themes

Template messed up on viewing posts

Viewing your pagesource and clicking on your first style sheet link brings up this error: <html> <head> <title>Not Found</title> </head> <body> <h1>Apache server with mod_pagespeed</h1> OK <hr> NOT FOUND:http://mikewills.me/blog/links-for-2011-02-24/ wp-content/themes/richardshepherd-TwentyTenFive-a8f2860 /style.css.pagespeed.ce.pAcUzu9T3K.css </body> </html> So it looks like your (cached?) stylesheet isn’t where you think it is or your apache module isn’t configured correctly.

Most wp_nav_menu parameters ignored

The reason for your not being able to use before and after is because when you’re calling wp_nav_menu() with a default fallback of wp_page_menu(), which does not have a before and after arguments. Refer to line 171: http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/3.2.1/wp-includes/nav-menu-template.php#L137 Apparently the menu you are trying to get does not exist (has no items) the !$menu is … Read more

Calling external Libraries in WordPress

In your functions.php add this code function load_custom_script() { wp_deregister_script(‘jquery’); wp_register_script(‘jquery’, ‘https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.6.2/jquery.min.js’, false, ‘1.6.2’); wp_enqueue_script(‘jquery’); wp_register_script(‘jquery.flexslider’, get_bloginfo(‘template_directory’).’/jquery.flexslider-min.js’, array(‘jquery’)); wp_enqueue_script(‘jquery.flexslider’); } function load_custom_style() { wp_register_style(‘flexslider’, get_bloginfo(‘template_url’).’/flexslider.css’, array(), ”); wp_enqueue_style(‘flexslider’); } add_action(‘wp_print_scripts’, ‘load_custom_script’); add_action(‘wp_print_styles’, ‘load_custom_style’); Do not forget to remove your code <script src=”https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.6.2/jquery.min.js”></script> <link rel=”stylesheet” href=”<?php echo get_bloginfo(‘template_directory’); ?>/flexslider.css” type=”text/css” media=”screen” /> <script src=”<?php echo get_bloginfo(‘template_directory’); … Read more

simplified explanation on child themes?

You are correct. The child theme would over-ride the parent theme’s loop.php if you made changes. As for a simple tutorial I did a simple Google search, after a quick overview this one seems pretty simple: http://op111.net/53/. Just in case you haven’t been there, here is the WordPress Codex Page.

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