Specifics
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Welcome to the WordPress theme section which is I guess why you came here in the first place. Before downloading the themes, take five minutes to read the following lines.

First of all, to enjoy each of these themes to its fullest, a few plugins are required (install instructions can be found below). The plugins needed come with each download. Here is the list of the plugins: Delicious integrator, FlickrRSS, Gravatar, Previous post, Quoter, Simple recent comments, SRG clean archives, Ultimate tag warrior and WP-contact form. Of course if you allready have one of these plugins installed, no need to replace it.

As you will see, while you wander in this section, some themes are available, some aren’t yet. I decided for once to make my work public (expect some surprises though). I classified each theme depending on its current status and here is the code:
Phase 1: Still playing with the photoshop template
Phase 2: Template is done and coding is in progress (sometimes a demo is available at this stage)
Phase 3: Most of the coding is over and I troubleshoot for the sake of browser compatibility (thanks IE for the extra work..)
Phase 4: Theme available

You are of course free to modify my themes to suit your needs or your taste but..
Please leave the link to the studio (found in the footer) intact. And if you want to distribute your mod, contact me first, I’m usually easy going for this kind of stuff.

Posted on 02-15-2007
Plugins installation

First locate your plugin folder in your wordpress installation. Here is where it can be found:
your wordpress directory/wp-content/plugins.
Upload all the files and folders located in the plugin folder that come with my themes into your wordpress directory. Go to your dashboard, hit the "plugins" tab and activate the ones you just uploaded. Go to options and set up each plugin you want to use. That's it. A special note for the Ultimate tag warrior plugin: it comes in three versions, just activate the latest one (3.141).
While all the plugins that come with my themes have been tested with the lastest version of WordPress (2.1), xiapdesign can't be held responsible if something goes wrong. If you're having trouble with a particular plugin, please contact directly the author.

Themes installation

Once you have all the plugins required installed and running, drag the theme folder into the following location:
your wordpress directory/wp-content/themes.
Go to your dashboard, hit the presentation tab, choose your theme, activate it and you're good to go!.
Wait.. before you go you must know a few more specific things. Each theme comes with different template pages:
an about page, a contact page, an archives page, a normal page and a page with comments.
To create an "about" page, go to write page. Name it "about" (title), write whatever you want in it. In the page template drop down menu choose "about". Publish it an that's it.
To create an "archives" page, you pretty much do the same thing. Name it "archives", choose the "archives" template, publish it and you're done.
To have a contact page, same as above, Entitle you page "contact". Write what you want and hit the "insert contact form" button. Choose the "contact" template. Publish and it's over.
Finally, sometimes you want to have a page with comments and sometimes you don't. If you want, choose the template "page with comment", otherwise choose the default template.
Ok, now you can go..