http://wpthemetips.com Helping you customize your WordPress based website ! Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:21:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I recently found an excellent article, Mastering Your WordPress Theme Hacks and Techniques. It is a must read for people who wants to learn a lot of tips and tricks. Enjoy! http://wpthemetips.com/link-to-an-excellent-wordpress-resource/ This is one of the frequently asked questions in our support forums. I will try to answer this question here so it can benefit everyone. This question is also worded like the following questions. Tag and Category Views Don't Show Images Images and archives How do I expand each individual post for the archive So, ... http://wpthemetips.com/why-my-archive-pages-do-not-show-the-full-content/ 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 ... http://wpthemetips.com/how-to-upgrade-your-wordpress-theme-for-wp-23/ 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 ... http://wpthemetips.com/remember-to-love-hate-links/ 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 ... http://wpthemetips.com/whats-going-on-with-the-feed-links/ 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 ... http://wpthemetips.com/font-sizes-and-accessibility/ 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() ... http://wpthemetips.com/working-with-pages-in-wordpress/ 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 ... http://wpthemetips.com/how-to-properly-hide-the-title-of-your-blog/ [Reposted from one of my other sites] 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. and the thing is, it is not consistently doing so. Sometimes it is ... http://wpthemetips.com/sidebar-drops-down/ 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 ... http://wpthemetips.com/changing-the-direction-of-this-website/