Unfortunately, including footnotes with a post is something that WordPress itself actually does not support by default. That’s a little surprising, especially since the software has always been primarily focused on the creation and promotion…
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Understanding How to Best Employ Taxonomies within WordPress
For years, WordPress website owners have stressed over how to properly implement taxonomies within the software; that’s because WordPress includes support for categories, custom fields, and tags, and all of these classification methods are both…
Making Advanced Customizations to the WordPress Roots Theme
WordPress is well-known for having the single largest and most active development community of any content management platform, and that large development community has created some of the most powerful pre-made themes available anywhere. Lately,…
The WordPress header.php Template File: Do’s and Don’ts of Good Header Design
A good web design does not begin in the middle of the page, contrary to what many amateur developers might believe. Indeed, the best designs begin before their XHTML code can even be seen. In…
Creating Advanced, Contextual Layouts in WordPress with Conditional Custom Fields
One of the most overlooked features of WordPress is its ability to place content outside the main post content area and into custom fields created by the website’s administrator user. These fields can be used…
Developing a WordPress Theme with a Responsive Framework: Guidelines and Things to Avoid
One of the biggest emerging web design trends of the present decade is “responsive design.” This type of web design is virtually a direct response to the proliferation of mobile devices around the world, whether…
Using WordPress to Create a Micro-Site within an Existing Theme
One trend in content management has become pretty clear in recent years. Increasingly, site administrators are creating so-called “micro-sites,” or websites within a website, that contain completely different posts, styling, and other features. These micro-sites…
Creating a Mobile WordPress Theme with the jQuery Mobile Library
When it comes to separating a mobile website from a truly robust mobile experience, the main differentiator is typically the use of jQuery. This innovative use of JavaScript, which is generally considered the only acceptable…
Building a WordPress Theme Around the Events Calendar Plugin
WordPress has quickly transformed from a mere content management platform to one that is now involved in managing almost every aspect of an administrator’s day. The world’s most popular content management solution can, via plugins,…
Unraveling the Secrets of the comments.php File
One of the most important templates in any WordPress installation is the “comments.php” template file that is paired with virtually every single theme distributed for use with the world’s most popular content management solution. More…


