The key to understanding your new WordPress install is learning where everything goes. Here’s what you need to do to build a site.
Themes are a little like wine: your favorite is the one in front of you. Don’t be dazzled by flashy features. Choose your theme based on your level of experience and online needs.
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!