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Customising The Default WordPress Theme: 2

Posted on Sunday, October 4th, 2009 at 12:03 pm in

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…

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Customising The Default WordPress Theme: 1

Posted on Saturday, October 3rd, 2009 at 11:03 pm in

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

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Using WordPress Support Forums

Posted on Friday, September 4th, 2009 at 1:38 pm in

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…

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Basic WordPress Troubleshooting

Posted on Friday, September 4th, 2009 at 11:15 am in

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?

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No Dates On Some WordPress Posts

Posted on Wednesday, August 26th, 2009 at 8:31 pm in

If I make two posts on the same day, the older post doesn’t show a date whilst the new post does. Is there any way I can make the date show up on both posts?

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