Category: WordPress

To completely turn off commenting on an existing site, do the following: STEP ONE: Macro Level Go to the Dashboard, then Settings, then Discussion. Turn off both check marks in “Email me whenever”. In the same section, turn off all three boxes in “Default Article Settings.” You could even turn on “Users must be registered […]

One way to get used to the WordPress Template Hierarchy and Template tags is to download a “starter” theme and bend it to your will. Download A Starter Theme For this exercise, we’ll do just that. First go to html5reset.org and download the html5reset WordPress theme. Once you’ve downloaded it, put it in wp-content in […]

How to Add Featured Image Support add_theme_support( ‘post-thumbnails’ ); The code that follows will test if the post has a featured image or not. Note: the_content() isn’t mandatory here, just a typical usage:  in the loop we will often place the featured image, then follow it with the content, or the excerpt. if  ( has_post_thumbnail() […]

In your theme’s functions.php file, add the following add_filter(‘login_errors’,create_function(‘$a’, “return null;”)); This will stop the WordPress login screen from announcing that your username is correct but the password is not.

Max Magazine (slider, carousel, extra widgets. Lots of configuration options) Hatch (great portfolio theme) Colorway Custom Community (lots of configuration options) Sight (from ThemeShower, for Smashing Magazine) Eleanor Additional Recommendations: Yoko Lazy Sunday Gridly   NEW ONES Suburbia (Magazine Theme) F8 Lite    : a good photographer’s theme. You have to set the thumbnail sizes […]