If you are not using hot_start this are steps you need to make to enable all theme features:

1. Create category named Featured -posts from this category will be displayed in pages with home template

2. Create tag Hide title  use it to hide post titles

4. Create tag Hide author  use it to hide post author

5. Create tag Hide creation date  use it to hide post create date

6. Create tag Hide modified date  use it to hide post last modification date

7. Create tag Hide comments  use it to hide particular post comments explicitly

8. To control bound of text displaued as excerpt (post preview) put this in post content <more>, that will make post text in category view displayed omitted from that special flag.

9. Use widget-control plugin we deliver with our templates (modifyed version of Widget Context plugin by Kaspars Dambis, http://konstruktors.com/blog/) , to select links where your widgets will be displayed. Also you can add widget suffix. Every widget container begins like this <div class=widget widget_sidebarslug >. , by adding siffix you get :    <div class=widgetsuffix widget_sidebarslug >. We have built in feature if you want to change style of some widget then you can add "-style1","-style2" or "-style3" in suffix field. Is on you imagination how you will use this. For example you can assign css class to widget by adding suffix like this:   myCssClass.

10. To use Mega Menu, go to  Appearance->Menues, create menu with name "mega" and add items as you want, then to to Appearance->Widgets , add custom menu widget to position User 3 , select "mega" from drop-down list and save.

11. To use Hot Menu, go to  Appearance->Menues, create menu with name "nav" and add items as you want, then to to Appearance->Widgets , add custom menu widget to position User 3 , select "nav" from drop-down list and save.