To speak generally, you need to define a sidebar for your theme (sidebars contain widgets) and display that sidebar in your template. In your theme’s functions.php file, register a dynamic sidebar using register_sidebar() Create a sidebar.php file in your theme directory that calls dynamic_sidebar() Make sure your other template files (or header.php/footer.php if that is … Read more
The front-end customization options in self-hosted WordPress are absolute. You can edit whatever you want in PHP/HTML templates and CSS style sheets. While WordPress comes with single theme (“Twenty Ten” at moment) the availability of third party free and paid themes for it is huge. See: Where can I download WordPress themes from? for good … Read more
The function the_posts_navigation() was added in WordPress 4.1.0, and will therefore not be available in version 4.0 (which you’re using). It’s highly advised to keep up to date with the latest version of WordPress anyway for security reasons, so you’d be better off updating to the latest WordPress version.
Back with WordPress 3.4.1 the function next_post_link() did not have – see source – the $taxonomy parameter, so it won’t work, no matter what. IIRC the parameter is available since WP 3.8 or 3.9 – but those are pretty old too. Just to say that very clearly, do NOT use such a old version(s) of … Read more
Well, maybe you shouldn’t set $args[‘posts id’] as this is not a supported argument for the get_posts function and instead use the “posts__in” argument or instead switch to the “get_post” function if you get the id parameter. Also, i’m not quite sure but i think you have to use quotes in the shortcode. So your … Read more
The maximum width of an image displayed in content is not just determined by the image sizes you set or CSS settings, it is also determined by the content width set in functions.php through code similar to the following if ( ! isset( $content_width ) ) { $content_width = 960; } You need to set … Read more
Your page has almost 500 requests and 5mb of data to download – Are you confident with changing the template? Look at a browser console and check all the errors that show. Most of the time, it’s external JS that ruins these kind of experiences – advertising, tracking etc. Try to be conservative with your choices … Read more
You need to either close your php tags before regular html. Or you need to use php to print the html for you.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/fakerpress/ plugin should solve your problem. It populates entire blog with configurable dummy content.
Semantic versioning is better for WordPress. I used 4 digits in one of my plugin versions once and it didn’t play nice. Here’s a page from Make WordPress Core