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Jul 2010

Latest Version: 2.00

Added on: 2010/04/14

Today marks yet another big achievement for Templatelite. We are releasing the first theme designed exclusively for Expedia!

Expedia’s strategic move to use WordPress as a branding tool is brilliant and we are proud to embark this exciting journey together with them

Who is Expedia and why are we chosen?

Expedia is one of the largest online travel network in the world. As mentioned by Expedia’s marketing manager, “Templatelite’s solid coding and creativity are what make them stand out from the rest. Their professionalism in dealing with their clients and theme users impressed us too!”

Click on the “Free Download” link above to get the theme now!

Main Features

- Free forum support

- User-friendly Options page

- Drop-Down Menu

- Automatic Thumbnails

- Different design for sticky post feature

- Compatible with IE7, IE8, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera

- W3C XHTML and CSS compliant

- SEO ready

- Gravatar enable

Custom Photo Image

Upload your images to the “photos” folder with sizes of at least 180×200px and you’ll see the images appear in the first photo paper when the page is refreshed. More info about the feature can be found here.

The following shows the three rotating images of this theme:

Automatic Thumbnails

Please refer to this page for the details of how the automatic thumbnails work.

Drop-down Menu

The Postage Sydney theme has a multi-level drop-down menu. The drop-down menu will show up automatically in the header navigation when you create hierarchical pages.

This is another feature that will be added to all my future themes.

Plugin

There is a featured content section below the header section. This feature is built in using the Featured Content Gallery (FCG) plugin. Please download the latest version and follow the instruction found in “Readme.txt” to do the setup.

If you do not want to show this feature, just don’t install the plugin.

Blog Title and Description

The demo is showing a special font as below:

By default, after you install the theme, the blog title and description are showing the Arial font.

You can change the font style by following this instruction:

Part 1: Modifying Font Style

- Download this PSD zip file (also include the font for this theme)

- Extract and open the PSD file in the Photoshop/ImageReady/Gimp/PaintShop program

- Change the title and description using your desired font (you are free to modify the header image if you want)

- Save the image using this name: bg_header.jpg

- Upload the image to your server in the “/styles/custom/” folder

Part 2: Activating the Style

- Login to your WP admin

- Go to the options page of the Postage Sydney theme under “Appearance -> Postage Sydney”

- Find “Theme Style” under “Layout Setting”

- In the pull-down menu, select “custom.css”

- Save the setting and go to your site to see the changes.

Ad Widget

An ad widget can be found under the “Available Widgets” section. You can drag the widget to Sidebar 1. This widget allows you to add your advertisement while keeping the sidebar design. Please limit the width of your ad to 250px.