WordPress Themes Tips and Tricks

I upgraded most of my popular themes to make sure they work with the latest WordPress release 2.3.
but there are people who have customized the theme so much, that they do not want to upgrade their theme with my latest version.
They want to know what exactly I changed for making theme WordPress 2.3 compatible.
The new […]

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Ever wondered how to define styles for Hyperlinks ?
Well. There are four different selectors for a hyperlink.
You would normally see this at the top of the stylesheet.
a:link {text-decoration:none;color:#ff0000}
a:visited {text-decoration:none;color:#0000ff;}
a:hover {text-decoration:underline;}
a:active {text-decoration:underline;}
The first line defines that normal unvisited links will have ‘no underline’, and will look ‘red’ in color.
The second line says when a link is […]

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With the latest wordpress, the default theme has feed: attached to the normal feed links that start with http://yourwebsite.com/feed/ .
Most of the users complain that when you click on that, it does not work.
Yes, It wont work till all the browser manufacturers support that.
what is it anyway ?
Have you seen a mailto: added to links […]

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Lets take a closer look at the font-size property in CSS.
You might have seen this following piece of code in some theme’s style.css file.
#content h2 { font-size:1.4em;}
or this
#content h2 { font-size:14px;}
or this
#content h2 { font-size:10pt;}
What is the difference between all of these ? which one is better ?
In reality, […]

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WordPress allows you to create ‘Pages’ within the wordpress blog.
Anytime you want to write something like an about page / a contact page / an article page, you would use this feature.
Most of our themes displays a list of pages as navigational elements at the top. We use the wp_list_pages() method, so any new page […]

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This is one of the most common customizations that people want to do in their wordpress blog.
They want to hide their site’s title from displaying at their header. It is most probably because their header image already has it as part of the image itself.
Lets take a look at the most common approaches people take, […]

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Lets take a look at one of the most common problems with the wordpress sites.

The sidebar does not stay on the side, and it falls down to be below the content area.

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I was not able to sit and complete the book that I am supposed to be writing. I know “it will never be complete”.
If I take 3 months to write this book, then the next version of WordPress will be released and I might have to rewrite the whole thing [or at least some portions […]

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