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STEP 1: Upload Theme

Please upload the /guzel folder to your WordPress themes folder /wp-content/themes. The theme folder contains all required template files, css and images.

STEP 2: Upload Plugins

Locate /plugins folder. You will find it inside /guzel folder which you have downloaded. The plugins folder contains two folders:

/get-the-image
/the-excerpt-reloaded

Please copy those two folders to your /plugins folder inside your server WordPress installation. Usually at /wp-content/plugins/
So you should have those folders on your WordPress installation after copying them:

/wp-content/plugins/get-the-image
/wp-content/plugins/the-excerpt-reloaded

STEP 3: Activate Plugins

After you've successfully uploaded the contents of Guzel to appropriate directories in WordPress Installation folder as described above. Please login to your WordPress Admin Panel. Should be similar to http://www.yourdomain.com/guzel/wp-admin/ and make the following simple steps to install the plugins.

Click on Plugins link on top right
Activate Get The Image Plugin
Activate the_excerpt Reloaded Plugin
That's all - now you have installed the two required plugins which come with Guzel ZIP file.

STEP 4: Set Thumbnail Size in WordPress

As an additional step required for thumbnails to work properly. You need to set thumbnail size in your WordPress Miscellaneous Settings. Simply from your WordPress Admin Panel, click on Settings then click on Miscellaneous. Please set "Thumbnail Size for Image" to 135 Width and 100 Height. You could use other values certainly up to your own choice but these values are most recommended by us.

Screenshot for Thumbnail Size Modification

STEP 5: Create Categories

Now you should begin by creating your Categories. Also do not forget to create a Videos category If you are going to use the Video Spot.

Guzel Theme works in a way that presents posts from featured categories on home page, and posts from specific categories in the main page columns. So before you start posting and after you've created all your categories, you should edit settings.inc.php first.

Please open up settings.inc.php with a text editor. All settings can be modified in one single file, no need for massive template editing. settings.inc.php file will be under your /guzel theme folder.

Option 1: Featured Categories IDs

The first option in settings.inc.php file is responsible for setting your featured categories IDs. These are the categories presented by Ajax Tabs on main page. They are 6 by default. You obviously need to replace the categories IDs with your own featured categories IDs.

Modify only the red part

$cat1 = 1;
$cat2 = 3;
$cat3 = 4;
$cat4 = 5;
$cat5 = 6;
$cat6 = 9;

You can find a category ID by logging to your WordPress Admin Panel then to Manage / Categories then please click on any category. Your category ID will be shown in the complete url in your Address Bar similar to this:
http://www.customthemedesign.com/guzel/wp-admin/categories.php?action=edit&cat_ID=3

Option 2: Set the excerpt of Featured News

This option controls the length of the excerpt for "Featured News" tabs only. By default the excerpt is limited to 100 words. You can change it to your own favorite.

Modify only the red part

$featuredexcerpt = 100;

Option 3: Right Ajax tabs - Control the number of items shown in Ajax tabs

This option controls the amount of items listed by the right section ajax tabs. Where is "Popular Posts", "Recent Posts", "Recent Comments", and "Tags". For example default display is 5 popular posts, 5 recent posts, 7 recent comments, 50 words in comment excerpt, and 30 tags.

Modify only the red part

$ajax_popular = 5;
$ajax_posts = 5;
$ajax_comments = 7;
$ajax_comment_excerpt = 50;
$ajax_tags = 30;

Option 4: FeedBurner Setup (Important!)

This is an important step. You need to replace feedburner ID with your own feedburner ID for the feed form to work properly. Please put your own feedburner ID and blog title.

Modify only the red part

$feedburner_id = 444444;
$blog_title = 'Guzel Magazine';
$location = 'en_US';

Option 5: Left Column - Post Categories

This option controls the left column post categories. Similar to the featured categories section. Please put the categories IDs for the categories you want to show posts on left column. But for now you can control the amount of items displayed by each category in each column (left and right columns) also how many category posts to be shown on each column.

Modify only the red part

$leftcolumn_category_1 = 3;
$leftcolumn_category_1_postsnum = 3;
$leftcolumn_category_2 = 6;
$leftcolumn_category_2_postsnum = 2;

Option 6: Right Column - Post Categories

This option controls the right column post categories. Similar to the featured categories section. Please put the categories IDs for the categories you want to show posts on right column. But for now you can control the amount of items displayed by each category in each column (left and right columns) also how many category posts to be shown on each column.

Modify only the red part

$rightcolumn_category_1 = 7;
$rightcolumn_category_1_postsnum = 3;
$rightcolumn_category_2 = 8;
$rightcolumn_category_2_postsnum = 2;

Option 7: Default excerpt of news / stories

This option controls the amount of words displayed by the teaser or excerpt in news stories on home page (other than the featured section excerpt). By default we recommend 30 words. But you can change it to whatever you prefer.

Modify only the red part

$postexcerpt = 30;

Option 8: Please replace that ID with your Video Category ID

If you are going to use Video Spot to feature your favorite videos. You need to setup a seperate category for Videos and enter its ID in this setting, in settings.inc.php file. This is a mandatory step.

Modify only the red part

$video = 53;

We're done! Congratulations! Now you have a fully functional WordPress Magazine Theme. We can't answer all support questions in one document but in the following section we will show you how to play with Guzel magazine theme with very simple tricks to modify its appearance.

We will use a quick Question and Answer style for potential issues you might have in mind.

Question: 6 featured tabs are too much with my category titles. I need to get rid of a few..how?

Answer

Please browse theme folder and edit the file featured.php. Find the following part (at the top of the file):

Each tab is presented with a LI list and has a "rel" attribute. You can remove the cat6 and cat5 for example to have only 4 functional tabs. Simple? We know that -:)

Question: Empty Categories are shown in navigation. How can I prevent empty categories from showing on navigation?

Answer

Please edit header.php template file in your /guzel theme folder.

Find the following statement:

Replace it with:

Question: I would like to modify the advertisements. Change or remove them?

Answer

Ad spots can be controlled very easily. Please edit 468_60_ads.php file. The default advertisement image is located under /images folder and named 468_60.gif. To remove this advertisement spot please follow the simple step:

Edit header.php file. Find line. Remove this line completely to remove ads from header part.