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Fonts for Your WordPress Website
Selecting the right fonts that you want to use in your WordPress website is an important part of branding an online identity, so knowing where to find the right fonts and tools to help you make the right [more…]
How to Find Web-Safe Fonts for Your WordPress Content
Web-safe fonts are fonts available on a reader’s computer system. Get to know the common fonts that exist within all operating systems to ensure each reader views your website as intended. The concept [more…]
How to Plant Keywords in Your WordPress Site with Permalinks
For higher rankings for your WordPress website, use custom permalinks with keywords. By using custom permalinks, you automatically insert keywords into the URLs of your posts and pages, letting search [more…]
How to Find and Install Fonts for Graphic Design
On your WordPress website, you're not limited to the types of fonts you can use in graphic design. Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of fonts are available on the web. After you find the font that [more…]
Corel PaintShop Photo Pro in WordPress Design
Corel PaintShop Photo Pro is one of the two most common raster-based graphic software programs used by WordPress designers. These programs have vector capabilities, but they aren’t known as vector-editing [more…]
How to Create New WordPress Categories
As your WordPress blog grows, you can add new categories, the main topic of a blog post. You aren’t limited in the number of categories and subcategories you can create in your WordPress blog. Today, tomorrow [more…]
Raster and Vector Images in WordPress Design
As a WordPress graphic designer, you’ll work with two types of graphics, raster and vector. As a WordPress web designer, you’ll work with raster images and possibly vector images. The software program [more…]
Image File Formats Used in WordPress Design
In WordPress design, you need to understand the types of image file formats you will work with for designing on the web. The images, whether photos or logos, you save and use on your WordPress website [more…]
Adobe Photoshop in WordPress Design
Adobe Photoshop is one of the two most common raster-based graphic software programs used by WordPress designers. These programs have vector capabilities, but they aren’t known as vector-editing programs [more…]
How to Customize WordPress Permalinks
Each WordPress blog post is assigned its own web page, and the address (or URL) of that page is a permalink. Posts that you see in WordPress blogs usually have the post permalink in four typical areas: [more…]
Helpful Tools for Creating WordPress Website Color Schemes
You can find tools to help you create just the right color scheme for your WordPress website without spending a lot of time creating different color schemes by using online color wheels and choosing colors [more…]
How to Remove WordPress Template Files
WordPress themes can be customized to tweak the design, add new features, or modify the theme structure, including the template files. Overriding a template file in the parent theme is one possible modification [more…]
Modify the WordPress Theme Functions File
WordPress child themes, or a subset of instructions based on the parent theme, can provide a theme functions file, or a functions.php file, like they can provide template files. Unlike template files, [more…]
How to Customize a Child Theme in WordPress
You can use a theme exactly as the author released it (called a parent theme), but you can also create customized child themes in WordPress. In this example we are using Twenty Ten on a WordPress site, [more…]
Images in WordPress Child Theme Designs
Images used in WordPress designs typically are added to the images directory inside the theme. Child themes can have their own images directory, just as a parent theme may refer to images in its [more…]
Child Themes in WordPress
A WordPress theme consists of a collection of template files, stylesheets, images, and JavaScript files. Creating child themes allows you to upgrade customized versions of themes with new features when [more…]
Modify WordPress Theme Structure with Child Themes
Modifying the template files of a WordPress parent theme to create child template files allows you to achieve a level of control where it is possible to add new content, modify the underlying site structure [more…]
WordPress Website Navigation Options
Website navigation through a menu of links (navigation menu) provides visitors with a way to locate the pages of your WordPress site. A well-crafted navigation menu helps to ensure that your readers won’t [more…]
Options for Displaying Content on a WordPress Site
The type of content displayed on your WordPress website plays an important factor in its design and layout. With a WordPress-powered website, content can be displayed in several ways, such as: [more…]
WordPress Site Design in a Sandbox Environment
A sandbox environment is a critical tool for designing a WordPress website. A sandbox allows you to design and test different website layouts and methods of content delivery before launching the site live [more…]
Column Layout Design for WordPress Websites
Choosing the number of columns for page layout is a critical decision in WordPress website design. The more columns in a site's design and layout, the skinnier those columns need to be to fully display [more…]
Test WordPress Designs in a Sandbox Environment
A sandbox is a neutral environment in which a designer can test different web layouts and content delivery designs before launching a WordPress website live on a client’s hosted domain. [more…]
Transfer Files to a Live WordPress Site with BackupBuddy
You use the BackupBuddy plugin to move a client's WordPress website from its temporary hosting environment (sandbox) to its permanent one. Website designers often test their WordPress designs in a sandbox [more…]
How to Install WordPress
Before creating a WordPress website, be sure you have the latest version of WordPress installed on your web server and know how to upgrade it when WordPress releases a new version of its software, which [more…]
WordPress Links (Bookmarks) Template Tag
WordPress themes use a combination of template tags to display certain types of content, such as links (or bookmarks), blog posts, navigation menus, page content, archive links, and so on. Take a look [more…]
