Tag archive for: WordPress templates

CSS styles for styling image alignment in your WordPress pages and posts

When you create your own WordPress theme, one of the things of provide for is the ability to style image alignments.

By default, the WordPress Editor will include one of the predefined CSS classes when we add images to a post or page.

Therefore, by providing the CSS styles for each of these classes, we will be able to style the image alignment of our WordPress pages and posts.

Given these points, let us look at the CSS styles for styling image alignment in our WordPress pages and posts.

How to allow arbitrary Widget content to be added to sections of your WordPress theme

When you use WordPress to house your thoughts, you get the flexibility to update sections of your WordPress site through the WordPress dashboard.

For example, I can change the content within the sticky portion of my sidebar as and when I need to. Such content can be provided through the various WordPress Widgets that are available in my WordPress installation.

So how can we mark sections of our WordPress themes for displaying Widget content?

With this in mind, let us look at how we can allow arbitrary Widget content to be added to sections of our WordPress theme via the WordPress dashboard.

Implementing Google Custom Search as a WordPress page without using any plugin

Creating a search engine to search content across a polyglot website is not an easy task. In order to do that, you need to either:

• take a search query and match it across data repositories from different application processes, or
• have a process that will maintain an index of content from the different applications and search within that content.

Since Google had indexed most of the content in the Internet, Google Custom Search can be the easiest way for us to implement site-wide search. In addition to fast searching, Google Custom Search also comes with AdSense monetization.

In case you need it, this is how you can implement Google Custom Search as a WordPress page without using any plugin.

How to create a custom page template in WordPress

We use pages in WordPress to hold content of our website that are not specifically time-dependent.

Examples of such content at Techcoil include the about page, disclaimer page and Raspbian Stretch Lite project ideas.

When you want to show content in different page layouts, you can create different customized page templates to show content in different ways.

In case you need a reference, this post describes how to create a custom page template in WordPress.

How I create a page in my WordPress blog that lists all my posts and groups them by month and year

I realised that there was something missing in my WordPress blog; a page that lists all the posts that I had written so far. This post documents what I had explored to give my blog a page that lists all my posts, starting from the most recent post down to the oldest post, and groups them by month and year.