THEME INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS

1. To get your theme up and running, upload the /Elegent Designs/ folder to your /themes/ directory via ftp.




2. Then in your Dashboard go to Appearence/Elegent Design Options/ and change the input details to your needs.

   Theme Option has the following,

   1. Change the url of the logo Image. It should be 100px in height and less than 500px in width.

   
   

   2. Change Feedburner Feed details.

   
   

   3. Change Twitter details.

   
   

   4. Enable Adsense 300*250 and 468*60 ads. Make sure that you add your adsense pub-ID in the given field if you have enabled this.

   
   

   5. Enable or Disable Adverts in the sidebar, to Whatever your needs and to input the title, image url and image url links.

   
   

3. Then to add a Post thumbnail,
   1. You need to add post thumbnails of 200px * 200px, for each individul posts, otherwise the default background post thumbnail would be shown.

   
   

   2. Scroll down until you find custom fields in the post edit pages.

   
   

   3. In the add new custom field, add “thumbnail” for the name or key field and give the url for the image you want your thumbnail to be in the value field.

   
   

4. To setup your feedburner feeds to work properly,
   1. Go to settings panel in wordpress dashboard and click the permalinks sub panel.
   2. Select the custom structure checkbox, add /%category%/%postname%/ and save the changes made.
   3. This permalink structure also makes your posts optimized for SEO, resulting in higher search rankings of your posts.

Now you have a nice and elegent theme up and running. Enjoy!

UPDATE

If you experience any problems with regard to comments being posted to the last related post, rather than being posted to the original post in the theme, do the following to eradicate it,

1. Open your single.php file in your preferred text editor or notepad, from the Elegent Designs theme folder
2. Go down until you find a div with a class of related-posts or press Ctr + F and type class=”related-posts” and enter search
3. Just before the end of that div find endwhile; } } between the php tags.
4. Replace it with endwhile; } wp_reset_query(); }.
5. Finally save and close the file. Now you can upload the theme files to your server.

If you are still facing any problems, please feel free to leave a comment.

CREDITS

Post thumbnails images used in the theme are not my images and the url’s below directs you to the respective owners, other images for which credit is not given are taken from public directories.

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/dyobmit/
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/dyobmit/
• http:www.flickr.com/photos/grrphoto/
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/mistybushell/