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How to Create a Navigation Menu in WordPress Twenty Ten
A navigation menu provides links to pages, posts, or categories within your WordPress site, or to other sites. No matter what a menu links to, you can define navigation menus on your site through the built-in [more…]
How to Change File Permissions Using Filezilla on Your FTP Site
Every file and folder that exists on your web server has a set of attributions, or permissions, assigned that tells the web server three things about the folder or file. On a very simplistic level, these [more…]
How PHP and MySQL Work Together in WordPress
WordPress uses a PHP/MySQL platform, which provides everything you need to create your own website and publish your own content dynamically, without knowing how to program those pages. In short, all your [more…]
Components of a WordPress Template Tag
A WordPress theme is a collection of WordPress templates made up of WordPress template tags. As the core component of WordPress templates and plugin functions, you need to understand what makes up a template [more…]
How to Program a Basic WordPress PHP File
To make sure you understand the basics of PHP, including how to start and stop PHP within a file, try your hand at a little sample of PHP code. Follow these steps to create a simple HTML web page with [more…]
MySQL Database Structure in WordPress
A lot of new WordPress users are pretty intimidated by the MySQL database, perhaps because it seems to be way above their technical skills or abilities. Truth be told, regular WordPress users — those who [more…]
How to View the Template Files in a WordPress Theme
A WordPress theme, is actually a group of templates that makes up the theme. A WordPress template, is only one of the theme’s template files that contains WordPress template tags. WordPress [more…]
WordPress Theme Template Overview
Creating themes in WordPress requires you to step into the code of the templates. A WordPress theme, in its very basic form, has four main areas that appear in the default theme that comes in every version [more…]
WordPress Theme Templates: Stylesheet Overview
Every WordPress theme includes a style.css file. A browser uses this file, commonly known as the stylesheet, to provide style to the website design, such as font types, colors, and sizes; graphics; icons [more…]
WordPress Theme Templates: Overview of Main Index and The Loop
Your theme is required to have only two files. The first is style.css the other is a Main Index file, known in WordPress as index.php. The index.php file is the first file WordPress tries to load when [more…]
WordPress Theme Templates: Header Overview
A WordPress theme, in its very basic form, has four main areas that appear in the default theme that comes in every version of WordPress. The Header template [more…]
How to Change the Name of a WordPress Category
Upon installation, WordPress gives you one default category named Uncategorized. That category name is pretty generic, so you definitely want to change it to one that’s more specific to you. [more…]
How to Identify a Premium WordPress Theme
Premium WordPress themes provide users with services and support, such as custom design, consulting, and development. Premium themes have become a popular way for talented designers to provide a service [more…]
How to Customize Backgrounds in Twenty Ten WordPress Themes
The WordPress Twenty Ten theme has a built-in custom background feature that allows you to change the background to a different color or use an image for it. [more…]
How to Find, Evaluate, and Install Premium WordPress Themes
Premium WordPress themes are cropping up all over the web, but a handful stand out with quality products and services. iThemes, ThemeGarden.com, and Organic Themes are very stable and have a successful [more…]
How to Edit WordPress Files with FileZilla
You will run into situations where you need to edit certain WordPress files that live on your web server. You can download a WordPress file from your web server, open it, edit it, save it, and then upload [more…]
How to Categorize WordPress Archives
When you create a post on your WordPress site, you can file that post under a category that you specify. This feature makes for a very nifty archiving system in which you and your readers can find articles/posts [more…]
How to Use Tags with WordPress Content
Tagging your WordPress posts with micro-keywords, or tags, helps drill down related content, which is good for search engine optimization (SEO) purposes. Tags on WordPress posts also provide additional [more…]
How to Build WordPress Categories
In WordPress, a category is what you determine to be the main topic of a blog post. Through categories, you can file your blog posts into topics, by subject. To improve your readers’ experiences in navigating [more…]
Using the Internet Explorer Browser with WordPress
Internet Explorer (IE) is by far one of the most popular browsers because it’s part and parcel of all Microsoft Windows operating systems. Over the years, IE has struggled with its reputation of not keeping [more…]
Using the Mozilla Firefox Browser with WordPress
Firefox is the second most popular web browser and has emerged over the years as a solid Internet Explorer (IE) competitor. WordPress Designers and developers tend to prefer Firefox over IE because [more…]
Understanding Cross-Browser Compatibility When Developing WordPress Websites
Cross-browser compatibility is the practice of testing designs across all major browser systems and is important in WordPress web design because you don’t just design websites for yourself, but for an [more…]
Free FTP Programs to Upload and Download WordPress Files
You use File Transfer Protocol (FTP) to perform various tasks, such as uploading and downloading WordPress files, editing WordPress files, and changing WordPress file permissions. The ability to use FTP [more…]
How to Use the WordPress Text Widget
The WordPress Text widget allows you to add text and HTML code into widget areas without editing the theme’s template files. The Text widget is the jack-of-all-trades widget; it allows you to include several [more…]
How to Add the WordPress RSS Widget
The WordPress RSS widget allows you to pull headlines through aggregation from almost any Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feed, including recent headlines from your other WordPress blogs or sites and headlines [more…]
