Branda is the ultimate tool for white labeling the front and back-end of your WordPress site. One of the many tricks up her sleeve is the ability to create custom login pages to ensure that every inch of your site is true to your brand. If you have a beautiful and well-polished website, it makes...
A lot of posts on this blog attempt to explain WordPress concepts and terminology, or at least those that are relevant to the post. And the WordPress Codex does a great job of explaining the concepts used by WordPress. But following lots of questions I’ve seen in comments on posts asking for definitions and explanations, I thought it...
Interested in learning PHP and building your own themes and plugins for WordPress? Or just being able to code your own killer customizations for your websites? Learning WordPress development might seem like a daunting thing to do but it all comes down to getting started. So we’ve put together this free series to help get...
Maybe one of the least used functions in all of WordPress is the Category Description. Many of you may be saying, “The what?” Although it may not sound familiar, you’ve probably seen the field for the category description countless times. It’s that box that most of us skip over when we’re setting up or editing...
Creating WordPress Theme Options With the Theme Customization API is easy to do. This article shows you how it’s done. The WordPress Theme Customization API was released with WordPress 3.4, back in 2012. It promised developers a standardized way of adding rich options themes, and users a way of tweaking their website in a, well,...
In WordPress, if you would like to make your category archives different from each other (for example, giving them different styles or including different types of information on each), then it’s pretty easily done. You will only need to make a new category template file for the categories you would like to change. How to...
If you ever have the need to display the name of your current category without a link, the following code will let you do that. <?php foreach((get_the_category()) as $category) { echo $category->cat_name . ‘ ‘; } ?> You will need to insert this in your theme’s files in the appropriate place. Get WordPress Category Name...
