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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
We’re going to be starting a series on innovative ways to use jQuery with WordPress and BuddyPress. Before starting we should look at a couple of basics. The first foundational item you will need in order to start adding jQuery [...]
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