The beauty of WordPress is in how easy it is to adapt for different tasks. One can extend it with just a couple of lines of code. In this post, we’ll review 10 shortcode snippets that will tweak and optimize your WordPress theme. You can add all of these code snippets to the functions.php file in your WordPress theme.
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Creating WordPress tutorials is a fantastic way to help build the WordPress community and to increase your Web traffic. That’s no secret. Just Google “wordpress tutorial” and you’ll see hundreds of results. The complete novice will find scores of well-written tutorials clearly demonstrating the basics of the WordPress dashboard and of activating the default template, in simple jargon-free language.
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When I took my first steps into the WordPress theme arena, I didn’t know much about it. I wandered blindly into the business, not knowing whether I was doing things correctly. Over time, through trial and error and making rookie mistakes, I learned some valuable lessons and gained important insights. To save you from going down the same winding path, I’ll share some of the important takeaways that I’ve learned so far, like how to gain a solid user base, what to include in your themes and, most importantly, what to leave out.
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Another freebie! Designed by Tokokoo and released exclusively for Smashing Magazine and its readers, find a theme dedicated to shops that sell products for children.
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Fifth edition of our round-up of WordPress 2011 themes. Most of them can be tailored via the optionspanel to be anything you want, whether a portfolio, a content-heavy magazine-style website or a basic blog. Setting one up takes only 10 minutes.
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We bring you a another freebie: a Prestashop and WordPress e-commerce theme called Velvet Sky. Developed by DapurPixel, the warm, natural brown colours within the theme will hopefully provide your customers with a very calm and engaging environment.
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In this article we present another freebie: the modern and responsive WordPress theme “Yoko”. Designed by designers Ellen and Manuel from Elmastudio and released for the Web design community.
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Steven Gliebe shares information to help you compare the details of popular WordPress theme clubs, and more easily determine which membership-based theme providers are worth their investment.
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Last year, WordPress launched arguably its biggest update ever: WordPress 3.0. Accompanying this release was the brand new default theme, TwentyTen, and the promise of a new default theme every year.
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In this post, four exclusive minimal, clean WordPress themes designed by Marios Lublinski and released for web design community. Each one comes with a full video overview and support of how to use and manage it!
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