There are a number of files that you can work on while you are building a theme. All of your Themes will involve the style.css file, and one or more PHP files. PHP, as you may remember, is a server side language. It will allow us to access the database, include external files, and more….
Menus are used to provide a way for end users to navigate through your website. You could require users to use the search widget, however, that would not be the easiest way to use your website, in most cases. To access your menus, go to Appearance > Menus. You theme will have one or more…
Forms is the most common way you will get information from your users. However, given the responsive nature of Bootstrap, you do not know how users will normally come to you – therefore you have to be careful of how you design your forms. A class=”form-control” can be used to make <input>, <select>, and <textarea>…
Creating a navigation is extremely important for any website. How you define and use your navigation will often define how well your site will perform. The navbar is the set of classes that Bootstrap uses to help you work on defining, building, and displaying your site navigation. It is also responsive, and if the browser…
Widgets are small sections of a website which allows you to add special content, or features, to different parts of your website. Traditionally, these were found in the website’s sidebar, however, you can place a widget anywhere you want. Usually Widgets are stand alone, meaning they don’t interact with one another, however, this is not…
What is a Theme A theme in WordPress helps us define how our website looks. It consists of a CSS style sheet named styles.css. (This file name must be used.) At the top of the stylesheet, there will be a CSS comment. WordPress looks at this comment to learn about the theme. It will look…
Responsive images are fairly easy to control, both in and out of Bootstrap. Generally, the problem will be that we need to make sure an image doesn’t expand past the size of its containing element if it is going to potentially be scaled down. This can be done in CSS with max-width: 100% Bootstrap gives…
You will often need to add a button to a webpage. This could be for a form, or part of an interface where you are wanting to create a special link to a page. Generally you can use the button tag, although you can also use a anchor tag. You will want to add some…
