It’s great to jumpstart the year with a professional free premium WordPress theme – Matapat. This stylish WordPress theme which is built by Padd Solutions, comes with 5 color schemes to choose from. All the features can be accessed via the General Settings, Social Networking Settings and Custom Advertisement Settings tabs from the Admin Panel.

Matapat WP theme is great for any blogger who wants to impress their readers with their contents and a premium quality design blog at no cost!

Check out the other theme features:

• Featured Content Gallery
• Stylish design
• Easy access of the Home, Contact and About pages
• Popular Posts
• Latest Tweet
• About This Blog
• Spread the articles via Social bookmarks (TweetMeme, Delicious, Digg, Newsvine, RSS, Stumbleupon, Technorati, Twitter)
• Related Posts
• Separation of Comments and Trackbacks
• SEO optimized
• Automatic Thumbnail Resizer (without using a custom field)
• Compatible with WordPress version 2.9
• RSS and Twitter subscription
• Google Analytics code integration
• Built-in Page Navigation
• Featured Video
• Advertisement Blocks Ready
• Gravatar Enabled

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Installation:

1. Install matapat folder at /wp-content/themes/
2. Activate Matapat 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

• FlickrRSS
• Popularity Contest
• TweetMeme Retweet Button (note on the settings, see below)
• WP-PageNavi
• Yet Another Related Posts Plugin

Customizing Matapat Options:

1. Go to Appearance > Matapat Options
   • General Settings
   • Social Networking 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/matapat/images folder.
• Changing the Description:
  1. Use the site-description.psd found at the /images folder.
  2. Edit it using your favorite graphics application.
  3. Save as site-description.png and upload it at the /wp-content/themes/matapat/images folder.
• Customizing the “About Us” in the footer:
  1. Go to Appearance > Matapat Options
     • General Settings > Site Description
     • Use this code: < img src="%THEME_URL%/images/icon-padd.jpg" style="float: left; border: 5px solid #666; margin: 0 10px 0 0"/> Text follows ...
  2. Then Save Settings.
• 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 Featured Photos:
  1. Go to Settings > flickrRSS
  2. Edit the settings.
  3. Save changes.

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