /lang folder of your theme) to translate the various English words that occur throughout the design. You can learn more about translating WordPress here: Translating WordPress