When it comes to freemium WordPress themes, Padd Solutions has a lot of in store for you. Argonoid WordPress theme is an elegant and professional blog theme. This WordPress theme is great for personal blogs, tech blogs, design blogs and other related blog niches.

Argonoid WP theme has a featured content section to highlight your important posts. It is WordPress 3.0 compliant which is packed with a robust framework for easier backend customization – no need to touch the codes.

Argonoid WordPress theme comes with a featured content section, dropdown menu, subscription buttons (Twitter, Facebook and RSS), automatic thumbnail resizer, popular posts, featured posts, featured video and a lot more!

Built by Padd Solutions, Argonoid WP theme 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:

• Custom Front Page Widgets
• Compatible with WordPress version 3.0
• Featured Content
• Dropdown Categories Menu
• Spread the articles via Social bookmarks (Delicious, Digg, Newsvine, RSS, Stumbleupon, Technorati, Twitter)
• Related Posts
• Better Comment System
• Separation of Comments and Trackbacks
• SEO optimized
• Automatic Thumbnail Resizer (without using a custom field)
• Popular Posts
• Featured Photos
• Featured Video
• Google Analytics code integration
• Built-in Page Navigation
• Advertisement Blocks Ready
• Gravatar Enabled

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Installation:

1. Install argonoid folder at /wp-content/themes/
2. Activate Argonoid 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

• FlickRSS
• Regenerate Thumbnails
• WordPress Popular Posts

Customizing Argonoid Options:

1. Go to Appearance > Argonoid Options
   • General Settings
   • Page Tracker Settings
   • Social Networking Settings
   • Related Posts Settings
   • Page Navigation Settings
   • Custom Ads Settings
2. Then Save Settings.

Additional Customization:

• Setting the Featured Thumbnail:
  1. Go to the post
  2. At the bottom right part of the post page (below “Post Tags”) set the “Featured Image” (with at least width: 304px and height: 200px)
  3. Save or Update Post.
• Setting the DropDown Menus:
  1. Go to Appearance > Menus
  2. Drag and drop the menus you want to appear in the main menu
  3. Save Menu.
• Changing the Logo:
  1. Use the site-name.psd found at the /images folder.
  2. Edit it using your favorite graphics application.
  3. Save as site-name.png and upload it at the /wp-content/themes/argonoid/images folder.
• Using FlickRSS:
  1. Go to FlickRSS settings
  2. Display: “6 – user”
  3. User ID: Manual.
  4. Save Settings.

Requirements:

• WordPress 3.0+
• Host server with PHP5+

Thank you:

Thanks to Eightface, Viper007Bond and Héctor for the useful plugins.