Wordpress theme: Beauty Style

Wordpress theme Beauty Style is, as its name showing,  a beauty and style theme. It is a 2 columns theme, with slide and glide included on first page, with sidebar and two menus – one for pages and one for categories. It have a good design with a good look. And is free, the reason [...]

Wordpress 3.0: Make your theme compatible with WordPress 3.0 menus

WordPress 3.0 is going to feature a totally new menu system, which will allow users to add only the desired pages, add categories, and more. Good news for theme developers; adding WP 3.0 menu support to your themes is extremely easy.
To do so, open functions.php and add the following line:

Wordpress 3.0:Style WordPress editor using CSS

WordPress features a WYSIWYG editor, which allow you to see text in bold, italic, and so on. But some people want more, such as being able to visualize their blog post in the blog font and colors.
This new feature allows you to create a css file (named editor-style.css in the example below) and link it to [...]

Wordpress 3.0:Add custom backgrounds

WordPress 3.0 is introducing a new feature that will for sure be loved by non tech-friendly users: Custom background. The feature allows the user to upload a background in his WordPress dashboard, specify its position, and automatically have it added to his blog.
You can do that by addding the following code in the functions.php file:

<pre>add_custom_background();</pre>

Wordpress 3.0: Custom author profiles

Most of the top blogs of the industry do not have a single author but a team of different contributors. WordPress allows you to create author pages, but WordPress 3.0 is introducing a new function which will allow you to use different templates for different authors, like we can currently do with categories.
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Wordpress 3.0: Enable multisite feature

One of the most exiting new feature of WordPress 3.0 is definitely multisite management. In brief, with a single installation of WordPress you’ll be able to run a network of WordPress blog.
You can do that by adding the following code:

<pre>define(‘WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE’, true);</pre>

Wordpress 3.0: Query custom post types

In Wordpress 3.0 you can create custom types of post.
Good news for developers, there’s nothing hard or new in the process. Custom post types can be retrieved easily, using the WP_Query object.
The following example will create a custom loop which will get only the albums custom post type.

Custom post types with custom taxonomies

Creating a custom post type associated with custom taxonomies. For those who don’t know, a taxonomy is a term (such as category, tag or anything else) related to posts. For more information about taxonomies, you should have a look at WordPress Codex.

15 website to get your free wordpress template

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How to create a custom post type in Wordpress 3.0

Wordpress 2.9 currently have two types of articles: post and pages.
WordPress 3.0 comes with an important novelty: types of articles.
What is so special ?

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