Goldtastic WP theme has a horizontal jQuery featured slideshow to showcase your important posts, four front page widgets to present your important services in your site (About, Contact, Services, etc.), built-in twitter feed and advertisement placeholder for monetization. All these settings can easily be customized via the Admin Options area. This freemium WordPress theme is packed with an upgraded framework and a robust admin options panel to accommodate the General Settings, Slideshow Settings, Page Tracker, Social Networking, Page Navigation and Custom Ads Settings.

Like our previous theme release, Goldtastic is also tried and tested to work in a multisite environment. Goldtastic is WordPress MU compatible theme.

Because it has a clean and well-structed .pot file, you can translate the theme to your preferred languages with ease. Goldtastic WP theme comes with the latest WordPress 3.0 goodness, custom menu and a lot more!

Goldtastic WP theme is an awesome WordPress theme which is great for any blogger who wants to impress their readers with their contents and a premium quality design blog at no cost!

Check out the other theme features:

• Business / Portfolio theme
• Custom Front Page Widgets
• WordPress MU Compatible
• Custom Font Integration
• Most Popular Posts
• Spread the articles via Social bookmarks (TweetMeme, Delicious, Digg, Newsvine, RSS, Stumbleupon, Technorati, Twitter)
• Separation of Comments and Trackbacks
• SEO optimized
• Automatic Thumbnail Resizer (without using a custom field)
• Compatible with WordPress version 3.0+
• RSS, Twitter, Facebook and Flickr subscription
• Google Analytics code integration
• Built-in Page Navigation
• Advertisement Blocks Ready
• Gravatar Enabled

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Installation:

1. Install goldtastic folder at /wp-content/themes/
2. Activate Goldtastic Theme 1.0 by Padd Solutions (Note: Don’t worry if it might look disoriented at first, you need to activate the required plugins to fully utilize the theme.)

Activate the Required Plugins:

• Regenerate Thumbnails
• WordPress Popular Posts

Initial Settings:

• Regenerate Thumbnails (skip this step if you are on a fresh install):
  1. Tools > Regen. Thumbnails
  2. Click Regenerate All Thumbnails
  3. Wait for 100% to regenerate all thumbnails.
• Setting the DropDown Menus:
  1. Go to Appearance > Menus.
  2. Drag and drop the menus you want to appear in header navigation menu at the “Main Menu” and footer area with the “Footer Menu” and hit “Save Menu” button.
  3. At the Theme Locations box, choose “Main Menu” and “Footer Menu” from the dropdown choices and hit “Save”.

Customizing Goldtastic Theme:

• Setting the Slideshow:
  1. Go Appearance > Goldtastic Options > Slideshow
  2. Enable Slideshow
  3. Designated Slideshow Category – choose the category from the dropdown options
  4. Select the number of slides, effect, duration and scroll speed
  5. Save Settings.
• Setting the post thumbnail:
  1. Go Post > All Posts > Choose the post to edit
  2. From the post section, find the “Featured Image” box found at the lower right most part of the screen
  3. Set Featured Image (recommended image size: 950×332)
  4. Publish / Update Post
• Setting the Homepage Widgets:
  1. Go Appearance > Goldtastic Options > General
  2. First Column Page – choose the page from the dropdown options
  3. Second Column Page – choose the page from the dropdown options
  4. Third Column Page – choose the page from the dropdown options
  5. Fourth Column Page – choose the page from the dropdown options
  6. Save Settings.
• Setting the Featured Projects:
  1. Go Appearance > Goldtastic Options > General
  2. Designated Featured Projects Category – choose the category from the dropdown options
  3. Save Settings.

Requirements:

Thank you:

Thanks to Viper007Bond and Héctor for the useful plugins.

Feedback:

Tell us what you think, we would love to hear something from you.
If you have any problem or found some bugs upon using this WordPress theme, feel free to leave a comment here.

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Theme features:

• Magazine Style Layout
• Compatible with WordPress version 2.8
• Twitter Account Integration
• Google Analytics code integration
• Built-in Page Navigation
• Featured Posts
• Option Page for Easy Customization
• Feedburner Email Subscriber
• Flickr Thumbnails
• YouTube Video
• Automatic Thumbnail Resizer
• Adsense Ready
• Advertisement Blocks Ready
• Gravatar Enabled
• Threaded Comments

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Required Plugins:

• Twitter for WordPress
• WP-PageNavi
• FlickrRSS

Installation:

1. Upload the twitter-for-wordpress, wp-pagenavi and flirckrRSS folders in the /wp-content/plugins directory.
2. Activate Twitter for WordPress, WP-PageNavi and FlickrRSS plugins.

Customizing Maginhawa Options:

1. Go to Appearance > Maginhawa Options
   • General Settings
   • Featured Gallery Slideshow Settings
   • Googe Adsense Settings
   • Banner Advertisement Settings
2. Then Update Options.

Additional Customization:

• Changing the Logo:
  1. Use the logo.psd found at the /maginhawa/images folder.
  2. Edit it using your favorite graphics application.
  3. Save as sitename.png and upload it at the /wp-content/themes/maginhawa/images folder.

Custom Fields

• Posting a Featured Content:
  1. Write a post and place it at the “Featured” category.
  2. Publish your post.

• Changing the default post thumbnail:
  1. In your post, go below the Custom Fields section.
  2. Key: paddimage
  3. Value: url of the image in the uploads folder (i.e. /wp-content/uploads/2008/11/thumbnail.png), don’t worry about the size because it will be resized automatically.
  4. Then click Add Custom Field.
  5. Publish your post.

Thank you :
Lester and Dave for making the WordPress plugins available.

Note :

• Once you install the theme, activate first all the required plugins to work.
• Make at least 4 posts in the “Featured” category section for the Featured Content to work.
• Thumbnails’ URL should be within the installed WordPress directory for the thumbnail automatic resizer to work.
• Set the number of blog pages to activate the built in pagination via Settings > Reading Settings > Blog pages show at most.

Feedback :

Tell us what you think, we would love to hear something from you.
If you have any problem or found some bugs upon using this WordPress theme, feel free to leave a comment here.

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