Installing and Setting up the WordPress theme

Installing WordPress theme

• Upload the ZIP file and activate the theme from your WordPress dashboard.
• Add widgets to the sidebar and footer menu.
• This theme is supporting threaded comments. To activate the threaded comments, go into Discussion under the Settings tab, and activate the “Enable threaded (nested) comments”.
• Go into Permalinks under the Settings tab, select Custom Structure and type in /%postname%.htm (optional).

WordPress 3.0 Menu Editor

The WordPress menu editor is a powerful yet intuitive tool that allows you to customize your blog’s navigation menus. For detail instruction, please read http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/ for tutorial how to use the WordPress menu editor for customizing your top navigation menus.

Theme Settings

Read this post for detail about Theme Settings.

Adding Banner Ads to Sidebar

To add banner ads in sidebar area, simply go to your dashboard, click on Appearance – Widgets. Here are the sample codes you can use:

Wide banner ads (size 260×120 px)

<div id="ads">
<ul>
<li class="wide"><a href="#"><img src="http://newwp.templatepanic.com/images/banner-260x120.jpg" alt="banner-wide" /></a></li>
</ul>
</div>

Square banner ads (size 125×125 px)

<div id="ads">
<ul>
<li><a href="#"><img src="http://newwp.templatepanic.com/images/banner-125x125.jpg" alt="banner-square" /></a></li>
<li><a href="#"><img src="http://newwp.templatepanic.com/images/banner-125x125.jpg" alt="banner-square" /></a></li>
</ul>
</div>

Shortcodes

This theme has built-in shortcodes, to make you easier styling your post content. Read this tutorial about how to use shortcodes.