Business Identity WordPress Theme

# The Business Identity WordPress Theme #

Showcase your business, connect with your customers, and make a strong and professional impact on the web with Business Identity. Featuring custom logo and site layout functionality, a beautiful home page template, and customer testimonials, Business Identity is the right choice for your online brand. Hop over to the theme demo [1] to learn more.

[1] https://businessidentitydemo.wordpress.com

## Recipe ##

Take the following steps in order to make your website look and feel exactly like the Business Identity demo site:

1. Download and install WordPress [1].
2. Purchase and install Business Identity.
3. Download and install the custom colors plugin for Business Identity [2].
4. Download and install the Jetpack plugin [3].
5. Visit the Business Identity documentation [4] and pay special attention to the information on setting up your home page [5] and the featured content slider [6].

[1] https://wordpress.org
[2] https://themes.nyc/business-identity-CC
[3] http://jetpack.me
[4] https://businessidentitydemo.wordpress.com
[5] https://businessidentitydemo.wordpress.com/docs/front-page-template/
[6] https://businessidentitydemo.wordpress.com/featured-content/

## Featured Images ##

Business Identity is a theme that's designed to allow you show off your images. You may have been using another theme before switching to Business Identity or you may have had a lot of images uploaded to your WordPress media library [1] before activating Business Identity on your site. If this is the case, then please download and install the Regenerate Thumbnails [2] plugin. This is an essential step towards making sure that your website loads images at a sensible size and also ensures that any old images that you've uploaded into your site before activating the theme are accounted for. You will find Business Identity's recommended media settings on the demo site [3].

[1] https://en.support.wordpress.com/media/
[2] https://wordpress.org/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/
[3] https://businessidentitydemo.wordpress.com/docs/images/#recommended

## Theme Installation ##

The Business Identity theme is delivered to you as a ZIP file, which WordPress is able to recognize and install.

1. In order to install the theme into your website, go to Appearance → Themes from within your WordPress Dashboard and then click on the Add New button next to Themes [1].
2. Next to the Add Themes page title you will see a button that says Upload Theme [2]; click on that, choose your theme's ZIP file, and then click on Install Now [3].
3. After completing these steps, you are now able to either Activate or Live Preview your new theme [4].

[1] https://cloudup.com/c4pzzP3OTQX
[2] https://cloudup.com/cTqtmkTysvK
[3] https://cloudup.com/c4qrgVLOS3N
[4] https://cloudup.com/c_l4OyHqCih/f

## Plugin Installation ##

The Business Identity custom colors plugin is delivered to you as a ZIP file, which WordPress is able to recognize and install.

1. In order to install the plugin into your website, go to Plugins → Add New from within your WordPress Dashboard and then click on the Add New button next to Plugins [1].
2. Next to the Add Plugins page title you will see a button that says Upload Plugin [2]; click on that, choose the plugin ZIP file, and then click on Install Now [3].
3. After completing these steps, you are now able to customize the colors of Business Identity [4].

[1] https://cloudup.com/cZefZiafKns
[2] https://cloudup.com/cDwCgDF81nt
[3] https://cloudup.com/cGJ7XJYaKNb
[4] https://cloudup.com/cRb9Ns9Nf3a

## Theme Version ##

The current version of Business Identity is 3.0.3. The current stable version of WordPress [1] as of this theme version is 4.4. All Professional Themes themes support the current stable version of WordPress at the time of their release, as well as two prior versions of WordPress, which is in line with its core development philosophy.

[1] https://wordpress.org/about/roadmap/

## Jetpack Plugin ##

Business Identity uses Jetpack [1] to assist with customer testimonials handling, featured content, portfolios, infinite scroll, and image optimization, to name a few features. We highly recommend that in order to get the most out of your website with Business Identity you install Jetpack. It was built to bring the power of WordPress.com to self-hosted WordPress installations, and it will make your self-hosted installation of Business Identity shine just like it does on WordPress.com.

[1] http://jetpack.me

## Documentation and Support ##

Documentation for Business Identity can be found on its demo site [1]. Support will be provided directly through Creative Market. If you have any pre-sale questions feel free to contact us [2].

[1] https://businessidentitydemo.wordpress.com/docs/
[2] http://professionalthemes.nyc/contact/

## Browser Support ##

This version of Business Identity supports the following browsers:

- Apple Safari [1]
- Google Chrome [2]
- Firefox [3]
- Internet Explorer (9+) [4]
- Opera [5]

[1] http://www.apple.com/safari/
[2] http://www.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel
[3] http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/styleguide/identity/firefox/channels/
[4] http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/internet-explorer/download-ie
[5] http://opera.com/

## Updates ##

### [3.0.3] Monday, November 23rd, 2015 ###

- Enhancement: Better excerpt handling. Add a "Read More" link to excerpts for easier navigation.
- Enhancement: Update theme POT and various theme translations.
- Enhancement: Theme Options Overhaul; tuck all theme options into their own panel to avoid conflicts with Core panels and to make the theme more in-line with WordPress.com's approach to theme options in the customizer.
- Patch: IE9, which is supported by WordPress.com and us, does not support contains. Change RTL detection to jQuery to avoid script errors in IE9.
- Patch: Remove old title handling from theme now that WordPress 4.3 has been released.
- Patch: Change theme author URL to correct https location.

### [3.0.2] August 2nd, 2015 ###

- Patch: Remove all core-related section modifications from the Customizer. This has proven to be too fragile with WordPress’ ever-changing Customizer implementation, and the user experience gains are outweighed by the negative repercussions of PHP fatals or warnings when the Customizer changes.

### [3.0.1] July 22nd, 2015 ###

- Enhancement: Add more language packs into theme.
- Patch: Minor adjustments to ensure that theme adheres to WordPress coding standards [1].
- Patch: Minor i18n adjustments.
- Patch: Make sure that all adjustments to the Customizer have checks in place to make sure that controls and sections aren’t empty before doing anything with them. A lot of new additions are coming to the Customizer in 4.3 and in some cases sections and controls have been either renamed or changed. Because of this we need to make sure that sections aren’t empty before manipulating them.
- Patch: Use Use HTTPS for Google API external libraries [2].
- Patch: Better unboxing experience for front page Testimonials section.
- Patch: Better Masonry handling in front page and footer widgets.
- Patch: Reduce the max width for page hero images. 9999 was too large.
- Patch: Better Google font handling.
- Patch: Ensure that when the site title is hidden the menu toggle is still available to mobile visitors.

[1] https://github.com/WordPress-Coding-Standards/WordPress-Coding-Standards
[2] https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/32552

### [3.0.0] March 25th, 2015 ###

- Enhancement: Add Contributors page template into theme.
- Enhancement: Allow users to hide page breadcrumbs.
- Enhancement: Allow automated slide transitions in the featured content slider.
- Enhancement: Allow users to show full content or excerpts in blog views.
- Browser Support: Remove HTML5 Shim from theme, as browser support has been bumped to IE 9+.
- Patch: Ensure that custom Typekit fonts and bold text work well together.
- Patch: Better testimonial featured image handling.
- Patch: Minor adjustments to ensure that theme adheres to WordPress coding standards [1].
- Patch: Better page hero handling to ensure responsiveness across all viewports.
- Patch: Updated language files.
- Patch: Allow for higher quality featured images to be uploaded.
- Patch: Better JS detection handling. Let child themes remove this.

[1] https://github.com/WordPress-Coding-Standards/WordPress-Coding-Standards

### [1.0.0] ###

- Initial Release: Business Identity was released on WordPress.com [1] on July 30th, 2014, and Creative Market on May 9th, 2014 [2].

[1] https://theme.wordpress.com/themes/business-identity/
[2] https://creativemarket.com/professionalthemes/39756-Business-Identity-WordPress-Theme

## Versioning ##

Business Identity uses Semantic Versioning [1], which states that given a version number MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH, increment the:

1. MAJOR version when you make incompatible API changes,
2. MINOR version when you add functionality in a backwards-compatible manner, and
3. PATCH version when you make backwards-compatible bug fixes.

Most of the updates for this theme will be in the form of bug fixes and minor enhancements.

[1] http://semver.org

## Professional Themes ##

Professional Themes is an open-source software company that specializes in online solutions for small businesses. We help customers build beautiful websites. Visit our website [1] to learn more.

[1] http://professionalthemes.nyc/