by aileen | Mar 14, 2007 | Setting Up a WordPress Site
Template themes which use the more recent format for the loop: if (have_posts()): while (have_posts()): the_post(); … endwhile; endif; are more flexible and allow for easier adaptation than older style templates, using: if ($posts): foreach ($posts as $post) :...
by aileen | Mar 9, 2007 | Setting Up a WordPress Site
It looks crisp and clean, it works well as a blog layout and appears to faultlessly embody WordPress. It even allows you to easily change header background and text colours, within the Admin… Presentation… section. If all you want to do is use it, the...
by aileen | Mar 5, 2007 | Setting Up a WordPress Site
Getting to grips with WordPress functions seems to be the only real way into understanding WordPress enough to be comfortable creating and modifying templates, as I want to do. The Function Reference seems a handy link to remember but the Search function rarely seems...
by aileen | Feb 26, 2007 | Setting Up a WordPress Site
Now it’s time to get the look and the layout of the home page just right. The home page can be static, in that its content can be changed by editing via the admin section only, or it can be dynamic, in that all or part of it can be updated whenever a post is...
by aileen | Feb 26, 2007 | Setting Up a WordPress Site
These are the Plugins which I think will be most useful for my “typical” website. Maintenance mode – a handy option which allows you to display a polite “website unavailable” message to visitors, while still allowing signed-in...
by aileen | Feb 26, 2007 | Setting Up a WordPress Site
Get the look right. Hopefully you have some kind of look – colours, fonts – in mind and ideally a header image, even a logo. Select a likely theme as a basis. See Using Themes and Theme Development for reference. Work on the style.css and header.php and...