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How to Create Page Views Using WordPress Templates
A static WordPress page contains content that doesn’t appear on your blog page, but rather as a separate page within your site. You can have numerous static pages on your WordPress site, and each page [more…]
How to Create Sidebar Templates on Your WordPress Website
You can create separate sidebar templates for different pages of your WordPress site by using a simple include statement in your code. When you write an include statement, you’re telling WordPress that [more…]
How to Create Content Types for Your WordPress Website
A new feature in WordPress (new as of version 3.0) is a feature called custom post types. This feature allows you, the site owner, to create different content types for your WordPress site that give you [more…]
How to Install WordPress Plugins
Users love WordPress not only because it’s a great program for web publishing, but also because it’s free and support is free. And everyone loves all the free plugins that enhance WordPress blogs and websites [more…]
Advanced Configuration for the WordPress WP Super Cache Plugin
The popular WordPress plugin — WP Super Cache — requires advanced configuration. That is, this isn’t a “set it and forget it” type of plugin. To use this WordPress plugin, you need to perform additional [more…]
Installing and Configuring the WordPress.com Stats Plugin
The WordPress.com Stats plugin provides fairly comprehensive statistics about your website traffic, such as the number of visits, where your visitors are coming from and what content they are viewing on [more…]
Setting Up a Test Site to Test Your WordPress.com Plugins
Because WordPress changes so often, it is useful to create a test site on which you can install and run the WordPress software and plugins to test them before applying them to your live website. If you [more…]
Where to Find Technical Support for WordPress Plugins
Everyone who uses plugins on their WordPress website or blog has had this happen at some point: They find the perfect plugin but have no idea how to use it. What can you do when you can’t figure out how [more…]
How to Install WordPress Plugins Manually
It is not often that you will need to install a WordPress plugin manually because WordPress makes it so easy to install plugins through the Dashboard. However, in case you need to, the mechanics of downloading [more…]
How to Find and Install Free WordPress Themes
Free WordPress themes found in the Free Themes Directory are easy to install and use. These appealing themes are great tools for launching new sites, and you can customize themes with Cascading Style Sheets [more…]
How to Apply the Twenty Ten Theme in WordPress
The default theme in WordPress, Twenty Ten lets new users apply a clean-looking theme that utilizes many of the built-in display features standard to a basic WordPress install. These display features include [more…]
How to Upload Header Images in Twenty Ten WordPress Themes
The WordPress Twenty Ten theme’s custom header feature enables you to choose a photograph or personally designed image as your custom header image. Rather than choosing one of nine header images provided [more…]
How to Create a One-Column Page with Twenty Ten WordPress Theme
With the Twenty Ten WordPress theme, it’s easy to apply a one-column layout when you add pages. On your WordPress site, a one-column page layout might be useful for product sales pages, e-mail subscription [more…]
Why Should I Use the WordPress Twenty Ten Theme?
Bundled with every WordPress installation is the default Twenty Ten theme. Because the Twenty Ten theme is the default theme, it’s worth your while to explore its features before you decide on the theme [more…]
Comparing WordPress Page and Category Templates
Using page and category templates in WordPress, you can provide a different type of reader experience by defining the style with Cascading Style Sheets [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 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…]
