I have done a tutorial about writing WordPress plugins but this tutorial was bad. The teacher said about creating widgets and shortcodes (adding an option to that) but a lot of plugins can display it's options in other places. For example - the Yoast plugin can display it's an option on the page to create a new page. I don't know even how to find information about that. Could you give me a link or said me how can I find that?
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The site is a charity site, which is expected to have a news feed of goings on within the charity and events. Most of the home page is complete. But I don't know exactly how to write the code for an article in bootstrap, so that when I upload it to WordPress, it will interact properly. Allowing me to create new articles, remove old ones, etc. I either need to find out how to do this, or find out if I can use plugins to give me the same effect. This is my first time using WordPress. If you know of even a tutorial or something that helps with the news feed being built in bootstrap to work in WordPress, I would be over the moon. Thank you to anyone who offers their help!
I've tried to find an answer online but all I get are pre-built news theme suggestions. I guess there just that many it drowns out any answers.
The short answer is no.
A bootstrap theme is just a static page. (HTML, CSS, JS, etc.) But WordPress creates all its pages dynamically. This is because all the blog posts are saved in a database. In order to work with WordPress, you would really need to use a WordPress theme. If you know PHP you could easily migrate your bootstrap theme to a WP theme.
There is even a bootstrap starter Theme which might help you to get started: https://de.wordpress.org/themes/wp-bootstrap-starter/
In this case you would really just need to add your markup, styles and scripts to the project.
I'm new to wordpress, and I want to know if it is possible to put a theme bought on shapedtheme.com for example on an existing wordpress.
And if so, how to do it. I don't know where to put the code of the theme. I saw the wordpress page builder with text, but I see tags with [] and not <>.
I saw on this thread that pages can be linked to php files. I don't see how.
I have full access to the hosting service's filesystem and can see all wordpress files.
I would also like to transpose the theme header and footer and if possible, use the theme cards to adapt to blog articles written in wordpress.
How can I do this ?
I searched for tutorials on google or related threads on SO with no luck.
Any ressource would be appreciated.
Thanks to anyone who will take the time to read/answer this post.
No, you can't use a non-WordPress theme in a WordPress installation since WordPress will look for specific templates and pass certain objects to the template to be displayed.
You could adapt it to work with WordPress, though. Here's the theming guide to get you started.
But you'll probably be able to find a WordPress-ready theme with the features you want. This is the WordPress theme directory link for themes using bootstrap.
Unless you go for a from-scratch development of a pure php theme, and you need some level of theme customization I'd strongly suggest looking into child themes, as it'll allow you to update the base theme minimizing the changes you'd have to do to yours.
The [ ] syntax you mention are shortcodes, small, safe php functions that can be executed by inserting them in the editor, templates, etc, and provide kind of an api that exposes WordPress or plugins functionality.
And regarding your link, OP already has a WordPress theme, but is looking for a way of using a different, specialized template on specific pages. This template still has to follow to certain WordPress conventions.
I am planning to make a website whose theme similar to Wattpad. I would like to know is there any Wordpress theme which is available like that? or having options like allowing users to write stories in my site as well get views and upvotes fo their posts.
I really need it. Thanks!
Themes are not supposed to include special functionality. They supposed to just be the look / style.
You'd need a plugin to show the views & upvotes. There are many of those.
An example It looks like https://fiftywordstories.com/ is running twenty-thirteen theme with a plugin - view source to see the plugin.
I am a food blogger and have recently learnt about recipe rich snippets. I found some material online, mostly being about plugins. I tried using ZipList plugin, which is actually pretty good, but
For some posts, I cannot add pictures within the recipe box and
I cannot add alt text to my pictures (which I find to be quite SEO-unfriendly or is it?).
So, I was thinking of trying to implement it by myself onto my website.
Any good links or advice on how to do it? I tried looking on google but I am only coming up with plugin tutorials.
Yes, your search results are correct.
If you don't want to use a plugin, you have to code it yourself. But this is the kind of thing that you don't want attached to your theme's functions.php ("without a plugin"). Because you have to be able to swap themes and preserve this functionality. Themes are for design and content display. Plugins for functionality. All those themes with SEO incorporated are simply dumb.
So, you end up writing your own plugin. See this article: Create a functionality plugins instead of using Functions.php.
What is a functionality plugin?
Traditionally, if you wanted to create a new function for your blog to add to its functionality, the advice has been to add the code snippet to your theme’s functions.php file. Now that’s all well and good and it will work fine, but what happens when you change your site’s theme (which you can guarantee will happen at least every few years) or the theme gets updated? Since functions.php is located in your active theme folder, if you change your theme, it inherently becomes defunct.
All that being said, what I'd suggest is that you create a Custom Post Type to handle your recipe snippets. You'll have all the default functionality of WordPress customized to your needs. The CPT could have only Title, Content and Featured Image, eventually your own taxonomy (recipe categories).
Useful links:
Documentation of CPTs
Smashing Magazine tutorial
WP Tuts tutorial
Or you can use a nice plugin to create your CPT :)
I am currently setting up an online community for the first time. I am a frequent worpress user, yet this one problem occurs:
I don't like the section name "wire". I'd much rather use something like "guestbook" or "short note" for it, but I cannot find the place to change it in the backend. It is not in the theme's CSS editor.
Same goes for the titles "Blog" of the Blog page or "Group/member listings" on the group/member pages :-(
Right now I am using
Wordpress MU 2.9.1.1
Buddy Press latest version
The free "Cosmic Buddy" Theme
I do have the "Enable Theme and Plugin Editor" and I could change the navbar button names with it and many other things, but not buddypress specific functions titles.
i would think you could do it following Customizing Labels, Messages, and URLs in BuddyPress' How-To Guides.