Posts Tagged ‘Wordpress Tutorial’
13th
March
2009
2009
Images in Custom Fields
A lot of our themes make use of custom fields to display images alongside posts. These are easy to use, but are a little different to how you would normally add an image to a post, so we will go through the changes here.
The first thing to make note of is that all the images ...Read more.
20th
February
2009
2009
Wordpress: Security 2: Hide your Wordpress version
Were gonna do a a whole series on Wordpress security over the coming months, some points you may know, some you may not, some we may not know! In which case why dont you use the contact form or the comments and send them in! For a list of all our WP security posts so ...Read more.
19th
February
2009
2009
Wordpress: Security 1; Put an index.html in your Plugins folder
Wordpress allows direct browser access to a lot of folders in the WP installation. This is not an immediate security threat, but if people can see what plugins you have installed then it could lead to problems if one of those plugins is later compromised.
With the image folder, its not really security, but its nice ...Read more.
19th
February
2009
2009
Using a seperate template for pages in Wordpress
Pages in Wordpress can have different styles and layouts by way of using different templates. This can be really useful if your using Wordpress as more of a static website, or even if your just using it as a dynamic blog and want a different layout for some static pages.
First thing to do is to ...Read more.
19th
February
2009
2009
Set front page categories in Ambergreen & Pro Theme
To make it nice and simple for you to change the used categories for the Top Feature and Main columns sections on the front page of AmberGreen Pro and AmberGreen, we use the functions.php file. In the image below you can see which area is which on the front page. This is the same on ...Read more.
19th
February
2009
2009
Finding a category number in Wordpress
Wordpress categories can be defined as either numbers or names. Due to the ease of using numbers against names (A number is never confusing, its either one or another, where as one category may be named “dog” and another “my dogs”- this may become confusing.) on all of our themes we use Category numbers as ...Read more.
19th
February
2009
2009
Hiding a category listing completely
Sometimes you may wish to hide a category name completely, hidden from the category lists and to hide the cat name from the printed out post.
I use this sometimes on blogs to have a category for layout purposes only, rather than to categorize something for the reader.
Firstly find the category number you wish to blank ...Read more.
15th
February
2009
2009
Add a print page/post button to Wordpress
Adding a “print now” link or icon allows your visitors to print of any post and read it offline.
Open single.php in your theme folder and add the line;
<a href=”javascript:window.print()”>Print this Article</a>
Personally I add it to the post meta data, keeping all the extra post info in one place.
If you want to add a button rather ...Read more.
