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Theme Options

Checkmate has a lot of options so you can get the most out of your theme without knowing any code.

• Optional Header Image
• Optional Featured Categories
• Feedburner Integration
• Menu Customization
• Optional Footer Widget Areas

Features

• Checkmate comes with 7 color themes. Grey, Red, Blue, Green, Purple, Brown, and Grey/Red.
• Custom widgets built for Checkmate.
• Tabbed Content Box - widget enabled
• Two, Three, or Split Column Design
• Feedburner Integration
• Optional Widget enabled footer
• Custom Icons
• Gravatar support for authors and comments(Wordpress 2.5)
• Custom author, archive, tag, category, and search pages.
• Widget Enabled Sidebars
• Includes the TimThumb script for resizing post thumbnails located under the post meta information.
• Tested in Firefox 2, Safari(Mac), IE7, IE6. (IE6 has a problem with post thumbnails, if this concerns you bug me to fix it).

Ad Management

Checkmate has two forms of built in ad management. One form built right into theme options panel and another more advanced customizable form. Both forms of management are controlled by widgets for easy placement and you retain the ability to turn them on or off via theme options panel.

License

Checkmate is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license. All I ask is that you link back to my website somewhere in your site.

Updates

• Version 1.01
  • Added wp_footer hook for plugins
• Version 1.02
  • Fixed Header Image Bug
  • Added browser detectable RSS Feeds (RSS2, RSS1.0/RDF, RSS0.92, RSS2 Comments, ATOM)
• Version 1.03
  • Added page template with comments enabled
• Version 1.04
  • Fixed sidebar error when requiring users to be registered and logged in to comment
  • Misc. code cleanup
• Version 1.05
  • Removed query_posts from index.php for pagination support
• Version 1.06
  • Changed “1 Comments” to “1 Comment”
  • Fixed the multiple categories as “featured” categories error