F8 LITE
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About
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f8 lite is a free photography and multimedia portfolio theme for Wordpress.  The theme design was developed with photographers in mind who want a minimal layout, with their photos and multimedia featured front and center.  But, the theme has been used to create everything from e-commerce sites, book review sites, and everything in between.
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Installation instruction
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-Download and unzip f8-lite.zip
-Upload f8-lite folder into your wp-content/themes/ directory
-Login into Wordpress, click Manage - Themes - to activate f8-lite
-Upload photo-galleria folder into your wp-content/plugins/ directory
-Activate the Photo Galleria plugin
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Widgets
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The bottom three column area is 100% widgetized, which you can control by clicking Design - Widgets, from within your Wordpress admin panel.
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Images
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f8-lite is a 950px wide, one column theme.  The archive and front page layout is built on a three column grid (310px wide with 10px gutters).  We need to set up your default image and thumbnail sizes to allow for easy posting and consistent design structure.

Click Settings - Miscellaneous and set your thumbnail size to 310px wide by 150px tall. Set your medium size images to 950px wide and 700px tall.

For post thumbnails, paste in the url to the 310px wide X 150 px tall thumbnail into the custom field, with key value "thumbnail".  For slideshow images, paste in the url to the 950px wide medium size image into the custom field, with key value "image".  

By default, the homepage slideshow shows only those posts with a custom field "image." The slideshow shows the most recent 4 posts in category 1.  You could make this slideshow static, showing only those images specified by replacing the code on slideshow.php with something like the following:

<!-- Begin slideshow -->
<ul id="portfolio">
<li><img src="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>/images/slideshow/image1.jpg" /></li>
<li><img src="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>/images/slideshow/image2.jpg" /></li>
<li><img src="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>/images/slideshow/image3.jpg" /></li>
<li><img src="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>/images/slideshow/image4.jpg" /></li>
</ul>

Then, create a folder in your f8-lite theme directory called "slideshow" and place four images (image1.jpg, image2.jpg, image3.jpg, image4.jpg) inside the folder.
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Video & Multimedia
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f8-lite has a built-in custom field query for multimedia, which an include virtually any media with embed capabilities.  When writing a post, click Custom Fields (towards the bottom of the page).  Enter "multimedia" as the key value (without the quote marks, obviously) and paste your YouTube, Vimeo, or any other html embed code into the value field.
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Archives and Category Archives
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The archives page pulls in the post title, post thumbnail, post excerpt and post meta data.  If you don't write anything in the post excerpt, the archives page will pull in a few lines from the main post entry.
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Questions, Comments, Support
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This is the 1.1 release of f8-lite.  Please email me with any and all suggestions and issues related to this theme.  
Website:  http://graphpaperpress.com
Forum:  http://graphpaperpress.com/forum/?CategoryID=15
License: GPL