Daily Tip: New WordPress Debugging Plugin Displays Template File Info
March 30, 2012 Check out this cool new debugging plugin that will show you what template file you’re viewing on any given WordPress page.
Daily Tip: New Free Blog Theme Matches Multisite Blogs to BuddyPress
Bowe Frankema of BP-Tricks.com has released a free theme for Multisite communities that are running BuddyPress. It’s a matching member blog theme based on the BP-Default theme. If you’ve ever customized the BuddyPress default theme, then you know that it [...]
How to Create a WordPress Child Theme in 3 Steps
When creating a theme for your WordPress site, one of the most important ways to ensure that you can receive regular updates is to learn how to use parent and child themes. Child theme support has been greatly improved with [...]
Top 12 Premium WordPress Themes for Design Lovers
Are you searching for a premium WordPress template that will highlight your content with a clean, beautiful design? We’ve selected 12 of newest WordPress themes that will appeal to design lovers everywhere. These themes provide stark, stunning contrast for your [...]
Daily Tip: How to Exclude Pages from the WordPress Page Menu
Excluding pages from a menu generated by wp_list_pages() is easy. You don’t have to add another plugin to the pile in order to do it. This is a handy snippet that you’ll use over and over again. Simply add this [...]
Daily Tip: WordPress 3.0 Template File Hierarchy Cheat Sheet
WordPress 3.0 templates have gotten a few changes. The Digging Into WordPress book has a handy resource for keeping track of which template file WordPress will use. Check out the full-size template cheat sheet and read more info about how [...]
Daily Tip: How to Enable Custom Backgrounds for WordPress 3.0 Themes
Enabling custom backgrounds is probably one of the easiest things you can do to improve a WordPress theme that you’re building or customizing. It takes one small addition to your theme’s functions.php file: add_custom_background(); Save that and you’ll get Backgrounds [...]
Easy Guide to Displaying Custom Post Types in Your WordPress Theme
WordPress 3.0 offers the exciting new world of custom post types, giving you the ability to manage and present content with fine-grained control. Creating custom post types is the easy part, but how do you get them to show up [...]
Daily Tip: Simplify Comment Templates in WordPress 3.0 With the New Comments Tag
WordPress 3.0 has a new standard comment form tag that you should know about. Whereas previously the code for outputting a comment form was much longer, now you have this: <?php comment_form(); ?> This will give you a simple comments [...]
How to Create a WordPress Theme: 15 Essential Resources
Whether you’re customizing a theme, creating one based on a framework, or starting from scratch, you’ll probably need a few references along the way to remember everything that needs to go into a WordPress theme, not to mention adding advanced [...]
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