Planning to develop your restaurant’s, cafe’s, or coffee shop’s website? Are you looking for your next food blog or recipe theme? Hassiumize WordPress theme fits your needs. Hassiumize WordPress theme is especially designed for the food blog niche or restaurant websites.

Every visual element of Hassiumize WordPress theme is carefully crafted to make your site look appealing and appetizing. It comes with a custom typography,

Hassiumize is easy to customize via the backend admin panel. This freemium WordPress theme comes with an introduction content section where you can put your store hours or any content that will captivate your readers or customers, featured gallery category, featured posts title “Our Daily Specials”, featured posts, special events and a lot more!

Like our previous theme release, Hassiumize WordPress theme is also tried and tested to work in a multisite environment. Hassiumize WordPress theme is WordPress MU compatible theme.

Because it has a clean and well-structured .pot file, you can translate the theme to your preferred languages with ease. Hassiumize WordPress theme comes with the latest WordPress 3.0 goodness, custom menu and a lot more!

Hassiumize WP theme is an awesome WordPress theme which is great for any blogger who wants to impress their readers with their contents and a premium quality design blog at no cost!

Check out Hassiumize WordPress theme features:

  • Magazine Theme
  • Introduction Section
  • Store Map
  • Photo Gallery
  • WordPress MU Compatible
  • Spread the articles via Social bookmarks (TweetMeme, Delicious, Digg, Newsvine, RSS, Stumbleupon, Technorati, Twitter)
  • Separation of Comments and Trackbacks
  • SEO optimized
  • Automatic Thumbnail Resizer (without using a custom field)
  • Compatible with WordPress version 3.0+
  • RSS, Twitter, Facebook and Flickr subscription
  • Google Analytics code integration
  • Built-in Page Navigation
  • Advertisement Blocks Ready
  • Gravatar Enabled

Installation:

  1. Install hassiumize folder at /wp-content/themes/
  2. Activate Hassiumize Theme 1.0 by Padd Solutions (Note: Don’t worry if it might look disoriented at first, you need to activate the required plugins to fully utilize the theme.)

Activate the Required Plugins:

  • FlickrRSS RU
  • Regenerate Thumbnails

Initial Settings:

  • Regenerate Thumbnails (skip this step if you are on a fresh install):
    1. Tools > Regen. Thumbnails
    2. Click Regenerate All Thumbnails
    3. Wait for 100% to regenerate all thumbnails.
  • Setting the Menus:
    1. Go to Appearance > Menus.
    2. Drag and drop the menus you want to appear in header navigation menu at the “Main Menu” and hit “Save Menu” button.
    3. At the Theme Locations box, choose “Main Menu” from the dropdown choices and hit “Save”.

Customizing Hassiumize Theme:

  • Setting the Featured Categories:
    1. Go Appearance > Hassiumize Options > General tab
    2. Select the categories which you want to feature in the homepage
    3. Save Settings.
  • Setting the Featured Gallery Category:
    1. Go Appearance > Hassiumize Options > General tab
    2. Enable Featured Gallery
    3. Designate Featured Gallery Category – choose the category from the dropdown options
    4. Save Settings.
  • Setting the Posts Title:
    1. Go Appearance > Hassiumize Options > General tab
    2. Enable Featured Post
    3. Designate Featured Post Category – choose the category from the dropdown options
    4. Save Settings.
  • Setting the Featured Items:
    1. Go Appearance > Hassiumize Options > General tab
    2. Enable Featured Items
    3. Designate Featured Items – choose the number of items from the dropdown options (1-9)
    4. Save Settings.
  • Setting the Special Events Post Category:
    1. Go Appearance > Hassiumize Options > General tab
    2. Designate Special Events Post Category – choose the category from the dropdown options
    3. Select the number of slides, effect, duration and scroll speed
    4. Save Settings.
  • Setting the post thumbnail:
    1. Go Post > All Posts > Choose the post to edit
    2. From the post section, find the “Featured Image” box found at the lower right most part of the screen
    3. Set Featured Image (recommended image size: 940×360)
    4. Publish / Update Post
  • Setting the Slideshow:
    1. Go Appearance > Hassiumize Options > Slideshow tab
    2. Enable Slideshow
    3. Designate Slideshow Category – choose the category from the dropdown options
    4. Select the number of slides, effect, duration and scroll speed
    5. Save Settings.

Requirements:

  • WordPress 3.0+
  • Host server with PHP5.2+