Talian Theme (2.10 series)

Adding a custom link page to talian theme

Steve — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:07:58 +0000

The new talian is now equipped with a unique feature called “Custom Link Page”. This is a solution to bloggers who have pretty large blogroll or those who wish to add descriptions of links in their blogroll. Checkout a custom link page here.

The custom links page works dynamically and capture everything you put in blogroll to display as links, title and descriptions. it will also work as resource page or you can monetize this section by adding custom affiliate links.

It also saves your site look and feel, if you are adding too many descriptions in blogroll. The default sidebars will go down, instead use the custom link page feature to create an extraordinary resource page.

How to create the custom link page?

You need to follow similar steps you have taken to create sitemap and archives page. This time you need to choose “links” from page template and create a blank pages. Every thing from your blogroll will be sourced automatically.

If you need to remove the default blogroll then, you need to edit the left sidebar and comment everything under class called “blogroll”.

Remember this is an optional feature which you can use anytime and delete anytime.

Changing the Talian banner with your own graphics

Steve — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:14:03 +0000

You might wish to change the dummy banner with your own graphics. This is one of the most easy task to do. It’s fun playing your talian and most of the bloggers do tons of experiments with their blog. This is why blogs are popular.

You can change, re-size or remove the banner entirely, also you can add your adsense code or add any banner of your sponsor. If you wish, I can help you doing that for free and if needed get you a high quality custom banner for a small price of $10 only. Learn below on how to modify the talian banner:

1. Most Easy Option:

Rename your banner as “talian-blue.jpg” or “talian-green.jpg” or “talian-red.jpg”.
If you are using blue theme, go to wp-content >> Themes >> Talian-red >> image folder and replace the image named talian-blue.jpg.

2. If you are comfortable with CSS

Open the style.css and locate class name “put-image-here”
Rename the banner with your own banner’s name
Change the height, but keep the width as it is as it will create problem with alignments
Upload your banner into theme image folder and it’s done

3. Adding your adsense or HTMl banner codes in place of default talian banner

Open the style.css and locate class name “put-image-here”
Delete the following 2 lines and save:

background-image: url(images/talian-blue.jpg); background-repeat: no-repeat;

Now open the “index.php”, “page.php”, and “single.php” with notepad or wordpad and locate class name “put-image-here”
Add your banner code or adsense javascript in between “div tags” save, upload and you are done.

Any problem, do drop me a line, i will be glad to help you out.

Post styling examples

Steve — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:39:40 +0000

Talian is an professional theme equipped with various types of styling options. You will be amazed to find that we have tried to incorporate every possible typography to make a better wordpress theme, which stands out of crowd. Find out below the live examples of post styles in use with current talian:

An Unordered list

Testing a list #1
Testing a list #2
Testing a list #3
Testing a list #4
Testing a list #5

An Ordered list

Testing a list #1
Testing a list #2
Testing a list #3
Testing a list #4
Testing a list #5

styling H1, H2, H3, H4 texts

This is an H1 Text

This is an H2 Text

This is an H3 Text

This is an H4 Text

Using various styling classes within the post

Talian has several prebuilt styiling classes helps to highlight appearance of important texts within your posts. Please look at the various styling options we have added with Talian.

This is how the Info text appears”

This is how the Note text appears”

This is how the Warning text appears”

This is how the Alert text appears”

This is how the Download text appears”

This is how “Click here to buy now” text appears”

Stay tuned, we will comeup with some more innovative styling options to spice up your blog. The core development of Talian is just a beginning, we have more surprises for you!

Adding a Sitemap to Talian

Steve — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:55:59 +0000

Talian is an SEO friendly theme. You can create sitemap without using any plugin or any external tool. Creating a sitemap is easy. All you need to go to write pages >> Name the page as “sitemap”, Choose the option “Sitemap” from page template and click “publish”. You are done.

The site map works similar to Archives Map and it is automatically updated every time you create a new post. It displays individual posts links and links to RSS feeds and Atom feeds available at your blog.

Easy to use functions like these have made talian a popular theme in the past and we will be adding more innovative concepts to talian in near future to make it a complete theme for every blogger. Checkout the pictures below:

Step 1: Adding a Sitemap to talian

Step 2: Adding a Sitemap to talian

Using Page templates – Adding an archive map to your blog

Steve — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:33:47 +0000

Archive Map is better known as displaying all archive posts in a grid format. This is a single page where you will be able to display blog archives similar to a sitemap.

Talian has pre-built page templates which allows you to create an archive map even if you dont have knowledge of HTML, CSS or PHP. All you need to go create pages, choose “Archives” from Page template, Name your page as “archives” and click “Publish”.

The page will automatically appear on Menubars and it will automatically all your previous posts to archive map page. It will also update automatically when you create any new post, so you need not to worry about updating them.

This is easy, isn’t it? Checkout the picture below:

Step #1: Creating an Archive Map Page with Talian

Step #2: Creating an Archive Map Page with Talian

Talian WordPress Theme

Steve — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:51:07 +0000

First of all we like to thank you for showing interest in Talian – theme which has enormous possibilities. We are proud to release this theme way back in July, 2007 and it has attracted over 40,000 downloads by the community.

Since then, the wordpress platform has been changed a lot, but Talian continued to meet the requirements of bloggers and to keep this theme working in future, we have decided to update the theme and fixed several issues related to Talian.

Talian theme is designed and developed by VA Business Services a business venture of Steve Arun who is an experienced Internet Marketing Consultant worked with top notch companies in USA including AT & T development partners. VA Business Services offers affordable blog design, blog maintenance and blog marketing services.

This theme is an SEO friendly layout and comes with many options which reduce the use of plugins. How ever we have tested many popular plugins with this theme and soon we will post the release notes about available list of plugins which are compatible with talian.

Please play around with talian and let us know your views and comments. This will help us to upgrade in our future release.

Hello world!

Steve — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:12:54 +0000

Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!