Chiropractic WordPress Theme Tutorials

This area provides a collection of tutorials for setting up and customizing the Chiropractor2Web WordPress Theme.

If you have questions that aren't addressed in the tutorials, check out our support forums or drop us a line and let us know so we can help you out!

Here is a list of the current tutorials:

• Chiropractor2Web WordPress Theme Update for WordPress 2.9
• How to Add a Video to Your Home Page
• My Notes From The Local Search Summit in San Jose
• WordPress Website Tutorial Series
• How To Add a Google Map to Your Chiropractic Website
• Creating Sub-Menus in the Chiropractor2Web WordPress Theme
• New WordPress 2.8 Update for Chiropractor2Web Theme
• Chiropractor2Web Theme Update – v1.2
• How to Change Your Sidebar Widgets
• Upload Patient Forms to Your Website

Chiropractor2Web Tutorial – Change The Navigation Menu

When you install the Chiropractor2Web WordPress theme, you will have five items on the navigation menu by default:

• Home – this is your home page that shows up first when somebody visits your website. You can edit the content of this page in the Chiropractor2Web Options panel in WordPress.
• About – this is a default page that WordPress adds to all new websites. You’ll want to either delete this page or change it. I usually change the title to “Meet The Doctor” and change the text to an introduction to the doctor(s) at the office, including a picture.
• Contact – This is a contact form that visitors can use to send you a message. The message will go to the email address you put in the Chiropractor2Web Options panel.
• Find Us – This is the map and directions page of your site. It also includes business hours. See this tutorial to add your own map for your business.
• Blog – This takes you to a page that lists all of the articles that you write on your website. You can remove this menu item (described below) if you do not plan to publish articles.

In addition to changing these menu items, you can easily add new items to your navigation menu. Any time you publish a new “Page” in WordPress, it will automatically be added to this menu. To publish a new page, log into WordPress, and go to the Write menu and select Page.

Whatever you put for the Title of this page will show up in the navigation menu of your site.

If you want to exclude certain pages from showing up in the navigation menu, you can do that from the Chiropractor2Web Options panel.

This is a list of all the Pages that you’ve published. You can select multiple pages to omit by holding down the shift key as you select each one.

Something we haven’t talked about yet is the difference between Pages and Posts in WordPress. Since WordPress is a platform for blogging, it gives you the ability to quickly and frequently publish content to your site.

WordPress Posts

When you write a blog entry, this is called a Post. Most blogs list the posts in reverse chronological order on the home page of the site, so that the latest ones are listed first.

In this theme, we’ve changed that so the home page is a static page that represents your business instead of a list of articles. We provide the “Blog” page in case you also want to publish articles for your visitors and patients.

WordPress Pages

In WordPress, Pages are for information that is more timeless, that you always want to display prominently on your site. In our case, examples of pages include the “Contact” form, the “Find Us” page or the “Meet the Doctor” page.

I suggest that you change the title of the “Blog” page to “Articles” and use that as an area to publish short and informative articles for your patients and visitors. You can include snippets from newsletters you may have published, or any advice or tips you are willing to share.

See the Chiropractor2Web demo for an example of a customized menu, and let me know if you have any questions in the comments below!

Announcing The Chiropractor2Web Support Forum

In addition to the Tutorials for installing and configuring the Chiropractor2Web WordPress Theme, we just turned on the Chiropractor2Web Support Forums.

Stop by to introduce yourself, discuss or ask your questions about the theme, WordPress or anything related to Chiropractic Website building!

Chiropractor2Web Tutorial – Sidebar Widgets

The Chiropractor2Web WordPress Theme is “widget enabled”, meaning that it supports WordPress widgets. Widgets can be easily added to the sidebar to add all kinds of functionality to your website.

We provide an example with the out of the box theme, and you’ll want to change it when you set it up for your practice.

To add a widget to your site, simply log into WordPress and go to the Design panel. From here, you’ll want to select the Widgets menu.

On the left of this screen you will see a whole list of Widgets available for you to add to your sidebar. You can add a calendar, links, recent posts, recent comments and many others. If you look to the right of this screen, you’ll see that there is already one widget added to the sidebar, titled “Text: Call Us Today!”

Let’s go and edit that Widget to say something about your business instead of something generic. Right now there is an image that you may want to either delete or replace with a link to your own image. And you’ll want to change the phone number and the other text in this widget. When you’re done click the “Change” button, and then “Save Changes.” The Widget on your site is now updated.

You can put any message you want in here and change it any time!

p.s. If you don’t want any widgets on your site you can click “Remove” and “Save Changes” to remove it.

Chiropractor2Web Tutorial – Feature Boxes

After installing the Chiropractor2Web WordPress Theme and entering your business information, the next thing you’ll want to do is customize the appearance of the home page.

At the bottom you’ll notice a section where you can feature pages on your site.

You’ll want to change these defaults and point them to other parts of your site like the Find Us page or a Meet The Doctor page.

To do that, log into your WordPress Admin panel, and go to the Chiropractor2Web Options page under Design.

Here, you can change the summary and the link for each of the feature boxes.

Just enter in a short summary that will pique the interest of your site visitors, and choose the page of your site that you would like to feature from the drop down.

That’s all there is to it! You can change which area of your site you want to feature at any time, by going back to the Chiropractor2Web Options panel in WordPress.

See the Chiropractor2Web Demo Site for a live example of how we customized the feature section, and let me know i fyou have any questions in the comments below!

Installing WordPress Quickly and Easily

Before you can use the Chiropractor2Web WordPress Theme you’ll need to have WordPress installed.

If you get your WordPress hosting from BlueHost, you can install WordPress very easily. I’ve got a short video that shows how to install WordPress in five minutes or less that walks you through it.

Installing WordPress In Five Minutes from Don Campbell on Vimeo.

Update: BlueHost is now recommending you use SimpleScripts instead of Fantastico for WordPress Installs. I’ve recorded a new video here – The Fastest Way to Install WordPress – Use SimpleScripts

Once you have WordPress installed, you can install the Chiropractic WordPress Theme and get your new chiropractic website up and running!

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