Another freemium WP theme added to our collection is Nickelation WordPress theme. It has a clean design to match your personal blogs, tech blogs, design blogs and other related blog niches.

This magazine type blog theme is compatible with WordPress 3.0+ versions. The robust framework makes it easier to manage and customize the backend administration without touching any codes.

Nickelation WP theme has a premium design which has a featured slider to highlight your important posts, 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, Nickelation 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:

• 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

Nickelation | Demo | Download Nickelation (6086)

Installation:

1. Install nickelation folder at /wp-content/themes/
2. Activate Nickelation 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
• Regenerate Thumbnails
• WordPress Popular Posts

Customizing Nickelation Options:

1. Go to Appearance > Nickelation 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: 480px and height: 240px)
  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 Icon and 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/nickelation/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.