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Wordpress Theme Review: Arras Theme

by Zepht on Oct.19, 2009, under Design reviews, Portfolio

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“Stylish”, if I could only use one word to describe this. As you can see clearly on this screenshot, Arras Theme looks like a very professional magazine/ entertainment news media. It looks somewhat like Gamespot.com, the website people go to for games of various platforms such as the PSP , PS3 and Nintendo DS.  This theme looks inspiring for a corporate website, and awesome for a casual website. Cool.

This theme organises your newest posts in formats of boxes. Each box consist of a thumbnail, and 2 about 2 lines of written content. The top bar will randomly display your posts in a rotational manner. You can also click left and right on the top bar to choose what you will read. And it loads faster than Gamespot too!

The rest of your post is stacked neatly in a list below all the featured posts. The theme also comes with 2 secondary sidebars, 2 bottom bars, and a footer to hold your widgets. Using the right widgets with this theme will impress your readers and ,of course, yourself.

One of the main concern of users of Arras theme is: “how do I insert the pictures into the box?”.

Here’s from my personal experience, and i hope it works well for you too.

1. change permissions to 777, instead of the default 755. Do this first before we head to the admin page.

2.go to create a post.

3. insert picture. Here you will see list of things after you have selected your picture. click on file URL.

4.A URL will appear. copy it down somewhere on your desktop.go ahead and insert picture into post 1st but that’s not the end.

5.at where you are, creating a new post, scroll down to custom field.

6.you will see “Name” and “Value”. For the name, i write “thumb” as in “thumbnail”. For the “value”, insert the URL you had copied down.

7.click “add custom field” button

8.remember to publish or update post.

9.you are done. Go to site to see if it was successful.

The author has noted that pictures that are too big will not work, so be sure to head for the plugin main page if you encounter any problems.

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