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. 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? What is a Free WordPress Theme? A free theme is, well, free. What’s the GPL? Creative Commons Free Themes Are Free! Themify
Template Hierarchy Languages: English • Français • Italiano • 日本語 • 한국어 • Русский • Español • Português do Brasil • 中文(简体) • (Add your language) Introduction WordPress Templates fit together like the pieces of a puzzle to generate the web pages on your WordPress site. What this article is about This article seeks to answer the following question: Which template file(s) will WordPress use when it displays a certain type of page? Who might find this useful Since the introduction of Themes in WordPress 1.5, Templates have become more and more configurable. Using Conditional Tags WordPress provides more than one way to match templates to query types. The Template File Hierarchy The General Idea WordPress uses the Query String — information contained within each link on your website — to decide which template or set of templates will be used to display the page. With the exception of the basic index.php template file, Theme developers can choose whether they want to implement a particular template file or not. Examples
The Best Wordpress Plugins Advertisement WordPress is the most widely used and adaptable content management system out there, but you’re probably going to want some plugins to make it just right for your needs. Here, I’ve collated what I think are the best plugins – both from experience, and community recommendations. Performance and Backup WordPress is great – but can be quite slow when faced with lots of traffic. Note: Many of these plugins should only be configured by advanced users – they could potentially break your site, so take care. W3 Total Cache The Swiss Army knife of caching and performance plugins, W3 handles everything from page caching to Content Delivery Networks and file minification. Better WordPress Minify Make no mistake, W3 Total Cache is a behemoth that can seem like it needs an engineering degree to set up correctly. WP SuperCache For simple page caching needs, SuperCache might suffice. CloudFlare Duplicator The only reliable way I’ve found yet to take an entire website from one place to another.
Choisir un thème pour wordpress. Créer son site internet 1ère option: Installer un thème gratuit à partir du back office Dans le back-office de votre WordPress, cliquez sur la section Appearance => Themes, puis sur l’onglet Install Themes. Vous pourrez y effectuer une recherche de thèmes, parmi ceux accessibles directement par le back-office. Tapez simplement, dans le champ près du bouton Search, un mot clé en anglais définissant le type de site que vous créez. Par exemple « portfolio » si vous voulez un thème adapté pour des galleries d’images, ou « business » si vous cherchez un thème prévu pour faire un site d’entreprise, … puis cliquez sur Search. Vous pouvez aussi filtrer les résultats selon les critères proposés (nombre de colonnes, couleurs dominantes, fonctionnalités spéciales (Features), … Vous pouvez prévisualiser un thème en cliquant sur « Preview » sous la colonne décrivant le thème. Cliquez sur « Install » pour installer un thème. 2ème option: Chercher un thème WordPress sur internet et l’importer Les très nombreux (plus de 3000!)
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. 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 You can delete the wp-admin/install.php file as its not needed once WordPress is installed, having it just laying around can leave your blog vulnerable to attack.
Using Action Hooks in WordPress Child Themes In this post we’ll review how to write a PHP function and go over the basic idea of how you can use Action Hooks in your WordPress Theme. We’ll take a look at a practical example of injecting a Welcome Blurb into your Theme without touching the existing code and we’ll also look at how to remove existing content being injected into Theme Hooks. Packing Up A Function Action hooks are in a lot of WordPress Themes nowadays. If you want to get started with them we’re going to have to take a look at how to write a PHP function again. So that’s how you write a PHP function. You’ve seen the same thing before with WordPress functions like wp_list_pages() or the_content(). The Basic Idea Behind Action Hooks A lot of really smart theme developers have started adding what are essentially empty functions to their themes ready to be filled up with stuff. WordPress Themes use a pair of default hooks called wp_head() and wp_footer(). Adding Content To An Action Hook Removing Existing Content From Actions
Designing for WordPress: Complete Series & Downloads Over the last few weeks, I have been been doing a video screencast series on Designing for WordPress. It is a three-part series which covers downloading and installing WordPress on a server all the way to a completed theme. Part One: Download, Install, "Reset" Theme Video PageDirect Video Download (.mov) Part Two: Structure Video PageDirect Video Download (.mov) Part 3: Finishing Touches, Extra Stuff Video PageDirect Video Download (.mov) Download - "Personal Homepage Theme" I figured I might as well call it what it is! I literally designed this for use on my personal site, so you can see it live on chriscoyier.net. Download Theme Note: The orginal Photoshop file is included in the download in a folder called "orig" in the theme folder. In case you don't already know. Share On
PHP Coding Standards | Core Contributor Handbook Some parts of the WordPress code structure for PHP markup are inconsistent in their style. WordPress is working to gradually improve this by helping users maintain a consistent style so the code can become clean and easy to read at a glance. Keep the following points in mind when writing PHP code for WordPress, whether for core programming code, plugins, or themes. The guidelines are similar to Pear standards in many ways, but differ in some key respects. See also: PHP Documentation Standards. Single and Double Quotes # Use single and double quotes when appropriate. Text that goes into attributes should be run through esc_attr() so that single or double quotes do not end the attribute value and invalidate the HTML and cause a security issue. Top ↑ Indentation # Your indentation should always reflect logical structure. Exception: if you have a block of code that would be more readable if things are aligned, use spaces: For associative arrays, values should start on a new line. Brace Style #
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. GoDaddy keeps insisting that the problem is due to outdated WordPress installations, and that staying up to date and site security is the responsibility of the customer, not of GoDaddy.