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A Child Theme in WordPress is a theme that takes all the juice out of its parent without doing much itself, pretty much like regular kids. This guide explains what a Child Theme is and how to create one for the latest version of WordPress 3.3.1. The core benefit of a child theme is that [...]

To change the the size in width or height or both of the header of  Twenty Eleven or Twenty Ten theme in WordPress you need to edit the ‘functions.php’ file in your theme or child theme – the preference is to make a child theme and create/change the  functions.php file in there. The reason for [...]

To create a CSS conditional style sheet statements for Internet Explorer in WordPress using a child theme or master theme. 1) Copy the header.php to your child theme 2) Edit the file and go to a spot after the link tags – here you are going to insert an Internet Explorer conditional statement using a [...]

To add a menu to the footer of the WordPress Twenty Eleven or Twenty Ten theme, you need to register an additional menu, create it, position it and style it. This is best done in a child theme as when the theme is updated then any changes you make are lost but if you have a [...]

Tutorial on how to set up and install Piwik Piwik is an open source easy to use web analytical tool which provides stats in real time and all the other bells and whistles of analytical reporting. The three key CMS players WordPress, Drupal and Joomla have plugins/module that get your site up and running in [...]

To change the WordPress home page – edit the index.php in the main theme – if using a child theme, just copy and then edit the file in your child theme folder To make a specific WordPress custom page – create the page in WordPress – get the Page ID – which you can find [...]

How to get  the WordPress Twenty Eleven Theme Main Menu Navigation to go full screen like: http://www.fokasbeyond.com Both the CSS and ‘header.php’ files need to be edited, the issue is that the theme is fluid and the ‘nav’ div sits inside the div of the page which has a max-width of 1000px. We need to move [...]

Changing WordPress SEO OK the time has come to change my WordPress SEO plugin , I want to change over to use the Yoast SEO Plugin.  I have been using Platinum SEO up until now, but I can’t help noticing more bells and whistles that the Yoast plugin comes with. The developer Joost de Valk [...]

Delete author and date credits under posts for the Twenty Ten WordPress theme – for rolling posts edit loop.php and for single page posts edit loop-single.php Comment out or (delete) as below on the second line. <div class="entry-meta"> <!– <?php twentyten_posted_on(); ?> –> </div> <!– .entry-meta –> Tweet

If you have been getting a bunch of unwanted new user registrations on your website and are wondering what they are and where they are coming from, with such bogus email addresses mostly from the gmail.com domain like  do not fear, here’s what to do! It’s the spambots trawling through seeing where they can get [...]