Beginner's Guide for WordPress
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 »
If you work on WordPress themes on a regular basis, then it is probably best to familiarize yourself with these default WordPress generated CSS cheat sheet. Recently while working on a custom theme project, we found a need to customize certain items based on different… Read More »
Recently, we got an email from a user asking: How do you add the byline (post author, post published date, and category) below your post title on WPBeginner. These post information bylines are referred to as post meta data in WordPress. In this article, we… Read More »
You know what makes your website’s design stand out? Attention to details. One of these details that caught our attention on Brian Gardner’s (@bgardner) website was the way his default text selection color matched his design color scheme rather than being the default blue color.… Read More »
Recently one of our users reported an issue with their theme. They had a share button on all pages including the archive pages. However, the taxonomy archive page share buttons were showing the information of the most recent post instead of the actual taxonomy archive.… Read More »
Recently while working on a custom design project, we found a need to add some custom styling to our WordPress navigation menu items. This design in particular required different styling for the first menu item and the last menu item. Now we could easily go… Read More »
Google Web fonts are amazing free resource for web designers. In WPBv4, we have started using a popular Google Font combination: Oswald and Lora. Some of our users have asked us how to add Google Web fonts in WordPress themes. If you remember, we showed… Read More »
The best part about WordPress is plugins. Theme designers also have a tendency of using WordPress plugins for adding cool features. When working on a custom WordPress theme project for a client, one thing you want to make sure is follow the best practice. Yesterday,… Read More »
Often when designing a WordPress theme, designers choose to have different styling for odd/even comments. Recently while working on a design, we decided to have different styling for odd/even posts. To do this, we needed to add an odd/even class to appropriate posts. Sadly, this… Read More »
Recently one of our users ran into the issue of having duplicate post while developing a custom theme. What he was trying to do was show the most recent post on the homepage, and then show a list of random posts in a separate loop… Read More »
