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Igloo News Theme

Support Guide up to Theme Version: 3.1 Jan 02, 2009

WordPress Compatibility: Tested Up to 2.7

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1. Activate Igloo News Theme
2. Theme Settings
3. Relative Dates in Posts
4. Choose Blog Title Over Custom Logo
   
5. Custom Logo
6. Feedburner Settings
7. Google Analytics Settings
   
8. Archives Template
9. Choose Desired Home Page Layout
   
10. Featured Posts on Homepage
11. Ad Management
12. Auto Image Resizer
13. Flickr Photo Stream
    
14. Related Posts (plugin)
15. Popular Posts (plugin)
16. Google XML Sitemap (plugin)
17. Display Videos
18. Ideas and Tips for Blogging
19. Widget Spots
    
20. Breaking News

1. Activate Igloo News Theme

2. Theme Settings

3. Relative Dates in Posts

4. Choose Blog Title Over Custom Logo

If you check this option, regular blog title and description will be shown. You can change them in” Settings/General”!

5. Custom Logo

Your logo should not be bigger than 470×85.

6. Feedburner Settings

Feedburner Feed Address – Paste the Full URL of your Feedburner feed, it will replace all RSS links within the template from the default WP RSS2 links to your Feedburner RSS link.
Feedburner ID – It allows your readers to subscribe to you RSS feed via e-mail.

7. Google Analytics Settings

1. Paste whole Analytics or other tracking code into desired spot
   

8. Archives Template

9. Choose Desired Layout

1. Boxed-Multiple (Excerpted content wil be shown in 2 column boxes)
2. Boxed-Single (Excerpted content wil be shown in 1 column boxes)
3. Full Posts (Full Post content wil be shown in 1 column boxes)

10. Featured Posts on Homepage

1. Create a ‘Featured Post’ Category
2. Activate Featured Posts in Igloo Settings (Design>Igloo News Options>Display Featured Posts)
3. Assign Featured Post category in Igloo Settings (Design>Igloo News Options>Featured Category)
4. Create Posts like a ‘champ’ (Assign Featured Posts category to post you want to stick to the top of the homepage)

11. Ad Management

12. Auto Image Resizer

If you encounter any issues with images not showing up, you should check if your ‘cache’ folder in igloo theme files is writing protected – CHMOD your cache folder if that is the case.

13. Flickr Photo Stream (widget)

1. Configure your widget
   
   
2. It should be visible in your right sidebar
   

14. Related Posts (plugin)

1. Activate the plugin
2. Set it up (Settings>Wordpress Related Posts>Related Posts Options…)
   
3. It should be visible in your ‘single’ posts at the end
   

15. Popular Posts (plugin)

1. Activate the plugin and that is it
   

16. Google XML Sitemap (plugin)

1. Activate the plugin
2. Generate your first XML Sitemap (Settings>XML-Sitemap>Status>Generate button)
   
3. You may consider changing some options if you like:
   

17. Display Videos

1. Add Category where your videos will be (Manage>Categories>Add New>’Video’)
2. If you want to add Video to your right sidebar write a post, paste Embed code in HTML view and change height and width of video to fit the sidebar:
   

18. Ideas and Tips for Blogging

19. Widget Spots

20. Breaking News

1. Create a ‘Breaking News’ Category
2. Activate Breaking News in Igloo Settings (Design>Igloo News Options>Display Breaking News)
3. Assign Breaking News category in Igloo Settings (Design>Igloo News Options>Breaking Category)
4. Choose Breaking News Name (Design>Igloo News Options>Breaking News Name)
5. Create Posts like a ‘champ’ (Assign Breaking News Posts category to post you want to stick to the top of the homepage)

• Breaking News are divided into 3 automated steps:

1. Small Alert box (this box will be visible for 12 hours)
   
2. Breaking News box (it looks like featured posts on homepage, this box will be visible for 7 days)
3. Breaking News Post is turned into normal one and is listed among regular posts (this happens when breking post is more than 7 days old)