Padd Solutions

To jumpstart the new year, we are releasing this free WordPress theme – Maasahan.

Maasahan is a premium quality Wordpress theme with Featured Post Gallery, Feedburner Email Subscription, Twitter Account integration, Popular Posts, Tabbed Sidebar, Automatic Thumbnail Resizer, Adsense ready with advertising blocks easily customize via an Option Page.

Theme features:

• Compatible with Wordpress version 2.7
• Twitter Account Integration
• Built-in Page Navigation
• Featured Post Gallery
• Option Page for Easy Customization
• Feedburner Email Subscriber
• Popular Posts
• Tabbed Sidebar
• Automatic Thumbnail Resizer
• Adsense Ready
• Advertisement Blocks Ready
• Gravatar Enabled
• Threaded Comments

Download Maasahan (8954)

Required Plugins and Scripts:

• Popularity Contest
• WP-PageNavi

Installation:

1. Upload the popularity-contest and wp-pagenavi folders in the /wp-content/plugins directory.
2. Activate Popularity Contest Mod and WP-PageNavi plugins.

Customizing Maasahan Options:

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

Additional Customization:

• Changing the About The Author Photo:
  1. Your Gravatar is the default photo. Get a Gravatar now if you don’t have one.

• Changing the About The Author info:
  1. At the WP Admin Panel, go to Users > Your Profile > About Yourself > Biographical Info
  2. Write a brief author information.
  3. Then Update Profile.

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

Custom Fields

• Posting a Featured Content:
  1. Write a post and place it at the “Featured” category.
  2. In your post, go below the Custom Fields section.
  3. Key: paddimage-gallery
  4. Value: full url of the image (with at least width: 468px and height: 222px)
  5. Then click Add Custom Field.
  6. Save or 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. Save or Publish your post.

Thank you:
Jonathan for the amazing jQuery plugin, also to Alex and Lester for making the WordPress plugins available.

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.