How to Create a WordPress Child Theme (Video) Are you looking to create a child theme in WordPress? Once you learn the WordPress basics, you probably want to learn how to customize your WordPress site. We believe that child themes are a great starting point for anyone looking to customize WordPress themes. In this article, we will show you how to create a child theme in WordPress. Video Tutorial: For those who don’t want to watch the video, you can continue reading the article below. Why You Need to Create a Child Theme? Child themes are considered the best way to customize your WordPress themes.
You can learn more about child themes in our article What is a WordPress Child Theme? Requirements A basic understanding of CSS/HTML is required, so that you can make your own changes. We recommend you to practice on your local development environment. Getting Started Any good WordPress theme can be used as a parent theme. Creating Your First Child Theme Open a text editor like Notepad and paste this code: Customizing Your Child Theme Final Result. WordPress Site Structure and Organization | Learning from Lorelle. This article supports my recent presentation at PDX WordPress Meetup titled “Organizing Your WordPress Site.”
Please note that I’ve included articles from ClarkWP Magazine, the student run and managed site for my Clark College WordPress classes, as reference material throughout this article. Before beginning to structure and organize, or reorganize, your WordPress site, there are some WordPress terms you need to know. Pages In WordPress, the pseudo-static web pages are called Pages with a capital P. Developed for the WordPress 1.5 release, these Pages hold reference material, content outside of the reverse chronological order of the posts. A good way to think of Pages in WordPress is that they hold timeless content. The concept of timeless content maybe confusing, but consider the most common Pages on a site: AboutContactSubscribePoliciesResourcesReferencesSite MapLinks Pages may have subPages. An article that is timeless may or may not be a Page. Is it timeless content? Posts Pageviews. WordPress Site Structure - Don't Let the House Fall Down! - WordPress Building Blocks.
Some people are organizational whizzes. All their paper documents are filed neatly in cabinets, all their virtual documents are in the proper folders, and they can find anything in no time flat. The rest of us? Not so much. But no matter what level your organizational skills are, you need to structure your WordPress site so that readers can easily find what they’re looking for. You wouldn’t expect someone visiting a retail store to paw through teetering piles of mixed goods — sweaters, pants, shoes, books, DVDs and saucepans all stacked helter-skelter on top of each other. On a well structured site, a first-time visitor should be able to find anything he’s looking for within three clicks. Depending on the size and complexity of your site, that can take some serious planning. It’s important to do your planning up front, though, because it will save you a lot of time along the way.
This is a big topic — I could write an entire book about it (and maybe I will). Content Navigation Menus Categories. 60 brilliant WordPress tutorials | WordPress. (Image: © Alexandra Bruel) WordPress is one of the world's most popular publishing platforms. It's highly customisable, very easy to use and it's completely free, making it an obvious choice for anything from a simple blog to an online design portfolio. Because of its enormous popularity, there's a wealth of WordPress portfolio themes available, plus plenty of WordPress tutorials online to help you get to grips with the CMS. But with so much choice, things can often get confusing. To save you time, we've picked 25 brilliant WordPress tutorials from around the web. To help you find the right ones for you, we've grouped them according to skill level: beginner (this page), intermediate and advanced. 01.
Perhaps the most frightening part of getting started with WordPress is the business of actually installing it. 02. 03. Cheat sheets are ideal when you're starting out, and can still prove useful to refer back to when you're more experienced. 04. 05. Next page: Intermediate WordPress tutorials. Site Design and Layout. Languages: English • Español • Bahasa Indonesia • 日本語 • 한국어 • Polski • Русский • ไทย • 中文(简体) • 中文(繁體) • (Add your language) Basics of WordPress Theme Design Theme Design WordPress and CSS CSS - Overview of CSS within WordPress, and list of resources related to CSS and WordPress Know Your Sources - External resources on HTML, PHP, and CSS in general CSS Coding Standards - Best practices for coding CSS CSS Troubleshooting - Examining and debugging CSS Right-to-Left Language Support - Working with RTL text using CSS Themes, Templates, and Customization Using Themes - Best starting point for learning about Themes Templates - Comprehensive list of theme and template resources Plugins - Comprehensive list of plugin resources WordPress Plugins and Customization - Other resources related to customizing WordPress.
How to Hide the WordPress Update Notification To All But Admins. One of the great things about WordPress as an open source project is that the core code is regularly updated with improvements and security patches. Major releases, along with minor security releases, of WordPress are usually shipped two or three times a year. If you have automatic updates turned on, your WordPress install will be updated each time there’s a minor release.
However, you will need to manually update your software for major releases. Whenever there’s a major release available, a notification will display at the top of your admin area, letting you know your version is out-of-date and you need to update the core code. For many people, this nag can be annoying. And if you developer websites for clients, you may want to hide it. After all, who wants to let their clients know their software is old? In today’s Weekend WordPress Project, I’ll show you how to easily hide the update notifications. It’s Important to Update WordPress Hiding the Update Notification. Create your first WordPress Custom Post Type. What is it and What it isn’t Everyone’s talking about them. I asked Chris Coyier from CSS-Tricks what excited him about WP3 and he replied custom post types: “Think of how Tumblr works – how you can publish photos, quotes, links and whatever else.
You could create those same types now with WordPress, and build themes to support and have special styles for them. This is fantastic stuff for building custom sites!” Make sense? Well according to Jane, Chris misinterpreted their goal: “Custom post types aren’t really meant for that use […] Custom post types are great for things that are more or less catalogued: products (in an e-commerce site), listings for a real estate site, etc. Now I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that Chris made a interesting suggestion. Indeed I expect to see WordPress themes cropping up all over the place that mimic the way Tumblr themes look and work. Get your Hands Dirty For our tutorial we’re going to be editing functions.php which is your theme directory. How To Make Your Own Events Listing Using Custom Post Types [Wordpress]
Let’s take a look today at what you could do with them, as well as a quick practical example of how to create an events listing using a Custom Post Type called Event. What Are Custom Post Types? Typically, a WordPress blog consists of three types of content – blog posts, blogroll links, and static pages. Most of us are familiar with the fact that pages should be used for things like about me or contact information, whilst regular posts go to your blog.
But beyond that, what if you want to add another special kind of content that doesn’t really fit into the chronological order of the blog and certainly isn’t static – like events? That’s where custom post types come in. A fairly common request for club or group sites is to have some kind of events calendar. For that purpose, let’s create a new post type called event, which will have it’s own separate section of the admin interface. Create A Custom Post Type In WordPress We’ll do this by adjusting your theme files directly. Extra Homework. Use WordPress Custom Post Types to Add Events to Your Site. One of the more interesting (and useful) features in WordPress is custom post types. As the name suggests, WordPress allows you to define your own post types which are treated just like existing ones (i.e. Posts and Pages). For instance, I was recently developing a site which needed to create and publish events.
After digging around, I found an excellent article by Noel Tock on how to use custom post types to create events. Even though Noel did a great job explaining the concept and laying out the approach, he did leave a couple of things out. How Should Events Work? Before diving into implementation details, let’s first talk about requirements.
Well, first of all, there would be a new category of things in WordPress called Events: Second, there would be an easy way to see what Events have been created (like Posts or Pages): And of course there would be an easy way to add a new event and specify event details like date and location: Ok, But How Do We Do It? 1. 2. Adding Sortable Columns 3. 4. How to Hide Unnecessary Items From WordPress Admin with Adminimize. If you manage a multi-author WordPress blog or WordPress sites for clients, then you may have wondered if it was possible to clean up the WordPress admin area for your users? There are lots of things in the WordPress admin area that your users don’t need to see or use.
In this article, we will show you how to hide unnecessary items from WordPress admin area. Previously we showed you how to hide menu items from WordPress admin sidebar. However, there are many other aspects of the admin area that you may want to change. Like dashboard widgets, admin bar, post edit area, etc. You may also want to deactivate things based on user roles creating different admin interfaces for users with different roles and capabilities on your site. This is when Adminimize comes in. Video Tutorial If you don’t like the video or need more instructions, then continue reading. First thing you need to do is install and activate the Adminimize plugin. Admin Bar Options Remember that you can also hide a sub-item.