Gazette Wordpress Theme

How to install

  1. Unzip the gazette.zip
  2. Upload the gazette 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 $paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1; query_posts("showposts=4&cat=-9&paged=$paged"); ? ?>

    Replace 9 with your featuredcategory ID as well.

How to post a featured image (for the featured post area).

To make the theme work you should have a featured category. You must include a featured image in every post in that featured category.

  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:
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    The width and height of the featured image recommended size is 200px × 300px

How configure the Twitter area in sidebar

In twiiter.php, find:

$username = "kettobase"; // Your twitter username.


and replace kettobase with your twitter username.

How to configure the About the Author section

edit it in about.php

Thanks for using Gazette Wordpress Theme!