StudioPress Theme Options [video]

Monday, December 21, 2009 at 3:34pm

Here’s a question I’ve received more than once in regards to a WordPress Tutorial….specifically a StudioPress tutorial…..so of course I figured it would be MUCH more helpful to create a video showing people how and where to set some of the featured sections for the Church and Lifestyle theme.

Even if you aren’t using the Church or Lifestyle theme- this will give you some insight on WordPress theme options, WordPress Page templates and where you’ll find these options within your WordPress dashboard.

Let me know if I’ve skipped over anything and if the video helps!

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StudioPress Tip – Remove Search Box [video]

Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 5:17pm

One thing that can be a little tricky with a few of the StudioPress themes is not having enough room in your navigation bar for all your page titles (some of the themes will drop the pages to a row beneath the main navbar – but you may not want that).

This video shows you two steps: the first will show you how to remove the search box from the navbar and the second step will show you how to place it somewhere else (in this case, in the header). I created this a few months ago for someone and he recently asked me to send him the link again….so I thought, why not create a post out of it?

*There’s one thing I left out in the video though! And it’s kind of an important step. SO…after you’ve removed the search form from your navigation- you’ll see in the video where I have you expand the navbar left to a width of 960 (this is so the pages will continue across the entire width of the navigation).

Here’s what I FORGOT to show you in the video though! And you’ll notice after you adjust the navbarleft, save and refresh the page- there’s a thin white line between the navbar and the subnavbar (which is the category bar in the Lifestyle theme). What you ALSO need to do is drop the navbarright width down to 0px! (that’s zero px). And that should get rid of the small white space between the navbar & subnavbar.

Here’s the video!

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Change your Favicon [video]

Monday, December 14, 2009 at 1:13pm

This is a question I get a lot with my clients….”will you change the little image next to the website link to match the site?” And of course this is always an automatic part of the process, but it’s just not always the first part of the process. I usually do it once the rest of the theme is changed out/header is done, etc.

So I thought it would be helpful to show everyone who takes on their theme themselves….how to change your favicon! One other little interesting fact I’ve also recently learned (in doing the SEO webinar with David last month) was that the search engines actually look for the favicon when searching your site (ever notice that some sites will just have a blank image? Kind of looks like a small mini white piece of paper). Not sure what the benefit of it is since it’s named favicon (in most themes….although I’m sure you could rename the image and the image in the code to a more seo friendly title….and if someone has more info. on this, please feel free to correct me here or share some more).

The other benefit of this though goes beyond the simple visual side of things…yes it looks better…..but it’s also helping to BRAND your site! I’ve been doing a little more research and have been learning a little more about branding…(which I won’t share here, maybe in another post) and think that anytime you can do something to reiterate your brand or share your brand, you should (not in a cheesy way of course! ).

Anyways, here’s a video showing you how to change your favicon! Enjoy…and please feel free to retweet or leave a comment!

Thanks!

Here’s the link to the site where you can upload your image to create the favicon.ico:
http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/favicon/

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