There’s nothing like a pop of color to welcome people to your site. It takes a good designer to create a bold and colorful site – choosing the wrong color palette or hues that simply don’t match can leave your site looking gaudy and tasteless. And too many colors can leave your visitors confused, especially...
The WordPress Themes Directory is a truly fantastic resource, offering thousands of themes for download at no cost. Here are 39 of them. However, the sheer volume of themes contributes to the repository’s less user-friendly side. Of those thousands of themes, many will not be up to the standard you require. And with somewhat limited search...
Mobile first theming isn’t just about making your site work well on mobile devices: it will also make your site faster and so enhance SEO. A mobile first theme includes far fewer style declarations for layout than a traditional responsive theme that works desktop-first, mainly because it eliminates the need to declare 100% width for...
If you’re setting up a brand new installation of WordPress, you will need to know the value to put in your wp-config.php file for Database Host. Be aware that this is not the same value for everyone who is installing WordPress. It’s unique to your hosting company. Here’s an example of what we’re looking at:...
The default WordPress behavior for logging a user out is to make a login session cookie that expires in 48 hours or when the browser is closed. If the “Remember Me” box is checked, WordPress will give you 14 days before forcing you to authenticate again. But what if you don’t want to be bothered...
Every now and again it would be convenient to know the ID of a post or page in WordPress, right? Whether it’s for a shortcode, when setting something up in the theme settings, or maybe just to get a quick link. Whatever the case may be, WordPress doesn’t make it easy to figure out a post’s...
The WordPress post page (where you write your posts) can get a little crowded for some people’s taste. Code for Removing Meta Boxes Remove Meta Boxes from Pages For example, take a look at this screenshot of the section below the write/edit screen. It’s jam-packed with different types of meta boxes. Of course, if you...
