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Manji FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)

I was originally going to be making a pdf manual with more information in it. When I get around to it I'll be sure to have a massive link on the Manji page, in the meantime this FAQ should answer your pertinent questions.

As a bird. Manji operates under a GPL license. Manji is under a GPL license, which basically means it's open source, and as such you have every right to change ANY part of the code. There is only one section you're not allowed to remove, and that's my copyright notice in the css file, and the GPL license information.Basically I retain my copyright of the original Manji code. All changes you make are your copyright. If you want to include your copyright notice for your changes, then simply append them after/before my copyright notice. I talk about this in a lot more detail here.In my mind Manji comes in various Flavours. The idea is that when you've played around with this template, you get to put your signature on it. Think of it like an artist signing his art after he's done with it. There are a plethora of templates that have 2 or more columns. Manji is one of the few that is a single column design. The idea is for the actual content to take centre stage at this point rather than your 200 links to other sites, and other unrelated information. It's not by accident it's by choice ^_^.Fine ignore me why don't you. Actually the way to do this is fairly simple. Read about it in this post. I do plan on eventually releasing another Flavour with 2 columns.So you've got Wordpress 1.5 running on your system? If that's the case the next step should be as easy as pie. In your FTP manager (I can't live without FileZilla http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/) :

1. Drag and drop the Manji folder you just downloaded into the themes folder (which can be found in wp-content file).
2. Now go to your presentation tab in your control panel. You should be presented with two options, the default theme and the Manji theme. Press the Select button next to the Manji Description.

The structure of the navigation bar at the top is broken down into the following way:

• id=hnav holds the top navigation bar.
• On the left we've got, id=header and this holds the other id=blogtitle. id=header is 300px wide and can be adjusted accordingly, depending on how large your blogtitle actually is.
• On the right all the links are housed in id=hmenu and that is 380px wide.
• Just play around with widths to suit your needs.

This uses Wordpress 1.5's new 'static' page feature. Go to

• Write > Write Page
• In the Page Title dialogue type in Archive
• The scroll down to the Page Options, where you should get a further two options in the scroll down menu other than Default Template.
• One being Archives and the other Links. Choose the Archives template.
• Do the same as above for Links.
• To get the urls of these pages then go to the Manage Pages section.
• To your left is the link to the page(s).