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Overhauling WordPress’ Login Screen
NOTE: This tut is not longer applicable (as of WP 3.3). I will try to get an updated tutorial on here very soon.Just for fun, I decided I might like to completely overhaul my WordPress login screen....
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CSS3 Featured Image Style and Hover Animation Effects
Lately I have been (slowly) working on an overhaul for my personal blog. I haven’t made a custom theme in well over a year. Also, I’m no designer. Making a theme is a long and drawn out process for me....
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Preserving Pagination With Query Posts – Why Do My Page 1 Posts Appear on...
So you’ve made a custom template of some sort, or you’ve tried to exclude a category from your home page. You used query_posts because that’s what all the cool kids are doing. But now when you click to...
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Reader Request – Use Category Slug Based Images for Posts
One of our VoodooPress readers had a question recently. Seems they were using the front end posting form we started talking about here. They became concerned that allowing users to upload new images...
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CSS3 Lightbox Effect For Your Featured Images
I keep mentioning that I’m slowly working on a custom theme for my personal blog. I work in fits and starts whenever something inspires me. Well today that inspiration struck! I saw this post from...
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How I Built My Nifty Login Box at the Top of VoodooPress
When you visit the site, you can see our nifty login/out and register box at the top of the page. Go ahead, take a peak! See it there? Cool! I wanted to add that into my theme, make it easy to move...
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Set Your Featured Image Automagically From the First Image in the Post
Here’s a nifty trick that just came through my RSS reader. Let’s give credit where it’s due first because I didn’t come up with this! It came through my reader from the WP Snippets site, this post...
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Customize Your Excerpt Length Per Template
I’ve seen a variety of posts from people devising different ways to customize the_excerpt length. In WordPress, most people are familiar with 2 ways to display their content: the_content, and...
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Google Fonts, Child Themes, and @import
I’ve been trying to work through some issues after getting a comment on one of my fonts articles. It seems some people have been experiencing some problems getting Google Fonts to work on their child...
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Make an Interesting and Useful Archive or Explore Page for Your WordPress Site
I had set up an Archive page on my personal blog a while ago for folks to Explore the site with. My original intent was to give users a variety of ways, in one place, to locate content which might...
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How to Replace $args in twentytwelve_custom_header_setup Using custom-header?
I’ve been Googlin my butt off… now that I’ve made the Twenty Twelve theme 1100px wide, I’d love to adjust the width of the header image. I’m just not sure how to override the args of the parent theme...
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Modify the Width of the New WordPress Twenty Twelve Theme
We just recently switched over to the new Twenty Twelve theme on VoodooPress, and it’s quite a nice theme! But one thing I saw immediately, it’s too narrow! I have been on a kick lately of trying to...
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Reader Request – Styling Sidebar Content or Widget Areas in the Twenty Twelve...
A reader dropped me a comment yesterday wondering how we style the widget areas here on VoodooPress. I’m always happy to answer questions whenever I can, so we will take a look at what I do here, give...
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Hmmm… Where to Advertise on 2012 Theme?
I’m trying to work through how I want to position advertising on the 2012 theme. I just don’t like it in the sidebar much. I’m considering getting rid of the current login/out/register float I have up...
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Add a Header Widget Area to the WordPress Twenty Twelve Theme
WordPress 3.5 is going to drop very soon. And with it comes the new Twenty Twelve theme as default. We’ve already started tweaking it on VoodooPress. So next up on our agenda was finding a little spot...
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Adding a Login Function to Our Twenty Twelve Header Widget Area – And...
Yesterday, we started the basics for adding a widget area to the soon to be new default WordPress Twenty Twelve theme. I personally wanted to have advertising up there, plus login and registration...
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Building a ‘Responsive’ Adsense Widget for the Twenty Twelve Theme
Over the past two days, I’ve put up a couple articles relating to widgetizing the twenty twelve header and guidance for adding multiple items up there while accounting for 2012′s responsive nature. I...
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Custom Colours in Twenty Fourteen – Get the Green Outta my Theme!
So now we have twenty fourteen in place and I have a child theme started. Of course you remember we always use child themes when editing a theme, right? If not, have a quick read of this old article....
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Use More Screen Real Estate by Making Twenty Fourteen Wider
We spent yesterday figuring out how to get rid of all the green in 2014 and set up a new colour. I like the looks of that, but there is still one more thing bugging me. I’ve had several posts over the...
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Match Your Post Editor to Your Twenty Fourteen Theme Edits
After following along with the previous two tutorials we’ve done, your 2014 theme has new colours and it’s a bit wider. Well there’s one more thing I like to do to make things nice and clean! Let’s...
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