- WordPress Tutorials
- Artisteer Tips
- Add Button Class to Widget
- Add Style to Text Widget
- Add a Sidebar in the Header
- Create Custom Post Header
- Create Unique Page Template
- Create Secondary Menu
- Create Styled Donate Button
- Create Widget Style – Part 1
- Create Widget Style – Part 2
- Hide Category Titles
- Styling Featured Image
- Styling Sheet Borders
- Using Theme Options
- Design Tips and Tricks
- Recent Projects
WordPress Basics – Using Theme Options
Due to reader requests, I’m going to do some posts on WordPress basics specifically for those using Artisteer generated themes. If you exported a template using Artisteer Version 3, you’ll be very pleased with the Theme’s Options panel under the Appearance Tab of your Dashboard. You’ll definitely want to make use of this very practical feature as it will save you a lot of time and searching trying to change or edit simple items. Let me share with you some key options you can select there. Continue reading
Adding More Widget Styles to WP Part 2
In my last post, I shared how you can edit the “simple text” widget style of your Artisteer 3 generated WordPress theme. In this post, we’re going to take things a step further, and I’ll show you how you can create as many block styles as desired for your theme. So, let’s get started! Continue reading
Adding More Widget Styles to WP Part 1
If you have upgraded to the newest version of WordPress, you are loving the ability to style your widgets individually. If you are an Artisteer user, and you’ve upgraded to version 3, you have this ability as well. What you may not be able to figure out, though, is how to edit the styling of your widget options. Continue reading
Creating Custom Post Headers
So, you might be wondering how I created the fun, matching post headers that seem to wrap around the page using an Artisteer generated template. It’s very simple to do, and once you learn how, you’ll have a wide variety of options made available to you for not only just post headers. Continue reading
Widget Logic WordPress Plugin
I just realized that I have never really discussed some of the great plugins that I make use of for my theme. So, I will remedy that in several posts by giving you an honest review and information on some of my favorite plugins. WordPress offers some fantastic plugins for free, and I’ll start off with one of my favorite plugins, Widget Logic. Continue reading
Clean and Modern Black and Green WP Theme
I’ve finally gotten around to posting another free theme! This one is a theme I just did for someone, so it’s WP 3.0 compliant. The image below is a screen shot of the working theme, and has the following features:
- Two Column Design
- One Column Page Template also included as a check box option for each page.
- Sidebars include right sidebar, top sidebar, bottom sidebar, and dynamically widgetized footer
- Valid XTML
- Horizontal Menu (works great with new customizable menu found in WP)
- Vertical Menu also available if desired within the theme
- Built in Social Icons
- Built in div for Header Logo or Graphic
Let me show you what you’ll need to know in order to download this theme and edit the Header and personalize your social icons. Continue reading
Two Great WordPress Plugins
As I was working on redesigning theStock411 WordPress blog, I implemented two fantastic WordPress plugins. One of these plugins is WP-Sticky. I’ve known about this plugin for a while, but had never used it. It’s a nice simple way to keep one post at the top of your blog at all times. Now, there are a couple of items to note if you are using this plugin after creating your theme in Artisteer: You must change a tiny bit of php if you want to hide the date. I found a couple of forums that had parts of the following information:
Recent Projects
Well, I’ve been very busy on some projects recently as well as other “life” stuff that have kept me from being able to post as much as I’d like to. I just completed a full WordPress website for a company that I did a WP blog for several months ago. They wanted their whole site transformed and consolidated into one WordPress Site. It was a huge process as I had to set up WordPress in their current hosting location, transfer the old blog over to it, and completely design and add content to their site from top to bottom.
Free Brick Wall WordPress Theme
Here’s a brand new theme with some extra goodies thrown in. It is a widget ready theme that includes a top menu and a fun scrolling brick wall background. Click here to download this theme. Continue reading
Backgrounds, Icons, and Buttons
Well, as you can see if you’ve visited my site before, I’ve just updated the theme again. I like to create new design themes for my own site both for variety as well as to demonstrate some nice Artisteer, Photoshop, and WP tweaking techniques. I’ll list a few of those techniques in this post.
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