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 3.6. The core benefit of a child theme is that …
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How to find out which WordPress template is being used in a Theme
How do you quickly find out which template in your WordPress theme is being used without systematically going through each template? WordPress uses a structure of templates formed in a hierarchy of importance, when one isn’t there it falls back to the next in the chain. Click for a closer look If you want to …
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Find and replace text across a whole WordPress web site using phpMyAdmin
You can do a find and replace for text or html code on a post or page across a whole WordPress site by using the mysql database that the site stores all its data in. First up you need to connect to the database, if you have a cPanel/Plesk style hosting typically you will have …
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Responsively Removing Width and Height Attributes on Images and wp-caption on WordPress
If you are looking to go responsive for images on your site and want a theme that responds to various devices such as tablets and mobiles there are a couple of issues to sort out with existing hard coded images that have hard coded inline style width and height attributes. In WordPress not only do you …
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Twenty Eleven Theme – Menu Navigation Disappearing Under You Tube Video
In WordPress Twenty Eleven Theme if you place a You Tube video directly below the main navigation, any sub nav menu will disappear behind the video not in front of it. To correct this behaviour you need to add an attribute to the embed or iframe code 1. add wmode=”opaque” in the object tag so the …
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Making RSS Feed Links no-follow in WordPress Sidebar
If you use the RSS widget in WordPress to bring in a Feed with multiple external links that go to external content and that update in the sidebar. You may notice that all these links have the attribute set to ‘follow‘ by default. This can be detrimental to your page’s SEO status in terms of …
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Display Mobile versions of WordPress Website on iPhones
With mobile computing and browsing consistently on the rise you need to have a plan and cater to your mobile customers, they are viewing your website on a tiny screen compared to lavishly huge desktop monitors. This trend is going to increase no doubt about that and there are some options for WordPress websites, one …
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How to change the header size in Twenty Eleven and Twenty Ten
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 …
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