WordPress Theme : Branford Magazine – Nice Looking Theme With Rich features – Review

Branford Magazine is the very first WordPress theme release from Michael Oeser. This magazine style theme combines the very best elements of three famous WordPress magazine themes into one single theme. The result is a clean, feature packed magazine style theme which rivals some of the best premium WordPress themes.

Branford Magazine Demo at http://branfordmagazine.notesbit.com/

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Branford Magazine was inspired by some of the best elements of Mimbo and Revolution themes. It creates a clean-looking webpage with easy navigation… and it looks great.

Best of all, both WordPress and Branford Magazine are free. Download them, install and customize them… and you’re all set.

Once they’re installed, it’s easy to update your website. If you can write email or update a blog such as MySpace, Blogger or LiveJournal, you can use Branford Magazine with WordPress.

Remember to change the /wp-content/ folder CHMOD to 0777 so that you can import and upload images in your “write post”panel. (The images are uploaded in the “Upload” section.) CHMOD is usually set via FTP. In FireFTP (a free Firefox utility), right-click on the folder and select “Properties” to change the CHMOD.

Some people feel that there can be security issues with CHMOD 0777. Many people change back to 0755 after importing the images they’ll need. But, others aren’t concerned about selected use of 0777. Use a search engine to research this if you’re worried.

Here’s a Branford Magazine “cheat sheet” to remember which images (and image sizes) go where.

In the Custom Fields section:

leadimage is the large-ish picture in the main story near the top of the page. It can be any size that looks good to you. The demo site shows an image that’s 300 wide x 200 high.

featuredarticleimage is the field for the horizontal images associated with the article excerpts in the left column of the homepage. Each image should be 255 x 88.

rightcolimage is the field for the icon-type images in the right column. Each image should be 75 x 75.

The files you’ll probably tweak: The index.php has the info for the left column and right column. The sidebar, at the far right side of the page, is in sidebar.php.