Some things are, of course, hardcoded. This is the way themes work. Of course, having php knowledge and Wordpress understanding it would be easy for you to tweak ioni2 for your liking, but for most common users things like php are.. well.. less the understandable.

Please review the attached picture – it shows the appropriate areas i refer to in this article.

So the first page has several blocks that are hardcoded and some that may be tweaked. The difference of ioni2, from why it is so popular – is that most of things you can tweak, are located in Wordpress Admin menu, ioni2 under Design tab.

You may want to add your own Google Leaderboard code – to change that lovely advertising spot that is taken by ioni2 advertisment at this stage. Just log into your Google Adsense account and grab your code from Adsense panel and put it into the appropriate box. Make sure that this is Leaderboard code, ioni2 does not check for the right AdSense code, so in case you mix things up the page may look funny!

Speaking of Adsence it may be a good idea to grab, cut and paste the Big Square code as well – under the 336 X 280 px. This is the Ad that is shown on the first page.

You may choose as much categories for the top menu as you wish – however note the aesthetics of the theme – ioni2 may support two and more lines of top category menus – but it is better if Categories are in one line. So you may pick them up in ioni2 Admin Panel.

The same goes for Featured Categories. Whatever the markings are on the plugins page, ioni2 uses its own Featured Category picker – in ioni2 admin panel. You may choose as much as you want – ioni2 support currently 3 Featured themes (in general order)

The two sidebars – left and right, are dynamic; you may add code there via Wordpress Widget panel; But again, consider the aesthetics!