WordPress Theme: Neonsential

Neonsential WordPress theme brings out the grungy yet elegant look to your blog. This premium quality free WordPress theme has a fancy custom homepage slider which highlights your featured posts. It is WordPress 3.0 compliant which is packed with a robust framework for easier backend customization.
Neonsential WordPress comes with a featured content section, subscription buttons (Twitter, Facebook and RSS), automatic thumbnail resizer, popular posts, featured posts, featured video and a lot more!
Built by Padd Solutions, Neonsential WP theme 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 the other theme features:

• Compatible with WordPress version 3.0


• Featured Content


• Dropdown Categories Menu


• Spread the articles via Social bookmarks (Delicious, Digg, Newsvine, RSS, Stumbleupon, Technorati, Twitter)


• Related Posts


• Better Comment System


• Separation of Comments and Trackbacks


• SEO optimized


• Automatic Thumbnail Resizer (without using a custom field)


• Popular Posts


• Featured Photos


• Featured Video


• Google Analytics code integration


• Built-in Page Navigation


• Advertisement Blocks Ready


• Gravatar Enabled

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Installation:

1. Install neonsential folder at /wp-content/themes/


2. Activate Neonsential 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

• FlickRSS


• Regenerate Thumbnails


• WordPress Popular Posts

Customizing Neonsential Options:

1. Go to Appearance > Neonsential Options
   
   
   
   
   • General Settings
   
   
   • Page Tracker Settings
   
   
   • Social Networking Settings
   
   
   • Related Posts Settings
   
   
   • Page Navigation Settings
   
   
   • Custom Ads Settings
   
   
   
   


2. Then Save Settings.

Additional Customization:

• Setting the Featured Thumbnail:
  
  
  
  
  1. Go to the post
  
  
  2. At the bottom right part of the post page (below “Post Tags”) set the “Featured Image” (with at least width: 420px and height: 170px)
  
  
  3. Save or Update Post.
  
  
  
  


• Setting the DropDown Menus:
  
  
  
  1. Go to Appearance > Menus
  
  
  2. Drag and drop the menus you want to appear in the main menu
  
  
  3. Save Menu.
  
  
  
  


• Changing the Logo:
  
  
  
  1. Use the site-name.psd found at the /images folder.
  
  
  2. Edit it using your favorite graphics application.
  
  
  3. Save as site-name.png and upload it at the /wp-content/themes/neonsential/images folder.
  
  
  
  


• Using FlickRSS:
  
  
  
  1. Go to FlickRSS settings
  
  
  2. Display: “6 – user”
  
  
  3. User ID: Manual.
  
  
  4. Save Settings.
  
  
  
  

Requirements:

WordPress 3.0+

Host server with PHP5+

Source : Padd Solution

Source: http://jetisweb.blogspot.com/2010/08/wordpress-theme-neonsential.html