Graph Paper Press

Tip Type: WordPress

WordPress tips and code snippets

  • Change WordPress More Text Symbols

    You know those unsavory […] symbols suggesting that there is more text to read? Let’s change those, okay? Open up your active theme’s functions.php file and add this little snippet to the bottom: Yay! You just wrote a WordPress filter. You can change the … to anything you like.

  • Change WordPress Excerpt Length

    Sometimes you just need less. Or more. Changing the default length of the WordPress excerpt is pretty simple. Open up your active theme’s functions.php file and add this to the very bottom: Change 36 to your heart’s desire. The excerpt often shows up on archive pages as the shortened text for a post. You just…

  • Quick Start Guide

    This tutorial will help you install and use your Graph Paper Press theme. There are two ways you can install your theme—from your WordPress dashboard or via FTP. Option 1: Your WordPress dashboard Download the zip file from your members dashboard. This will always be the most current version of the theme. Log in to…

  • How to Translate Your WordPress Theme

    In this video tutorial, we’ll show you how to translate our WordPress themes. This is called i18n, and it is a abbreviation for internationalization, or the process of making an application ready for translation.

  • Create Four Column Grid Template

    Create Four Column Grid Template

    Grids. I know you love them! They are one of the most requested design features which we typically add to most of our WordPress photo themes. In the following tutorial, I show you how to use CSS “pseudo classes” to achieve a full-page four column grid. With a few small tweaks, you could adapt the template…

  • Add Social Media Buttons to Posts

    There are hundreds of social media sharing plugins available in the WordPress plugin repository.  But did you know that it’s super duper simple to build your own and have it integrate nicely in your own WordPress theme?  Here is how: Open up your theme’s functions.php and add this code to the bottom, right above the…

  • Set Featured Images Automatically

    We previously posted a tip on how to manually set a featured image, but if you’re using a WordPress theme that heavily uses thumbnails, you might want to set your featured images automatically. This handy plugin can manage that task.

  • How to Schedule Posts

    Scheduling posts is one of my favorite features of WordPress. Sometimes you find yourself cranking out content all at once, but want to spread it out over the week. Other times you want it to appear on your social media feeds at optimal viewing times. From the Publish menu in the top right of the…

  • How to Add A Gallery

    [protect][/protect] WordPress’s new media uploader tool has made it even easier to add images and galleries to your posts and pages. To add an image: Go to your Page or Post’s edit page in your WordPress dashboard. Place your cursor in the post content where you want the image to appear. Click on the Add…

  • How to Set a Featured Image

    Featured images are an integral part of many themes. Often they can help determine a thumbnail for a featured post, or they can help represent posts that contain embedded video, but no other associated images. Now in the backend of WordPress, in the post editor, there’s an option in the bottom right to set a…