The last two sheets that you should know about are the sidebar.php and the footer.php. I don’t have much to add to these sheets since my theme allows for a fair amount of customization without playing around in the code and for the sidebar, since widgets are very flexible. That being said, you should still…
The next sheet we will look into is the “single post” sheet. The name can vary based on the theme, but the actual name will be “single.php”. In this sheet you will see the layout for every post (not page) on your site. Depending on your theme there will probably be code in here already,…
The next sheet that you need to know about will be called something like “header” or “header-main” or something like that. This sheet runs on the top of every single page on your site. Examples of why you would use this is for Google Analytics code (if you aren’t using the plugin), code for a…
Before we begin I am giving you an extreme warning here. The editor can be a scary place, one mistake can take down an entire website. There are horror stories that someone deleted one line of code, added something in the wrong place, or just didn’t know what they were doing and broke their entire…
The next tab that we will cover is the Widget Tab. I really love the flexibility of widgets. Much like menus that we spoke about in our last post widgets are totally customizable. There is a plugin that you can download that will allow you to make as many sidebars as you want, then you…
The next tab inside Appearance that we will explore is the Customize tab. Clicking on the customize tab will take you out of your dashboard and you will be shown your site with the customization sidebar. The top option is the Site Identity. This tab has the site title and tagline which we already discussed…
We are now going to explore the Appearance tab. A few posts ago we spoke about Plugins, I didn’t explain the process there on how to update a plugin because it is incredibly easy process. If there is an update there will be a number next to the Plugins tab, when you hover over the…
The next setting we will look at is Permalink Settings. Before we talk about permalinks I will give you a strong word of caution. If you have a lot of posts already created, sites linking to your site, or you rank on search engines then I highly recommend that you do not change anything on…
The next tab we will explore is the Settings tab. The first section to explore is the General Settings of the site. On the top of the page you name your site and write the tagline for the site. This is important for just one reason, on your Home Page this is the default title…
website Now that we have explained posts, media, and pages we will be moving into slightly more difficult areas of WordPress, but I’ll try to simplify as much as possible. The next tab we will discuss is the Users tab (I am pushing off Appearance for now, it is the most complicated one…). Users are basically…