Learn how to customize any WordPress theme by understanding the files that control the themes appearance and structure starting with 3 of the most important files to understand: style.css, header.php, footer.php – Learning how these 3 files construct your WordPress site is the beginning of learning how to customize the appearance and structure of any WP theme into any website you can design.
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Sorry, you lost me at 10 seconds with Wempserver and then removed me with
localhost. Where? What? How? I am now just burbling incoherently….
Why is (.php) extenstions are used instead of (.html) ones like: header.php
and footer.php
Is it just because for having more control over your website later on,
since PHP pages are extremely dynamic than static html, but needs server to
run.
What’s the main reason for using it?
The whole reason I use wordpress was to getaway from Dream weaver code ,
css , php , ect.
Tut is a Big Help ^5
Silly question, but how do you bring your wordpress website into
Dreamweaver, files and folders and all?
I have the same question as travis. I am trying to connect to my wordpress
theme on my local host via a FTP client called winscp. How do I connect to
it?
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You rock guy. One of the best tutorials on YT. Thank you for sharing your
knowledge and making the internet better!
Is there any reason why you must go into Dreamweaver to make your edits, or
can you just edit it the same way in the dashboard editor for the same
effect? Trying to see if Dreamweaver is really necessary, since it is
expensive.
Nice easy to follow video. Thank you.
what do I use for the credentials? The host name, username, and password?
Thanks for posting!!
How else can I change CSS style etc.. without dreamweaver?
I already have a website designed by using WordPress. It was set up by
someone else, and I am trying to customize the theme slightly; however I am
running into a problem where in my WordPress profile, under “Appearance” i
do not have the Edit option… Can anyone tell me why that is? or how I go
about customizing a theme without this option?… I have 0 experience in
web design, however, these tutorials are AMAZING!
Great man i love your tutorials please keep it up wirh css & cusrom theme
child theme Subscripe & Like :)
Wonderful Mike. Excellent tutorial. I learnt more here in the few minutes
of your video than all the lessons I have applied myself to before. Great
teacher.
Very good tutorial. But it is better to do what you are doing here with a
child theme. When you update your wp site on a new version these changes
will be erased! At the moment of an update your child theme is not affected
by the update.
Hmm…. Ok, but what is the advantage of using wordpress compared to just
writing the web page by hand?
This tutorial shouldn’t have come up when I searched for “WordPress
Beginner CSS” ! What on earth is this “Dreamweaver” stuff…??? I thought
this was going to be helpful until you brought this “Dreamweaver” into it.
I don’t have “Dreamweaver” and i’m not interested in learning about it
while I’m still trying to figure out the WordPress dashboard interface.
This was a waste of my time and shouldn’t come up as a result when
searching for WordPress beginner tutorials…
Thanks a lot :D
Thanks for making this so easy. Ive been on here for a month. I’n glad I
stumbled upon your video. Keep it up. I’m gonna subscribe and give you a
thumbs up for making my life a bit easier. Kudios
Excellent! Just what I needed to wrap my head around CSS. Ready for the
next one…!
How do you get “Theme Options”? I don’t have that.
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#Customizer.
This is exactly what I was looking for! I installed a responsive child
theme and just cannot figure out how to make it look not like a boring
cookie cutter site. However, if I was to hire someone to do this for me,
what type of service am I looking for? What do people who do this call
themselves or advertise themselves as?
thk you
Very helpful and easy to follow video. Thank you for taking the time to
create this!
My site is hosted at wordpress.com – can I still do this customisation?
such an excellent tutorial.
i have a problem with my widgets overlapping the right part of my page? any
ideas
thanks a lot. it’s great tutorial….
Another great tutorial. Thank you.
At 5.02 you said “If I left click…”. Did you mean ‘right click’?
Wonderful. Thanks for making and posting this.
Thank you so much for the video ,you are an amazing teacher and a brilliant
designer
Wow thank you sir!
thankyou for that tuturial i learn a lot, !!
Working with WordPress Themes: Customizing style.css, header.php, and
footer.php files. Clear and well explained lesson.****
This is the most straightforward video I’ve been able to find on this
subject. Thanks!
How you can customize wordpress if you already have a webiste in host gator
? i can ftp my website with dreamweaver
You, sir, are an E-X-C-E-L-L-E-N-T master instructor. Your tone, patience
and thoroughness are unparalleled. Thank you for presenting this
information, you rock!
thanks 4 upload we need more please sir more uploads
le’t give you a idea , just click in plugin menu in wp then add new plugin
, search advanced code editor , instal and active , you will be have a
editor with number , try that , and i hope help =)
Thank you Michael for the tutorial on css. You are a great teacher. Learned
some great tips. I have a question: what is the css rule that would control
the content area of wordpress to make it transparent?
extremely useful video.. thanks!
Good lesson
Permit to download this video part 1-2
Thank you
Very Helpful..Thank You So Much…
this is untruth as the things described here are not in any theme,
therefore impossible to follow because they don’t exist in other themes,
title of video is a lie
you never said to install photoshop, wtf?