Tips Archive

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.
CSS Shorthand Font Property

There are two ways to write CSS: Longhand and Shorthand. Both accomplish the same thing. Using shorthand you can save keystrokes and minimize lines, which will decrease your file sizes. Example of setting your font-properties the traditional longhand way: font-size: 12px; font-family: “Times New Roman”, Times; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.4em; In shorthand, the…
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 Change Link Colors

If you find you don’t like the default link colors on a theme, it’s really simple to change them with just a few lines of code. If you’re using a Graph Paper Press theme, most of our themes allow you to change colors from the Theme Options. It’s important to think about the different properties…
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…
Responsive Video Embeds

Video embeds are a huge part of the web today, so making them accessible to viewers using a huge variety of devices is paramount. Well along comes FitVids.js, a jQuery plugin that will automatically resize your video embeds depending on browser width. Test it on their site FitVidsjs.com and view their introduction video below. Add…
How to Improve SEO for Images

People often overlook the importance of filenames when it comes to improving the SEO of their website and their WordPress themes. There are two simple things that everyone should be doing. 1. Make filenames machine & human readable No one is going to be searching for IMG-938398734.jpg, but they might be searching for pictures of cats…
How to Add A Fixed Background Image

If you’re using a WordPress theme that scrolls and you choose to use a background image (not a background pattern), this is imperative, that is unless you’re into your background image scrolling with your content. Having your content glide smoothly over your background image is as easy as inserting this code snippet into your style.css…