How to use one theme for multiple WordPress sites?

Your best bet is setting up your own WordPress plugin server and deploying your theme to that — then install the plugin that interacts with that server on all of your sites and hey, presto! You’ve got yourself a custom theme which updates through the native interface! And you save yourself a whole lotta trouble … Read more

Is it possible to create child themes using the WordPress Dashboard?

You will achieve this in two steps: uploading minimal files at yourdomain.com/wp-admin/themes.php editing child theme at yourdomain.com/wp-admin/theme-editor.php The theme that you upload to your site via the admin console must contain three files. They will end up in your server’s filesystem like this: /wp-content/themes/parentname-child/functions.php /wp-content/themes/parentname-child/screenshot.png /wp-content/themes/parentname-child/style.css When uploading, functions.php can be empty, but style.css must … Read more

Unable to upload/install any WordPress themes

This problem most notably occurs on systems running PHP4. If you can, upgrade your server to PHP5 (if you’re on a hosted server, there’s usually a setting in cPanel or whatever administrative tool you have to switch from PHP4 to PHP5).

WordPress use of @ in core files

The @ in header comments is the PHP Documentor meta data style. This syntax allow you to specify different kind of information: package and subpackage with @package and @subpackage allow you to define what is the context for the current file (used for PHP 5.3 namespaces like in the Java syntax) author with @author, copyright … Read more

Loading Bootstrap with wp_enqueue_style and wp_enqueue_script

Here you go.. function xobamax_resources() { wp_enqueue_style(‘bootstrap’, get_template_directory_uri() . ‘css/bootstrap.min.css’); wp_enqueue_style(‘style’, get_stylesheet_uri()); wp_enqueue_script( ‘bootstrap-js’, ‘https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.4/js/bootstrap.min.js’, array(‘jquery’), ‘3.3.4’, true ); } add_action(‘wp_enqueue_scripts’, ‘xobamax_resources’); I have added the CDN version, You can replace that with your local copy. I want to suggest you to read more about wp_enqueue_script()

Should I implement my own custom theme

I’ve been building themes for 4 years and from my experience build the design provided by your graphical designer from scratch would be better solution. It helps you understanding the whole structure of your theme. Also modifying existing theme to suit your new design can take longer time, since you’re required to learn the basic … Read more

GPL and intellectual or exclusive ownership

I don’t understand your concern with this clause. Just because you have a license to use a copyrighted work does not mean that you have a claim of ownership or exclusive usage of that work. The copyright holder of a work is the owner of that work. The entire basis of the GPL relies on … Read more