I would actually recommend a hybrid approach – take a good theme for showcasing photos and substitute in your YouTube videos. Photo themes give you large portions of screen real estate for imagery, and if you do it right it’s not difficult to substitute an embedded object (i.e. YouTube video) for the images. Some good … Read more
… on my homepage and one other page i dont want to have the sidebar. You can tell WordPress to do not generate sidebar on specific page(s) with simple condition in your page.php file (or other relevant template file). For example the following piece of code will disable sidebar on ‘About Me’ page. <?php if … Read more
You can do exactly that by creating Child Theme. It depends on specifics of theme you want to customize and amount of changes how complex will it be to implement, but it is definitely most solid way to implement customization and preserve update capabilities.
Install wordpress. Get the style.css file from the default theme (at /wp-content/themes/twentyten/style.css). Open that file, you will see it is very well structured and commented. With just a few copy/paste from your current site’s css to this file you will start to see the changes. If after playing with the CSS you feel the need … Read more
If you don’t want to develop/maintain your own Theme, then yes: choose an existing Theme, and make modifications to it via Child Theme. If, on the other hand, you are comfortable with developing/maintaining your own Theme, then either create a new Theme, or make a derivative of an existing Theme. Since, as you state, you … Read more
This looks flawed: add_theme_support( ‘post-thumbnails’, array( ‘post’ ) ); add_theme_support( ‘post-thumbnails’, array( ‘page’ ) ); Do you see the post thumbnail box on pages? If so, you have just overwritten the support on posts with the second declaration. Better: add_theme_support( ‘post-thumbnails’, array( ‘post’, ‘page’ ) );
Assuming this array for example usage: $options = array( “name” => __(‘Font’,’mytheme’), “desc” => __(‘Change the font face)’,’mytheme’), “id” => “mytheme_font”, “std” => array(‘size’ => ’10px’, ‘face’ => ‘Arial’, ‘color’ => ‘#000000’), “type” => “text”, ); For question 1, to reference nested arrays, just reference them directly. echo $options[‘std’][‘size’]; In the form input, if using … Read more
Refer to the Template Hierarchy in Codex. If you have assigned a static front page, the template that will take priority for that page is front-page.php, and the template for the posts (blog) page is home.php.
Shot in the dark here, but… It is entirely possible the plugin with the do_action definition is hooked before the theme is processed. Find out where the do_action is defined, and find out when it is being hooked. You might need to hook to the function that the do_action definition is hooked too, and THEN … Read more
List of possibilities You got exactly two options to alter the output of wp_list_categories() Use a filter after the MarkUp was generated and re-format it: add_filter( ‘wp_list_categories’, ‘wpse88292_reformat_list_cats’, 10, 2 ); function wpse88292_reformat_list_cats( $output, $args ) { // Reformat `$output` here // You can use `$args` to only this when condition X == Y return … Read more