The beautiful thing of WordPress (In my opinion) is that you can make almost any website and only have to make a theme and or plugin(s). You can change a theme, delete things, extend etc. Or you can make a child theme, leaving the original theme intact and overwriting default behavior in a different place. … Read more
For plugins it is: $plugin_url = plugin_dir_url( __FILE__ ); This works even if wp-content is on a separate domain. You may get problems if your class is in a subdirectory of the plugin – you should probably make the __FILE__ a parameter for a function: public function get_plugin_url( $base = __FILE__ ) { return plugin_dir_url( … Read more
On line 367 of style.css you need to change .mcolumn-pad { padding-top: 2em; } to .mcolumn-pad { padding-top: 2em; background: #FFF; }
Looking at your code, I don’t see anything obviously wrong, but using Safari’s inspector, it becomes clear that the footer DIV is not invoking the #footer CSS rule. Not clear why. If the header div and footer div have the same styling, you can simplify your code by using one set of styles: #header, #footer … Read more
for the widget html, don’t forget to update/change the code of register_sidebar() in functions.php of your theme: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_sidebar
You should try the following plugin: WP Fluid Images. It removes the fixed width and height of image tags.
The WordPress editor shouldn’t be pulling in the themes CSS files unless you have a file that is named editor-style.css. You can either use the editor-style.css and simply place it in your themes root directory, add certain styles to the stylesheet (not all the theme div and id tags will apply to the WordPress Editor). … Read more
In answer (im not a theme developer) so please improve this answer In WordPress 3.4 the Theme Customiser was introduced for example in Twenty Eleven theme you have a colour wheel. Have a look at Otto’s write up on how to leverage Theme Customiser http://ottopress.com/2012/how-to-leverage-the-theme-customizer-in-your-own-themes/
Use PHP modulo operator (%) to determine the classes and use CSS to float them all left and set clear:right to the odd class. Kind of hard to picture how you’re pulling the images without the code though. Could you post a clip of the code you used to pull the images? If not you … Read more
I can’t really speak to best practice, since I’m relatively new to WordPress (~1 year). But I am a website developer and I have been hacking around various widgets trying to make them behave the way I want. Here are my top 4 irritations: widgets/plugins that don’t use wp_enqueue_style(). How can I get rid of … Read more