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How to properly hide the title of your blog?

This is one of the most common customizations that people want to do in their wordpress blog.
They want to hide their site’s title from displaying at their header. It is most probably because their header image already has it as part of the image itself.
Lets take a look at the most common approaches people take, [...]

Filed in CSS Tips, Common Theme Issues, WordPress Tips | 18 responses so far

Sidebar drops down !

Lets take a look at one of the most common problems with the wordpress sites.

The sidebar does not stay on the side, and it falls down to be below the content area.

and the thing is, it is not consistently doing so. Sometimes it is just happening in IE and sometimes it happens only on certain [...]

Filed in Common Theme Issues, WordPress Tips | 25 responses so far

Working with Pages in WordPress

WordPress allows you to create ‘Pages’ within the wordpress blog.
Anytime you want to write something like an about page / a contact page / an article page, you would use this feature.
Most of our themes displays a list of pages as navigational elements at the top. We use the wp_list_pages() method, so any new page [...]

Filed in Common Theme Issues, WordPress Tips | 10 responses so far

Image Overflow Issue

Andy is giving a solution for the most common issue among many themes. Whenever an image in the post, is too big for the content ‘div’, it breaks the layout and make the sidebar to shift down, thus making a bad-looking website.
The solution to this ‘most common issue’ is to add a stylesheet declaration “overflow:hidden” [...]

Filed in Common Theme Issues | One response so far