
Shiva Pro Installation:
To install the Shiva theme copy the shiva folder to your wp-content/themes folder in your wordpress root.
You will also need to install the two plugins that are included in the plugins folder (Copy to wp-content/plugins) and activate them in the admin control panel of your wordpress installation.
FAQ:
1) Q: How do I add a featured article at the top of the homepage?
A: To add a article to the top, create a new category and call it “Featured”, take note of the category ID. Edit the file config.php in your shiva/shiva directory and change the featured_cat setting. Assign whichever post you would like featured to that category.
2) Q: How do I add an image to the featured article?
A: To add an image to the featured article, create a new custom field in your post named “Featuredimage” (CASE SENSITIVE). For the value place the location to the image (214px by 214px).
3) Q: How do I add thumbnails to my posts?
A: To add thumbnails to your posts add a custom field named “Thumbnail” (CASE SENSITIVE). For the value place the location to the image (130px by 110px).
4) Q: How do I change the sponsor to the right?
A: To change the sponsor to the right, edit the file 120×600.php in the shiva/shiva folder and paste in your custom advertisement code.
5) Q: How do I change the sponsors on the left menu?
A: To change the sponsors on the left menu edit the file sponsors.php in the shiva/shiva folder and change the links and images to whatever you need them to be.
6) Q: How do I get rid of the %BEFORE_TITLE% for the “Get Recent Comments” Widget on the left sidebar?
A: There is a strange bug with Wordpress that causes it to show %BEFORE_TITLE% or something like that for the recent comments widget. To fix that error code you need to disable the “Cache the output” function in Settings > Recent Comments > Misc.
Live demo:
http://www.themespinner.com/demo/?wptheme=Shiva
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