After you upload a new WordPress theme, it won’t change the appearance of your website or blog until you activate it. Activating a new WordPress theme is really simple, and I’ve provided screenshots and instructions for every step of the process. Just follow along, and your new WordPress theme will be activated in a matter of minutes!

The Loop is used by WordPress to display each of your posts. It’s the most important set of PHP codes. Basically, it’s what displays the content you see on your homepage, your single posts, pages, archives, search results, etc. Any HTML or PHP code placed in the Loop will be repeated on each post. The Loop should be placed inside index.php and in any other Templates used to display post information.

Whilst doing some client work recently I needed to display a slightly different archive for each category. The solution, I thought, was to throw if statements (ie if is category archive for ‘Cheese’ then use, else if is ‘Bananas’ use this etc etc) at the category.php file. The trouble was, after doing this twice, it became clear that it was getting very quickly impractical.

Some time ago I decided to give WordPress a try and convert some of my XHTML codes to WordPress. I looked for tutorials on this topic and find a lot of them and the WordPress website has lessons too. But can those tutorials and lessons be really helpful to you if you don’t know PHP and don’t understand the terminology used in them? I was a little bit confused by the huge amount of information at the beginning. So let’s keep it simple at least for now.

Are you running Wordpress? And how are you controlling all options of your current wordpress theme? Wordpress offers you get_option() function to get the options of your wordpress. However, all of default options wordpress gives to you are not enough. You maybe want to add more options that easy to implement on your theme design. How to do that? This tutorial will help you create options and administrate them in wordpress admin page.

If you’re a theme developer, you’ll (perhaps) be looking at keeping up with the latest in javascript/AJAX and incorporating a few tweaks into your brand new theme

Tags are a great way of associating the same type of content together, and they’re something that many bloggers use regularly, but using them effectively? That’s what this post will tell you how to do.

In this post, we will take a look at the options that bloggers and designers have for showing content on the front page, and some reasons for choosing each.

It’s been talked about time and time again … what do we do about the IE6 problem?

Of course, there are a couple of options already available to you: you can make IE6 crash when users visit, you can move on to bigger and better things and ignore IE6 altogether, or you can do like I do and display a little message to IE6 visitors encouraging them to upgrade (this plugin makes that pretty easy).

Althought English is the most represented language over the Internet, it is a good thing to think about people who speak other languages and offer them trabslated WordPress theme. In this step-by-step tutorial, you’ll learn how to take a WordPress theme and make it translatable for any language.