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Creating a WordPress Theme from Scratch: Getting Started

Creating a WordPress Theme from Scratch: Getting Started

There are actually only two files that you need to get a basic theme up and running: index.php and style.css. If you add these to a new theme folder (wp-content/themes/new-theme-dir/) then you can choose your theme from the dashboard (Appearance->Themes):   To populate this data with the details of your theme, you need to create an initial comment in the style.css file like so (I called my theme Raul just because…): /* Theme Name: Raul Theme URI: http://www.dezco.co.uk/ Description: A nice clean…

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Creating a WordPress Theme from Scratch

Creating a WordPress Theme from Scratch

I recently started creating a WordPress theme from scratch. I did this so I could understand a few things: The back-end of WordPress and how it fits together How plugins, widgets and themes are constructed How to create dynamic web-pages for mobile devices using CSS3 and HTML5 Creating everything from the ground up helps the understanding of how things fit together – but if you just want to get something working then there are plenty of other themes out there that…

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Facebook Like Button: Add it to your WordPress or other Website

Facebook Like Button: Add it to your WordPress or other Website

A nice thing to have on each of your blog posts or web pages is a like button from Facebook which will allow users to like individual posts. This will help you gauge how people have received each post in comparison to others. With the like button, there is a nice feature to prompt the user to share it to their feed. This will exposure your post to more people (you should be able to try it above – you…

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Startup Funding: TrainE TraidE

Startup Funding: TrainE TraidE

I wanted to raise awareness TrainE TraidE that helps to train young people in job hunting skills, such as CV writing, mentoring and seminars. And recently they have taken advantage of the generous government scheme to give cheap loans to startups. If you are looking for a place for a loan for a startup business then TrainE TraidE is a great place to go as they can sign off on budgets quickly and efficiently. They can also help connect you to…

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BPA Free Bottles

BPA Free Bottles

A good friend of mine, who is both a dentist and personal trainer, has already written about the perils of BPA bottles of water. BPA is short for Bisphenol A which has been proven to cause changes in hormone levels (particularly oestrogen) as well as having carcinogenic effects – particularly in women causing breast cancer. I recently ordered some (personalised) bottles from http://www.onegreenbottle.com/ which look great and are a lot better than drinking from regular plastic bottles. This website has also been setup to donate some of…

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Keeping Things Clean: Broken Factory Windows

Keeping Things Clean: Broken Factory Windows

At my Computer Science course at university we were taught about code cleanliness. An anecdote to describe needing to keep everything you do “clean” was to think of a traditional factory with lots of small windows. If one window is broken should you fix it? It is just one small window and there are many many more windows, so functionally it doesn’t really matter. One window broken isn’t going to destroy the factory. However it sets a precedence for the rest…

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Setting up a WordPress Blog Website (live and staging/testing versions)

Setting up a WordPress Blog Website (live and staging/testing versions)

I wanted to document the “proper” way to setup a WordPress blog on your server with a decent staging/test server. To start off it is probably worth mentioning why WordPress is a great system to use. It is probably one of the oldest but continually updated pieces of software out there for blogs. Not only does it work well with blogs and dynamic websites but it can be used to create a static set of pages in a very easy…

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Hacking the Twitter Ultimate-WordPress Plugin

Hacking the Twitter Ultimate-WordPress Plugin

QUICKFIX: replace twitter.js with the contents of this file in the Twitter Ultimate Plugin via the editor in WordPress. Also upload this file‘s contents to a new file called twitter-proxy.php in the directory: wp-content/plugins/twitter_ultimate/ Fill in the details of this last file with the keys from your new app which you set up here. (This file is my original file with the lines I have changed annotated if you get stuck) A friend on mine recently had an issue with…

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External Hard Disk Drive (HDD) Review: Touro MX3 and My Passport by Western Digital

External Hard Disk Drive (HDD) Review: Touro MX3 and My Passport by Western Digital

I recently purchased a new external hard drive to help me consolidate my music/movie/photo library from the various places it is around the world (e.g. my Dad’s computer, Mum’s laptop, my laptop, backed up on a few servers etc…). Since new hard drives are getting ridiculously cheap (from what I used to remember) I picked up a new one for just about £50 from Amazon  which has 1TB of storage and is powered by USB (basically a small wallet sized…

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Breaking the iPhone (4S) Cover and Back

Breaking the iPhone (4S) Cover and Back

Whilst cycling to Cambridge one day I hit a pot hole so hard that the iPhone case on my handle bars swung open and the phone fell on it’s face breaking the screen. Thinking it was my fault for not securing it correctly I kept the iPhone holder and lo and behold a few weeks later the same thing happened after I replaced the screen. There are several ways to replace an iPhone screen. Supposedly Apple will do it for…

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