Maparaan, Free Premium WordPress Theme / Blogger Template

• Memasang Template di Blogger
  Masuk ke Blogger Dashboard ==> Layout ==> Edit HTML. Sebaiknya backup dulu template yang sedang anda gunakan, caranya klik link Download Full Template. Setelah selesai backup, mulai ke Edit Template, centang dulu pilihan Expand Widget Template. Selanjutnya klik kotak editing, tekan tombol keyboard Ctrl+A (atau klik kanan lalu pilih Select All). Masukkan dengan cara paste kode XML template Maparaan ke dalam kotak Edit Template. Klik tombol Preview terlebih dulu. Bila OK, silahkan klik Save Template. Selanjutnya lakukan beberapa setting berikut ini.
• Home Page Widgets
  Just Go To Blogger Layout > Page Elements ,you will see three add a page Element widgets at top below slider.Just add all widgets there which you want to show only on homepage.
• Showing Recent posts On Homepage
  Just Go To Blogger Layout > Page Elements, you will see three add a page Element widgets at top below slider. Just hit button of add a Page element, window will open, just select there the widget Named as, Feed. It Will ask for Feed Url. Provide the url as http://your-blog-name.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default (please change your-blog-name with your blog url) and continue. Then it will show your posts and also select the date option in it if you want to show and then save it. You are done.
• Header Image
  With download file you will get psd files for site-name,just open it in photoshop and make and edit them to yours name and description and upload it to from header widget in blogger layout > Page Elements.
  You will see logo before header you can find for below link to change it.

  http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_j82W7u9kZbs/S6nYhvS3JnI/AAAAAAAACL4/P2_4kgVnWbM/s400/logo.png

• Menu Links
  Just you will see linklist widget in your blogger Layout > Page elements and just hit edit button of it and add your links you want to add and remember not to give any title to that widget,i.e keep the title blank for linklist widget for proper display.
• Featured Slider
  Find the below codes.

  <div  id='s3slider'>
  <ul id='s3sliderContent'>
  
  <li  class='s3sliderImage' id='featured-1'>
  <a href='YOUR-URL-HERE'><img alt=''  height='283' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_j82W7u9kZbs/S0tvaDXfqKI/AAAAAAAAA5k/ZrdEi3WisBk/s1600/logo+blog+navidades.jpg'  width='660'/></a>
  <span  class='right'><strong><a href='YOUR-URL-HERE'>POST  TITLE</a></strong><br/><p>POST DESCRIPTION</p></span>
  </li>
  
  <li class='s3sliderImage' id='featured-1'>
  <a  href='YOUR-URL-HERE'><img alt='' height='283'  src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_j82W7u9kZbs/S0txWk3Mz1I/AAAAAAAAA50/xt1pJg8hvRo/s1600/anakin_padawan_crop.jpg'  width='660'/></a>
  <span  class='right'><strong><a href='YOUR-URL-HERE'>POST  TITLE</a></strong><br/><p>POST  DESCRIPTION</p></span>
  </li>
  
  <li  class='s3sliderImage' id='featured-1'>
  <a  href='YOUR-URL-HERE'><img alt='' height='283'  src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_j82W7u9kZbs/S0tvafTUK2I/AAAAAAAAA5s/AeTED4QTW20/s1600/The+Black+Hole.jpg'  width='660'/></a>
  <span  class='right'><strong><a href='YOUR-URL-HERE'>POST  TITLE</a></strong><br/><p>POST  DESCRIPTION</p></span>
  </li>
  
  <div  class='clear s3sliderImage'/>
  </ul>
  
  </div>

  Just replace all red content above as written and also the image link.And keep editing all as below.

• Rss-Facebook-Twitter Buttons
  Just find below profile links in codes and replace wth yours, you will get them twice one for sidebar and one for homepage.

  E-mail-Subscription:-  http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=YOUR-URI-HERE
  Twitter  Username:- http://www.twitter.com/YOUR-USER-NAME
  Facebook Username:-  http://www.facebook.com/YOUR-USER-NAME

Installation:

1. Install maparaan folder at /wp-content/themes/
2. Activate Maparaan 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

• Popularity Contest
• TweetMeme Retweet Button (note on the settings, see below)

Customizing Maparaan Options:

1. Go to Appearance > Maparaan Options
   • General Settings
   • Page Tracker Settings
   • Social Networking Settings
   • Related Posts Settings
   • Page Navigation Settings
   • Custom Ads Settings
2. Then Save Settings.

Additional Customization:

• 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/maparaan/images folder.
• Using TweetMeme:
  1. Go to TweetMeme settings
  2. Display: check “Display the button on pages”
  3. Position: Manual.
  4. Type: choose “The compact widget”
  5. The rest of the settings can be left as is.
  6. Save changes.
• Updating the Featured Content Gallery:
  1. At the Custom Field post:
  2. Name: paddimage-gallery
  3. Value: url of the image (i.e. /wp-content/uploads/2010/02/image.jpg)
  4. Edit the settings.
  5. Save changes.
• Updating the Post Thumbnail:
  1. At the Custom Field of the post:
  2. Name: paddimage
  3. Value: url of the image (i.e. /wp-content/uploads/2010/02/image.jpg)
  4. Edit the settings.
  5. Save changes.