How To Edit Your WordPress Theme
by Ninja JonIn this video I cover how to make some very basic changes to your WordPress theme.
In the first section I open up the stylesheet and change a couple formatting colors. And in the second section I open up the single.php file and show you how to add simple snippets of code that you would like to show up at the bottom of each post.
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October 21st, 2007 at 3:55 am
This is an excellent learning video. Very clear, easy to follow, and gives you the confidence to start working with code and realize it’s fairly intuitive (not something I say about computers very often). I appreciate most the feeling of independence from managing my own blog’s appearance.
It would be great to see more of these. Some topic suggestions: How to get the RSS button on the page with the appearance and location you choose ; How to manipulate the sidebar widgets ; How to display the tagline under the blog title in the header bar ; How to remove the ‘If You’re New… RSS Feed’ box that displays when new visitors log on ; How to create a sitemap for users, and have the number of posts in each category displayed in brackets beside the category name on the Home page; How to …I’ll stop there. This list should keep Jon busy for awhile.
Teaching people to do things online is the future of the Internet. And they will love you for it.
Christine
November 17th, 2007 at 11:41 am
The video tutorials are awesome! I’ll go along with Christine on this one: How to manipulate the sidebar widgets.
I’ll look around before I ask for stuff that may already be here. This is a great resource, Jon! May I share this place with others who I think would benefit?
December 4th, 2007 at 8:08 pm
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February 5th, 2008 at 8:26 pm
Very nice video. It’s really nice to see tha you took the time, and made life easier for the rest of us. it would be nice to see a better explanation on how to affect the graphical (boxes/pictues/borders) on a WP theme. I have a background working with GoLive, DreamWeaver, Photoshop to design sites and HTML is really confusing to someone used to a graphical interfase. Perhaps you can illustrate how to make a theme using one of these tools?
Linus made a good attempt at doing this here.
however, it falls short. Maybe a video guide would get us noobies farther along…
Thanks,
Ed
February 5th, 2008 at 8:36 pm
Hi Ed, Unfortunately I’m wouldn’t be the best person to ask, since I’m not a theme designer, just a techie who likes setting up blogs.
To use an analogy from the world of cars, I’m like a mechanic and a theme designer would be more like a body shop. We both work on cars, but completely different skill set.
March 19th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
Found the perfect font for your name!
Type NINJA JON - and do it in UNICORN. It looks great!
Fits ‘Ninja’ to a T.
March 19th, 2008 at 9:35 pm
Thanks Kathryn, I’ll have to find Unicorn font, I don’t seem to have it on my computer.