Hello! I just came up with a new theme. Nothing fancy. No images. No galleries. Just plain old text. It looks like a blog design circa 2005. One thing for sure though, it’s fast since there’s not much overhead. This theme is based on the _s framework, a good starter theme kit developed by the WordPress development team themselves. How about that! If you’re interested in learning how the WordPress theme is constructed, download the underscore theme and study its code. You’ll be surprised what you’ll see. You’ll learn quite a bit by analyzing how this theme is constructed. Anyways, I think it’s time to revive this old crusty blog. It’s time to breathe some new life into it. You are probably asking, “where have you been?” Well, I’ve been concentrating on all my other blogs for the last several months. I just didn’t have the cycles to maintain this blog among all the other web projects. So maybe, a new theme will jumpstart the old blog. We shall see, indeed!
Category: WordPress
Twenty Twelve Title Contain No Spaces
There is a conflict between the Twenty Twelve WordPress and the All in One SEO Pack plugin. When the plugin is installed and you happen to be using the Twenty Twelve theme, the result is, there will be no space between your site title and blog title. You’ll notice this if you look at the title bar of your browser. After a couple of searches, I found a fix online. It involves editing the Twenty Twelve functions.php file and commenting out line 185 which contains the code below.
You will need to change:
add_filter( 'wp_title', 'twentytwelve_wp_title', 10, 2 ); |
and comment out:
// add_filter( 'wp_title', 'twentytwelve_wp_title', 10, 2 ); |
Also, you need to clear your browser cache to see results.
Twenty Twelve Theme
I recently changed themes from a custom made one, that I’ve used for a long time, to a theme called Twenty Twelve, the current WordPress default theme. I made one slight change though which alters the entire look of the theme. I changed font from the default ‘Open Sans’ to ‘Lato’ which is available from Google. To facilitate the change, I’m using my Webfonts plugin and this CSS code:
#page {font-family:'Lato', sans-serif;} |
WordPress 3.5 Media Manager
I recently upgraded to WordPress 3.5. One thing about WordPress updates, they are super easy. One of the best features of WordPress 3.5 is the new Media Manager. Uploading images is a breeze. Just drag and drop a file, or manually choose file and click. Viewing previous uploaded images in the Media Library is a total experience now. Thumbnails of recent uploads are displayed in rows and columns, and they are scrollable. Selecting an image and inserting it to a post is way too easy. Kudos to the development team for a fantastic job with this upgrade, and especially with the work on the new Media Manager.
Tricky WordPress Multisite Setup
I was converting a regular WordPress blog to a Multisite blog the other day. I got stuck in the part where I needed to edit the wp-config.php file. I applied the changes to wp-config.php as suggested in the installation instructions. The problem was I wasn’t seeing the Multisite menus you would normally find under ‘My Sites’ inside the WordPress Dashboard. The installation instructions tells you to add the following lines to your wp-config.php file.
/** Enable WordPress Multisite */ define('WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE', true); define('MULTISITE', true); define('SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL', false); $base = '/'; define('DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE', 'domain.com'); define('PATH_CURRENT_SITE', '/'); define('SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1); define('BLOG_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1); |
It was a silly mistake on my part. I placed these entries at the end of the wp-config file. It is important that these lines remain above the absolute path statement and before the wp-settings are loaded. See below.
/* That's all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */ /** Absolute path to the WordPress directory. */ if ( !defined('ABSPATH') ) define('ABSPATH', dirname(__FILE__) . '/'); /** Sets up WordPress vars and included files. */ require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-settings.php'); |
Keep these lines at the end of the wp-config.php file.