Want your embedded content to look perfect on your WordPress website, no matter the screen size? By default, WordPress does a great job at embedding videos and other oEmbeds in your posts and pages. However, based on our experience, you sometimes need more control over their size. Being able to …
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WordPress menu system has a built-in feature where you can add descriptions with menu items. However, this feature is hidden by default. Even when enabled, displaying them is not supported without adding some code. Most themes are not designed with menu-item descriptions in mind. In this article we will show …
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Even though it may seem like a small thing, one of the things we sometimes add to our WordPress sites is a simple fade-in or fade-out animation when a user moves their mouse over an image. It’s a subtle yet effective way to make our sites more engaging and interactive. …
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Do you want to add numeric pagination in your WordPress theme? By default, WordPress themes add a Next / Previous links at the bottom of archive pages. The challenge is that those aren’t very user friendly. This is why many popular blogs use numeric pagination to make it easier for …
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Recently we showed you how to style the WordPress comment form, and we thought it would be incomplete if we did not write about styling WordPress comments layout. In the past, we have discussed that there are default WordPress generated CSS classes and IDs to help make it easier for …
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Recently, we showed you how to style your comments layout and how to style your comment form. One of our users emailed us and asked “how did you make your gravatar images round? Are you storing gravatar images locally to get them to be round?” In this article, we will …
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Quotes are often the most memorable part of your article. They are also the most shared part of any blog post or page. This is why newspapers and mainstream media sites customize their blockquote style to make it stand out. We have added blockquote styles to highlight valuable quotes and …
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Anyone who’s run a blog for a while knows that sometimes, a general RSS feed just doesn’t cut it. Some bloggers have asked if it was possible to let readers subscribe to tags or custom taxonomies, so they can stay updated on the content that matters most to them. Unfortunately, it was …
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When creating WordPress themes and child themes, developers can become frustrated when the post thumbnail is not displayed. This can be a real roadblock during development. What they need is a simple way to get the image URL so they can use it in their code. Luckily, this is something …
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Widgets are such an integral part of WordPress themes that it is hard to imagine a WordPress theme without widgets. Widgets are executable scripts that you can simply drag and drop in your sidebars or any other widget ready area in your theme. Many of our readers utilize widgets to …
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