Padd Solutions

Adding to our collection of beautiful and elegant freemium WordPress themes here in Padd Solutions, we bring you Siliconation WordPress theme. With an artistic background and warm earth colors, this theme is great for personal blogs, food blogs, beauty blogs and other related blog niches.

This premium quality free WordPress theme has a featured content section to highlight your important posts. It is WordPress 3.0 compliant which is packed with a robust framework for easier backend customization.

Siliconation WordPress theme comes with a featured content section, 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, Siliconation 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:

• Custom Front Page Widgets
• 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

Siliconation | Demo | Download Siliconation (1698)

Installation:

1. Install siliconation folder at /wp-content/themes/
2. Activate Siliconation 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

• FlickRSS
• Regenerate Thumbnails
• WordPress Popular Posts

Customizing Siliconation Options:

1. Go to Appearance > Siliconation 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: 254px and height: 184px)
  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 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/siliconation/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 and Jen for the beautiful background pattern, Dave and YOOtheme for the crisp 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.