Not being coders doesn’t mean we can’t work with code. There are many places to obtain code snippets to copy and paste into your CSS file, as well as in other files, like header.php, footer.php, and page.php for your WordPress theme.
Using WordPress Theme Options, you might never need to look at a single line of code – ever. So, why am I going to tell you how to edit the code in your WordPress theme? Because sometimes you just have to.
This is the kind of diagram I wish theme developers would include in their documentation. To quickly and easily see where to put data in a new theme would make life so much simpler for WordPress users.
WordCamp Victoria was the second WordCamp I’d attended, but unlike WordCamp Vancouver in October 2012 – where I spoke about the Top 10 Things to Know About WordPress – it was the first time I was able to stay all day.
I arrived in time for the keynote speech by Morten Rand-Hendrickson of Pink and Yellow Design, where he asked the question, “Why WordPress?”
I downgraded WordPress 3.5 to 3.4.2 despite the scary warning on the WordPress Release Archive page, which says, “None of these are safe to use, except the latest in the 3.5 series.”
And you know what? It worked. Fear be gone!
All WordPress themes are created differently, endowed by their Creator with peculiar features, that among them are responsiveness, theme options, and the pursuit of developer support.
This statement should be written into a WordPress constitution somewhere but it’s not, so I’m saying it here. While the WordPress platform may maintain a certain consistency of usability, the themes created for it simply do not.
When picking a theme for your site you just have to know what you’re getting into before you hit “install”.