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…
One of the popular free themes on the WordPress.org repository, is Matheson, by Bavotasan. The customization features offered by this nice, clean theme, are powered by the WordPress Customizer, therefore they can be easily implemented and previewed in real time as they’re being made. One WordPress.org forum question that came up asked how to center…
Depending on the URL of the page you’re visiting, WordPress creates a Query. This is how WordPress talks to the database to get the information that gets displayed on the page. For instance, if you’re on the blog page, WordPress creates a query that asks the database for the ten latest posts. Again, if you…
I enjoy browsing web design and WordPress forum posts. I always come across interesting questions, problems to solve, points of view to discuss. As I answer a few of them, I always learn something, sometimes about the topic, at other times about interacting with forum users. Here’s a quick video that I made as I…
In this short video I answer a WordPress user who wanted to set up an online shop using the free Virtue Theme by Kadence Themes. Here are her requirements: Name of the Shop page: Store.Drop-down menu containing 4 categories with subcategories, and the products assigned to the subcategories.Store page displaying 4 thumbnails of the corresponding…