What’s New in August 2010

Posted on August 7, 2010 by Jose Guerra

It seems like there have not been any updates in months; however, there has been a lot of work being done behind the scenes. So what has been updated since the last article was written on the site?

First the site has been moved to a new domain, the old domain is going to serve a new purpose as an ecommerce website. I’ve developed a new theme to display the content of this site and new future themes will be coming. More updates will continue and tutorials will be up to date. I hope that in the up coming weeks I’ll be able to develop more tutorials on child themes and specifically extensive tutorials on Buddypress.

In my current project I’ve developed a custom made Buddypress child theme which seems to be working well so far. I’ve yet to test the browser compatibility and in specific IE6 compatiblity. For now anyone can preview the Buddypress theme at: http://www.provo2.com/membersarea. Stay tuned for future updates.

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WordPress Child Theme Fundamentals

Posted on October 20, 2009 by Jose Guerra

source_phpThis lesson will cover the very fundamentals of what a WordPress child theme is and how the basic structure looks like. In a future lesson I will go into how to create an actual child theme and the coding process.

So what is a child theme?

To begin we must first talk about what a regular theme in WordPress is. A theme is any design that you create and place in the WordPress theme folder. Of course there is a specific structure to have and a specific style sheet code that must be in place in order for your theme to be recognized by WordPress.

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Add an Amazon aStore to WordPress

Posted on October 19, 2009 by Jose Guerra

Adding streams of income to your blog can come in many forms, but one of the popular and easy ways to do this is to get an Amazon aStore. Once you have an aStore, you may one to integrate it into your WordPress blog. This tutorial builds upon the previous tutorial on how to build a custom page in WordPress.

Click here for the previous tutorial.

astoreIf you followed the instructions of the previous tutorial, then you have already created a custom page with no sidebar. What we need to make sure of is that this custom page we create has a blank space of at least 800px.

Once your custom page is created with no sidebar, then all you do is create a new page in your admin section and paste your Amazon aStore code into the post. Make sure that you have selected the “HTML” view instead of “Visual”. Otherwise it won’t work properly. You can adjust your iframe settings in the code to fit your page the best and then publish your page. And that is all there is to it. Enjoy.

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