Yes, Free WP Tube 4.0 is finally here (DEMO) and it’s AWESOME! Great design, unbelievable features and best of all, it’s FREE!
Key facts about the new free tube theme:
- compatible with old tube themes (you can change your old theme for new one fast)
- better, modern design
- completely configurable from admin panel, no need to do anything in the code!
- needs WordPress 3.0+
Some cool stuff about this theme:
- completely settable menus (WordPress 3.0+ style). Add or remove items from top menu with ease. Create drop down menus and more. Super simple, using Menus option in admin panel
- hide or show search bar
- set the text displaying above the videos yourself (such as Latest Videos or Best Videos or whatever you want)
- choose how to sort the posts on home page (random, most discussed, most viewed, top rated)
- choose if you want sidebar left or right!
- connect the site to your social network profiles with a single click
- set favicon directly in your admin menu
- upload your site logo using admin menu, no need to ftp and change code anymore!
- if you don’t have a logo, write your site name and it will be displayed instead of logo, but still looking great
- hide or show header ad
- upload header ad in theme admin menu, no need to code
- hide or show top right menu and choose pages you want to show there
- upload footer ad using theme admin menu
- show or hide footer widget area
- set footer text (such as copyright info) in theme admin menu
- enter Google Analytics code in theme admin menu directly
- use widgets to set all your sidebars and footer spaces
Free WP Tube 4.0
IMPORTANT – Released under Creative Commons Attributions 2.5.
Would you like to remove the author attribution in the footer? Click here, it only costs $15!
Important – read the setup instructions, this new theme contains many features!
Current version is 4.0.1, updated February 17th 2011 (few very small bug fixes)
This post contains information on how to setup Free WP tube 4.
Here are the basics, please follow them:
- Install WordPress and our theme, just like any other theme (we can do that for you for free, click here)
- put the plugins that come with the theme into your plugin directory and enable them
- Start adding videos (posts). Here is how:
- Go to Posts/Add New
- Type the title and text of the post
- Choose the category for the post
- Add the video. Go to Custom Fields area below the post text area
- Add custom field named thumb with value being the URL to your thumbnail (see example in image below)
- Add custom field named video_code and with value being your video embed code (see in example)
- Add custom field named duration, value is video duration (example: 4:55)
- If you want to promote a certain site with this video, you can also add link to that site, using:
- paysite_url – URL of the Pay Site for single page. Example: http://www.google.com
- paysite_title – Title of the Pay Site for single page (you don’t have to set up paysite title and url if you don’t want
Example of how custom fields look like:
In WordPress 3.1+ you need to enable custom fields by clicking on Screen Options menu in top right corner and selecting them. See the image below:
4. Set up the number of posts displayed on front page in Settings/Reading
5. You can setup your your main page and video page sidebars and add ads or any other text in Apperance/Widgets. To ad html code for the Ad, simply use the Text Widget
6. In Apperance/Theme options you have A LOT of things you can customize. Please take a good look at that and read instructions there. The theme is easy to use from here on and incredibly customizable!
7. You can use Apperance/Menus settings to set up top menu. By default if shows categories, but you can set it to show anything you want
8. For top right and bottom menu use Theme Options menu and simple add post numbers you want to display there (example: 2, 24, 54)
9. You can edit how ratings look like (stars ratings on front page and all other pages) in Rating menu, on bottom of your Admin menu. Recommended template for front page is: %RATINGS_IMAGES_VOTE%
10. If you need any more help, please use the contact form on this site.
See the DEMO, it will also help you with easier setup.
