Potrika Wordpress Magazine Theme by shahin.co.nr
1. Installing the Theme
After downloading the zipped file, unzip it and put the “potrika” folder under your wp-content/themes directory. Now open up the plugins folder and copy everything you see there to the plugins folder of your wordpress installation and activate them right after.
2. Configuring the plugins
Even though there are three plugins included in the package, you will only need to configure the Popular posts plugin. Once you have activated all the plugins I included, go to settings drop down menu and open up the Wordpress Popular Posts plugin configuration page and put in 9 in the Number of Posts field.
3. Editing the logo
Go the the folder named “PSD” in the theme folder (/potrika/PSD) and open up the file you see there in Photoshop CS2 or Photoshop CS3. Select the Text Tool from the Photoshop toolbar, click on the text, delete it and put in what ever you want to put in. Once you have done that, save it in .JPG format with the name “logo”, upload it to the “potrika/images” folder, and it’s done!
4. Setting up the Adsense units
Unit #1: To setup the main banner ad at the top, beside the logo, open up headbanner.php and replace everything with your own 468X60 banner code.
Unit #2: To setup the third 336×280 adsense unit on the sidebar, open up ss_ad2.php and replace the texts with your 336X280 ad codes, I recommend using image-only ads for better conversion.
5. Setting up the Feedburner Feedcounter
I’ve setup a built-in control panel for this, as a test. Once you have setup all the options mentioned above, go to your themes control page from WP dashboard and activate Potrika theme, now from the Appearance drop-down menu, select Potrika Options, let it load itself and you’ll know what to do.
6. Setting up the post thumbnail
Nothing complicated, when ever you write a post, scroll down the page and you’ll find a section called Custom Field as shown in the image below. Click on the Enter New link you see there, put the word articleimg in the Name field and the URL to your image in the Value field and then click on the button that says Add Custom Field. You won’t have to do it over and over whenever you write a new post, after the first time, the articleimg field will show up automatically, all you have to do is put in the image URL and click on the Add Custom Field button. I recommend you use a 230by 147px image every time you write a post to ensure the featured content gallery is shown properly.
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