Padd Solutions

Malawak is a premium quality Wordpress theme tested on the latest WordPres version with a 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:

• Featured Post Gallery
• Option Page for Easy Customization
• Feedburner Email Subscriber
• Twitter Account Integration
• Popular Posts
• Tabbed Sidebar
• Automatic Thumbnail Resizer
• Adsense Ready
• Advertisement Blocks Ready
• Gravatar Enabled
• PSD file included

Download Malawak (8051)

Required Plugins and Scripts:

• Featured Content Plugin
• Popularity Contest
• TimThumb PHP Script

Installation:

1. Upload tt-scripts folder in your WordPress root folder (this is where your wp-config.php is located).
2. Upload the content-gallery and popularity-contest folders in the /wp-content/plugins directory.
3. Activate Featured Content Gallery and Popularity Contest plugins.
4. Note: For those who are having fatal error issues with the Popularity Contest plugin, download this revised plugin and activate it.

Customizing Featured Content Gallery:

1. Go to Settings > Featured Content Gallery
2. Recommended settings:
   • Gallery Width in Pixels: 572
   • Gallery Height in Pixels: 200
   • Text Overlay Height in Pixels: 80
   • Category Name: featured
   • Number of Items to Display: 3
3. Then Update Options.

Options Page

Customizing Options Page:

1. Go to the General Setting and fill in your:
   • Twitter Username
   • FeedBurner ID
   • Latest News Category Slug (optional)
   • 3 Adsense codes
2. Go to the Custom Advertisement Settings and fill in your:
   • Full banner header codes
   • 4 Square banner header codes

Additional Customization:

• Changing the Logo:
  1. Use the logo.psd found at the /malawak/images folder.
  2. Edit it using your favorite graphics application.
  3. Save as background-sitename.png and upload it at the /wp-content/themes/malawak/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: articleimg
  4. Value: url of the image (with at least width: 572px and height: 200px)
  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.jpg), don’t worry about the size because it will be resize automatically.
  4. Then click Add Custom Field.
  5. Save or Publish your post.

Thank you:
Jason, Alex and Darren for making the 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.