tvXpress

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— THEME INSTALLATION —

STEP #1:
Extract the tvXpress.zip file on your PC using WinRAR. WinRAR is a popular shareware file archiver and data compression utility. You can get the free version at http://www.rarlab.com

STEP #2:
After you unzip the tvXpress.zip, upload the complete folder of the theme to http://yoursite.com/wp-content/themes. FTP-client can do this task for you. We recommend filezilla. It is free and you can get a free copy at http://filezilla-project.org/

STEP #3:
5 required plugins needed and there are attached in the zip file. Please upload them all to http://yoursite.com/wp-content/plugins.

STEP #4:
Login to your blog admin panel, click the “Plugins” tab and activate Smart Youtube, WP-PostRatings, WP-PostvXpresss, WP Page Numbers and BlogStats PCC.

STEP #5:
Click the “Settings” tab and click Smart Youtube.
1. Tick show border and autoplay videos
2. To fit the smart youtube plugin with our layout, set the width of video in normal mode and high quality mode to 628 and set the height of video in normal mode and high quality mode to 400

STEP #6:
Click the “Ratings” tab and click “Rating Options”.
1. Select “squares” rating style. This one best fit with our layout. Then set 10 as max ratings, click “update individual rating text/value display” and click the save changes button.
2. Remove the default ratings templates variables and replace with the following code. Important.
Ratings Vote Text: Votes: <strong>%RATINGS_USERS%</strong><br />Score: <strong>%RATINGS_PERCENTAGE%</strong>%<br />Rating <strong>%RATINGS_AVERAGE%</strong>/%RATINGS_MAX%<br />%RATINGS_IMAGES%
Ratings Voted Text: Votes: <strong>%RATINGS_USERS%</strong><br />Score: <strong>%RATINGS_PERCENTAGE%</strong>%<br />Rating <strong>%RATINGS_AVERAGE%</strong>/%RATINGS_MAX%<br />%RATINGS_IMAGES%
Ratings No Permission Text: %RATINGS_IMAGES% (<em><strong>%RATINGS_USERS%</strong> votes, average: <strong>%RATINGS_AVERAGE%</strong> out of %RATINGS_MAX%</em>)<br /><em>You need to be a registered member to rate this movie.</em>
Ratings None: <strong>Not Rated</strong><br />Score: <strong>n/a</strong><br />Rating: <strong>n/a</strong><br />%RATINGS_IMAGES_VOTE%
Highest Rated: <li><a href=”%POST_URL%” title=”%POST_TITLE%”>%POST_TITLE%</a><br />Score: <strong>%RATINGS_PERCENTAGE%</strong>%<br />Rating: <strong> %RATINGS_AVERAGE%</strong>/%RATINGS_MAX%</li>
Most Rated: <li><a href=”%POST_URL%”  title=”%POST_TITLE%”>%POST_TITLE%</a> – %RATINGS_USERS% votes</li>

STEP #7:
Click the “Settings” tab and click Page Number. Select “classic” and click the update setting button.

STEP #8:
Click the “Settings” tab and click PostvXpresss. Select count views from everyone and replace default view template variables with the following
Views: <strong>%VIEW_COUNT%</strong>

STEP #9:
Login to your blog admin panel, click the “Appearance” tab and activate the tvXpress theme.

— HOW TO ADD A POST —

1. When you want to display Youtube video in your post, copy the video URL to your post and change http:// to httpv:// (notice the ‘v’ character)

The video will be automatically embedded to your post in the proper way.

Example: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-qPcbjzLC8

If you want to post a high quality/HD video  you would use httpvh:// (’vh’ for video high)

2. Add a custom field: thumb and paste there your movie thumb URL. Technically you don’t have to upload the thumbnail to your server. You can grab it automatically from youtube’s server.
Example, for movie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-qPcbjzLC8, the thumb url for this movie is http://img.youtube.com/vi/Q-qPcbjzLC8/2.jpg

3. Add a custom field: episode and paste there the episode of the tv show.

4. Add a custom field: season and paste there which season.

5. Select category, add TAG and you are done.

— LICENSE —

Free for personal and business use; Must keep footer links AS Is

— THEME MODIFICATION/SUPPORT —

Minor tweaking or modification is free. Please kindly contact us at http://www.zinruss.com/themes/contact-us

— CUSTOM THEMES REQUEST —

Please kindly contact us at http://www.zinruss.com/themes/contact-us. We will get back to you ASAP.

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