There are several different ways to add new styles or CSS code into your WordPress blog. The easiest way may not be the most efficient way and vice versa. Here, we consider the easiest way first. 1. Add Styles Using a Text Widget The easiest way to add new styles into a WordPress blog is…..
There are many new features in WordPress 3.0, and one of them is the new spiffy Twenty Ten default WordPress Theme. Twenty Ten is a great theme that you can have a lot of fun with. Here we build a variety of different looks for Twenty Ten using the Shiba Custom Background plugin. The Shiba…..
RSS feeds are an important part of any WordPress blog. WordPress now comes with an RSS widget that allows you to display feeds in any widget area. However, sometimes, you may want to display RSS feeds in the content area of your post. You may also want to change the structure and style of your…..
Picture galleries are an important part of a WordPress blog. They allow you to group together pictures, and render them using a variety of compelling scripts. You may display your picture album in a slide-show format, book format, thumbnail format and much more. Depending on your gallery plugin, you can zoom in, scroll, or otherwise…..
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Opacity – seems like it should be an easy task, but unfortunately that is not so. There are at least five ways to change the opacity or transparency of regions within a web-page. What is most difficult is to make opacity work well on Internet Explorer; which often has aliasing issues, and sometimes does not…..
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WordPress excerpts are most useful when you need to display a series of posts in a single page. This often occurs in your – WordPress blog homepage – your most recent posts. Category page – All posts belonging to the selected category. Tag page – All the posts containing the selected tag. Archive page –…..
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Ever seen those spiffy WordPress blogs with automatic changing headers? Some people dislike the effect because they find the animation to be too distracting. I think this slide-show type, rotating header effect can be interesting in certain circumstances. This blog page, for example, has a demo rotating header. I have set the speed of rotation…..
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There are two interesting blog background effects that we will consider here – 1. A hard edge effect. 2. A soft edge effect. Both these blog background effects can be achieved with a simple PNG gradient background. PNG will allow you to create a transparent gradient that you can then apply to any background color……
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Widgets are a powerful and necessary part of a WordPress blog. If you want the flexibility to customize and personalize your blog, it is crucial to pick a WordPress theme that is widget ready. Most of the newer WordPress themes are widget ready, so it will not be too difficult to find a widget ready…..
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I have developed two new custom WP blog themes – A Halloween theme that is based on a dark background. Also check out the Vampire Girl WordPress Halloween theme. A Beauty theme that can be used with both light and dark backgrounds (current theme shown on site). Both these themes as well as the default…..
