Nowadays, having an online presence, be it to make one’s business or one’s views go viral, is a decision that more and more people have made or have been making as I write. Once made, however, what’s the next step? How would you go about making the move to the World Wide Web? A choice…
If you’re a first-time blogger or your small business is about to move its first online steps, then it makes sense to think about using a free WordPress theme to build your website. Everybody is happy to grab free stuff, however a nagging thought might still lurk in the recesses of our mind: where’s the…
One of the most common tasks for anyone who sets out to personalize a template or a theme is adding images that reflect the site’s content, business, brand, or even set the tone and emotional context for the web page. How you add photos can make or break a website. What could be easier, one…
WordPress themes nowadays are awesome when it comes to offering the user options to make modifications straight from the admin panel, without even having to see a line of HTML, CSS, or PHP code. You’d love a full-width layout instead of the usual sidebar? You like the sidebar, but you want to move it from…
In this post I’m going to show you a great web developer tool called Firebug. Who is not a web developer or a web designer by profession, might not have heard of this free, all-important Mozilla Firefox browser extension. For those who are not afraid of casting a glance on some bit of HTML or…
If you’ve just downloaded a HTML template or a WordPress theme, it’s most likely that changing the color on some of its elements or changing the entire color scheme is on your to-do list. It looks like a simple enough task, but it can bring disastrous consequences for the success of a website when done…
I regularly participate in WordPress.org forums to help out fellow WordPress users with all sorts of issues that crop up as they develop their WordPress websites. It’s a great place to hang out and it’s my way of giving back to the awesome WordPress community. It’s doing so that gave me the idea of setting…
In a previous post, How to Display a Banner Only on Posts from a Category in WordPress, I showed a simple technique for achieving just this. In short, the steps I took involved making a copy of single.php from the parent theme over to the child theme, and adding a snippet of code. The code…
There certainly is a lot of imaginative stuff you can do to add subtle personal touches to a WordPress theme. My Tonal Child theme, that I created in a previous post called How To Create a WordPress Child Theme, is beautiful in its minimalism and simplicity. However, one thing that I thought could personalize it…
More often than not changing fonts, colors and images to your WordPress theme is all it takes to make it look unique and reflect your own brand. If you’re familiar with coding, it’s fun to do it yourself, I quite love it. However, for those who have no sympathy for any coding whatsoever, or have…