Do not rely on the codex. Some pages are just a heap of crap and totally useless. The problem with the codex is that everybody with an account on wordpress.org can change and alter the codex as they see fit. I don’t say, Do not use the codex, I’m saying that you need to be … Read more
I would say no, its bad practice to disable it. The simple truth is disabling wpautop pretty much breaks the line spacing in the visual editor, and if your clients are going to want to use the visual editor, which most of them do. Also, Is there any way to fix formatting with disabling wpautop … Read more
Your code does seem ok, so it is hard to guess why are you not getting expected result. One thing to note is that WordPress ships with its own copies of Backbone and Underscore, it is considered a good practice to use its copies in such case. The scripts you don’t “need” are likely coming … Read more
in line 37 of your HTML-Code you have the following declaration: #header-background, #colophon, #site-navigation { background: url(”) no-repeat center center fixed; background-size: cover; -moz-background-size: cover; -o-background-size: cover; -webkit-background-size: cover; } With Firebug I see, this is overwriting your CSS declaration, which states #header-background { background: url(“images/background-reclaimed.jpg”) no-repeat fixed center center rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); display: … Read more
Go with WordPress TwentyFifteen or any other default theme. You don’t have re-invent the wheel, you will save a lot of time.
Based on your text, I’m assuming you changed the logo, pictures, layout, etc. through a “theme options” section in the WP Admin, instead of editing css/js/php files directly? Whenever a theme is updated, typically (though this depends on theme) only the files are changed/overwritten. The types of changes you made are stored in the database … Read more
It all has to do with readability, specifically the width of a line of text. Research shows that text can be read faster when a line contains 95 characters per line versus other common line lengths. Couple this with designers’ love of small type until the last year or so, and you’re stuck with a … Read more
Sounds like there are two parts to your query: 1) Stop the first post from showing the full content, and 2) show the featured image on all the posts. 1) At the moment, the first post is using a different template to the other posts. To make the posts consistent, change this in index.php: get_template_part( … Read more
get_sidebar(‘left’); actually refers to a file, not the sidebar itself. Are you seeing the sidebar in the Admin section? Are you trying to display it on the front end? If the answer to both of these questions are “yes”, then here’s the solution: Create a file called sidebar-left.php. In this file, you will need to … Read more
I decided to work with the creator of the theme, and the problem has been fixed! I did the following: Remove all code from the child theme’s function.php, leaving it empty. Replaced the child theme’s style.css with a copy of the parent theme’s style.css, and replaced the commented bit with the child theme’s commented bit. … Read more