This tutorial will require a mysql database and a web development environment using mysql, apache and php and a simple text editor. The tutorial takes you through establishing a mysql connection using php on a web page, connecting to a mysql table and retrieving the results and displaying them back on the web page. This tutorial …
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Create CSS Conditional Stylesheets for Internet Explorer in WordPress
How to Create CSS conditional style sheets for Internet Explorer in WordPress using a child theme or parent theme. Either manually in the header.php file or the preferred WordPress way registered and enqueued as a style via the functions.php way. The Manual Header Way 1) Open the header.php to your parent or child theme 2) …
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Extend the Twenty Eleven Theme Menu Navigation to FullScreen
How to get the WordPress Twenty Eleven Theme Main Menu Navigation to go full width screen like the page below. 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. …
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Change the Drupal Administration Appearance and Menu
Drupal 7 administration menu is quite a change from previous versions, in comes the administrative overlay which is like a partial transparent layer over the existing site. This is a subjective thing however I prefer to turn this off and have the backend looking opaque and to have a sense that it is a separate …
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How to Change the Footer Appearance in Thesis 1.8 WordPress Theme
To change the footer element in Thesis 1.8 theme for WordPress you need to take care of a couple of things, there are two links in the footer that need to be removed, custom CSS and HTML then need to be added to complete the process. (a) First up is to enable the custom directory …
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