PHP and MySQL: As of WordPress 3.2, you’ll need to be running PHP 5.2.4 and MySQL 5.0. Log in to your hosting account, and check to make sure you have at least PHP 5.2.4 and MySQL 5.0. Health Check plugin to confirm your PHP & MySQL settings: If you don’t know how to find this information in your…
WordPress version: 3.1.3 Parent theme: TwentyTen 1.2 Add a horizontal footer menu to child theme (since Twenty Ten parent theme doesn’t have it as a default). Instructions from: Digging into WordPress – Using Menus in WordPress 3.0 In addition to the above instructions, add CSS and array controls from the main menu: File: footer.php (in…
WordPress version: 3.1.3 Parent theme: TwentyTen 1.2 Create new Category template to display full posts, instead of excerpt posts, on a Category page. Copy loop-page.php file from TwentyTen folder to child theme folder. Change file name to: loop-category.php. It’s the <?php the_content(); ?> in the original loop-page.php file that makes the Full Posts possible.
WordPress version: 3.1.3 Parent theme: TwentyTen 1.2 Header rotating images should only display on the Home page and not the inside Pages, Posts or blog page. The Home page is a child theme template (front.php), which makes it easy to control via WordPress conditional tags. File: Header.php (in the child theme folder) Replace: elseif (…
WP Easy Columns allows you to convert any page or post, in any theme, to a magazine style layout in just a few clicks. With Easy Columns, you can insert unlimited number of columns and at least fifteen combinations of 1/4, 1/2, 3/4, 1/3 and 2/3 width columns. WP Easy Columns in the WordPress plugins…
http://aaron.jorb.in/thirtyten/ …two column Twenty Ten to a three column theme I’m going to call Thirty Ten.
WordPress version: 3.1.3 Parent theme: TwentyTen 1.2 We’re only splitting the Title section of the header into 3 parts: Logo GIF | Description GIF | Misc GIF. The Logo part is already finished (see: WordPress Child Theme – Add Logo to Twenty Ten Header). 1. Description GIF (middle part): needs to float-left, next to the…
WordPress version: 3.1.3 Parent theme: TwentyTen 1.2 1. Replace WordPress 3.0 Twenty Ten theme title text by adding a logo image. Full instructions: http://www.blog.web6.org/add-logo-to-twenty-ten-wordpress/ File: header.php (in child theme folder) Replace: <<?php echo $heading_tag; ?> id=”site-title”> <span> <a href=”<?php echo home_url( ‘/’ ); ?>” title=”<?php echo esc_attr( get_bloginfo( ‘name’, ‘display’ ) ); ?>” rel=”home”><?php bloginfo(…
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