LightBytes theme help page

Download link to the Lightbytes WordPress Theme

1. Installing the Theme

After downloading the zipped file, unzip it and put the “lightbytes” 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. Changing the logo

Open up the .psd logo file from the PSD folder inside the the package. Once you have finished editing the logo, save it as .JPG format with the name logo and upload it to the image directory.

3. Setting up the Adsense ad

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.

4. Setting up the 125x125px ads and Feedburner options

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 LightBytes theme, now from the Appearance drop-down menu, select LightBytes Options, let it load itself and you’ll know what to do.

5. 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 137px image every time you write a post to ensure the featured content gallery is shown properly.

To Remove footer Links

There’s a removal fee of $15 if you want to remove the encrypted footer links. If you’re willing to pay, please contact me via the contact me page.