In this section, we will get Bedrock set up on Cpanel hosting. In the advanced section of the Cpanel hosting panel, you should find the terminal. Run this command Get to the public root directory, here you need to create new folder for a subdomain and go into that folder if you are following along. […]
Before we work on the page layouts we will add theme support to “break-out” of the container div and make certain content go full width. This creates a really nice effect. This is an option you need to setup and isn’t enabled by default on WordPress unless the theme says it supports it. Once enabled […]
Sage comes with a footer sidebar ready to go, so we will change this to a 3 column grid where it will space out 1-3 widgets across the bottom of the footer. Sage comes with an empty stylesheet for the footer scss, but first let’s create the class we need to style it as we […]
One of the basics I would often find myself doing is creating an advanced “latest posts” plugin, mainly so I could style the latest posts widgets a little nicer. This tutorial will show you how to create this plugin, and will give you some ideas to styling the sidebar. First, navigate to your plugins folder […]
In this tutorial, we will be adding a new sidebar called “sidebar-post”, and assign both the primary and new sidebar to various pages. Register a new sidebar We will register the new sidebar in the setup file – this is located in app/setup.php around line 80. I will add the new “Post Sidebar” to the […]
Our header has come a long way from that early unordered list, but we should finish off our styling and ongoing issues before we continue. Hamburger Menu in Sage not displaying So this was an issue I had – and it seems others have also, but it’s worth checking to see if this even an […]
As part of the header design I wanted to add another area above the navbar to contain social icons and the search bar. As we scroll down this are will disappear and the nav element will become sticky to the top of the page. This is what we will achieve in todays post, or if […]
We are going to use a few icons from FontAwesome. With a little bit of extra work we can import only the icons we need, instead of the entire library (10x faster according to FortAwesome), We are aiming to make a theme with 95%-100% rating for page speed, so this extra work is essential to […]
You should have added all the test data to the theme in the last step, to begin working on our menu go to “Appearance > Menu” and choose the testing menu from the drop-down : Then, set this as your primary navigation : Now, visit your main page to see the visually stunning result, which […]
We should do a tiny bit more setup just to make things smoother as we progress. First I want you to install wp-cli – this is the “WordPress – Comand Line Interface”. I won’t be using it much, but you will find it’s often used in documentation so I found it useful to have. Now, […]
