Adding to or overriding the styling of your WordPress theme or a particular plugin, means writing some custom CSS (cascading stylesheet) rules. But how do you get these rules to apply to your site? Child Themes One way is through a child theme. In fact, customized styling is often the main reason for creating these special themes that are […]
Promoting Past Holiday Content
Got some holiday-related articles from past years just sitting in your blog archives? Most likely they’re still relevant, so it’s time to dust them off and promote anew! Here are two ways you can do it in WordPress: A special Holiday menu in your sidebar A special Holiday section of your main menu If you’re using […]
WordPress Runs 25% Of All Websites – October 2015
The continuing survey of content management system (CMS) usage by survey site W3Techs shows that, as of October 2015, WordPress powers 25% of all the websites in the world, up from 20% two years ago. The company monitors over 300 different CMS’s and of those, WordPress has a 58.7% market share. The closest competitor – Joomla […]
Use Special Characters In The WordPress Visual Editor
Ever need the symbol for trademark or copyright, or ever wanted to throw in an omega symbol for no good reason? Ω Yes, exactly. Well, all you need to do is click this button of the visual editor’s second button bar: and you get this handy popup window with all kinds of special characters. Just click the one […]