Tantalumize WordPress theme is a free kick-ass portfolio theme where you can easily showcase your high quality featured works and services to potential clients.

The crisp custom typography and creative layout, immediately add personality to the overall look and feel of the site.

It also comes with a clean and well-structured code so that it will be easy to customize the theme to your special needs and a .pot file which you can conveniently translate the theme into your preferred languages.

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

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

Tantalumize 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:

• Custom Front Page Widgets
• WordPress MU Compatible
• Custom Font Integration
• Facebook Like Box
• Twitter Status Integration
• 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 and Twitter subscription
• Google Analytics code integration
• Built-in Page Navigation
• Advertisement Blocks Ready
• Gravatar Enabled

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Installation:

1. Install tantalumize folder at /wp-content/themes/
2. Activate Tantalumize 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 Tantalumize Theme:

• Setting the Custom Front Pages:
  1. Go Appearance > Tantalumize Options > General
  2. First Column Page – choose the page from the dropdown options (make sure you have an image in the page so that it will be automatically shown in the homepage)
  3. Second Column Page – choose the page from the dropdown options (make sure you have an image in the page so that it will be automatically shown in the homepage)
  4. Third Column Page – choose the page from the dropdown options (make sure you have an image in the page so that it will be automatically shown in the homepage)
  5. Designated Featured Projects Category – choose the category from the dropdown options
  6. 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: 150×150)
  4. Publish / Update Post

Requirements:

• WordPress 3.0+
• Host server with PHP5.2+

Thank you:

Thanks to Viper007Bond and Héctor for the useful plugins.