Liberation is the latest News- magazine type of wordPress theme from web2feel.com. This is a widgetized 3 column theme with a magazine layout for the home page. Theme holds a featured post section in which posts from a featured category is displayed in a tabbed content style. a The home page displays latest posts and posts from specific categories. Theme also comes with a customizable “about us section” , Twitter widget, Featured video etc. There is a screencast explaining the setup process of the theme.

On many of mine or other magazine type of WordPress themes, you would see the homepage displaying blocks of post excerpts. These excerpts are generated using the template tag <?php the_excerpt(); ?> By default this template tag returns the first 55 words of the post’s content. This teaser is generated only if you have not specified any custom excerpt from your post editor section. But what if you want to display more than 55 words on your excerpts? Simple, just add the following code to your theme function.php file. It will return first 100 words of post’s content. function new_excerpt_length($length)  [ Read More ]