Blu Mag is a Free Wordpress Theme with Premium Features. It is a neat, professional theme and highly customizable. Blu Mag is a Search Engline friendly theme, with widgetised sidebars and footers and a smart Featured Posts Section. The theme is also smart enough to show thumnails of images uploaded for Posts, in Home and Archive pages i.e. Category Archives, Tag archives, All Date Archives and Search Results. The first image uploded for a post is always shown as a thumbnail. Hence, If you upload multiple images for a Post, make sure thay you add the image, whose thumbnail you want to display, first. The sidebars (Middle and Bottom Sidebars), footers, Featured Posts section and Thumbnails can be easily disabled or enable through the Theme Options Page. ---------------------------------------- Where can I find the Theme Options Page? ---------------------------------------- You can find the Theme Options Page under Appearance folder on your Wordpress Admin Menu Bar. It will have the title "Blu Mag Options". ------------------------------------- How to mark posts as Featured Posts? ------------------------------------- Create a category by title "Featured". Add every Post to an appropriate category and if you want to display it under Featured Posts Section,add it to "Featured" Category as well. Once it is done, all the latest Featured Posts will be displayed under "Featured" section in the Home Page. ---------------------------------------------------- How many posts can be displayed as Featured Posts? ----------------------------------------------------- In the Theme Options Page, you can set the number of Posts to be shown as Featured Posts. But decide on an optimal number (taking performance into consideration). ---------------------------------------------------- What happens if I disable Footer? ----------------------------------------------------- If footer is disabled, then the widegetized footer section will not displayed. However the theme is smart enough to retain your blog's Copyright section. ------------------------------------ How to Change the Top Header Banner? ------------------------------------ You can easily change top header banner by replacing banner.jpg file under Images folder (in the theme) with your own banner. But name your banner as banner.jpg or go to the stylesheet (style.css) in the theme folder, search for #head-bottom section and replace banner.jpg under background property with your banner name. ------------------------------------ How to place my ads on the sidebars? ------------------------------------ Open sidebar.php and there are provisions for a 300x250 ad and a 120x600 ad in the form of images.Replace them with your corresponding ad scripts. ------------------------------------ Released under GPL license: ------------------------------------ Blu Mag is a premium theme released under GPL license. You can modify or customize the design further maintaining the original author's copyright.