Control the template settings from the Mixxmag 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 Mixxmag Settings from within the tab

FrontPage Post Thumbnails

If you would like to see a thumbnail next to your post on frontpage you have to :

• Enter into 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

Best size for frontpage thumbnails is 151px x 112px
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.

“More News” Section

All posts displayed in the “More News” section have to be assigned to the “More News” category. If there’s more than 4 posts in that category, posts will be displayed randomly.
If you haven’t installed our sample content please remember to change the Category in Mixxmag Settings to the category you created to use for your “More News” Posts

Adding Thumbnails

• Enter into 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

Best size for frontpage thumbnails is 122px x 80px

Removing “More News” section

• Just go to the Mixxmag Settings page in admin dashboard and next to the More News Category → choose None
• Alternatively to remove the More News section please unassign all posts from category you assigned for your More News posts. If Wordpress detects no posts in that category it will automatically hide that section.

Changing “More News” assigned category

If you haven’t installed our sample content you can enable “More News” section by changing its assigned category :-

• Login into the WordPress administrator dashboard (http://www.yoursite.com/wp-admin/)
• In the left menu sidebar, go to Posts → Categories and create a new category for your “More News” posts
• Assign your posts to this category
• In the left menu sidebar, go to Appearance → Mixxmag Settings
• Change the category next to the field “More News Category” to your newly created category

“Previous Issues” Section

You can assign 4 different categories to that section. All posts displayed from those categories will be displayed randomly.
If you haven’t installed our sample content please remember to change the Categories in Mixxmag Settings to the categories you created to use in “Previous Issues” section

Changinge Title

• Login into the WordPress administrator dashboard (http://www.yoursite.com/wp-admin/)
• In the left menu sidebar, go to Appearance → Mixxmag Settings
• Write your new title in the field next to: “Previous Issues Section Title”

Adding Thumbnails

• Enter into 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

Best size for frontpage thumbnails is 115px x 85px

Removing “Previous Issues” section

• Just go to the Mixxmag Settings page in admin dashboard and next to all 4 categories you assigned to Previous Issues → choose None
• Alternatively to remove the Previous Issues section please unassign all posts from all 4 categories you assigned to use in Previous Issues section. If Wordpress detects no posts in those categories it will automatically hide that section.

Changing “Previous Issues” assigned categories

If you haven’t installed our sample content you can easily enable “Previous Issues” section by defining 4 categories to show up in that section :-

• Login into the WordPress administrator dashboard (http://www.yoursite.com/wp-admin/)
• In the left menu sidebar, go to Posts → Categories and create a 4 new categories for your “Previous Issues” section
• Assign your posts to those categories
• In the left menu sidebar, go to Appearance → Mixxmag Settings
• Change the categories next to the fields “Previous Issues 1 Category”, “Previous Issues 2 Category”, “Previous Issues 3 Category”, “Previous Issues 4 Category” to your newly created categories

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" />