Setting Up a WordPress Site
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Setting Up a WordPress Site
Block Editor – Cover Image
previously published as “Gutenberg Blocks – Cover Image” Simple Example of Cover Image Block Very simply, the Cover Image block allows you to include an image with text sitting in front of it, like the image below (where the words “Simple Cover Image Block” are not part of the image but text typed directly into…
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Setting Up a WordPress Site
Block Editor – Wide Alignment and Full-width
previously published as “Gutenberg Blocks – Wide Alignment and Full-width” The Block Editor (Gutenberg) introduces some new and interesting alignment options:- These options require that your theme explicitly supports them. See Developer Aside for a deeper discussion on what is needed to support the wide-alignment and full-width options. What Block Types Can Be Full or…
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Setting Up a WordPress Site
X Theme is not for me – an independent review
Am I alone in hating the X theme? There’s a lot of hype about it, it seems to be “the designer’s dream theme” of 2016. The sales pages are great and it looks like you can create wonders with it in just a couple of hours. And maybe you can…. if you have the energy to…
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Setting Up a WordPress Site
Plan the Site
Step 2 for refreshing the website is to plan the main site pages. Most small businesses can be described in about 4 key pages:- Home page One or more pages about Services or Products About us (the business, organisation or site) Contact details / form Additional useful pages to consider are:- FAQs Examples or samples of work, products…
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Setting Up a WordPress Site
New Look
Step 1 for refreshing the website is to refresh the design. Here is the new look. I hope it works better in terms of providing better visual contrast, more lively look, easier to click on navigation. Next steps are: – Refresh the design – nothing too fancy, just clear and clean and lively Plan the…
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Setting Up a WordPress Site
Refreshing the Website
It’s time to give this website a refresh and that is what my focus is right now. There are times when you realise that your website is not doing all that it could be for you. I had some feedback with comments on the site:- links not working header image conveying the wrong message page…
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Setting Up a WordPress Site
The Best Loop
Template themes which use the more recent format for the loop are more flexible and allow for easier adaptation than older style templates.
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Setting Up a WordPress Site
A Rant about the WordPress Default Kubrick Theme
It looks crisp and clean, it works well as a blog layout and appears to faultlessly embody WordPress. If all you want to do is use it, the Default (Kubrick) theme which comes with WordPress is ideal. But if you want to tailor it, beware…
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Setting Up a WordPress Site
WordPress Functions
Getting to grips with WordPress functions seems to be the only real way into understanding WordPress enough to be comfortable creating and modifying templates, as I want to do. The Function Reference seems a handy link to remember but the Search function rarely seems to find it (perhaps because it’s incomplete), so here is the…
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Setting Up a WordPress Site
The Home Page
Now it’s time to get the look and the layout of the home page just right. The home page can be static, in that its content can be changed by editing via the admin section only, or it can be dynamic, in that all or part of it can be updated whenever a post is added…
