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Finding and Installing WordPress Plugins via the Dashboard
You can install a plugin in your WordPress blog using the built-in plugins feature. The auto-installation of plugins from within your WordPress Dashboard works only for plugins that are included in the [more…]
How to Upload New WordPress Plugins
In earlier versions of WordPress, you needed to upload the unpacked plugin files to your web server via FTP. Now, all you need to do is upload the zip file you just downloaded from the WordPress Plugin [more…]
How to Choose a WordPress.com Premium Theme
Commercial, or premium, WordPress themes have become a very popular way for talented designers to provide a service they are very passionate about (designing themes) while making a little money for their [more…]
The Basics of WordPress Themes
A WordPress theme is a collection of WordPress templates made up of WordPress template tags. Theme refers to a group of templates that makes up the theme. [more…]
The Anatomy of a WordPress Template Tag
Before starting to play around with template tags in your WordPress templates, it’s important to understand what makes up a template tag, and why. WordPress is based in PHP [more…]
The WordPress Header Template
The Header template is the starting point for every WordPress theme because it tells web browsers the following: the title of your blog, the location of the CSS, the RSS feed URL, the blog URL, and the [more…]
The WordPress Main Index Template
The WordPress Main Index template drags your blog posts out of the MySQL database and inserts them into your site. This template is to your blog what the dance floor is to a nightclub — where all the action [more…]
The WordPress Sidebar and Footer Templates
The Sidebar and Footer templates are two of four main templates in WordPress. The difference between a template and a theme can cause confusion. Templates [more…]
How to Change Fonts on Your WordPress Blog
You can change the fonts in your WordPress theme for style or readability. Design experts can use simple font variations to achieve amazing design results. You can use fonts to separate headlines from [more…]
How to Create a WordPress Child Theme
Almost every WordPress theme can be used as a parent theme (or main theme) and allows for the creation of a child theme, or a subset of instructions, to override its files. This structure ensures that [more…]
How to Modify WordPress Theme Structure with Child Themes
A talented CSS developer can use a child theme in WordPress to modify the stylesheet of an existing theme. This feature is tremendously powerful. However, this is just the beginning of the power of child [more…]
How to Uninstall WordPress.com Plugins
What happens if you install and activate a WordPress plugin and then at some point decide that it just isn’t what you want? Don’t worry — you aren’t stuck forever with a plugin that you don’t want. WordPress [more…]
How to Upgrade Your WordPress Plugins
For a lot of reasons, mainly security reasons and feature updates, always use the most up-to-date versions of the plugins in your WordPress blog. With everything you have to do every day, how can you possibly [more…]
How to Use the Plugins Included with WordPress
WordPress packages two plugins with the installation files: Akismet and Hello Dolly. Akismet is an essential plugin. Hello Dolly isn't necessary to make your blog run smoothly, but it adds some extra fun [more…]
How to Activate WordPress.com Themes
When you have uploaded a WordPress theme to your web server, you can activate it by logging on to your WordPress Dashboard and following these simple steps: [more…]
Finding Free Themes for WordPress
WordPress comes packaged with one very useful default theme called Twenty Eleven (named after the year it was released in version 3.2 of WordPress). Most bloggers who use WordPress usually don’t waste [more…]
How to Avoid Unsafe WordPress Themes
Unsafe themes in WordPress are developed by people who are looking to take advantage of the blog owners who use them. These particular themes are not allowed in the official WordPress Free Themes Directory [more…]
Choose a Free WordPress Theme for Your Blog
You can download and use free WordPress themes on your website at absolutely no cost. It’s a courtesy to include a link to the designer in the footer of your blog — but you can even remove that link if [more…]
How to Install a WordPress Theme
The WordPress platform gives you an easy way to browse the Free Themes Directory to find, preview, and install themes on your site without ever leaving the comfort of the WordPress Dashboard. The following [more…]
