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WordPress Theme: Matatag

Dulce | November 24, 2008

Matatag 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

Matatag Screenshot

Download Matatag (15606)


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: 588
    • Gallery Height in Pixels: 175
    • Text Overlay Height in Pixels: 80
    • Category Name: featured
    • Number of Items to Display: 3
  3. Then Update Options.

Options Page

Matatag 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 /matatag/images folder.
    2. Edit it using your favorite graphics application.
    3. Save as background-sitename.jpg and upload it at the /wp-content/themes/matatag/images folder.
  • 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: 588px and height: 175px)
    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: MatatagImage
    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.

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36 Comments

  1. This is a very good wordpress theme, thanks

    胡作非为 | November 25, 2008 9:18 am
  2. Pretty decent site and wordpress informative post. You have touch a point(meta tags in wordpress) which is very important for begginers like me. Kindly keep on comming with such informative material.

    cheap web hosting | November 25, 2008 11:27 pm
  3. Hi there, really enjoying your style – good to have you in the blogosphere – you aren’t just talkin to yourself!

    dontloseyourhair | November 27, 2008 12:43 am
  4. My website your see pleace. Because not tumbnil picture. Why?
    Sorry.. I am littler speak english.Maybe somebody translation.
    Turkish; Ana sayfada küçük resmi bir türlü yayınlayamadım. Şu an bu temayı kullanıyorum. Girip bir bakarmısın.

    Best regards.
    Sagılarımla.

    eylos | December 1, 2008 7:27 am
  5. Hi Sagılarımla,

    Be sure you have the link of the thumbnail inside your WordPress installation. Value of the thumbnail should start with /wp-content/ . Here are sample codes:

    /wp-content/uploads/2008/11/thumbnail.jpg
    /wp-content/uploads/2008/11/thumbnail.png
    /wp-content/uploads/2008/11/thumbnail.gif

    Note: Do not use http:// anymore in the value.

    Dulce | December 1, 2008 3:38 pm
  6. Trying to set this up for a mate, got everything working so far apart from the image in the featured post, any ideas?

    http://www.eziedesigns.co.uk/

    Thanks

    Toon | December 2, 2008 3:50 am
  7. I tried but it didint :(

    eylos | December 2, 2008 6:32 am
  8. Hi,
    I have uploaded and installed Matatag WordPress Theme and content gallery and activated the both, but popularity-contest plugin can’t activate, while activating says as fatal error,
    How to solve this?
    Please,see my blog.

    Home Based Small Business | December 3, 2008 10:53 pm
  9. If Popularity Contest plugin can’t be activated due to a fatal error, this is due to a missing table in your database.

    Go to your phpMyAdmin and run this following SQL queries:

    CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `PREFIX_ak_popularity` (
    `post_id` int(11) NOT NULL,
    `total` int(11) NOT NULL,
    `feed_views` int(11) NOT NULL,
    `home_views` int(11) NOT NULL,
    `archive_views` int(11) NOT NULL,
    `category_views` int(11) NOT NULL,
    `single_views` int(11) NOT NULL,
    `comments` int(11) NOT NULL,
    `pingbacks` int(11) NOT NULL,
    `trackbacks` int(11) NOT NULL,
    `last_modified` datetime,
    KEY `post_id` (`post_id`)
    ) ENGINE=MyISAM;

    CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `PREFIX_ak_popularity_options` (
    `option_name` varchar(50) NOT NULL,
    `option_value` varchar(50) NOT NULL
    ) ENGINE=MyISAM;

    Note that PREFIX refers to your WordPress table prefix, in most common cases it is simply wp_ unless you’ve got multiple copies of WordPress running in the same database.

    If problem persist, feel free to email us about it.

    Dulce | December 4, 2008 10:06 am
  10. Hi,
    I have run the SQL and succeeded, but the problem occures as same.

    Please, Is the WordPress version compatible?

    Here is the actual report while activating the “contest plugin”

    “Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.”

    With Regards.

    Home Based Small Business | December 4, 2008 8:52 pm
  11. Please check if these two tables are present from your WordPress database:

    • wp_ak_popularity
    • wp_ak_popularity_options

    If problem persists, email us.

    Dulce | December 5, 2008 10:58 am
  12. wp_ak_popularity
    wp_ak_popularity_options

    Both are correct.
    What is your email id?

    Home Based Small Business | December 5, 2008 4:43 pm
  13. Kindly refer to the attached readme.txt file of the theme. Thank you.

    Dulce | December 6, 2008 2:33 am
  14. This theme works on WordPress 2.7

    I try to put this theme, but the Featured Content Plugin nevers works. I folowed the rules, but always without any result. I try the Masagana theme and nothing…

    Miguel Machado | January 21, 2009 9:27 am
  15. Hi,
    I have a problem,
    whe i try to put post thumbnail, it won’t come out.
    Instead, the post become improperly aligned.
    hope you can fix because i really love this theme..

    flip9 | February 2, 2009 4:31 pm
  16. its ok..
    i’ve already fix it.. :-) :-)

    flip9 | February 2, 2009 4:38 pm
  17. Very nice theme. I’ve inserted it in WordPressGala.

    Paolo | March 24, 2009 12:20 am
  18. when people asking for help, and found the way to fix it. i think it would be more helpful to post how they fix it too. not just saying, “i fixed it”

    joe | May 23, 2009 2:00 am
  19. Finally someone who can write a good blog ! . This is the kind of information that is useful to those want to increase their SERP’s. I loved your post and will be telling others about it. Subscribing to your RSS feed now. Thanks

    Check Pagerank | June 9, 2009 2:05 am
  20. Very Nice Template, Amazing that professional wordpress templates like this one are free.
    Nice to see twitter integration!

    Thank you!

    Delightful Shopping | June 17, 2009 4:25 pm
  21. I wish I had a cool blog like yours. I would love to start one myself with WordPress but I’m affraid I’d give it up too soon ^^’

    pizzafan | July 6, 2009 12:09 am
  22. great theme. used it on our ipod hotel site! posts on deals coming soon ;)

    ipod hotel | September 24, 2009 3:41 am
  23. Fantastic template, just what ive been looking for will use it on one of my sites , thanks alot

    gadget blog | October 4, 2009 5:01 pm
  24. Great free theme. Thanks for share, i will download and use it on my new magento themes site!

    PremiumThemesDirectory | December 5, 2009 4:21 pm
  25. Nice theme thanks

    Sheffield Web Designer | December 16, 2009 11:18 pm
  26. Nice themes………..

    free premium wordpress themes | December 24, 2009 2:51 am
  27. i only used blogspot because i don’t know how to use wordpress

    Iklan Percuma | December 28, 2009 1:34 pm
  28. nice template

    majik | March 31, 2010 10:09 am
  29. Thank you for this beautiful and simple theme :)

    Hotfile Downloads | April 6, 2010 11:56 pm
  30. Simply beautiful :-) Good work! Thanx. I’ll try it out!

    Till | May 6, 2010 9:14 pm
  31. i like this template

    faydalihayat | June 15, 2010 4:45 am
  32. i like this template too

    非主流 | August 12, 2010 10:54 pm
  33. Great theme, useful site

    Ортодонтия | September 4, 2010 3:43 am
  34. nice theme

    melia propolis | September 22, 2010 10:35 pm
  35. Wow what a great Work. I like this design so much. Looking forward for some more …

    Patrick | October 13, 2010 9:19 pm
  36. beautiful theme will install on one of my new site.
    Thanks !!!

    Price India | May 22, 2011 3:33 am

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