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Customising The Default WordPress Theme: 2

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

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…

Customising The Default WordPress Theme: 1

Posted on October 3, 2009 at 11:03 pm in
WordPress Default Theme

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

Using WordPress Support Forums

Posted on September 4, 2009 at 1:38 pm in
WordPress support

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…

Basic WordPress Troubleshooting

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

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?

No Dates On Some WordPress Posts

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

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?

WordPress Theme Development

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