Wordpress Tips and Tricks
Find out how to tweak your Wordpress Site to suit your needs!
What are you offering people when they come to your website? If it’s just a pretty design, then you have failed! Trust me, I LOVE designing beautiful websites, but what I love even more is to help a client come… Continue reading
Some of you who followed my instructions on how to add a widgetized area to your header may only want the widgetized area in a part of your header instead of covering the entire area. You may be especially frustrated… Continue reading
Do you want to highlight the content of a text widget so that it appears differently than other widgets or text within your sidebar? Try creating your own class for the widget, and see how quickly you can make your site stand out from that standard “template” look of other Artisteer generated themes. Continue reading
In working on a new WordPress theme design for a client, I wanted to incorporate a slider on the home page to display images that would link to specific pages/posts of the website. I wanted it to be simple and user friendly as well as customizable including some nice transition effects. The plugin I went with is Meteor Slides, and I LOVE it! It works great with Artisteer generated themes, and here are some more specs on this simple, yet effective plugin. Continue reading
Based on some frequent customer questions, I thought I’d do a quick post on basic reminders for posting. Most of these are from people who are having trouble with the preview or final publish showing up differently then what they added. Here are a few of the most common mistakes. Continue reading
I just recently launched a complete redesign for China Food Services. By complete, I mean a total and complete transfer from just a standard html based site to a full WordPress CMS including content transfer, content editing, site organization and consultation, social networking, layout and design, and plugin and media installation. Continue reading
Have you been wondering how to remove the default one pixel border around the featured image thumbnail? While I love that you can edit the size and proportions of the thumbnail easily now within the Theme’s Options Panel (located under the Appearance Tab of your Dashboard), there was no hint as to where the styling for these images might be located. After editing all of the various .img classes in the css, I finally began digging around in the functions.php and found that Artisteer actually assigns the avatar class to the post thumbnail (not avatar img which is also in the css, but just avatar!) I’m pleased to now be able to very easily edit the appearance of the thumbnail image, and I’m going to show you how you can as well. Continue reading
I actually like the way that Artisteer gives you the options to feature the category title along with your category description in the upper left hand corner of the sheet. However, not everyone wants that title to appear and some… Continue reading