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Customize WordPress Admin Styles from Your Theme Directory

WordPress How To / By Yang Yang / December 30, 2012

It’s better to style the /wp-admin of WordPress from your theme because it’s portable and upgrade-proof. Keeping all customizations in ONE place is always a good idea in web development. How to style WordPress admin backend /wp-admin from your theme? Add this hook to the functions.php of your theme: function customAdmin() { ?><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php bloginfo(‘stylesheet_directory’); ?>/wp-admin.css" …

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Make WordPress Hooked Function to Run Only Once

2 Comments / WordPress How To / By Yang Yang / December 12, 2012

Consider this hook to add something before your WordPress blog’s sidebar: function before_siderbar() { ?> <!– Something goes here, such as an AdSense links unit –> <?php } add_action( ‘get_sidebar’, ‘before_siderbar’ ); It’s usual to add an AdSense links unit there but the problem with some themes is that they run get_sidebar more than once, …

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How to Create WordPress Widget Areas (Before and After Single Post)

1 Comment / Content / SEO Tips & Tutorials, Make Money Online, WordPress How To / By Yang Yang / June 26, 2012

Most WordPress themes such as those released by WooThemes come with ready to use widget areas only in sidebar and footer. They are missing out the most important areas of a blog for readership attention and actionable conversions. They are the areas immediately before single post content and immediately after it. For example, a paragraph …

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Create a WordPress Child Theme

1 Comment / WordPress How To / By Yang Yang / June 26, 2012

WordPress amazes by making things possible in the simplest and most intuitive way. Child themes are the intended and correct way for customizing a third-party theme and you should always create a child theme to do the customizations so that the original theme stays intact thus ready for upgrade. And this is how you can …

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WordPress: Programmatically Add Items to a Menu (Dynamically)

1 Comment / WordPress How To / By Yang Yang / May 21, 2012

Menus are created and edited from in the WordPress backend and then called in frontend theme to be displayed by the wp_nav_menu() function. On some occasions, we may want to programmatically add one or two menu items to a menu because those menu items change frequently and it would be a chore to have to …

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Customize WordPress Login Header and Link, Upgrade-proof without Plugin

WordPress How To / By Yang Yang / May 12, 2012

The default image header and link on the login / register page of WordPress is a WordPress one, apparently, but when you are enabling registration / login to general users, you would want to use your own logo and website URL as the header rather than the default - so people don’t get confused and …

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