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AcosminMAG – new wordpress theme ready for download

It is time to release a new wordpress theme, a theme which I think is much better and improved than my latest ones. The theme’s name is AcosminMAG, “mag” comes from magazine because as you can see from the live demo, this actually is a magazine style wordpress theme. Also you should take in consideration that this is the beta version, so if you find some bugs let me know about them and I will handle them.

AcosminMAG Features:

• Valid xhtml/css code
• Featured Posts
• Featured Video
• Widgets ready sidebars so that you can use any plugins/widgets you want
• A few ad spots in different formats: 728×90px, 300×250px, 468×60px, 160×600px.

Things you should know before activating this wordpress theme on yout blog!

This wp theme comes with three plugins that you should activate, for example:
Recent Comments – this is a simple and highly customizable plugin from rmarsh.com. As you can see in the live demo, it looks great and it has a lot of options. After activating this plugin in your wordpress admin panel, go to the Settings tab > Recent Comments > Output and add the following code to the the output template text field:

<li>
{gravatar:40px:rating:http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/default}
<span>{author}</span>
<br />
<a href="{commenturl}">{commentsnippet:50} [...]</a>
</li>

CoolPlayer – I’ve used this wordpress video plugin a lot on this blog as you can see and the only reason I use it is because it allows me to embed media from a lot of video sharing websites. Another reason is that when you embed videos from youtube it will not use youtube’s player, it will use a nice player that is xhtml valid and without any watermark from them. You can find more info about this video plugin here.

Post Plugin Library – required for the Recent Comments plugin

How to use the featured posts and the featured videos options.
First of all you need to create two new categories, one named featured posts (or another name, or you can use a category that is already created) and the other one named featured videos (you can rename it as you want and I strongly recommend that you create a new category for this option, because you need to set up the videos with a precise width/height size).

After creating/deciding which categories to use, you need to get their unique id. This can be done by going into your wp admin panel > manage > categories and when you move your mouse over the categories link, you’ll see in your browsers bottom border the id. Bellow you have an example and keep in mind those numbers!

Now let’s modify the wordpress theme so that it shows what you need.
For Featured Posts, go in the index.php file and find the line (on line 4):

<?php $featured = new WP_Query('cat=10&showposts=1');

Replace the number from cat=10 to cat= the id number of the featured posts category. You can also set how many futured posts to show up on your index by replacing showposts=1 to showposts= the number of posts.

For Featured Videos go in the sidebar.php file and first find line number 8:

<?php query_posts('showposts=5&cat=11'); ?>

Replace cat=11 with cat= the id number of the featured videos category. Also do the same thing on line 16 and after go back in your index.php and find line number 37:

<?php $novideos = new WP_Query('cat=-11&showposts&orderby=post_date&order=desc&paged=' . $pagination); $wp_query->in_the_loop = true; ?>

Here you need to replace cat=-11 with cat=- the id number of the featured videos category. This will prevent showing videos into the main articles.

To write a featured post just write a normal article and select the featured posts category (or whatever your category name is). To add a featured video you do as with featured posts, but you must select the featured videos category and instead of writing an article just add a video, for example adding a video from youtube using the coolplayer plugin (use width 290 and height 220, info on how to use this plugin here):

I think that is all and I hope you enjoy using it. Also in exchange I have only three links in the footer which I hope you don’t delete. I’ll update this post if something comes up, until then you can see this magazine wordpress theme here and download the beta version from bellow. Don’t forget to digg !

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