Below are couple usefull information that will help you to know Akiraka better

Control the template settings from the Akiraka 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 Akiraka 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 246px x 116px
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.

Showcase Posts

All posts displayed in the Showcase section have to be assigned to the “Showcase” category. If there’s more than 1 post in that category, posts will be displayed randomly.
If you haven’t installed our sample content please remember to change the Category in Akiraka Settings to the category you created to use for your “Showcase” Posts

Using image instead of text title

• Enter into edit mode of showcase post you wish to change
• In the section “Custom Fields” from the dropdown menu please choose “title” – if it doesn’t exist you have to press “Enter new” to create it
• In the field “Value” next to “title” please enter URL to your title image ie. http://www.yoursite.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/title.png
• If you won’t add title image, there will be displayed normal title of your post

Adding thumbnails (you can add up to 3 thumbs)

• Enter into edit mode of showcase post you wish to change
• In the section “Custom Fields” from the dropdown menu please choose “thumb1″, “thumb2″ or “thumb3″ – if it doesn’t exist you have to press “Enter new” to create it
• In the field “Value” next to “thumb(number 1-3)” please enter URL to your thumbnail ie. http://www.yoursite.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/showcase_thumb_1.jpg

Removing Showcase from the FrontPage

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

Section 1 and Section 2 at the bottom of the page

All posts that you want to appear in the Section 1 or Section 2 have to be assigned to “Section 1″ or “Section 2″ category. If there’s more than 1 post in each of these categories, posts will be displayed randomly in their categories.
If you haven’t installed our sample content please remember to change the Categories in Akiraka Settings to the categories you created to use for your “Section 1″ & “Section 2″ Posts

Removing Section 1 or Section 2

• Just go to the Akiraka Settings page in admin dashboard and next to the Section 1 or Section 2 Category → choose None
• Alternatively to remove the Section 1 or Section 2 sections please unassign all posts from the categories you assigned for your Section 1 or Section 2 posts. If Wordpress detects no posts in that category it will automatically hide that section.

Removing both Section 1 and Section 2

• Just go to the Akiraka Settings page in admin dashboard and next to the Section 1 & Section 2 Category → choose None
• Alternatively to remove Section 1 & Section 2 sections please unassign all posts from the categories you assigned for your Section 1 & Section 2 posts. If Wordpress detects no posts in those categories it will automatically hide that sections.

Changing Showcase and Sections 1 & 2 assigned categories

If you haven’t installed our sample content you can easily enable Showcase and Sections 1 & 2 by changing their assigned categories :-

• Login into the WordPress administrator dashboard (http://www.yoursite.com/wp-admin/)
• In the left menu sidebar, go to Posts → Categories and create new categories for your Showcase, Section 1 and Section 2 posts
• Assign your posts to these categories
• In the left menu sidebar, go to Appearance → Akiraka Settings
• Change the categories next to the fields Frontpage Showcase Category, Section 1 Category & Section 2 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.png" alt="sample" />

Change to

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