Coastal Sun Theme

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How  To Use This Theme?? Follow the Instruction

Theme Installation

  • Upload the theme from the theme folder into your wp-content/themes folder. Activate it.

Configuring the Theme Optionsd

  • Featured Category Slideshow : Select the category you want to be appear in featured post slideshow. All post from this category will be appear in the slideshow.
  • Feedburner ID : Enter your feedburner ID here , so you can use the feedburner email subscription features.
  • Twitter ID : Enter your twitter ID here. Your latest twitter post will be appear in the theme
  • Youtube Video Code : Go to any youtube video. Look at the embed code, for example
    Look at the highlighted part above, that part is the one you should enter in this option page. Only That URL, not ALL EMBED CODE
  • Banner Management : This is where you can change and configure your ads blocks.

Configuring The Slideshow.

From the previous theme experience , this is where most people facing problem. So, once again. Follow this instruction.

  • In order to make picture appear on slideshow, you have to add custom fields in each post on the  category  you set as featured category in the theme options page.
  • Make new custom field named “featured” (without the quotes), and enter the image URL as the value. Remember: The image must be hosted on your domain. Otherways, it won’t work.

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    1. The theme slideshow also use the TimThumb PHP script to automatically create and resize the slideshow images, and in order for it to work properly you need to take note of the following things first:

    • There’s  a cache folder  for the thumbnail images located in the theme folder which requires proper write permissions. If your host server doesn’t allow this by default, be sure to manually change the /cache/ folder permissions to 777 or 755.
    • Use absolute paths for your images in the custom fields. For example http://yourdomain.com/wp-content/uploads/images.jpg
    • If your Hosted your site in Hostgator and your image didn’t appear after following all the instruction. Try to contact hostgator, tell them the problem and ask them to get ur site whitelisted on the mod_security stuff. There’s a security function in hostgator that sometimes prevents the timthumb from working.

    2. For the homepage post thumbnail, the theme will automatically create and resize the thumbnail from the image in your post. So no longer need any custom fields input. Just make sure your image is hosted in the same domain (just use the image uploader in the WP Post Editor, and you will have no problem) .

    Feel free to leave comment if you still have questions.