First of all you need to register a widget. This widget will not be used on sidebar or footer but inside the index page. Copy this code inside functions.php


register_sidebar( array(
'name' => 'advertising',
'id' => 'advertising',
'before_widget' => '<div id="advertising_div">',
'after_widget' => '</div>',
'before_title' => '<h3 class="advertising_div_h">',
'after_title' => '</h3>'
) );


After that, open the index.php and find the loop. Look for endwhile; instruction – It’s marking the end of the loop. Before this line post the code:


$count_posts++;
if ($count_posts==2)
{
dynamic_sidebar('advertising');
$count_posts=0;
}


This code will display the widget advertising every 2 posts. To change this just edit the $count_posts==2 and use the number you want.

Also you need to put this line $count_posts=0; before the loop(just to keep things simple – write it as first line) .

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If you are doing a magazine theme you can use the widgets inside the content area. Here is how you can do it

First “register ” the widget area . Insert this code in functions.php

After that you need to open the file that will keep the widget area and paste this code in the right place.

Save and go to Widgets area in admin to use the created zone.

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Please report any bugs or improvements requests at cremus at binarspace.com. Download the theme here or see the demo here.

The Binar Zeo Theme includes:

Editable Carousel on main page: You can add custom pictures and link them to the most successful posts.
Highly customizable design: From the admin dashboard design interface you can customize almost all the elements on the front end (such as background colors, font sizes or colors).

Content Customizations: You choose the number of posts to be published on the front page. You can also control if you want the header menu displayed or not. Plus you can switch on and off the various add spaces available.

Custom Menus: There are two menus (one of them can be turned on or off) that can be fully controlled via the WordPress menu interface.

Custom Background: You can easily custom the background feature developed by WordPress. You can select the background color or upload an image and tile it.

Ads Administration: There are 5 advertising zones in this theme. You can insert your own ads or 3rd party ads and display them in different sections on the Front End.

AutoThumb: Binar Zeo uses timthumb script in order to create automatic thumbs.

Sidebar and Footer widgets: You can drag and drop widgets in the 4 widgets area (one in the sidebar and three in the footer)

Install

1. Download and extract the zip file.
2. Upload the theme file to your server at “/wp-content/themes/” folder.
3. Activate the theme. (Admin Panel -> Presentation -> Themes)

After Install

- See the videos located here: http://www.youtube.com/binarspace#p/u . They are helpful to make yourself an idea about what this theme can do.

- To “enable” front page thumbs you need to create a custom field called “Image” for each post that reaches the front site. As value for this custom field you can place the image path. The thumb script will do the rest.

- Make sure that the theme can create thumbs. If the thumb creation is not working you need to give 777 rights on the folder cache located in zeo/scripts/

- Upload images and set the Carousel.

- The theme comes with a predefined design. Play with the colors, sizes and other features until you get the look you want.

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First you need to open functions.php and “register” the menus. Just put in the following line:


register_nav_menus( array(
'primary' => __( 'Primary Navigation', 'test binar' ),
) );

The code above will register only one menu. If you want more just extend the array.

Once the menus are registered the only thing that needs to be done is to “mark” their position in the template.

Open the template file (usually header.php) and locate the menu lines. The menus are built using html code or wordpress functions like wp_list_pages. Replace those lines with:

Save and go in Admin Appearance tab. You will see the Menu interface is enabled and ready to use.Just build a menu, put some links in and assign them to primary location and you are ready to go.

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function custom_content($content) {
if(is_single()) {
$content .= 'add here the custom content';
}
return $content;
}
add_filter('the_content', 'custom_content');


Just edit the function above to add your information.

You can use the same function if you want to display the content before the post. Just replace the line
$content .= ‘add here the custom content’; with $content =’add here the custom content’.$content ;

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Today‘s tip can help you determine what is the best choice when dealing with various Adsense units.
Let’s assume that the page where Adsense is displayed is the main one. So open the index.php and paste this code in the beginning:


//update_option('test_version',0);
$test=get_option('test_version');

The code above read the ‘test_version’ option from the database and loads a file if the value is 0 and another file if the value is 1. The first line need to be commented or removed after the first run(it’s just for adding the new row in the wp_options table.)

After that, put in file1.php and file2.php the versions of the main page code. To track the Adsense units just create separate ads for each page version, assigned those to new channels, and see who brings the most money or have the biggest CTR%.

You can extend the code above for 3 or more versions but I recommend doing these optimizations in small steps. Also make sure that your experiments benefits from enough traffic.

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Just add in the functions.php

Upload in image folder, (on current theme directory)the new logo (in this case the file is custom_logo.jpg). I use also the height and width declarations in order to control the image size.

If the image is too big for the gray band on admin top you can add the following code in the above function.

I also changed the band color from grey to white – it’s works better with my logo

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To achieve this goal just follow these steps:

1. First you need to create the page in the theme folder. (say test.php)

2. Copy&paste the code from single.php and remove the functions that display the content but kee the divs structure.

3. Add as first line require_once(‘../../../wp-load.php’ ); This will initialize all the wordpress function and will make get_header & co functional

4. Add the code in the place where the content was displayed in the original single page.

5. Optional: Rewrite the url (from httaces) to make a nice url

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