12. Jan 2012: This installation guide will be slightly updated in a few days to match the latest version of the theme!
You just purchased WyntonMagazine and want to make a quick start? Thanks to the themes optionspage, setting up WyntonMagazine for the first time is pretty easy. Here I explain it step-by-step.
Download, Unpack and Upload
After you downloaded and unpacked the zip-archive, you have a folder called PRiNZ_WyntonMagazine_pro. This folder contains two more folders, the readme files in English and German and a logo.
Now take only the folder wyntonmagazine-pro not the whole PRiNZ_WyntonMagazine_pro folder and upload it to your WordPress themes folder which is normally located at /wp-content/themes in your servers WordPress installation. If you upload the whole unpacked PRiNZ_WyntonMagazine_pro folder you might encounter several issues (like “missing stylesheet”). You will need an FTP program to do this.
Do NOT use the WordPress theme installation functionality for that. The installation functionality tries to upload the whole zip-archive and will create errors.
Setup the Theme Options
Now go to your WordPress admin and open the themes options under Appearance > Branfordmagazine Options.
At this options page you need to make some settings to make the theme work properly. To be very explicit on that: The theme works, there are no known bugs or major issues. If something doesn´t work double check if your settings are correct. In most cases it´s a users failure and not a themes issue. That´s the truth 
Setup the Header
Choose if you like to use a Logo or your Blogname and Description in the Header. By default the Logo is used. You can change the Logo in the “Header” Section of your WordPress Administration (WordPress 3.0 or higher required).
Setup Pages and Categories Menue
Here you can exclude pages and categories from the main horizontal menue bars on top of the page. Enter the IDs of the pages and categories you want to EXCLUDE from the top menue bar. Enter the IDs separated by comma. If you don´t know how to find the IDs, have a look at this tutorial. If you don´t enter any IDs, every page and every category will be displayed here.
Categories that don´t contain any posts will never be displayed. So if you can´t see a specific category you should check if there is already at least one post in that category.
You can also specify if you want the pages- or category menubar to display or not. And you can tell the theme to use a WordPress custom menu instead or additionally. If you want to use the WordPress custom menu (Introduced in WordPress 3.0) you need to set it up under Appearance > Menus.
Setup the Leadarticle
The leadarticle is the most recent newsarticle displayed in the top-left area of the homepage. You need to define the ID of the category you want do show here. It makes sense to create for example a “news” category and use it for the leadarticles only. If there is no article assigned to this category, nothing can be displayed.
Setup the featured Articles
The featured articles are the articles (three by default) on the right side of the Leadarticle of the homepage. They are taken from one specific category, typicallly the same as the Leadarticle. By default it´s the second, third and fourth article of this category. The offset value (1 by default) defines the order in which the articles appear. “1″ means not the first but the second article of the specified category appears. That makes sense if you display the first article as the leadarticle and the second, third and fourth as featured articles. And remember: If there is no article assigned to this category, nothing can be displayed.
Setup the homepage bottom columns
In the lower area of the homepage three columns (left, center, right) with different categories are displayed. Here you can define which ones. In every column you can define as many different categories and number of posts per category as you like.
Setup the Image Dimensions
Here you can define the dimensions (width and height in pixels) of the various images on the homepage and the archive pages. This is a very powerful feature that allows you to change the image dimensions whenever you like. Thanks to the TimThumb image script all images are croped and scaled “on the fly” and can be changed as often as you like. Imagehandling has never been so easy.
Setup the 3-colum page template
The 3-column page is a special template to display content from three different categories in a very prominent way. Take a look at the demo and see how it can look like. All relevant settings can be made here. See the tutorial to this template for more details.
Setup the Footer
Choose if you like to use the alternative Footer. You will get an additional 4-column widgetized area on the bottom of the page that you can use for various purposes.
Google AdSense and Analytics Code
Here you can put your Google AdSense code for the Leaderboard advert on the homepage and the code for Google Analytics (or another tracking code). If you leave that empty just nothing will be displayed.
Troubleshooting
Installation Error
Do NOT use the WordPress theme installation functionality to install your theme. Always use FTP to transfer the theme files to your server. The installation functionality tries to upload the whole zip-archive and will create errors.
No Categories
Make sure you use correct category IDs otherwise you will see “no categories” where you expect the name of a category (e.g featured articles)
Images do not show up
If you have issues displaying the image thumbnails on the homepage have a look at this tutorial that shows you how to use images. Another tutorial which can be found here, deals with potential issues with the image handling script. Don´t worry: there is a solution in 99,9% of all cases.
No articles appear
The reason why no articles appear for example in the lead article area is because you have no articles in that category. Once you write an article it will apear. So always make sure your categories have articles.
It´s quite a good helper to write e.g. 3 testarticles and assign them to each category. That gives you a good overview how it works.