WooThemes Tutorials
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Changing your Wordpress permalink structure
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Posted on 09. Jun, 2009 by Mark Forrester in All Themes
Changing your wordpress permalink structure not only makes Google love you a whole heap more, it also helps in setting up some parts of particular WooThemes. If you haven’t done it before watch this tutorial on how-to and get it…
WP-PostRatings Integration
Posted on 23. Feb, 2009 by Magnus Jepson in All Themes, gotham news
This tutorial was written by one our awesome Woo Ninjas – Jordan Hatch.
Another useful plugin you may want to install on your site is WP-PostRatings. You can get your visitors to rate your posts on a scale of one…
Customizing your theme with Firebug
Posted on 19. Jan, 2009 by Magnus Jepson in All Themes
This tutorial was written by one our awesome forum ninjas – Jordan Hatch.
Firebug is a great add-on extension to the popular web browser Firefox. It can help you make CSS changes in real-time and will help you locate where…
How to add widgets to your theme
Posted on 08. Jan, 2009 by Magnus Jepson in All Themes, Over Easy
This is a video tutorial demonstrating how to add widgets (both standard and custom) to your theme.
How to find page/cat ID
Posted on 08. Jan, 2009 by Magnus Jepson in All Themes
In this video we show you how to find your category and page ID’s, which is useful for setting theme options or for using when you want to exclude or include with wp_list_categories or wp_list_pages in the template files.
How to add an image to a post
Posted on 08. Jan, 2009 by Magnus Jepson in All Themes
Here is a short video tutorial on how to upload an image and add it to your post, so that the dynamic image resizer will work properly. If you are having trouble with the dynamic image resizer (thumb.php), please see our troubleshooter.
Adding Breadcrumbs to VibrantCMS and OverEasy
Posted on 19. Dec, 2008 by Magnus Jepson in Over Easy, VibrantCMS
This tutorial was written by one our awesome forum ninjas – Jordan Hatch.
Both VibrantCMS and Over Easy are themes which turn WordPress into a Content Management System. Using a plugin and some template hacking, we’re going to integrate breadcrumbs…
WP-PageNavi Integration
Posted on 10. Dec, 2008 by Magnus Jepson in All Themes
One common request on our WooThemes Forums is how to integrate the popular <a href=”http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-pagenavi/”>WP-PageNavi plugin with one of our themes. Using this quick and simple tutorial, it is really easy.
Troubleshooting Image Resizer (thumb.php)
Posted on 16. Oct, 2008 by Magnus Jepson in All Themes
In the WooThemes Support Forums, we often find that many problems relate to thumb.php, the automatic image resizer found in most of our themes. To help you with these common problems, we’ve put together a troubleshooting guide to help you find a solution quicker. We will try to add solutions to the most common problems here as they appear in the forum.
How To CHMOD the cache folder
Posted on 04. Oct, 2008 by Magnus Jepson in All Themes
In order for the image resizer to be able to write resized images to the wp-content/themes/theme-name/cache/ folder you have to CHMOD the cache folder within your theme folder. CHMOD 777 (or 755 depending on your server) means simply setting write permission so the script is able to write.
Working with ads
Posted on 29. Sep, 2008 by Magnus Jepson in All Themes
This tutorial will guide you through setting up various types of ads on WooThemes. Some themes may need a little extra tweaking but it shouldn’t be too complex.
Customizing Fresh News background
Posted on 18. Sep, 2008 by Magnus Jepson in Fresh News
Making radical changes to the design of Fresh news can be as simple as editing images, style.css and header.php. It’s important when planning to customize the header, that you decide what elements to keep. All elements except for the logo can be successfully placed elsewhere in your site so you’re not confined to keeping elements the same.
How to create widgets for your themes (part 2)
Posted on 18. Sep, 2008 by Mark Forrester in All Themes
This tutorial was written by one our awesome forum ninjas – Jordan Hatch.
This is the second part of a two-part tutorial showing how to create your own WordPress widgets for your WooThemes. The first part can be found here.…
How to create widgets for your themes
Posted on 12. Sep, 2008 by Mark Forrester in All Themes
In some of our recent theme releases, like FreshFolio and PaperCut, we have included our own widgets which you can use in your sidebar, which have the functionality of ad blocks, Flickr photos and even Twitter feeds. In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how you can create your own widgets , which can work in any theme and have functionality only limited by your imagination.
Customizing The Featured Panel
Posted on 15. Aug, 2008 by Magnus Jepson in VibrantCMS
This is a guest post by Josh Farkas, King Ninja at Cubicle Ninjas. It has been modified from it’s original version to suit the newest version (v1.1) of VibrantCMS.
WooThemes are wonderful because they look beautiful out of the box.…
