Featured images, am I missing something?

As mentioned by @Michael in his answer the theme has to support the Post Thumbnail functionality. All you need to do for it is to put this line into the theme’s function.php file: add_theme_support( ‘post-thumbnails’ ); There’s a good chance it’s there already, so search first. Now you only need to output the image somehow. … Read more

Using twitter bootstrap in a theme

Almost. Put the bootstrap stuff in your theme, and include it on the front end using wp_enqueue_style and wp_enqueue_script in functions.php e.g. for the bootstrap js: function my_scripts_method() { wp_enqueue_script( ‘bootstrap-js’, get_template_directory_uri() . ‘/js/bootstrap.min.js’, array(‘jquery’) ); } add_action(‘wp_enqueue_scripts’, ‘my_scripts_method’); And for bootstrap.css: add_action( ‘wp_enqueue_scripts’, ‘prefix_add_my_stylesheet’ ); function prefix_add_my_stylesheet() { // Respects SSL, Style.css is relative … Read more

Updating / Transferring site

Well you can export all your existing content from Tools -> Export -> All Content save the xml file and import it into your new wordpress. Test it on your localhost first so you can make sure that all of your content is imported.

Change the name of the root name of an already built WordPress theme

You should never use <link> tags for stylesheets. Always use the proper API functions: Better practice Example: function wpse57423_register_stylesheets() { wp_enqueue_style( “themes_main_stylesheet’ get_stylesheet_directory_uri().”/style.css” array() // Use this array if you’ve deps that need to load before your stylesheet filemtime( get_stylesheet_directory().”/style.css” ) ); } function wpse57423_enqueue_stylesheets() { wp_enqueue_style( ‘themes_main_stylesheet’ ); } // Add to public page … Read more

Can I use wordpress themes without wordpress?

/wp-content/themes/twenty-twelve/style.css will have a lot of the visual elements of the theme in it to get inspiration, however you must realise that each of the elements coded into the css is designed to go with each one of the div or other elements designed in wordpress… Back coding it will almost be harder than writing … Read more

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