Customizing Studio Press Child Themes

StudioPress---Premium-WordPress-Themes

Q: I’ve just started a blog. I’m new at it. The blog is set up using the Genesis theme Lexicon. I would like tags to show under my posts, but for some reason they don’t. Maybe this particular theme doesn’t enable it. How can I address this? I am not a coder so is there [...]

WordPress Resources

I’ll be adding to this list, so please let me know if you have any WordPress resources you think should be added here. For those of you who want to understand WordPress PHP better, be sure to check out: http://adambrown.info/b/widgets/easy-php-tutorial-for-wordpress-users/ WordPress Books The CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks, 3rd Edition – While [...]

Simple, Minimal WordPress Themes

Uncomplicated WordPress theme

If you are designer who wants to complete customize a site using your own Photoshop template, then I suggest starting with a very basic, “blank” theme that has the common WordPress template tags (to get the content) but doesn’t have a lot of extra code that you’ll have to strip out or a lot of [...]

How do I set up RSS Feeds on my WordPress website?

Feedburner Feed Name

Q. How do I set up RSS Feeds and enable email subscription to feeds on my self-hosted WordPress website? Also, how do I promote that feed elsewhere (like on my LinkedIn account)? By default, WordPress comes with various feeds (http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Feeds). These different feeds are invoked via template tags in the WordPress theme header.php file. You [...]

Creating a Custom Single.php template

All posts on your WordPress site will be formatted using the single.php template. The single.php file is used when you click on the post title on the home page of the blog, and you see just the single post. This is efficient, but what if you have a Category of your website where you want [...]