Tag Archives: child theme

Styling Navigation Background Colors (1.6+)

By Steve Lambert | Published: August 4, 2010

With the 1.6 version of WPFolio I added a drop down menu bar. The default hover and background styles are shades of grey. The background colors in the navigation menu can be changed using your child theme the code snippet below. WPFolio version 1.6 includes a sample child theme for adding your own modifications. These modifications stay separate from WPFolio so you can update and keep your tweaks. The code below should help you get started. Add a color value after “background:” and before the semicolon. You can use hex values (or rgba if you care to be so bold).

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Insert gallery with 4 images across using a child theme (1.6+)

By Steve Lambert | Published: July 31, 2010

When adding an image gallery to a post WordPress’ default is to have 3 images across. While you it’s possible to select 4 across when selecting options for the gallery or by changing the options in the gallery shortcode, it won”t display correctly. If you add the following code to an activated child theme, you can use 4 image across galleries (but be aware your old 3 across galleries will start to look off). WPFolio version 1.6 includes a sample child theme for adding your own modifications. These modifications stay separate from WPFolio so you can update and keep your tweaks.

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Adding rounded accents with a child theme (1.6+)

By Steve Lambert | Published: July 27, 2010

Read up on using child themes to modify your theme files. If you have trouble, check out the troubleshooting area. WPFolio version 1.6 includes a sample child theme for adding your own modifications. These modifications stay separate from WPFolio so you can update WPFolio in the future and keep your tweaks. One change you may want to add is to add rounded corners to your design. The following code snippet, added to your child theme’s style.css file will add these rounded corners.

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Upgrading to 1.6

By Steve Lambert | Published: July 18, 2010

Exciting – WPFolio 1.6 is almost here. And with it, all kinds of new features and improvements. This post will go over what you can expect when you update and how to have your site looking at it’s best quickly and easily. WPFolio 1.6 takes advantage of features in WordPress 3.0. When you update, you’ll need to make a few adjustments to your theme to make it current. You will also want to experiment with some of the new features. So, why not start by watching this exciting video on WordPress 3.0? Updating First, WPFolio 1.6 requires WordPress 3.0 and up. It’s highly recommended to keep WordPress, your themes, and [...]

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Modifying Theme Files

WPFolio handles the majority of changes users make to their site – in the theme options you can modify fonts, colors, the site background, navigation, and the sidebar. But what if you want to do more? Then you can use WPFolio as a starting point and modify the theme files to do whatever you like! Two important notes on modifying WPFolio theme files: It helps to have some knowledge of HTML, CSS, and maybe PHP, but not a lot. Reading up on the WordPress Support Forums, well crafted searches online, and reading up will go a long way. Make your changed in a child theme. Let me say that again: [...]

Changing Colors and Fonts

Because WPFolio features Theme Options, you can change the colors and fonts of the WPFolio theme without changing the scary, scary, CSS code or template files – which really are not that scary. 1. In the WordPress dashboard click on the tab Appearance. 2. Choose the option Current Theme Options These options allow you to customize your site’s fonts and colors. Fonts The selection of fonts provided are web-safe fonts that will work on most computers. One should work well for you. (Super fancy fonts may not be available on everyone’s machine. Getting around that involves some coding. That’s just the way it is.) To change the fonts simply select [...]

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