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

FrontPage Post Thumbnails

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

Method 1

Using Catch First Image – this option searches post content for images, and takes the first one and displays it on the frontpage.

• Login into the WordPress administrator at http://www.yoursite.com/wp-admin/
• Select the Appearance tab on the left of the dashboard
• Select Refraction Settings from within the tab
• Enable Catch First Image

Please note that if there’s a ‘thumb’ custom field declared in the post, it will be displayed instead, even if the Catch First Image option is active.

Method 2

Using ‘thumb’ custom field.

• 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/2009/11/thumb.jpg

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.

Feature Section

Posts displayed in the Feature section are located in “Feature” category. There are three things from every post that are displayed in that section – title, content, excerpt (not necessary). Excerpts are used if you’d like to display outstanding (quoted) text in the middle of the feature box.

How To Remove Feature Section

Just go to the Refraction Settings page (Sections tab) in the admin dashboard and next to the Feature Category → choose None

Alternatively WordPress checks if there are posts inside of a category responsible for a specified section, and if it finds any article it displays that section. If you would like to remove a section, just unassign all posts from the category responsible for that section. If WordPress cannot find any articles, it will just hide it.

Changing Feature Category

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

• Login into the WordPress administrator at http://www.yoursite.com/wp-admin/
• In the left menu sidebar, go to Posts → Categories and create a new category for your Feature posts
• Assign your posts to that category
• In the left menu sidebar, go to Appearance → Refraction Settings
• On the top of the settings panel choose tab Sections
• Select from the dropdown menu your newly created category next to the field Feature Category

Footer Section

Posts displayed in footer are located in “Footer” category. In the “Refraction Settings” under Sections tab you’ll find more options for Footer section.
If you haven’t installed our sample content please remember to change the Category in Refraction Settings (Sections tab) to the category you created to use for your Footer Posts

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" />