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Add more Google Fonts to options

Posted on 24. Jan, 2012 by in Tutorials

The WooFramework comes with integrated Google Fonts in the options panel, and we try to update these fonts regularly so new ones are added for you to use. Let’s look at a method for you to use if your font isn’t available in the options. Open up your theme’s functions.php and add this simple function: [...]

Replace menu item with an icon

Posted on 20. Jan, 2012 by in Tutorials

Here is a simple guide on how to replace a menu item with an icon. For this example we’ll replace the “Home” item in our Canvas demo. First, lets find a nice home icon. If you go to IconFinder you can search for “home” and find many nice ones. We’re going to use this one, [...]

An introduction to LESS CSS

Posted on 22. Nov, 2011 by in Tutorials

If you’ve had a look under-the-hood of WooCommerce or any of our new themes you may have noticed some unusual .less files that accompany our normal .css files. In this post I will explain those files, and introduce the Woo community to a CSS pre-processor which is taking the web design world by storm; LESS [...]

Canvas: How-To Tutorials

Posted on 30. Jun, 2011 by in Tutorials

We’ve written a large amount of simple how-to’s on how to modify Canvas, so you can customize and learn how to be a master WooNinja!

Find your Feedburner ID for email subscription

Posted on 21. May, 2011 by in Tutorials

Many of our new themes feature a Subscribe & Connect feature which asks for your Feedburner ID to enable e-mail subscription to your blog. Here is how to find the Feedburner ID: Log in to your Feedburner account Click on Publicize in the main menu Click on Email Subscriptions and activate it if not already [...]

Customizing a Child Theme

Posted on 09. Jul, 2010 by in Tutorials

Table of Contents Overview Getting Started Example: Edit stylesheet Example: Edit template files Pluggable functions Adding functions with hooks and filters TEMPLATEPATH vs STYLESHEETPATH Alt styles Child theme support 1. Overview Before we start it’s important that you understand what a child theme is. Read this guide from the WordPress Codex and also read a [...]

Customizing theme options through a child theme

Posted on 08. Jul, 2010 by in Tutorials

You can use these functions in either your parent theme functions.php, or in your child themes functions.php. They will add options and fields to custom settings panel. You can find more info on how to add options in the WooCodex. Adding new options If you want to add more options to the options panel, you [...]

WPML: Running WooThemes Multilingual

Posted on 02. Mar, 2010 by in Tutorials

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 theme modifications. Setup Get the plugin and install it. The setup wizard will guide you [...]

Best Practices When Customizing a WooTheme

Posted on 17. Sep, 2009 by in Tutorials

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 way to do it. But this leaves the problem of updating the theme in the [...]

How to translate a theme

Posted on 26. Aug, 2009 by in Tutorials

Before we start Setup WordPress Translate using Codestyling Localization plugin Updating a theme Translating a child theme Before we start All our themes will support localization and include a language file (.po or .pot file) which contains all the English texts. You can find this language file inside the theme folder in themename/lang/. Setup WordPress [...]

How to update your theme and framework

Posted on 24. Aug, 2009 by in Tutorials

Here are some basic guidelines on how to update a theme and framework to it’s latest version. Find your version number Have you made modifications? Updating modified template files The WooFramework How to update the WooFramework How to manually update the WooFramework Video Tutorial Find your version number 1. Check which version you are running [...]

Customizing your theme with Firebug

Posted on 19. Jan, 2009 by in Tutorials

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 the CSS rules are defined and where in the file they are. It makes it even easier to customise any WooTheme. This tutorial is going to go through [...]

Troubleshooting Image Resizer (thumb.php)

Posted on 16. Oct, 2008 by in Tutorials

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 in Tutorials

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.