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How to Display Round Gravatar Images in WordPress

Round Gravatar Images

Recently, we showed you how to style your comments layout and how to style your comment form. One of our users emailed us and asked “how did you make your gravatar images round? Are you storing gravatar images locally to get them to be round?”… Read More »

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May 13, 2013
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How to Style Your WordPress Comments Layout

How to Style the WordPress Comments Layout

Recently we showed you how to style the WordPress comment form, and we thought it would be incomplete if we did not write about styling WordPress comments layout. In the past, we have discussed that there are default WordPress generated CSS classes and IDs to… Read More »

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May 9, 2013
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How to Add Numeric Pagination in Your WordPress Theme

Numeric Pagination

One of our readers recently asked us how do we add numeric pagination on the WPBeginner blog page. Default WordPress themes and many other themes display pagination links by adding Older posts and Newer Posts links at the bottom of your WordPress archive pages. However,… Read More »

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May 1, 2013
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How to Style WordPress Comment Form

Styling your comment form using WordPress generated CSS classes

Comments play a crucial role in building a community around your websites. Comments provide an interaction platform for your readers where they can share their thoughts and have a reason to come back. Here at WPBeginner, we have fostered great relationships with several users that… Read More »

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Mar 27, 2013
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How to Add Menu Descriptions in Your WordPress Themes

Menu Descriptions

WordPress menu system has a built-in feature where you can add descriptions with menu items. However, this feature is hidden by default. Even when enabled, displaying them is not supported without adding some code. Most themes are not designed with menu-item descriptions in mind. In… Read More »

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Feb 13, 2013
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How to Dynamically Change the oEmbed Width and Height in WordPress

Dynamic oEmbed Width and Height

In our earlier article, we showed you how to set oEmbed max width in WordPress 3.5 using $content_width. That is a perfectly good solution for changing the oEmbed max width and height, but that change is global. In a recent project, we wanted to have… Read More »

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Dec 19, 2012
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How to Set oEmbed Max Width in WordPress 3.5 with $content_width

oEmbed Max Width

Today, we saw the release of WordPress 3.5 which came with tons of amazing features. As we upgraded one site after another, we noticed an issue on one of the sites we manage. The embedded video size were changed, and the embedded videos were a… Read More »

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Dec 11, 2012
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How to Fix the Sidebar Below Content Error in WordPress

Sidebar Below Content

Recently one of our users asked us the question: how to fix the sidebar below content error in WordPress. This is not the first time, we have gotten this question, so we decided to write a post about it. In this article, we will show… Read More »

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Nov 21, 2012
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How to Add Tooltip Testimonials in WordPress Themes

Tooltip Testimonials

In the past, we have shown you how to add rotating testimonials in WordPress. While creating the new landing page for WPBeginner WordPress Videos, we took inspiration from something that we have seen StudioPress doing for some time. That is displaying testimonials in a tooltip… Read More »

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Oct 17, 2012
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WordPress Body Class 101: Tips and Tricks for Theme Designers

WordPress Body Class

Through out our experience of using WordPress, we have found that often theme designers overthink a certain functionality. They are looking for crazy WordPress filters and hooks to accomplish a task when all they need is some simple CSS. WordPress by default generates a lot… Read More »

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Oct 10, 2012
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