To celebrate the upcoming Software Freedom Day, we are going to release our newest premium quality WordPress theme. We bring you our multi-colored, free WordPress theme – Platinumicious WordPress theme.

This WP theme has five color schemes (blue, green, black, orange and red) to choose from. The customizable front page widgets and stylish jQuery slider can be easily turned on and off via the Admin panel.

Platinumicious is WordPress MU compatible theme because like our previous themes, Platinumicious is also tried and tested to work in a multisite environment.

The crisp custom typography, Facebook like page and Most Popular options make this theme a choice for beginners and pro bloggers alike.

The clean and well-structured code makes it easy to customize the theme to your special needs and a .pot file which you can easily translate in your preferred languages with ease.

This freemium WordPress theme is packed with a better framework and a robust admin options panel to accommodate the General Settings, Slideshow Settings, Page Tracker, Social Networking, Page Navigation and Custom Ads Settings.

Platinumicious WP theme is an awesome WordPress theme which 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:

• Multi-colored Schemes (Blue, Green, Black, Orange and Red)
• jQuery Slider
• WordPress MU Compatible
• Custom Font Integration
• Facebook Like Box
• Most Popular Posts
• Spread the articles via Social bookmarks (TweetMeme, Delicious, Digg, Newsvine, RSS, Stumbleupon, Technorati, Twitter)
• Separation of Comments and Trackbacks
• SEO optimized
• Automatic Thumbnail Resizer (without using a custom field)
• Compatible with WordPress version 3.0+
• RSS, Twitter, Flickr and Facebook subscription
• Google Analytics code integration
• Built-in Page Navigation
• Advertisement Blocks Ready
• Gravatar Enabled

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Installation:

1. Install platinumicious folder at /wp-content/themes/
2. Activate Platinumicious 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:

• Regenerate Thumbnails
• WordPress Popular Posts

Initial Settings:

• Regenerate Thumbnails (skip this step if you are on a fresh install):

1. Tools > Regen. Thumbnails
2. Click Regenerate All Thumbnails
3. Wait for 100% to regenerate all thumbnails.

• Setting the DropDown Menus:
  1. Go to Appearance > Menus.
  2. Drag and drop the menus you want to appear in header navigation menu at the “Main Menu” and footer area with the “Footer Menu” and hit “Save Menu” button.
  3. At the Theme Locations box, choose “Main Menu” and “Footer Menu” from the dropdown choices and hit “Save”.

Customizing Platinumicious Theme:

• Setting the Slideshow:
  1. Go Appearance > Platinumicious Options > Slideshow
  2. Enable Slideshow
  3. Designated Slideshow Category – choose the category from the dropdown options
  4. Select the number of slides, effect, duration and scroll speed
  5. Save Settings.
• Setting the post thumbnail:
  1. Go Post > All Posts > Choose the post to edit
  2. From the post section, find the “Featured Image” box found at the lower right most part of the screen
  3. Set Featured Image (recommended image size: 656×294)
  4. Publish / Update Post
• Setting the Homepage Widgets:
  1. Go Appearance > Platinumicious Options > General
  2. First Column Page – choose the page from the dropdown options
  3. Second Column Page – choose the page from the dropdown options
  4. Third Column Page – choose the page from the dropdown options
  5. Fourth Column Page – choose the page from the dropdown options
  6. Save Settings.

Requirements:

• WordPress 3.0+
• Host server with PHP5+

Thank you:

Thanks to Viper007Bond and Héctor for the useful plugins.