Every time you visit any website on the net, 99% of the time you will see the top bar menu. Here’s a screenshot of what a Menu is (see Home, About and Parent Page links). In this quick tutorial, I will show you how to use WordPress custom Menu. However, I must also remind you that not every […]
Easiest Way To Setup Localhost For WordPress Development
When developing or customizing WordPress theme, the best tip I can give it not to do it on your live site. Why? Because when you make any error, you will be in big trouble as your website might break down. This is not good for your reputation. The best way to do it is using […]
WordPress 101: Installing WordPress Theme
Besides the WordPress script, another important thing to set up your own website is the theme. A WordPress theme is basically a template you can use to change the appearance of your WordPress site. There are two categories of WordPress theme, free and premium. While the free themes provide basic functionality to your website, premium themes […]
Make MP3 And Pdf Files Downloadable
In my recent project for a client, the client wants the MP3 file to be downloaded automatically when users click on the link. Usually, when users click on an MP3 link, what will happen is it will be redirected to a new window. Then, to download the MP3, they will need to right-click and choose Save As […]
How To Add And Use Column Classes In WordPress Theme
Writing should not always be one column. To better represents your writings, sometimes you might need to divide some paragraph into few columns. This can easily be done in WordPress. From the image above, you can see that we can make the paragraph into two to six columns. The screenshot above was taken from Minimum Theme, […]
WordPress 101: Installing WordPress Plugins
One of the great features of WordPress is the ability to use a plugin. What is a plugin? From the WordPress plugin page: Plugins can extend WordPress to do almost anything you can imagine. In a simpler way, a plugin is like an additional script (or in browser people called it Add-Ons) that let you […]
Add Bootstrap Style Buttons To WordPress Theme
As a front-end developer, I found that Twitter Bootstrap as one of the most powerful, sleek and robust framework. It really helps to cut down the production time working on developing a new website. It was built at Twitter by @mdo and @fat and utilizes LESS CSS. Currently, Bootstrap with LOTS of awesome features including […]
Add New Featured Image Sizes To WordPress
By default, every image uploaded via WordPress Media manager will be uploaded to different sizes. However, when displaying them as featured image, the image needs to be re-sized or cropped to get the desired size. This code should go in your functions.php file of your child theme (Yes, I strongly recommend you to use a child theme […]