WordPress Child Themes are very useful because they enable you to modify the appearance of your original or Parent theme, without fear of breaking it. WordPress Child themes inherit all the styles and functionality from the Parent theme and allow you to place all your CSS changes is a separate place to the Parent theme’s [...]
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How to exclude an image from an image gallery in WordPress
The in-built image gallery function in WordPress is very useful, in that you can create great looking image gallleries with a few clicks. Here’s an example below of a WordPress gallery. An example WordPress Gallery However, by default WordPress will include every image you include in a post or page to your image gallery. This [...]
Video: The easiest way to add a photo to a WordPress widget
How to add photos to WordPress widgets is a question I’ve been asked many times in our WordPress training courses, so I made a short a video to explain to best way to do it!
How to add your own links to the Canvas footer area
Here is a very quick tutorial on how to add links to the Canvas footer area.
How to get BBPress forums working with Woothemes Canvas
Unfortunately a recent update of Woothemes Canvas caused a problem with BBPress. Namely BBPress no longer displays properly and is broken. However there is a simple fix and below I detail how to get both Canvas and BBPress working nicely together.
Welcome to the new Academy ‘tips and tricks’ section
This is a new section for Pootlepress Academy members. We’ll use it to update you with smaller tutorials and WordPress tips, tricks and news. If there are any specific tips and tricks you would like us to cover – or that you have discovered yourself – please get in touch and let us know by leaving a comment below.
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