How to Create a WordPress Child Theme
WP Engineer lists advantages and disadvantages of child theme. And how to create one.
Align Ozh’ Admin Drop Down Menu Plugin’s Menu Icons Nicely
Ozh’ Admin Drop Down Menu plugin is a really time saver in admin area. And it unclutters the admin view. There is only one small glitch in menu icon aligning, if you have plugins with their own menus. This can be fixed with small code change though…
Default view
In file adminmenu.css.php line 252, change
padding:5px 1px 0;
to
padding:5px 2px 0 6px;
New view
I tested CSS with Chrome 5, Firefox 3.6 and Safari 5.
Resources for Ozh’ Admin Drop Down Menu
How to Change the Order of WP Review Site Rating Categories
Changing the order of rating categories is a bit tricky and needs database value altering. Copy the value of rs_categories from database table options.
a:4:{i:3;s:32:"Potential Value for Making Money";i:1;s:27:"Works Without Altering Code";i:2;s:18:"Essential Features";i:0;s:14:"Overall Rating";}
Paste the value to text editor and add line feeds after and before brackets and after after every semicolon, as in the example.
a:4:{
i:0;s:14:"Overall Rating";
i:1;s:27:"Works Without Altering Code";
i:2;s:18:"Essential Features";
i:3;s:32:"Potential Value for Making Money";
}
No you can copy and paste lines to put them into the order you like.
a:4:{
i:3;s:32:"Potential Value for Making Money";
i:1;s:27:"Works Without Altering Code";
i:2;s:18:"Essential Features";
i:0;s:14:"Overall Rating";
}
And after that remove all the line feeds, copy and paste the value back to database.
a:4:{i:3;s:32:"Potential Value for Making Money";i:1;s:27:"Works Without Altering Code";i:2;s:18:"Essential Features";i:0;s:14:"Overall Rating";}
That's it, now the order is changed in every place where ratings are showed.
Break Down the Content on Your Website by Using Tags
There are several ways to arrange WordPress website content. By categories, by dates and by tags. Even tagging is one of the most powerful one, it's not always easy or straightforward.
By using tags you have a powerful way to break down the content on your website. This break down can provide different paths to your content for both humans and search engines. This break down becomes more useful to humans if you link words or tags within the main content.
All categorizing methods bring duplicate content problem. You can use Robots Meta plugin for date archives to use “noindex/follow” robots tag. For category pages you can use Thesis theme's functionality, teaser plugin or “more” tag to show only teaser content.
This break down of content is extremely effective for targeted advertising or affiliate links.
[Source Graywolf's SEO Blog – How to Use Tags on Your Blog or Website]How to Add WordPress 3.0 Menu to Thesis 1.7
custom_function.php
function wp3_nav_menu() {
add_theme_support('nav-menus');
wp_nav_menu('fallback_cb=thesis_nav_menu');
}
add_action('thesis_hook_before_header', 'wp3_nav_menu');
remove_action('thesis_hook_before_header', 'thesis_nav_menu');
custom.css
.menu .current-menu-ancestor > a, .menu .current-menu-parent > a { background-color: #F0EEC2; }
.menu .current-menu-item > a { background-color: #FFF; }
How to Setup WordPress
Table of Contents
Let's do a basic setup of WordPress.
WordPress Log In
Log in to your WordPress.
WordPress Dashboard
Welcome to your WordPress site's dashboard! 1) You may change you admin password.
Add New User
Add yourself as a new user, log out and log in with your own username. For security reasons you may disable default admin user. Log out and log in with your new username.
Screen Options
You can adjust Screen Options to choose add or remove Dashboard widgets.
General Settings
Writing Settings
1) Size of the post box: 16 lines
2) There is a debate whether to use one ping service, multiple ping services or none. I would start like under the radar with none. Later on, when my site gets momentum, I could add maybe one or two ping services: http://rpc.pingomatic.com/ or http://ping.feedburner.com/ and http://rpc.blogcatalog.com/.
Reading Settings
Discussion Settings
1) Enable threaded (nested) comments is a nice feature. 2) I don't want to show default graphics.
Media Settings
Privacy Settings
Permalink Settings
1) Either /%postname%/ or /%category%/%postname%/. For time relative blog maybe /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/.
Miscellaneous Settings
Hello World!
How to Install WordPress
Table of Contents
Let's install WordPress by downloading WordPress files from WordPress website, uploading files to your web hosting server and extracting all the files. After these small steps we are ready to setup our WordPress site. If you need some more information, check out the Famous 5-Minute Install Guide for WordPress.
Link to WordPress Download Page
1) Click the Download WordPress link on the front page to go to download page.
WordPress Download Link
1) Click the Download WordPress link on the download page to download the zipped file.
WordPress Zip File
Save WordPress zip file to your disk.
Your Hosting Providers cPanel Account
Go to your hosting providers cPanel account and 1) click File Manager. As a hosting option I prefer HostGator.
cPanel's File Manager
On File Manager page 1) click Upload.
File Manager's Upload Files
On Upload files page 1) click Browse and choose the WordPress zip file from you own computer. We will now upload the file to server.
WordPress Zip File Extract
1) Select WordPress zip file and 2) click Extract.
Extract Location
Choose to extract to /public_html folder and 1) click Extract Files.
Extraction Ready
Zip file extracting takes couple seconds. 1) Click Close.
WordPress Folder
Extractin WordPress zip file puts all the files into /public_html/wordpress folder. You want to move those files to /public_html folder. 1) Double click wordpress folder name to move into that folder.
File Selection
1) Click Select all.
Move Files
Enter /public_html and 1) click Move Files. Now you should have all WordPress file in /public_html folder. You may delete the uploaded zip file.
Install WordPress
We are now ready with copying WordPress files to your server. Open your website and 1) fill in your blog title and 2) e-mail address. 3) You want to allow your blog to appear in search engines unless you are setting up a private blog or a website. 4) Click Install WordPress
Success!
You have now installed WordPress. Next step is to log in and setup WordPress. Remeber to 1) copy the password!
How To AJAXify WordPress Theme
The AJAXify script can be changed easily to fit your WordPress theme.
[Deluxe Blog Tips: How To AJAXify WordPress Theme]How to Add Website Favicons to Your WordPress Comments in 5 Minutes
There's a url you can access on Google.com that will give you the favicon for the requested website.
http://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=www.highmac.com
So to use this in your theme you can place a little function in functions.php:
function bm_getFavion ($url = '') {
if ($url != '') {
$url = parse_url($url);
}
$url = 'http://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=' . $url['host'];
return $url;
}
[Binary Moon: Add Website Favicons to Your WordPress Comments in 5 Minutes]