How to Customize Responsive WordPress Themes – Part 2

by Patrick Cohen November 8^th, 2012 6 Responses

Style-sheet organization: where stuff is… or should be, and why.

In this 2nd part of the series on “How to Customize Responsive WordPress Themes”, we’re gonna take a look at the differences between the style-sheets for regular WordPress themes and responsive ones. We’ll also see how they should be structured, and why some theme designers put responsive styles in separate files.

If you’re new to CSS, you may want to bone up before diving into this series. See the end of this article for a few great resources to get you started.

“Classic” non-responsive WordPress theme style-sheets

How to Customize Responsive WordPress Themes - Style-sheet organization

Plugins, Tutorials

Stop WordPress Content Thieves From Stealing Your Content – And Your Bandwidth

by James Dunn November 8^th, 2012 15 Responses

I’m on a lot of marketing email lists, and I actually read a lot of emails. Recently, I received an email from a marketer and began reading the first line of the email. It read, “I didn’t sleep very well last night. No, it wasn’t because of a barking dog, a crying child, or my WordPress website had been hacked.”

WordPress Thief - Image, Content, Video, and Downloads

Tutorials

How to Remove the Login Shake From WordPress

by Sarah Gooding November 5^th, 2012 Leave a comment

If you’ve ever forgotten your password on a WordPress site, then you know that the box with the login form shakes when you enter a wrong password. I personally find this UI experience to be a bit startling and annoying. The red error box seems to be enough to get the message across without a jarring shake:

Here’s how you can remove the action for the javascript that makes the login form shake. Add this code snippet to your theme’s functions.php file:

function my_login_head() {
    remove_action('login_head', 'wp_shake_js', 12);
}
add_action('login_head', 'my_login_head');

Plugins & Theme Tutorials, Themes, Tutorials

How to Customize Responsive WordPress Themes – Part 1

by Patrick Cohen November 3^rd, 2012 9 Responses

How to Customize Responsive WordPress Themes is a new series of articles I’ll be posting at the rate of one every few days. This article is an introduction to the series, which I’ll be updating with links and additional info as subsequent articles go live.

Responsive WordPress themes have taken the design community by storm since their first appearance. For good reason too. With all the awesome advances in mobile communications, and the proliferation of mobile devices, folks are now accessing the web a whole lot more often from their phones than from their computers.

Tutorials

Learn How to Troubleshoot White Screen Errors in WordPress

by Seth Czerepak October 16^th, 2012 3 Responses

White screen errors, or the phenomenon where WordPress ceases to function and outputs only a white screen, can result in some folks doing do-or-die measures to fix it.
What Causes the White Screen Error?
The most frustrating element of the White Screen Error is that there is no error messages at all, just a blank screen. Imagine for a moment going from this…

To this…

Not a pretty picture, right?
So, how does one diagnose a white, blank page?
Here is a brief list of possible causes. I’ll go into the solutions after.

Memory Limit in PHP reached
Bugged Theme*
Plugin Memory Exceeded
Cache Exceeded

Tutorials

Your WordPress Disaster Recovery Plan

by James Dunn October 3^rd, 2012 14 Responses

I didn’t sleep very well last night. No, it wasn’t because of a barking dog, a crying child, or my WordPress website had been hacked. We had a very rough storm roll through – complete with lightning, thunder, a tornado warning, and more rain that we’ve had in a single night in quite a while.

Tutorials

How to Shorten Your WordPress Post Links

by Seth Czerepak September 29^th, 2012 Leave a comment

Need to shorten the links to your WordPress posts?

It’s easy with the free WordPress jetpack plugin

A lot of spammers and malware creators use long links, and I’ve noticed a lower click through rate with long links, probably because of this. Thankfully WordPress has the solution built right into the post editing dashboard.

All you do is click that little “Get shortlink” option, as in this screenshot…

…and you get an instant short link for your WordPress post:

Try it out next time you’re in WordPress

-Enjoy,

Tutorials

How to Get Rid of “Howdy” in WordPress

by Seth Czerepak September 27^th, 2012 Leave a comment

Howdy Pardner!

Tired of seeing that every time you log into your WordPress admin? The WPMU DEV Ultimate Branding plugin let’s you replace that annoying word a custom greeting of your own. Check it out, just go to your WordPress admin menu and select the “Text Change” option under the Branding plugin menu:

Once you’re in there, it’s as easy as the “find and replace” option in MS Word, like this:

That’s not the only thing the WPMU DEV Branding plugin does, you can also use it to completely rebrand WordPress with your company credentials. Check it out below.

WPMU DEV Ultimate Branding

-Best,

BuddyPress, BuddyPress Tutorials, Tutorials

Tutorial: Integrating Thesis and BuddyPress – Part 2

by Craig Grella September 26^th, 2012 24 Responses

In Part 1 of Integrating Thesis and BuddyPress – we covered installing WordPress Multisite (briefly), reviewed the network and site dashboards, and then moved on to a detailed video installation of BuddyPress.

In this article, Part 2 of Integrating Thesis and BuddyPress, we focus on the installation of the Thesis Theme Framework and the Thesis BuddyPress Child Theme.

Right now your site should look like a basic install of WordPress. If you are using the basic Twenty Eleven theme, it probably looks like this:

Tutorials

How to Find and Fix Broken Links on Your WordPress Site

by Seth Czerepak September 23^rd, 2012 2 Responses

Ever wake up a three in the morning in a cold sweat, wondering if your WordPress site has any broken links? Okay, so maybe that’s just me…but seriously, broken outgoing links are bad for your SEO and they’re pretty embarrassing.

You don’t want your readers clicking a link on one of your blogs and seeing this:

“Oops, that page could not be found!”