Blue Beam Wordpress Theme

Blue Beam is a blue-themed magazine style WordPress theme with a featured post carousel.

How to install

1. Unzip the bluebeam.zip
2. Upload the tomoka folder in the wp-content/themes directory.
3. Activate it!

To make this theme work, particularly in the homepage you must know how to use custom fields and you must configure the category id of the featured category you are using.

How to configure the featured post carousel

1. If you haven't created a featured category yet, pleaso do so.
2. Know/get the featured category's category id.
3. In featured.php, find the following code:
   
   <?php query_posts("cat=9"); ?>
   
   Replace 9 with your featuredcategory ID.
4. In index.php, find the following code:
   
   <?php $paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
   query_posts("cat=-9&paged=$paged"); ?>
   
   Replace 9 with your featuredcategory ID as well.

How to post a featured image

1. To post a main featured image, the key should be "featured" (remove the quotes) and the value: the url of the image. Here's a screenshot:
   
   
   The width and height of the featured image recommended size is 544x200 pixels.
   
   
   Thanks for using Blue Beam Wordpress Theme!