WordPress Tips, Tricks & Hacks Newsletter
Issue #1
You’ve worked hard on your WordPress website’s content, and now it’s time to share it. A floating share box keeps those oh-so-important social media buttons close at hand, no matter where users find themselves on the site. We’ll show you how to set up a box that includes Facebook, Twitter, and Google+, floats on the lower left hand side of the page, and auto-hides if the user’s browser window is too small.
Permalink structure is an important consideration for any website, and it’s especially crucial to get it right before your WordPress site has grown to hundreds of posts. Choose the wrong structure initially, and you may find yourself with dozens of orphaned pages when you switch to a new one. Not to worry: we’ve got you covered.
We recommend against the typical /%category%/%postname% structure that is often recommended for SEO purposes. Why would we go and do that, you ask? Take it away, WordPress Codex:
Tabs and accordions add functionality to your site that is not only beautiful, but intuitive. Every visitor, from the seasoned programmer to the novice PC user, knows what to do when he sees a set of tabs. Accordions, on the other hand, can save an awful lot of screen real estate and let a user view content at her own pace.
While there are a number of plugins that can add this functionality to your WordPress site (in fact, we’ve got a dandy one right here), what if you’d rather code it directly into your site? Look no further. Using a few simple jQuery scripts, we’ll show you how to add tabs, toggles, and accordions.To add tabs to a single.php you should create:
Have you ever wanted to spice up your blog by implementing something that many other blogs don’t have? Well now you can. Here are step-by-step instructions on how to add an icon to your menu items within your WP theme. This is a great little function that will add visibility and style to your blog.
Let’s discuss adding icons to menu items using WP’s standard TwentyTen theme as an example.This is the default theme that WordPress provides you with when you start a new blog, so we wanted to use this theme as our main example.
Dr Patrick McNally PhD
