WordPress Theme: Palladiumize

Our latest freemium WP theme release has a clean, minimalist appeal with a crisp custom typography and soft color palette. We bring you – Palladiumize WordPress theme.

This magazine type WordPress theme has seven (7) featured gallery slider options which highlight your important posts.

Like our other recent theme release, Palladiumize works well in a multisite environment. You can install it in a network of sites (personal blogs, tech blogs, design blogs and other related blog niches) in a breeze because it’s WordPress MU (Multisite) compatible.

The built-in Facebook Like Box feature helps you gain more fans easily with just a click of a button.

Palladiumize WordPress theme also has a custom dropdown menu, subscription buttons (Twitter, Facebook and RSS), automatic thumbnail resizer, popular posts and a lot more!

Built by Padd Solutions, Palladiumize 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:

WordPress MU Compatible
7 Featured Content Slider Options
Custom Font integration
Facebook Like Box
Built-in Advertisement Spots
Twitter Status integration
Compatible with WordPress version 3.1
Dropdown Categories Menu
Spread the articles via Social bookmarks (Delicious, Digg, Newsvine, RSS, Stumbleupon, Technorati, Twitter)
Better Comment System
Separation of Comments and Trackbacks
SEO optimized
Automatic Thumbnail Resizer (without using a custom field)
Popular Posts
Google Analytics code integration
Built-in Page Navigation
Gravatar Enabled

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Installation:

Upload the palladiumize.zip file in your server via Appearance > Install Themes > Upload
Activate Palladiumize 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

Customizing Palladiumize Options:

Go to Appearance > Palladiumize Options
- General Settings
- Page Tracker Settings
- Slideshow Settings
- Page Tracker Settings
- Social Networking Settings
- Page Navigation Settings
- Custom Ads Settings
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/palladiumize/images folder.
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: 540px and height: 272px)
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.
Adding Descriptions in the DropDown Menus:
1. Go to Appearance > Menus
2. Click the “Screen Options” and tick “Description”
3. In your Menu box, write a short description of the menu
4. Hit Save Menu.”

Requirements:

WordPress 3.0+
Host server with PHP5+

Thank you:

Thanks to Viper007Bond and Héctor for the useful plugins.

Comments

Åse 04.13.2011 Reply

Hello, I’m using this theme (Palladiumize) on my site and loving it! However I have a problem and that is that when I or someone make a reply to a comment, the replybox underneath the comment isn’t working (javascript functionality) instead it take quite some time and the page reloads and the reply occurs in the textform in the commentarea.
I have added the if ( is_singular() ) wp_enqueue_script( ‘comment-reply’ ); to the header with no success.

Could you help out?
- James 04.14.2011 Reply
  
  Hello Åse,
  
  Here it is and follow the instructions carefully.
  
  Open the file named setup.php under includes folder. At the end of the line add the following lines of code:
  
  function padd_theme_queue_js(){ if (!is_admin()){ if ( is_singular() && comments_open() && (get_option('thread_comments') == 1)) { wp_enqueue_script('comment-reply'); } } } add_action('wp_print_scripts', 'padd_theme_queue_js');
  
  Save the file.
  
  Next, open the functions.php under includes folder. Go to line 365 and replace the following line of code from:
  
  <?php comment_reply_link(array_merge( $args, array('respond_id' => 'reply' ,'add_below' => 'reply', 'depth' => $depth, 'max_depth' => $args['max_depth']))) ?>
  
  to
  
  <?php comment_reply_link(array('respond_id' => 'reply', 'add_below' => 'comment' , 'depth' => $depth, 'max_depth' => $args['max_depth'])) ; ?>
  
  Hope this will help.
Mr.Blue 04.15.2011 Reply

the theme is really nice! thank you!
Åse 04.16.2011 Reply

Thank you James! However, I followed the instructions but I still don’t get the javascript to work :/
Any other idea?
Åse 04.16.2011 Reply

It work’s now James! Thanks!! =)
Rufina 04.17.2011 Reply

This is a beautiful theme. I just set it up, but I can’t get the image to show up in the slideshow. I have customized the settings, but nothing I do will get the slideshow to work. The image shows up fine in the post, but not on the home page. I don’t want to have to change themes. I’d rather get this one to work. What is the secret?
- James 04.18.2011 Reply
  
  Make sure that you are using the Featured Image in a post.
Rufina 04.19.2011 Reply

James,

Thanks! I followed those directions and it shows up now. There were more instructions that had to do with adding code to the loop.php file, but I didn’t seem to need them. The featured image is showing up fine. Am I correct that I don’t need to change anything in the loop.php file in the Palladiumize theme?

Another question is about the favicon. Yesterday I uploaded a favicon.ico directly into the main folder. Its still not showing up. Most likely I need to add some code into one of the files. Can you please provide the code and tell me what file to put it into?
- James 04.19.2011 Reply
  
  Hello Rufina,
  
  Yes you don’t have to change anything in the loop.php file.
  
  For the favicon, you don’t have to upload the favicon.ico directly to the main folder. You can upload using the said theme in General Tab under Appearance > Palladiumize Options. You will see the Favicon URL, just fill in the blank or upload the favicon.
Rufina 04.19.2011 Reply

OK, thanks!
Rufina 04.20.2011 Reply

It’s me again. Now that I have the featured image and the favicon showing, I can’t see the thumbnail images on the post excerpt on the home page. It just says “no thumbnail” instead of showing the image. Yet the image shows up fine on the post itself.

I tried following the instructions you gave me earlier that had to do with adding code to the loop.php file, but the loop file in the Palladiumize theme wasn’t anything like the one in the instructions and it didn’t work.

How can I get the thumbnails to show on the home page?
- James 04.20.2011 Reply
  
  You have to add a featured image in every post, just like you did on the first post.
Rufina 04.21.2011 Reply

Thanks! that was easy.

Is there a way to remove dates and the by __ line, as well as comments?

Also, is there a way to change the color, font and size of the sidenav textbox headers so they go with my color scheme better?

Rufina
- James 04.25.2011 Reply
  
  You can change the dates and other metadata manually, inside the loop.php file.
  
  Also, you can change the colors, fonts, background colors through CSS manually though.
Kevin 05.01.2011 Reply

I love the theme but for some reason neither wordpress.com stats plugin nor sitemeter seem to work with this theme. Somehow the tracking code doesn’t show up work.
- James 05.02.2011 Reply
  Hello Kevin,
  
  Below is the fix for your problem.
  1. Open the footer.php file of Palladiumize theme.
  2. Go to line 20 and replace the constant PADD_PREFIX to PADD_NAME_SPACE.
  3. And save.
Nathan 04.20.2012 Reply

This theme is very nice and works well with other WordPress plugins.

^^