WooThemes

WPML: Running WooThemes Multilingual

Posted on 02. Mar, 2010 by Adii Rockstar in All Themes

The WPML plugin allows running multilingual WordPress sites and is fully compatible with all of our themes. In this tutorial, we’ll talk about how to offer multilingual support on your website, how to enter translations and how to create multilingual-ready…

Best Practices When Customizing a WooTheme

Posted on 17. Sep, 2009 by Magnus in All Themes

Many of our users customize their theme from the default look, from just changing the link color to drastically changing the layout and look. Most will dive straight in and modify the code in the theme, which is the easiest…

How to translate a theme

Posted on 26. Aug, 2009 by Magnus in All Themes

How to setup a language file in WordPress
All of our themes have a /lang/ folder, which holds all the translated files, called .po (Portable Object File) and .mo (Machine Object File). To activate WP with your language file you…

How to upgrade your theme

Posted on 24. Aug, 2009 by Magnus in Tutorial

Here are some basic guidelines on how to update a theme to it’s newest version.

Find out which version you have and download
Have you modified your existing version with any modifications to the template files (php and css files)?…

Changing your Wordpress permalink structure

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 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 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 find page/cat ID

Posted on 08. Jan, 2009 by Magnus 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.

Adding Breadcrumbs to VibrantCMS and OverEasy

Posted on 19. Dec, 2008 by Magnus 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 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 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 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 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 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.

Customizing The Featured Panel

Posted on 15. Aug, 2008 by Magnus 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.…