I’ve probably built over 20 Websites using the Canvas WordPress Theme by WooThemes. It’s a great Theme for people that like having alot of GUI options available. Canvas is also very versatile and simple to work with. Even although Canvas has many GUI options, there are still some changes that need the attention of CSS […]
Archives for October 2013
How to add placeholder text to Mailchimp forms
Adding a Mailchimp newsletter signup form to WordPress is simple. Usually a Plugin such as Gravity Forms or Mailchimp list subscribe form is used to embed a Mailchimp form into a WordPress Website. The problem with the Plugins is that they don’t have certain configuration options. For example, if you want to add watermark (usually termed placeholder) […]
3 Essential WordPress Tips
Below are three very simple WordPress housekeeping tips. The below will take just a few minutes and will make your WordPress Website more secure, faster and more reliable. Apply updates: For security reasons you absolutely must apply updates to your WordPress Website as they become available. Updates are regularly available for WordPress software itself, Plugins […]
WooThemes – add a header widget area
Over the past few months I’ve setup alot of WordPress Websites using various various WooThemes Themes. As a developer I think that Genesis (StudioPress) Themes are the best to work with but StudioPress Themes generally have very few GUI configurable options. This is often an advantage (as a client can’t break the layout and styling […]
What makes CSS such fun
A lot of my WordPress consulting work involves scripting with CSS. CSS is relatively rudimentary but extremely powerful. I was thinking about what makes CSS (and many other scripting languages) such fun to work with. For me it comes down to a select few items: The ability to very quickly create a new Website look. […]
Remove multiple bullets in WordPress list
This quick tutorial is more of a reminder to myself but hopefully it is useful to others too. Anyway, in building a WordPress Website for a client using the Interakt Theme by Themefuse, it was evident that there was a styling problem with inserting a custom menu into the footer. Essentially two images (that look […]