Note: You should have installed, uploaded and activated the plugins above before customizing below. If not the theme will come up with errors
Below theme customization are just my recommendation. You're free to explore more. Look under the "plugin" folder for more customization by the plugin developer
If you're on an old PHP server, you might encounter errors like "Warning: cannot yet handle MBCS in html_entity_decode()!" using the above plugins
To solve these, add to .htaccess file this line "AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 .php"
4a. Maximum width not to 'break' the design
Content Area: Don't exceed > 555px
Sidebar Area: Don't exceed >
327px (Main Column) / 120px (Left Column) / 140px (Right Column)
4b. Customizing your 125x125 ad banner (WP125)
Go to WP Dashboard > Ads
From here you can change your 125x125 ads setting located at the sidebar
I recommend "Two Column" and "Random" settings
4c. Customizing Feed Count
Firstly you should have a FeedBurner account
If so, then you should know your FeedBurner URL name
Insert it into the box under WP Dashboard
> Settings > Feed Count
4d. Customizing Recent Comments
You can edit your recent comments style and look from this control panel
Go to WP Dashboard
> Settings > Recent Comments
Play around with the settings that suits your blog best most
Take note that this recent comment is not related to the default WordPress recent comment feature
at the sidebar
4e. Customizing Post Ratings (WP-PostRatings)
This theme has an option for your readers to rate your blog entries
After voting, it will be displayed on the blog Popular
sidebar section
Go to WP Dashboard >
Ratings
Now play around with the settings that suits your blog most
4f. Customizing Post Views (WP-PostViews)
This plugin allows to show stats how many people are reading
your entries
This stats is displayed under the Sidebar > Popular
> Views
Go to WP Dashboard >
Settings > Post Views
You can now edit the settings of such views from this control panel
4g. Customizing Front Page News Slidesow (WP-PostBanner)
You
need to know coding
Open up index.php
There's two slideshow (550x290)
and (260x100)
size within the file
550x290 code is <?php get_slideshow(550,290,10,'numberposts=10&orderby=rand'); ?> It means
the plugin will find any of your blog entries with images width larger than 550px and height larger than 290px, and automatically show 10 such random articles on the front page on 1 slideshow
260x100 code is <?php get_post_banners(260,100,8,'numberposts=8&orderby=rand'); ?> It means
the plugin will find any of your blog entries with images width larger than 260px and height larger than 100px, and automatically show 8 such random articles on the front page
on a vertical
display
The parameters for above code:
Image width
Maximum image height (means actual rendered images may be lesser than this value)
(Optional) Maximum number of banners to be rendered
(Optional) Filter - valid under wordpress and filters the posts returned by wordpress.
Edit the above code to suit your blog settings best. More info of the coding details under the
"plugin > wp-post-banners"
folder. Read the documents there
4h. Customizing Most Commented
You
need to know coding
Open up sidebar.php
Look for the code <?php if (function_exists("mdv_most_commented")) { mdv_most_commented(10, '<li>', '</li>', false, 999); } ?>
The parameters for above code:
$no_posts - sets the number of posts to display
$before - text to be displayed before the link to the post
$after - text to be displayed after the link to the post
$show_pass_post - whether or not to display password protected posts
$duration - displays comments for recent number of days
4i. Customizing Customizable Post Listing
This plugin is used as it has the ability to display the blog on how I want it to look like
Open up index.php
Look for code
<?php
c2c_get_recent_posts ($num_posts = 6,
$format = "<li>%post_URL%</li>",
$categories = '',
$orderby = 'date',
$order = 'DESC',
$offset = 5,
$authors = '',
$include_passworded_posts = false)
?>
The above code says I want to display 6 post, with display format listed above, in date order by description and skip 5 news
Read up the
"customizable-post-listings.php" file under the plugin folder for more variables you want to play around with
4j. Customizing Subscribe Feature
Open up sidebar.php
Look up for code <input type="hidden" value="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~e?ffid=1114223" name="url" /><input type="hidden" value="Blogger Template" name="title" />
Insert your Feedburner value settings here
Parameters to edit:
Feedburner ID Number
Feedburner Name Title
4k. Customizing AdSense Ads
468x60 - Open up header.php. Look for <!-- 468x60 START --> Change the AdSense below that code to yours
120x600 - Open up sidebar.php. Look for <!-- 120x60 START --> Change the AdSense below that code to yours
336x280
- Open up index.php. Look for <!-- 336x280 START --> Change the AdSense below that code to yours
