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Tips and Tricks For Our WordPress Themes

(1) After you Activate our Theme, you will notice a new section in your WordPress Dashboard located at Appearance > Footer. The default dummy links you see using the “#” character require a special editing procedure to work properly. If you wish to insert your own links, please enter URL’s with NO “quotes” and then click Save Changes. Don’t use “quotes” anywhere in your custom Footer.

EXAMPLE: <a href=”http://www.yoursite.com”>Contact Us<a/> Will NOT work
EXAMPLE: <a href=http://www.yoursite.com>Contact Us<a/> This works
Valid EXAMPLE which includes styles and note that the last link for Privacy Statement opens in a new window:

<!– Footer code below –>
<div class=Footer-text>
<p>
<a href=http://www.yoursite.com>Contact Us</a> | <a href=http://www.yoursite.com>Terms of Use</a> | <a href=http://www.yoursite.com>Trademarks</a>
| <a href=http://www.yoursite.com target=_blank>Privacy Statement</a><br /></p>
Copyright © 2009 Your Site. All Rights Reserved.
</div>
<!– End code above –>

(2) We anticipate that some of you may wish to insert your own custom links in our Themes. These appear at the very bottom of the page. The file named “footer_CUSTOM_edit_this.php” located in the “extras_for_you” folder permits you to do this. Please see the comments in this file which should be renamed “footer.php” AFTER you have backed up your original file and edited it. Use your favorite FTP client to do this or change the permissions if you wish to perform these edits inside the WordPress Dashboard.

(3) I am always amazed by the creative uses of our Themes. Some Blogs are very personal and reflect the day to day Posts of the owner. Our Themes have a “mood” so Judy decided that when she is feeling a little depressed she switches her default WordPress Theme to “Long Walk” and on other days when life is grand, she switches to “Happy Day” or “Orange Soda”. It sounded wacky at first, but she reports that her visitors love it and they keep coming back to see which Theme she is using for a given day. Sometimes they even argue with each other in the Posts about the validity of a given Theme or that they hate the colors.

(4) All our Themes include timing code/data for you to use. View the source code of any page and at the bottom you will find:

<!– 22 queries. 1.517 seconds. –>
<div></div>
</body>
</html>

(5) We have removed our branding from all of our Resale Rights Themes. You can insert your own branding and generate viral growth. Plus we have more tips inside our ReadMe.txt. Back up your style.css and open a copy in your favorite Notepad like editor. At the top you will see:

/*
Theme Name: Berry Cubes
Theme URI:
Description: Berry Cubes. Use 125 x 125 advert cubes on the Sidebar. Fast loader.
Version:
Author:
Author URI:
Tags: fixed width, left sidebar, two columns, valid XHTML, valid XHTML, widgets
*/

Be carefull in this section or you will break the Theme and we do not support these tweaks but they work. Here is a valid example:

/*
Theme Name: Berry Cubes
Theme URI: http://www.yourdomain.com
Description: Insert your own text here. Keep typing. Having fun. Remember, your users look at this copy every time they view their Themes. Created and tweaked by <a href=”http://www.mydomain.com”>Funky Duck Productions</a> for planet Mars.
Version: 1.0.1
Author: Joe Smith
Author URI: http://www.mydomain.com
Tags: black, cubes, ducks, two column, wide sidebar, fast as lightning, always cool, hot, money
*/

(6) Their is no shortage of social bookmark Plugins and services for your Blog. Dozens of them. However, I was looking for something lean and mean that didn’t involve more load. Our Tan Cubes Theme contains this sliver of code in index.php

<div class=”PostHeaderIcons metadata-icons”>
<?php echo implode(’ | ‘, $icons); ?>
<!– email page link tweak –>
| Help Us Grow: <a href=”mailto:?subject=<?php the_title();
?>&body=<?php the_permalink() ?>” title=”Email this article link to a friend!”>Email this article link to a friend</a>
<!– END email page link tweak –>
</div>

This relies on your installed Email client. I also placed this code in a different location inside page.php and you could also tweak single.php and other places if you are so inclined. Change permission to 666 if you edit via the WordPress Dashboard.

(7) If you do a lot of FTP work like I do, no single client on Planet earth seems fast enough. I thought I had tried them all. Imagine my delight when I saw the claims of 3D-FTP. Yea I thought at first. Sure it’s 20X faster, I muttered to myself. Guess what? Those claims provided me with at least a 6x improvment. Uploads that used to take a couple of minutes have been reduced to seconds. I uploaded and overwrote the enitire 2.8 upgrade in less than 3 minutes. This single FTP client will save me numerous hours in a month. Iv’e already recaptured the paltry $39.95 cost. Trust me! No affiliate links or payola for me. Download the trial and see first hand.

(8) Version 2.8 has some Theme management improvements. Navigate to Dashboard > Appearance > Add New Themes. Click the Upload link at the top of your screen and then the Browse button to locate one of your Theme .zip files on your computer. Click the Install Now button and then enter your FTP password. WordPress grabs your .zip and installs same in your /wp-content/themes folder. At the conclusion of this procedure you have the option to Preview, Activate, or Return to your Theme page. I’m not convinced that this new feature works. The first time I tested this new feature, WordPress appears to have transfered screenshot.png using ASCii and not Binary so the Theme image was broken.

(9) You can elimnate our Header graphic and the Blog Title and Tag Line clikable text and use your own Header image.

Original Code in header.php Bolded code is removed:

New code to insert and replace. Bolded code to use:

Although we do not support this tweak, if you can use a graphics program and edit header.php you should be fine. Please back up your header.php before you start.

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