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Protecting Your Customisations
If you have customised the WordPress default theme, all of your changes will be over-written the next time you upgrade WordPress. So you need to protect them now by creating your own custom theme.
Using FTP (or whatever file management tool you have available), download the wp-content/themes/default folder to your machine.
Rename the downloaded folder…
Adding A Sidebar To Every Page
Within the WordPress Administration area, navigate to Appearance / Editor.
Select single.php and change:
<div id=”content” class=”widecolumn” role=”main”>
to
<div id=”content” class=”narrowcolumn”>
Then change:
<?php get_footer(); ?>
to:
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>
Repeat the last 2 steps for archives.php, links.php & image.php
What Will You Need?
First of all, you need to decide whether you’ll be running a web site or a blog that invites comments and discussion. Whilst most themes will work as well for a blog as they do on a basic, no discussion, site, you don’t want to find out that your comment display options…
You’ve got a problem and need help finding an answer. Or you want to make changes to your theme. Or you’re a coder looking for a fresh viewpoint on a template that you’re developing.
Who are you going to turn to?
The WordPress Support Forums.
But your chances of getting an answer will be significantly improved if you…
Something has gone seriously wrong with your blog. You may have recently updated to the latest version of WordPress, upgraded, or installed, a new plugin or switched themes.
How do you start to track down and fix the problem?
