Potrika Theme Help Page
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Download link to the Potrika Magazine WordPress Theme
1. Installing the Theme
After downloading the zipped file, unzip it and put the “potrika” 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. Configuring the plugins
Even though there are three plugins included in the package, you will only need to configure the Popular posts plugin. Once you have activated all the plugins I included, go to settings drop down menu and open up the WordPress Popular Posts plugin configuration page and put in 9 in the Number of Posts field.
3. Editing the logo
Go the the folder named “PSD” in the theme folder (/potrika/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 “potrika/images” folder, and it’s done!
4. Setting up the Adsense units
Unit #1: 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.
Unit #2: To setup the third 336×280 adsense unit on the sidebar, open up ss_ad2.php and replace the texts with your 336X280 ad codes, I recommend using image-only ads for better conversion.
5. Setting up the Feedburner Feedcounter
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 Potrika theme, now from the Appearance drop-down menu, select Potrika Options, let it load itself and you’ll know what to do.
6. 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 147px 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.
how do we modify the widgets, I can’t seem to be able to make any changes to them.
My apologies, I got the Widget functioning for some reason it shows sidebar_one and sidebar_two. I can only modify sidebar_one.
The issue I am having now is that, I am not able to activate the Blogroll widget. It seems to be greyed out, which prevents me from adding it.
There is no reason you shouldn’t be able to modify sidebar_one, however, you cannot edit sidebar two, I had to put it for some testing purpose, the theme only needs sidebar one and that’s the way it is Eric. Now, moving onto the greyed out issue, the reason you’re encountering this is probably because you have blogroll activated on sidebar_two from your last theme. Here’s how you could solve it, open up sidebar_two section and remove all the widgets from there and save it, now come back to sidebar one and you’ll be able to activate the greyed out widgets.
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Hi guys, i have used this theme but having difficulty to put post in popular posts any post i post on web site it appear in popular posts which is not right.
can any body help??
Hi Qaisar, the posts will appear accordingly once you have a few more posts on your blog.
hi, may i know how do i limit the headline post?
@Zst: Open up index.php file, find the following codes:
5) break;
$thumb = get_post_meta($post->ID, ‘articleimg’, $single = true);
?>
Notice the “5″ in the 5th line? This controls the number of the posts that shows up under the headlines section. You’ll find the codes twice in the index.php file since we have two columns.
got it. thanks alot. another Qn, sometimes the headline post repeats itself at another column resulting in two same post to be displayed. Is there a way to avoid this?
@zst: Sorry for delay. The repeated post problem should disappear once you have more than 6 posts.
ok thanks for your help (:
hi
very good themes,
how to change in”coverstory” instead to display the last post, i want to put i a post ofa category
i want to create a category “star” and display it the best of the week news of my website guy
a other question
how to add date in the post.
i want to put the date of the post beside the categorie name
thx
@Kiamaru: Thanks for your comment Kiamaru, but I’m sorry I can’t help you with either of the issues, the themes can be used as it is for free, any further modification would require a modification fee.
Thank you~
hi.
why ”most popular posts” show ” not found”??
@mr.h: Install the included plugin first.
can the featured post sliding? auto i mean