Questions tagged [wordpress-theming]

The WordPress Theme system is the way to style your WordPress powered weblog / website.

WordPress is an open source CMS (content management system) running on PHP as backhanded and MySQL as database often used as a blog engine.

Fundamentally, the WordPress Theme system is a way to "skin" your weblog. Yet, it is more than just a "skin". Skinning your site implies that only the design is changed. WordPress Themes can provide much more control over the look and presentation of the material on your website. A WordPress Theme is working as a Plugin inside WordPress and has access to the same functions and functionalities.

Official Theme Directory.

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Note: If your question is very specific to WordPress than rather use Stack Exchange WordPress Q&A site.


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How can I get the current page name in WordPress?

What PHP code can be used to retrieve the current page name in a WordPress theme? All the solutions I have seen so far: the_title() get_page()->post_name get_post() etc. But these don't work for a page that contains post entries. They will all…
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WordPress asking for my FTP credentials to install plugins

I installed a WordPress blog in my local system. But when I try to add plugins from admin it asks for FTP access. What do I need to configure for WordPress to be able to upload without FTP?
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Get current category ID of the active page

Looking to pull the category ID of a specific page in WordPress that is listing all posts using that specific category. Tried the below but not working. I am able to get the category name using single_term_title. $category = single_term_title("",…
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The requested URL /about was not found on this server

The home page of my wordpress website seems to be displaying correctly but if you click through to any of the other pages I get the following error message: Not Found The requested URL /about was not found on this server. Apache/2 Server at…
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Wordpress Docker won't increase upload limit

I am trying to increate the upload limit of my Dockerized Wordpress instance to 150M. [filename] exceeds the maximum upload size for this site. I have created an uploads.ini file and attached it by volume to the instance. Yet I still can't get the…
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Redirect after Login on WordPress

I'm creating a customized WordPress theme based on an existing site. I want to use an alternate dashboard which I have created. How can I have the user directed to 'news.php' after login instead of '/wp-admin/' ? -- EDIT: Have a working Plug-in for…
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How to add Class in
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  • I am using wp_nav_menu($args) and I want to add my_own_class CSS classname to the
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    Can Wordpress be replaced by a Framework like Django or Ruby on Rails?

    I consider myself a well trained WordPress template developer, and i recently started to read books and documents about web app frameworks, particularly Django and Ruby on Rails. I didn't know any of the two languages, but i have no problems to…
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    WordPress path url in js script file

    I added custom script: wp_enqueue_script('functions', get_bloginfo('template_url') . '/js/functions.js', 'search', null, false); It works great, except in the functions.js I have: Reset.style.background = "url('../images/searchfield_clear.png')…
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    How to disable theme updates on WordPress to avoid losing my changes?

    I was trying to modify a template to should use a Child-theme (using WordPress) so, when parent template updates I wont lose my changes. Well, the problem is that I created a template using parts of other templates. I was thinking about set my style…
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    How do I create different editable sections within a WordPress page?

    I have been building my first theme on WordPress and have run into problem while adding content into different sections. My HTML is somewhat like this,
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    <-- Text and Images…
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    How to integrate WordPress template with CodeIgniter

    How can CodeIgniter and WordPress be integrated such that the look and feel/template of the WordPress blog is carried over to the CodeIgniter-created pages?
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    How do I generate a custom menu/sub-menu system using wp_get_nav_menu_items in WordPress?

    I have an html structure that requires customization of the wp_nav_menu code. This is the html I need to generate:
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    Template Dropdown not showing up within Wordpress administrator page

    I am working on a Wordpress-based project, and I just added a new template to the installation by uploading a template file. I was creating a new page that will use my new template, when suddenly, the "Template" dropdown in the "Page Attributes" box…
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    WooCommerce - where can I edit HTML generated by hooks?

    I'm new to WooCommerce. Anyhow, I want to create my own theme, so I followed the guidelines and copied accross the core template files to /mywordpresstheme/woocommerce/. That all works great and I'm editing the templates just fine. However, the way…
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