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Log In. Why You Should Never Search For Free WordPress Themes in Google or Anywhere Else | WordPress News at WPMU.org. There are so many free WordPress themes out there it can put your head in a tail spin. So in an effort to help you sift through the good and the – let’s face it – crap, we’ve put together this ultimate guide to free WordPress themes. This post is your one-stop, all-you-can-eat resource for information about free WordPress Themes. There’s an overwhelming number of free themes available – just search Google. It’s easy enough to just download the first free theme that catches your eye. And why wouldn’t you? They’re free! Why should you fork out your hard-earned cash for a premium themes when there are thousands, if not tens of thousands, available for free? And you’re right. But like most things that are too good to be true, free themes come with a catch.

Stick around, but in this very comprehensive look at free themes, I’ll let you in on everything you need to know about free themes and where you can find safe and reliable options. In this post we’ll cover: What is a Free WordPress Theme? Child Themes. Languages: বাংলা • English • Italiano • 日本語 • 한국어 • Español • Nederlands • Français • Português do Brasil • Русский • Slovenčina • ไทย • 中文(简体) • 中文(繁體) • Македонски • (Add your language) A child theme is a theme that inherits the functionality and styling of another theme, called the parent theme. Child themes are the recommended way of modifying an existing theme. Why use a Child Theme? There are a few reasons why you would want to use a child theme: If you modify a theme directly and it is updated, then your modifications may be lost.

By using a child theme you will ensure that your modifications are preserved. Using a child theme can speed up development time. How to Create a Child Theme Creating a Child Theme from an Unmodified Parent Theme A child theme consists of at least one directory (the child theme directory) and two files (style.css and functions.php), which you will need to create: The child theme directory style.css functions.php A couple things to note: <? Template Files <? WordPress Security Hacks and Tricks | WPZine. Following on from my recently article about WordPress security plugins there are a number of ways you can shore up your security by using a few choice snippets and hacks. Please do ensure you backup before making any changes to your files, the .htaccess if broken can cause your blog to stop working completely!

Login Name The WordPress default is “admin” which basically leaves the hacker just needing to workout your password, don’t make it easy for them! Keep Your Install Up To Date By keeping your WP install up to date you ensure all the last patches and fixes are installed thus any known exploits will not work on your blog. It takes 2 minutes, just get it done. Delete Files Sounds simple but many people leave in the readme.html files in the root folder, delete this as the readme.html file has the version number of your WordPress install within.

Delete Install File Use A Strong Password Protect Your wp-config.php File Block wp- Folders From Everyone Remove The WordPress Version Conclusion. Hosting With GoDaddy? Might Want To Rethink That Decision. | Smackdown! Posted on May 13th, 2010 at 10:04 am by Michael VanDeMar under blogthropology, coding, customer service, Wordpress, WTF One of the services I offer people is cleaning their WordPress installations of hacks and infections, mostly for those who might not have the time or technical expertise to follow my hacked WordPress cleaning guide. Therefore when something happens that increases the number of people getting hacked, such as when a new exploit is discovered, or a security hole in a large host starts getting exploited (like what happened with Network Solutions last month), I get an increase in the number of people requesting help cleaning things up.

This month it started happening with a large number of GoDaddy customers. GoDaddy.com did send out a notification to customers affected by this issue. Although I know you would prefer not to be linked, I want to avoid flooding the forum. One client I had was having issues with funky characters in his posts. Bob Parsons, I am sorry. How to Create a Theme Development Environment for a Live WordPress Site – Inspect Element. 11th January, 2010 Tom Kenny Tutorials Any good website owner knows that they need to be constantly looking at ways to improve their site even through small little tweaks. If you’re using WordPress you’ll notice that it isn’t easy to create a development version without creating a separate installation.

Of course, you can make changes directly on a live WordPress site but that isn’t recommended for anything other than minor tweaks. With the help of an excellent plugin for WordPress called Theme switch and preview, this tutorial will allow you to easily switch between the live site and development versions using two different themes on the same installation of WordPress. We’ll do this by creating a bar at the top of the page which will clearly show you if you’re viewing the live theme (what everyone else sees) or the development theme with a link to switch between the two. Step 1: Install Theme Switcher WordPress Plugin Step 2: Create a Copy of the Current Theme <? <? <? Additional Styling. WordPress : 10+ life saving SQL queries - CatsWhoCode.com. How to execute SQL queries For those who don’t know yet, SQL queries have to be executed within the MySQL command line interpreter or a web interface such as the popular PhpMyAdmin.

Since we’re going to work on WordPress, you should note that the SQL Executionner plugin provides an easy-to-use interface that allows you to run SQL queries directly on your WordPress blog dashboard. Although all the queries from this article have been tested, don’t forget that you shouldn’t test any of those on a production blog. Also, make sure that you always have a working database backup. Manually change your password It may sound like the thing that only happens to others but forgetting a password can happen to any of us. UPDATE 'wp_users' SET 'user_pass' = MD5('PASSWORD') WHERE 'user_login' ='admin' LIMIT 1; Source : Transfer posts from one user to another UPDATE wp_posts SET post_author=NEW_AUTHOR_ID WHERE post_author=OLD_AUTHOR_ID;

How To Optimize Wordpress | WPZine. Site optimization regardless of platform will always be of some benefit to your site, Google recently decided to penalize sites that were slow loading, which will do no favors for SEO and SERPs. It makes sense to keep your database tidy, cache files and data if possible and reduce image sizes for example. Here are a selection of plugins that should speed up your page loads and speed things up a little in general. WP-Optimize WP-Optimize will cleanup the database of your WordPress install without having to use a database management software. WP Cache This plugin caches your pages and storing them in a static file, this means pageloads are much faster as well as the response time of your blog.

Wp Total Cache Total Cache caches all aspects of your WordPress install, which improves server performance, reduces download times, decreases page load times and has a positive impact on your Google Page Speed. WP Super Cache DB Cache WP CSS Plugin OptimizeDB Google XML Sitemaps WP Smush It That’s it! So you want to create WordPress themes huh? How To Create WordPress Themes From Scratch part 3b » Themetation. July 17th, 2008 by kailoon under Tips continue from part 3. You still can refer to this link when you are doing it. Let’s continue then. Sections that we will cover in this chapter: Implementation page.php A page template that we use to create pages. Single.php Single.php used to display the single post with the comment and respond section. Comments.php Comments section to display all the comments in a single post. Right after this, there is the comment form which we do not do much about it. archives.php, links.php archives and links are both just page template to display the content.

Search.php, searchform.php Search.php is to display the search result while the searchform.php only contain the searchform that we used. below is the searchform. function.php We use it to define the function we need in our theme. Image.php This is a new file since wordpress 2.5. Conclusion and spread the news! Well, after a long tutorial. WordPress Theme Development Tools. Update: We’ve created a second edition of this article, with updated code samples and coverage of the latest theme development techniques. Check it out at WordPress Theme Development Tools. It’s part of The ThemeShaper WordPress Theme Tutorial: 2nd Edition. Before we get started building any WordPress Theme we’re going to need to get our development tools in place.

In this post, we’ll run through the best of the best and build ourselves a cross-platform WordPress Theme test environment that would do a professional Theme developer proud. A Local Test Server: XAMP or MAMP The best place to develop your custom WordPress Theme is off the web, on your home computer. Installing these separate server programs can be technically challenging but luckily for us there are a couple of free programs that will install and manage all this for us.

If you’re on a Windows computer you’ll want to try out XAMP. If you’re running a Mac you’ll want to download MAMP. WordPress Dummy Content A Text Editor Firefox.