Magaling is a premium quality Wordpress theme with Twitter status integration. Additional features include Featured Post Gallery, Feedburner Email Subscription, Popular Posts, Ajax Tabbed Sidebar, Automatic Thumbnail Resizer, Adsense ready with advertising blocks easily customizable via an Option Page.

Theme features:

• Tested on Wordpress version 2.6.5
• Twitter Account/Status Integration
• Featured Post Gallery
• Option Page for Easy Customization
• Feedburner Email Subscriber
• Popular Posts
• Tabbed Sidebar
• Automatic Thumbnail Resizer
• Adsense Ready
• Advertisement Blocks Ready
• Gravatar Enabled

Required Plugins and Scripts:

• Featured Content Plugin
• Popularity Contest
• TimThumb PHP Script
• Twitter for WordPress

Installation:

1. Upload tt-scripts folder in your WordPress root folder (this is where your wp-config.php is located).
2. Upload the content-gallery, popularity-contest and twitter-for-wordpress folders in the /wp-content/plugins directory.
3. Activate Featured Content Gallery, Popularity Contest and Twitter for WordPress plugins.
4. Note: For those who are having fatal error issues with the Popularity Contest plugin, download this revised plugin and activate it.

Customizing Featured Content Gallery:

1. Go to Settings > Featured Content Gallery
2. Recommended settings:
   • Gallery Width in Pixels: 575
   • Gallery Height in Pixels: 225
   • Text Overlay Height in Pixels: 80
   • Category Name: featured
   • Number of Items to Display: 3
3. Then Update Options.

Options Page

Customizing Options Page:

1. Go to the General Setting and fill in your:
   • Twitter Username
   • FeedBurner ID
   • Latest News Category Slug (optional)
   • 3 Adsense codes
2. Go to the Custom Advertisement Settings and fill in your:
   • Full banner header codes
   • 4 Square banner header codes

Additional Customization:

• Changing the Logo:
  1. Use the logo.psd found at the /magaling/images folder.
  2. Edit it using your favorite graphics application.
  3. Save as background-sitename.png and upload it at the /wp-content/themes/magaling/images folder.

Custom Fields

• Posting a Featured Content:
  1. Write a post and place it at the “Featured” category.
  2. In your post, go below the Custom Fields section.
  3. Key: articleimg
  4. Value: url of the image (with at least width: 575px and height: 225px)
  5. Then click Add Custom Field.
  6. Save or Publish your post.

• Changing the default post thumbnail:
  1. In your post, go below the Custom Fields section.
  2. Key: paddimage
  3. Value: url of the image in the uploads folder (i.e. /wp-content/uploads/2008/11/thumbnail.jpg), don’t worry about the size because it will be resize automatically.
  4. Then click Add Custom Field.
  5. Save or Publish your post.

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