Install Instructions & Change Log

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IMPORTANT: NO MATTER WHERE YOU DOWNLOAD THIS THEME FROM, FIRST CHANGE THE FOLDER CONTAINING THE THEME TO ONLY 

"easy black" 

NO VERSIONS NUMBERS OR OTHER EXTENSION, THANKS!!! 
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- Set category 1 as Asides/Side blog, change the plugin file to indicate otherwise!

- Change header with your your custom logo image by replacing the line 

<h1><a href="<?php echo get_settings('home'); ?>/"><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></a></h1>

 in the header.php file to a image URL with link like below

<h1><a href="<?php echo get_settings('home'); ?>/"><img src="http://www.something.com/image.jpg" alt="logo"/></a></h1>

 You can hotlink from Flickr if you like.

- The ritecounter code can be deleted from the footer.php file  (leave it there if you don't mind)

- Delete the line 

 <a href="http://www.headsetoptions.org">| Headsetoptions</a> 
 
 from index.php (or change link to a different home page or site)


Install Info
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- Upload the theme folder into the theme folder. [ URL/wp-content/themes/ ]
- Upload plugins files to the plugin folder. [ URL/ wp-content/plugins/ ]
- Activate plugins
- Activate theme
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Theme Easy Black
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- Initial Release

Special Instructions
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- Header image can be changed as desired by editing header.php


Creating a Side Blog
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- Open Index.php using WP or a text editor like Notepad

- Find the line:

<p>This is a Sideblog, here you can display a selected category posts, usually Category 1. 
Replace this line with the script provided in the Installation Instructions.</p>

- Replace with:

<ul class="counts">
<?php sideblog('title=true&permalinks=false&limit=1'); ?><br>
</ul>

- Change the number in limit to the number of side blogs to display


Creating Flickr Slides
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- Open sidebar.php using WP or a text editor like notepad

- Find the Flickr script

- Change "tag=art" to "tag=whatever" whatever being your own tag


Creating Heatmap Archive
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- Open archives.php using WP or a text editor like notepad

- Find the code:

<ul>
 <?php wp_get_archives('type=monthly'); ?>
</ul>

- Replace with:

<ul  class="counts">
<?php srg_clean_archives(); ?>
</ul>

AND

- Find the code:

<ul>
<?php wp_list_cats('sort_column=name&optioncount=1&hierarchical=0'); ?>
</ul>

- Replace with:

<ul class='dates'>
<?php heatmap_categories(100, 150, '%', '000', 'd01', '<li>', '</li>'); ?>
</ul>

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Plugins Used/required
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Customizable Post Listings
Get Recent Comments
Limit Posts
Redirect Old Slugs
Sideblog
SRG Clean Archives
Smart Archives
WordPress Heat Map



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For additional instruction visit 

http://www.headsetoptions.org 

or


http://www.headsetoptions.org/play

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