1. Unzip the file that you have downloaded, you will find a zip file called alltuts.zip. Go to your WP Admin panel, Appearance > Add New Themes and upload alltuts.zip file.
2. To install the theme manually you should have already wordpress installed and running on your server. Using FTP, upload the "alltuts" theme folder to your web server, and place it in "/wp-contents/themes/". So what you'll have in the end is "wp-contents/themes/alltuts/".
3. Now that you have the theme uploaded you just need to login to your WP admin panel and activate it "Appearance > Themes".
This theme uses 2 plugins, Plugin Popular Posts Tool and Wp125 which you can find in the downloaded .zip file, folder "plugins". You need to upload these folder's contents on your server to "wp-content/plugins/" and activate the plugins from the admin panel.
1. Plugin Popular Posts Tool (http://teofiloisrael.com/plugin-popular-posts-tool/ ) - This plugin it is used for displaying most popular posts in the footer. You can find out more about how it works and how to use it on the above link. On AllTuts theme the widget function is used in footer php. Once you activate the plugin the widget will be displayed by default. You can also disable/hide it from Theme Options Page.
2. Wp125, ads management plugin (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp125/ ) - adds a easy to use WordPress management system for 125x125 ads. Once you have it installed and activated you can also disable that ads section at any time, from Theme Options Page. This will NOT delete your ads setup.
This themes comes with a custom options page where you will find:
1. Set up your site logo - You have enter the full path to an image logo and the image ALT text.
2. Enable/Disable Ads Section - It matters only with Wp125 plugin activated.
3. Specify a page for advertising details.
4. Enable/Disable Cufon Font Replacement
5. Social Networking - Enter your LinkedIn, Facebook links and Twitter username.
6. Enable/Disable latest tweets display and set up the number of the latet tweets to be displayed.
7. Contact Page Text and Form Email address Setting - You can set the text of the contact page template and, as the theme comes with a working Ajax contact form, you need to specify your address in order to get the messages on your email.
8. Enable/ Disable Popular Posts display.
9. Set up your copyright details.
10. Setup META tags - keywords, description
11. Add Google Analytics code - Simply fill in the filed for Analytics code and save.
The theme is ready to take advantage of the new Wordpress 3.0 feature for Menus Management. If installed on an eralier Wordpress version the menus will work as well but with categories and pages regular listings function.
The theme has support for both menu lists.
*Please remember that you first need to create a menu for registered themes locations to appear as available.
When you create the Contact page, you will need to set the "Contact" template for it ( right side Attributes panel ), in order to have the contact page as in preview and have it Ajax functional.
The theme comes with the WP thumbnail options enabled in functions.php. So, setting up a post thumbnail can be done in edit post page. The post option will be visible on the right sidebar.
You can also set as post thumbnail an image you insert into your post. So, when inserting an image you will see an option for "Use as thumbnail".
For adding Lightbox behaviour to a link just add class="lightbox" to the image link.