A much better way to do that would be to use custom fields so you could pull the data in the loop by using get_post_custom or get_post_meta. And to make it even easier on your client you can create your own meta box either by code or using a plugin like verve meta box with … Read more
for the custom background, you’d call add_custom_background, for the cool header image things, it’s add_custom_image_header. You need to hook both those into something like after_setup_theme: <?php add_action( ‘after_setup_theme’, ‘wpse27586_setup_theme’ ); function wpse27586_setup_theme() { add_custom_background(); add_custom_image_header( ‘some_callback_for_front’, ‘some_callback_for_admin’ ); } Add custom image header is more complex than it seems, so take a look in Twenty … Read more
This tutorial gives you a short plugin you can modify to create a “styles” drop down with the “alignleft” and “alignright” classes in it. As a note, just to stay out of WordPress’s way, I might choose a different class or at least something prefixed like me-alignleft.
I think your problem may be similar to this question: How could child theme be different than parent theme if I haven’t made changes? When you activate a child theme (assuming it’s properly setup), you will inherit all of the parent theme’s styles (and usually widgets), but you will not inherit: Menu assignment to theme … Read more
If you want to output the $post->post_content you need to use the_content() function, the_excerpt() function outputs $post->post_excerpt, so if the post doesn’t have content on the excerpt field it doesn’t output nothing. A better solution should be a custom function that first checks for a user defined $post->post_excerpt and second for the $post->post_content and outputs … Read more
I faced that problem in the past, however I remember my problem was the first link didn’t have a class, after some research I solved it working with a structure similar to this one, take a look and let me know if it works 🙂 <ul> <?php wp_list_pages(‘title_li=’); ?> </ul> UPDATED….
What exactly and better will be is to submit the dropdown and check which color is submitted. Based on that particular color chose your css file. e.g. you create 3 css files named as blue-bg.css, green-bg.css and black-bg.css then just put the related colors in those css files. e.g. body { background-color: blue; // same … Read more
In short, it refers to WordPress theme development. Theme development, i.e. the creating, designing and developing of a theme that will be available for the WordPress CMS/platform. Themes can be accessed from the Appearance > Themes menu, and have settled on two niches, free and premium themes. The book you mention, if about ‘wordpress theming’, … Read more
I’ve spent the last month and a half working around the clock on a fairly large scale project based on BuddyPress and WordPress. Very little of the functionality is actually contained in the theme itself. Most of it wound up being broken into at least six different plugins that each serve a slightly different yet … Read more
You can do this by making a child theme. All the information about setting up a child theme can you find here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes