Reducing Comment Spam in WordPress
Just as eMail spam is a hated thing in our inbox. You will find that you get comment spam on many websites. Spammers will try to submit information into any form they can find, so they can peddle their...
View ArticleWorking with WordPress Categories
Categories allow you to organize your WordPress Posts better. A post should belong to only a single category, all though categories could have hundreds, if not thousands of posts. This is because a...
View ArticleUnderstanding Child Themes in WordPress
What is a Theme A theme in WordPress helps us define how our website looks. It consists of a CSS style sheet named styles.css. (This file name must be used.) At the top of the stylesheet, there will be...
View ArticleWorking with WordPress Widgets
Widgets are small sections of a website which allows you to add special content, or features, to different parts of your website. Traditionally, these were found in the website’s sidebar, however, you...
View ArticleCreating and Editing WordPress Menus
Menus are used to provide a way for end users to navigate through your website. You could require users to use the search widget, however, that would not be the easiest way to use your website, in most...
View ArticleDeveloping a WordPress Theme – Header
There are a number of files that you can work on while you are building a theme. All of your Themes will involve the style.css file, and one or more PHP files. PHP, as you may remember, is a server...
View ArticleDeveloping a WordPress Theme – Footer
When developing a theme for WordPress, we talked about the importance of a good theme header, the header.php file. This includes not just the mast head of the HTML document that you see, but also the...
View ArticleDeveloping a Theme – Sidebar
Most all themes will have a sidebar file. This will provide the sidebar that usually controls where the widgets will go. Most themes have a single sidebar. Depending upon your theme, you may find your...
View ArticleDeveloping a Theme – The Loop
“The Loop” is where most of your work is done. However, it isn’t a single file. Rather, it is the part of the file which WordPress send your content to. Here you will have your different files,...
View ArticleWhat is WordPress
WordPress is a mid-level CMS. It offers some of the complex features of high end CMSes, but stays relatively easy to use like some of the low level CMSes. As a web application, you must run WordPress...
View ArticleWordPress.Com vs. WordPress.Org
WordPress is broken into two parts depending upon how you want to use it. They are commonly referred to as WordPress.Org or WordPress.Com. In reality, you will use the same software, it is just how you...
View ArticleWhat is a CMS
At its base level, a content management system (CMS) manages your content. However, that merely realigns its name. A content management system will, as a minimum, perform several key tasks: Allow you...
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