May 2, 2012

I’ve spent a lot of time trying to learn how to create a WordPress theme from scratch.  Although this is my ultimate goal, creating a child theme is much quicker and easier. Often times when I work with clients, they have a standard WordPress theme that they like with all the functionality they want, and all that is lacking is a different design look...

May 1, 2012

If you are serious about web design, you have to be serious about designing for WordPress.  There is nothing better than giving your client a well designed web site, with the power of WordPress behind it.  They love the flexibility that WordPress provides – and providing this service has definitely helped business. Learning how to setup and design a ...

Apr 29, 2012

Creating a WordPress theme on your own is not an easy process.  I’ve focused on learning the process over the last few weeks. Designing the WordPress website is the easy part – creating all the different files you need on the ‘backend’ to run the site is the difficult part. Luckily, there are plenty of resources online to help you...

Mar 16, 2012

The first step to securing your WordPress site is installing a backup plugin.  I know this is a boring topic, but some day in the future you will thank me for this advice.  If you have ever experienced the white screen when you try to access your WordPress web site, you will know what I am talking about! Maintaining current backups for your site is not that...

Mar 12, 2012

Sorry it took me so long to get this post out.  In part 2 of this tutorial series we set up  the ‘custom-post.php’ file.  In order for the custom-post.php file to work, we need to create the functions.php file which will ‘call-out’ (for lack of a better term) the custom-post.php file.  Hope that is not confusing! Every parent theme has a...

Feb 20, 2012

In part 1 of this tutorial series we set up the blank ‘custom-post.php’ file in the WordPress install on our local host (I do not recommend do this on a ‘live’ site until you have gone through the entire tutorial and are comfortable with the process). Now open your favorite editor (mine is Dreamweaver).  Remember where we saved the custom-post.php...

Feb 19, 2012

WordPress has basic 2 types of content, posts and pages.  Worpress posts can be organized by categories and tags.  The basic WordPress install has standard text posts already setup.  However, if you want to create and post different types of content that is unique to your website, and WordPress theme/child theme, you can create a new custom post type, with...

Jan 23, 2012

In WordPress Multisite Setup part 1 and part 2 we went through the process of installing and enabling the network.  Installing and using WordPress multisite is great if you want to create and manage multiple WordPress sites under one admin dashboard.  Here is a review of additional requirements. 1.  Users added to the network will have “subscriber” as...