Even though WordPress was originally conceived as a platform for bloggers, over the consequent years it has evolved into the limitless multi-purpose CMS we have today. It is this versatility that has resulted in the release of a stream of themes that are packed full of every conceivable layout, web UI elements, and of course, options pages that allow you to design your site without ever touching a line of code.WordPress themes for writers and authors help you showcase...
About A shortcode is a WordPress-specific code that lets you do nifty things with very little effort. Shortcodes can embed files or create objects that would normally require lots of complicated, ugly code in just one line. Overview Magee Shortcodes is WordPress plugin that provides a pack of shortcodes. With Magee Shortcodes, you can easily create accordion, buttons, boxes, columns, social and much more. They allow you to create so many different page layouts. You could quickly and easily built your...
This tutorial isn’t going to cover how to create a beautiful menu, but rather how to create the base CSS code that you will need in order to make one that is beautiful, and also functional. We will be creating a pure CSS multi-level drop down menu system. One of the primary goals is too also write our CSS such that it works with the default WordPress pages menu (displayed when a user hasn’t created a menu yet) and...
A WordPress theme should generate pages that everyone can use — including those who cannot see or use a mouse. The default WordPress theme generates content in a fairly accessible manner but, if you are a theme developer, you need to maintain these accessibility standards in your own theme. Although web accessibility can be a complex subject, it boils down to only four principles — that content must be: Perceivable Content must be available to all — no matter...
In this article, we will show you how to style WordPress themes comment form and take it to the next level by adding social logins, subscribe to comments, and more. Changing Comment Form Style in WordPress Each page on your website contains default WordPress generated css style classes. Inside most WordPress themes there is a template called comments.php which is used to display comments and comment form on your blog posts/pages. The WordPress comment form is generated using the...
This tutorial is created for a DIY intermediate user who is comfortable editing their themes. If you want to use a plugin method, then please use smooth page scroll to top plugin. For those who want to learn how to do this without a plugin, then please continue on reading. What is Smooth Scroll and When to use it? When a page or post has a lot of content users are forced to scroll down to read those contents....
What’s the WordPress Generated Classes You can find these classes in most standard WordPress themes, including some starter themes like the Underscores theme in the style.css file. This file is a required file for WordPress themes to show up on the dashboard, and if you’re looking for these classes, you’ll likely find them here. Here’s the bare bones version I’ve copied from the codex and linked to at the beginning of this post. The classes will appear something like...
This post is aimed at beginners, it does presume you’ve tinkered with WordPress before and you know basic HTML. I will assume that you know how to edit WordPress files and you’ve looked into a WordPress theme file – even if you didn’t understand what’s going on. The Programming Languages Of WordPress WordPress uses a number of different programming languages. If one language has to be singled out as the “main” one it would be PHP. PHP is a server side...
Before getting into custom post types I think we should clarify some terminology since the naming convention results in a bit of confusion. It is best to think of a post as a unit of content stored in the database. Each post has a post_type property, which defines what type of content it is. Here’s where things get tricky. One of the most commonly used built-in post types is named “post.” This means that “post” can refer to any...
Beginners Guide Moderate Comments in WordPress