A WordPress Theme is a collection of files that work together to produce a graphical interface with an underlying unifying design for a blog.
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Error message “The page you are looking for is temporarily unavailable.” after editing a file [closed]
After trying to edit/update a file in the theme editor (file file has write permissions of 666), I get an error message saying "The page you are looking for is temporarily unavailable.
Please try ...
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Optimal solution to develop a wordpress theme?
What i was doing previously, are as follows -
I copy the wordpress base theme (like twentytwelve in wordpress 3.5)
Rename the folder and converted index.html of my HTML to index.php for wordpress ...
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Theme of codinghorror.com
I liked theme of codinghorror.com . It's Typepad theme but i need wordpress theme of this. Where i can find it ? Best regards, Dreamer
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Detection of theme being used
OK, this may be a dumb question. Is it possible, using PHP, to detect which theme has been set for use by Wordpress ? If so, how's it done ?
Thanks.
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Making the Header on the Twenty Ten Theme Less Tall?
The question is How do I make the header on the Twenty Ten theme less tall? That question was asked over at the LinkedIn WordPress group that is hidden from search engines so I thought I'd copy my ...
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Adding goodies to themes
How do I add stuff to themes such as Arjuna-X without losing it when the theme is updated? Are child themes a good way to do it or are there other options? What if a new version of the theme comes out ...
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new theme permissions don't allow me to edit
When I use wordpress to install a new theme it creates the permissions and ownership in such a way that I can't edit the files via FTP.
Any ideas?
(Using Plesk)
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How can I allow the Editor Role to change Theme Settings?
I've just setup a new Blog for a friend and thought it's better to not give him Administrator Access right away as a pre-caution.
I created a new user as Editor therefore.
But then I saw that this ...
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Recommend a Magazine Style Theme for this Wireframe
Please recommend a theme that would work well with this wireframe:
- Minimal customization preferred - Thanks in advance.
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Building useful features into your theme
My site has a theme which I created myself, and while it works, I often have to tweak the theme or use plugins to modify the appearance or behaviour. I've been looking at ways to modify my theme so ...
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reason of splitting theme files to multiple files
I can create my theme without splitting it into separate files. Why do theme developers split WordPress theme into a few single files like header.php sidebar.php and etc?
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is_front_page only works in theme file, and does not work in functions.php
If I use is_front_page() in my front-page.php file it works as expected. However if I use the same function in my theme functions.php file it does not work. Is this normal behavior? If not can it be ...
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Can a WordPress plugin or theme contain a virus?
Is it possible to write a virus in a form of a WordPress plugin/theme?
Is it possible to:
steal user data?
damage existing WordPress installation?
(optionally) self-spread the virus?
Are there ...
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How can I remove “Proudly powered by WordPress” from twentyeleven without modifying footer.php?
How can I remove "Proudly powered by WordPress" from twentyeleven without modifying footer.php, and without creating a child theme?
I'm looking for a php command, such as add_action, remove_action, ...
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A theme that follows all the best practices to learn from?
Are there any good themes that follows all the best practices, to the letter, that I can refer to will creating my themes?
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How to automatically highlight syntax of code in a post?
I post my codes from different programing languages. Now, I want to highlight syntax of codes with different colors. But, doing it manually is time consuming. Is there any plugin or method which could ...
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Why is there no global function in wordpress to return the output of any function call?
We have template tags and some functions that start with get. Sometimes it would be just nice in themes to do like:
$title = the_title();
to use the html later on. This is just a simplified ...
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Using Multiple Themes in a Single WordPress Site?
I've got a subdirectory in which I'd like to implement a completely different theme for my site (basically, its a sales letter).
Can someone tell me how to do that? Do I need to install a separate ...
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Upgrading a custom theme through the Dashboard
I can't seem to upgrade my custom theme. Whenever I try to uploaded a new package, all I get is:
Unpacking the package…
Installing the theme…
Destination folder
already exists. ...
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How to use bloginfo( 'template_directory' ) in array
I want to pass bloginfo( 'template_directory' ) in an array
I tried this but not working. How to write it correctly?
<?php
get_the_image( array( 'size' => 'full',
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Will activating a different theme preserve custom settings to current theme?
I have theme A currently active, and theme A has custom settings (like header image, custom CSS, etc). I am having issues with theme A, and want to activate theme B while I troubleshoot these issues. ...
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Fatal error: Call to undefined function wpsc_cart_item_count()
-- I've just done a fresh install of Wordpress 3.4
-- I've downloaded and uploaded this new free eCommerce wordpress theme suggested by smashing magazine.
{ ...
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WP Config for FTP credentials
Is there a config in WP that allows you to store your FTP credentials? I'm using the Linux webserver at work to develop and it's really annoying to have to but the credentials in every time I ...
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How to Use WordPress as Static CMS Without Blog Posts
I am very new to wordpress. I want to edit a wordpress theme and remove the blogpost area from it so it can be converted into a website. I also want to make some other changes.
How I am trying to do ...
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How to make alert for new version on theme options?
Let say my theme host on my server. User download my theme and use it. Now I want notify @ alert for new version of my theme.
Example to show "New version has been release. Please download at ..."
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Switching themes without losing widgets?
The other day, I switched from 2010 default them to Semiologic, then back. When back to the 2010, all my appearance/widgets had gone back to the default.
Does this often happen? What is the best ...
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Automatic Updates For Private And Commercial Themes?
Is there any way to get wordpress to check for, download private theme updates?
I found this plugin for private plugin updates....
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Changing the visible url path to css & js files
Does anyone happen to know how I can automatically turn:
http://www.domain-name.com/wp-content/themes/theme-name/css/stylesheeet.css
into
http://www.domain-name.com/css/stylesheet.css
Naturally I ...
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How to highlight the current page in the nav menu?
I'm customizing a WordPress theme for my school, and I'm a bit annoyed by the fact that the current page in the nav menu is not indicated.
For example:
You can clearly see that I'm hovering over a ...
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What page should I use for a contact form?
I want to make a theme with an about page and a contact form,
Should I make a custom page meant specifically for it? (the blog is ment for mobile and I'm not looking for most flexibility, the page ...
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How to develop a theme while having another show up
The title is the question : How to develop a theme while having another show up
I already have a DB and a theme.... i like, when log as admin see another theme... just for the time making it clean ...
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Theme and Plugins sharing common libraries
I have seen a number of similar questions here on WP_SE but I believe my situation is a little different because the common libraries I'm creating are frameworks that I'd certainly like to be able to ...
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How do I remove RSS feeds from themes?
How do I remove RSS feeds from being listed in the HTML source? Like I want to remove the following:
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" href="foo.com">
I don't want to remove ...
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What are the package and subpackage comment for?
This is included in themes and plugins.
/*
* @package WordPress
* @subpackage Twenty_Ten
* @since Twenty Ten 1.0
*/
What are they for? I've read that they are standard and so on, but what is ...
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How do you protect a premium theme from being copied?
I'm thinking of doing up a couple of premium themes, and selling copies of them. I've never done anything like this before, so I have a couple of questions.
I appreciate that this is mainly a forum ...
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I'm trying to add an image in my CSS
I'm trying to add an image in my CSS with the theme folder code, <?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>, which works in HTML but for some reason it's not working in the CSS. Does anyone know ...
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Can I apply a WP theme to a specific custom page template?
One section of my website is going to be completely different visually than the rest of the pages, is there a way to apply a WP Theme to specific page templates ?
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Which is the most well coded and semantically correct naked/blank Wordpress theme (based on Wordpress coding standards)?
I've be using Starkers for a while but I wonder if there are blank/naked themes with better code, files, and folder organization (based on Wordpress coding standards)?
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Best practice way to implement custom sections into a WordPress theme
I'm having trouble figuring out the best way to implement custom sections in a WordPress theme. For example I'm making a theme that will have four featured sections on the homepage. These sections ...
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How do you change the theme location?
To change the upload directory I have to do this:
define ( "upload", "<new upload location>" );
How can you change the themes location? I like to create a folder themes in the root directory.
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Different template of products for specific category. WooCommerce
For example i have category coffee machines, and one template for coffee machine single product template, but for category coffee i want to have different single-product.php template, how to implement ...
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How to generate and display widgets areas dynamically?
I want display different content in sidebar for every category, but as I create new ones I have to create the area for it. How can I have widget areas for every category and also display them on theme ...
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Is it a good idea to make whole theme widgetized?
I have mainly seen sites using widgets on sidebars or inside multi-column layout. However, I was wondering what if we could use widgets in every blocks like header, main content block, footer etc. Is ...
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A hook that runs only when the theme is previewed
Is there a function or a hook that runs only when a theme is previewed?
I'm referring to the preview feature that you get on the Appearance->Themes page.
The reason for this is that I want to ...
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How to create a theme option-menu page to save user values
I've created a wordpress theme and new in wordpress development
I want to create option page to take some values from user and I've little bit done with that but confused where and how to save that ...
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Using a _GET gives me a debug error (over my head)
Just looking for some advice on something that is bugging me. Please bear in mind I am a PHP noob :-)
I am passing a variable in the url to my WP index page like so:
<a href="<?php ...
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Duplicate and change a Theme Widget
Is there a way (a common one) to duplicate and change a theme widget ?
I'm asking this because, I have this widget that displays the recent news and if we click, it will display ALL news, but I wish ...
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Alternate header image
Is there a convenient and configurable way to alternate between different header images?
The main features I'm looking for are:
Random select from a set of images
Specific header image in given ...
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Making an IE only site (Like a Mobile only site)
For those who are curious, I'm changing the theme but this theme relies on CSS3 and HTML5 and displays very ugly in IE 8 or below. - Especially the navigation.
What I want to do is keep my old theme ...
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How do you install a .MO (language file) to use as part of a theme?
I have my own theme that I've created and I need to support 3 languages. I started by adding the gettext functions to my template _e("string","namespace") etc, generated the po file with Poedit, and ...
