When you are writing a post you have to go to Custom Fields and insert a new one.

The Key is Thumbnail and the Value is the URL for you picture.

The thumbnail will automatically resize to the perfect size but try to don’t use pictures too big to keep the good quality.

How to insert Video Posts ?

Once again when you are writing a post you have to go to Custom Fields and insert a new one.

The Key is Video and the Value is the URL for you video. For example to insert this video from youtube, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivdhpdqCQAA&feature=dir , you must go to embedded area where you have this code:

<object width=”425″ height=”355″><param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/ivdhpdqCQAA&hl=en”></param><param name=”wmode” value=”transparent”></param><embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/ivdhpdqCQAA&hl=en” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” wmode=”transparent” width=”425″ height=”355″></embed></object>

http://www.youtube.com/v/ivdhpdqCQAA is the URL that you have to intert, is the value for the key Video.

How to insert a featured post ?

You have to go to your Magazine Theme Control Panel in Admin Area and fill the categories area (insert the category id + category name).

These categories will in the bar of important categories, this one:

The first four categories will automatically be the featured categories. So you just have to publish a post in on of these categories and it will be considered as featured.