Padd Solutions

We end up this month with a professionally designed WordPress Theme – Matino. Packed with tons of features, Matino WordPress theme is brought to you by Padd Solutions, comes with 5 color schemes to choose from. All the features can be accessed via the General Settings, Social Networking Settings, Related Posts and Custom Advertisement Settings tabs from the Admin Panel.

Matino 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:

• Featured Content Gallery
• Professional design
• Popular Posts
• Latest Tweet
• About This Blog
• Spread the articles via Social bookmarks (TweetMeme, Delicious, Digg, Newsvine, RSS, Stumbleupon, Technorati, Twitter)
• Related Posts
• Separation of Comments and Trackbacks
• SEO optimized
• Automatic Thumbnail Resizer (without using a custom field)
• Compatible with WordPress version 2.9+
• RSS and Twitter subscription
• Google Analytics code integration
• Built-in Page Navigation
• Featured Video
• Advertisement Blocks Ready
• Gravatar Enabled

Matino | Demo | Download Matino (633)

Installation:

1. Install matino folder at /wp-content/themes/
2. Activate Matino 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

• FlickrRSS
• Popularity Contest
• TweetMeme Retweet Button (note on the settings, see below)
• WP-PageNavi

Customizing Matino Options:

1. Go to Appearance > Matino Options
   • General Settings
   • Social Networking Settings
   • Related Posts
   • Custom Ads Settings
2. Then Save Settings.

Additional Customization:

• 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/matino/images folder.
• Changing the Description:
  1. Use the site-description.psd found at the /images folder.
  2. Edit it using your favorite graphics application.
  3. Save as site-description.png and upload it at the /wp-content/themes/matino/images folder.
• Customizing the “About Us” in the footer:
  1. Go to Appearance > Matino Options
     • General Settings > Site Description
     • Use this code: < img src="%THEME_URL%/images/icon-padd.jpg" style="float: left; border: 5px solid #666; margin: 0 10px 0 0"/> Text follows ...
  2. Then Save Settings.
• Using TweetMeme:
  1. Go to TweetMeme settings
  2. Display: check “Display the button on pages”
  3. Position: Manual.
  4. Type: choose “The compact widget”
  5. The rest of the settings can be left as is.
  6. Save changes.
• Updating Featured Photos:
  1. Go to Settings > flickrRSS
  2. Edit the settings.
  3. Save changes.

Thank you:

Thanks to Eightface, Crowd Favorite, TweetMeme and Lester for the useful plugins and Woofunction for their amazing icons.

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.