Tonight SEO Blog will share about a free WordPress theme yet with a quality as a premium theme, the theme I would like to share now is Mahusay. This theme filled with:
- Featured post gallery,
- Twitter account integration,
- Tabbed Sidebar,
- Automatic Thumbnail Resizer,
- Feedburner Email Subscription,
- Adsense ready and other ads blocks easily customize via an Option Page.
Here’s Mahusay WordPress Theme Screenshot:
And here’s I give a short tutorial on how to install the theme correctly and easily, so it will save your time, ok follow me:
Required Plugins and Scripts:
- Featured Content Plugin
- Popularity Contest
- TimThumb PHP Script
Installation:
- Upload tt-scripts folder in your WordPress root folder (this is where your wp-config.php is located).
- Upload the content-gallery and popularity-contest folders in the /wp-content/plugins directory.
- Activate Featured Content Gallery and Popularity Contest plugins.
Customizing Featured Content Gallery:
- Go to Settings > Featured Content Gallery
- Recommended settings:
- Gallery Width in Pixels: 606
- Gallery Height in Pixels: 220
- Text Overlay Height in Pixels: 80
- Category Name: featured
- Number of Items to Display: 3
- Then Update Options.
Options Page
Customizing Options Page:
- Go to the General Setting and fill in your:
- Primary Author (optional)
- Twitter Username
- FeedBurner ID
- Category Slug 1
- Category Slug 2
- Category Slug 3
- 3 Adsense codes
- Go to the Custom Advertisement Settings and fill in your:
- Full banner header codes
- 4 Square banner header codes
Additional Customization:
- Changing the About The Author Photo:
- Your Gravatar is the default photo. Get a Gravatar now if you don’t have one.
- Changing the About The Author info:
- At the WP Admin Panel, go to Users > Your Profile > About Yourself > Biographical Info
- Write a brief author information.
- Then Update Profile.
- Changing the Logo:
- Use the logo.psd found at the /mahusay/images folder.
- Edit it using your favorite graphics application.
- Save as background-sitename.gif and upload it at the /wp-content/themes/mahusay/images folder.
Custom Fields
- Posting a Featured Content:
- Write a post and place it at the “Featured” category.
- In your post, go below the Custom Fields section.
- Key: articleimg
- Value: url of the image (with at least width: 606px and height: 220px)
- Then click Add Custom Field.
- Save or Publish your post.
- Changing the default post thumbnail:
- In your post, go below the Custom Fields section.
- Key: paddimage
- Value: url of the image in the uploads folder (i.e. /wp-content/uploads/2008/11/thumbnail.png), don’t worry about the size because it will be resized automatically.
- Then click Add Custom Field.
- Save or Publish your post.
Ok I guess you want to see the whole looks of the theme thus here’s the demo:
Download Mahusay WordPress Theme.
Have a nice download everyone :d
