This is indeed something that you need to make a specific page template for. Just CSS won’t do the trick because you need to add a function to your functions.php file (in your theme or child-theme folder) to display the excerpt. You could do something like this: add_action( ‘wp’ , ‘add_excerpt’, 20); function add_excerpt() { … Read more
Go to Dashboard -> Appearance -> Customize Click on “Theme Options” Now you can see your page sections that the second one is your first page that is repeated. Click on pencil icon at the top left of the unwanted section. Then on the list at the left you can see the name of your … Read more
The way I do it is create multiple layout files, add the option to choose which one to use on the template options panel: layout-left.php layout-right.php layout-both.php Then on the index page you setup if layout X is chosen, load X layout. This is an example using the option tree plugin theme options: <?php get_header(); … Read more
Under the license it says: “Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.” This is talking about the license itself. You can’t take a GPL theme, modify it then announce it’s under the OMGWTFBBQ license. It has to remain GPL, hence the term copyleft … Read more
Hire a developer or purchase a customizable theme. I don’t get the impression that the answer you are looking for can be easily and clearly stated in a brief manner. You are going to need crash courses in Custom Post Types and The Loop, which are basically what makes wordpress what it is (which is … Read more
Heavily edited from the above link How to Harden your Word Press if you’re a server admin Bear in mind I am not an expert on Word Press nor even a user of it: you will probably not be able to automatically self update word press (which is by default a massive security issue since … Read more
Technically WordPress theme is combination of PHP, HTML, CSS and JS (or some subset of these). There isn’t such thing as WP theme editor, but any editor or IDE that is good for such combination will do. It depends on your personal preferences, operating system and if you want free or paid solution. See this … Read more
The reason why your code isn’t working is because bloginfo() echoes the data where get_bloginfo() doesn’t. So dirname() isn’t really used. Using stylesheet_directory is better though since that won’t need the dirname() call at all. You could also use the wrapper get_stylesheet_directory_uri() which adheres to the filter stylesheet_directory_uri. This is your code corrected: <script type=”text/javascript” … Read more
Your theme’s stylesheet must contain a commented-out header with the theme’s name: /*Theme Name: nameoftheme*/
Theme demos, especially commercial ones, do not display out-of-the-box state of it. They are hand crafted and fine-tuned setups designed to sell (or at least convince for free ones). The official set of content that is typically used for quickly reviewing, evaluating and testing theme is called Theme Unit Test data. There are also unofficial … Read more