Control the template settings from the Meridian Setting page in the dashboard, access instructions below:

• Login into the WordPress administrator at http://www.yoursite.com/wp-admin/
• Select the Appearance tab on the left of the dashboard
• Select Meridian Settings from within the tab

Welcome Message

Posts displayed over Showcase section background image are located in “Welcome” category. Adding more than one post to this category will result in displaying those posts randomly.
If you haven’t installed our sample content please remember to change the Category in Meridian Settings to the category you created to use for your “Welcome” Posts

Showcase Posts

Posts displayed in Showcase section are located in “Showcase” category. Adding more than two posts to this category will result in displaying those posts randomly.
If you haven’t installed our sample content please remember to change the Category in Meridian Settings to the category you created to use for your “Showcase” Posts

Adding thumbnails to the showcase posts is very easy.

• Enter the Edit mode of post next to which you’d like to display your thumbnail
• In the section “Custom Fields” from the dropdown menu please choose “thumb” – if it doesn’t exist you have to press “Enter new” to create it
• In the field “Value” next to “thumb” please enter URL to your thumbnail ie. http://www.yoursite.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/thumb.jpg

For best results thumbnails shouldn’t be bigger then 140px x 76px

To check path to an image please go to the Media page in your administration dashboard, click Edit under the image you wish to use, and copy the path from the File URL field.

Adding thumbnails to the frontpage posts

• Enter the Edit mode of post next to which you’d like to display your thumbnail
• In the section “Custom Fields” from the dropdown menu please choose “thumb” – if it doesn’t exist you have to press “Enter new” to create it
• In the field “Value” next to “thumb” please enter URL to your thumbnail ie. http://www.yoursite.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/thumb.jpg

Featured Posts

Posts displayed in the Feature section are located in “Feature” category. Adding more than three posts to this category will result in displaying those posts randomly.
If you haven’t installed our sample content please remember to change the Category in Meridian Settings to the category you created to use for your “Feature” Posts

• Enter the Edit mode of post next to which you’d like to display your thumbnail
• In the section “Custom Fields” from the dropdown menu please choose “thumb” – if it doesn’t exist you have to press “Enter new” to create it
• In the field “Value” next to “thumb” please enter URL to your thumbnail ie. http://www.yoursite.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/thumb.jpg

For best results thumbnails shouldn’t be bigger then 240px x 100px

You can also change the “Read More” text displayed on the button in the bottom of the image.

• Enter the Edit mode of post you want to change that text
• In the section “Excerpt” type new button text

This works only for posts located in the “Feature” section

Footer Post and Author info

Posts displayed in footer are located in “Footer” category. Adding more than one post to this category will result in displaying those posts randomly.
If you haven’t installed our sample content please remember to change the Category in Meridian Settings to the category you created to use for your Footer Posts
Next to the footer post there are displayed site authors contact details.

• Below authors name you can display : E-Mail, Jabber ID, AIM, Yahoo IM
• You can edit those details by editing admin user details in Admin Dashboard
• If there’s no Jabber, AIM or Yahoo IM defined – those fields won’t be displayed

IE6 PNG Fix

The template has an integrated PNG fix for IE6 that allows transparent PNG32 images to show, as intended, in the IE6 browser. All you need to do is add class=”png” to the element such as the change in the following examples:-

<img src="images/sample1.jpg" alt="sample" />

Change to

<img src="images/sample1.jpg" alt="sample" class="png" />