Style Simple Social Icons plugin In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to adjust the setting of the Simple Social icons plugin, so that you can display the widget in different locations on your site, using different colors. By default, the Simple Social Icons plugin will retain the same styling if you have the widget in two locations. This means, for example, if you have it in both

I recently received a support ticket from someone wanting to set the Pretty Happy subscribe widget to just appear on the home page. By default, the Pretty Happy theme displays the subscribe widget above the content on every page. In order to accomplish this, we need to create a front-page.php file, which the Pretty Happy theme does not use. To get started, we will need to delete the subscription widget

Each of the StudioPress themes uses plugins to enhance the functionality of the theme. Installing the plugins recommended by the theme is usually done as soon as you have installed and activated your desired child theme. There are two methods of installing a plugin through your WordPress dashboard. The easier method is to install by performing a search. In order to do this, your desired plugin must be in the

The Pretty Chic theme by Pretty Darn Cute is an elegant blog theme, with a gorgeous color. The main features of the theme are the sticky header, the widgetized home page, and the width of the theme. In a time when so many themes are taking advantage of wider monitors, the Pretty Chic theme takes us back to the day when most themes had a “standard” width of 960px. Many

I’ve recently had a request to add a widget area to the primary navigation of the Fun theme, in order to display the Simple Social Icons. First, we’ll need to register the widget. Open your functions.php file, and add the following: Once we’ve registered the widget, we will need to “hook” it, which sets the location for the widget. Add this to your functions.php file: Finally, it’s time to style

I recently received a support question from a client wanting to know how to change the color of the text in the WordPress Admin Bar. In the Pretty Chic theme, one of the theme’s color options is Navy, which is a beautiful color, but if you’re using the WordPress default color scheme, which has a black admin bar, the text color can get lost in that black background. To change

I recently received a support ticket from someone wanting to add in an additional widget area to their site using the Fun theme, like John & Sherry had done on their Young House Love blog, which also uses Fun. I love the way that John and Sherry have personalized the Fun theme to give their own spin on it, from additional widgets on the home page, to specific category layouts

A post is an entry that will display in chronological order with your most recent post at the top on any page using the “blog” template. Posts will publish to your site’s RSS feed.To create a post: Log into your WordPress Dashboard Click the Posts tab Click Add New Start writing by entering a Post Title, and then adding content into the main post editing box. If desired, add a category

Obviously, I love the Elise theme – it’s a theme which is close to my heart 🙂 I created the theme with bloggers in mind, and for that reason, I wanted to keep the theme simple, but I’ve recently had a request to add a landing page template to the theme. This is pretty straightforward to accomplish. The first thing you will need to do is to create a file