Howdy WP developer! In this snippet, I will describe three different techniques to alter the WordPress default query with an example showing how to add a secondary page to the front page in the Customizr theme Those are quite advanced WordPress programming techniques, so before diving into it make sure you […]
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In WordPress, you can easily style your menu by adding css classes to each items and make use of it. Go to admin > appearance > menu Click on Screen Options (top right of the screen) Check the CSS classes options in the “Show advanced menu properties” panel add your […]
By default, the latest posts list on the front page gets displayed in reverse chronological order and that is what latest posts is. Can you customize it further? Can you display random posts on the front page? Add this small bit of code to your child theme’s functions.php and you […]
If you want to change the titles of daily,monthly or yearly archives, add this to your child theme’s functions.php and modify the archive titles to suit your needs. add_filter(‘tc_time_archive_header_content’,’my_time_archive_header_content’); function my_time_archive_header_content($content) { if ( is_day() || is_month() || is_year() ) { $archive_type = is_day() ? sprintf( __( ‘My Daily Archives: […]
If you want to have the post metas of your single posts displayed before the title and not after the title, add this little bit of code to your child theme’s functions.php add_action (‘__before_body’ , ‘move_single_post_metas’); function move_single_post_metas() { //checks if we are displaying a single post. Returns false […]
Note about translations : before you start coding anything, note that the “Search” string in the search forms is a WordPress string. If this string is not translated in your language, make sure you update your WordPress language translation on WordPress Polyglots. In case you want to change […]
In the alternate thumbnails layout, the default display shows the excerpt with a […] at the end. The thumbnail and the title are linked to the post. If you want to add a “Read More” link or a “Read More” button, here is how your do it. To replace the […]
If you want the tagline to be replaced with a button similar to the demo site, all you have to do this place this code in your child theme’s functions.php and change to suit your needs. add_filter(‘tc_tagline_text’, ‘replace_tag_with_button’); function replace_tag_with_button($content){ /* Change link inside href=”” to suit your needs */ […]
The slider of the Customizr theme is used to attract attention to certain important posts. What if you want to give emphasis to some words in the Slider title, for instance, ‘FREE‘? Can you enlarge specific words in the title? To achieve this effect, just paste this to your child […]
The Hamburger Menu or the 3-bar Menu of the Customizr theme has the default label ‘Menu’ next to it. To change the default label to custom text, just paste this function into your child-theme’s functions.php file. /************************************************************************/ /* Change default menu label ‘Menu’ to ‘Custom Word’ /************************************************************************/ add_filter(‘tc_sidenav_menu_button_view’,’my_menu_label’); function […]
Following up the popularity of this Customizr snippet Adding a custom social profile link with icon in the header from Nicolas, we created a variation for adding a custom Font Awesome icon for the phone number. It requires a small function into our child-theme file functions.php. The following snippet includes […]
To use Dashicons (the default set used in the WP backend) we need to enable them also for the front-end of our WordPress site, because by default WP allows Dashicons only for the back-end or for registered admins. Paste this code into your functions.php file /********************************************************/ // Adding Dashicons in […]