MonoMag Theme Help Page

1. Installing the Theme

After downloading the zipped file, unzip it and put the “monomag” folder under your wp-content/themes directory. And put the “popular-posts” folder in your plugins folder. Then go to your plugins control panel on the dashboard and activate the plugin.

3. Changing the logo

Go the the folder named “PSD” in the theme folder (themes/nasta/PSD) and open up the file you see there in Photoshop CS2 or Photoshop CS3. Select the Text Tool from the Photoshop toolbar, click on the text, delete it and put in what ever you want to put in. Once you have done that, save it in .JPG format with the name "logo”, upload it to the “themes/nasta/images” folder, and it’s done!

4. Using the theme without the .PSD logo

If you don’t want to go through the hassle of editing the logo in Photoshop and use the default Hyperlink type title, then open up the header.php from within the nasta folder, find the following line

<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . "/logo.php"); ?>

and replace it with this line.

<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . "/logo_text.php"); ?>

Now save it and upload it to themes/nasta folder and you’re done!

**Please note that Monomag Extended does not have this feature. But if you’re in desperate need of it, please let me know.

5. Setting up the Adsense Code

Find the fullbanner_code.php file in the theme folder, open it up in notepad or any other text editor, delete everything you see in it and paste your Adsense code. Please get the code for the 468×60 banner, not bigger or smaller. I highly recommend you use the image only banners.

7. Setting up the Feedburner Feedcounter

Open up the feedcounter.php file and find this following line:

$whaturl=https://feedburner.google.com/api/awareness/1.0/GetFeedData?uri=r_shahin;

Replace the very last part excluding the “;” (only r_shahin) with the last part of your feedburner address. For example, if your feedburner address is http://feeds2.feedburner.com/bajpakhi , then replace r_shahin with bajpakhi.

8. 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 featuredpic 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 Thumbnail 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 200px by 147px image every time you use this. But don’t worry if you don’t know how to resize an image, the theme will automatically resize it.