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How to Make a Custom WordPress Page Template
In WordPress, there’s an option before you publish a page, to select a template. This option will only show if your theme has page templates. Custom page templates are great if you need a page to look different than other pages on your blog. The whole purpose of having a custom template is to possibly show a different sidebar, a full page width (no sidebar) or totally different HTML in this area. You might need to change your style sheet by adding special classes for your content or sidebars if you do this.
This is how to make a custom page template for your WordPress theme. Instead of showing bits an pieces of code that you can’t visualize together, I’m just going to show what the whole code should look like. Obviously, your code will call your style sheet classes and they will probably be called something other than “main” and “content”. Create a new PHP page and add the code below to the top of the page. You can do this in a text editor or an html editor. Right after where its says “Template Name:”, type in the name you want your template to be called. That’s the template name that will show up in the drop down box in the page you’re creating. || Read more »
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Images from the web
This is a crash course in using images from the web on a a blog and website. If you do want to use an image you find in a Google, Yahoo or some other image search, please follow these simple steps.
- DON’T just use an image from a GOOGLE or YAHOO image search!
- Find a legal place to purchase a graphic you want to use on your website or blog (iStock, Dreamstime, BigStock Photo, etc.)
- Make sure this image doesn’t belong to someone else (9 times out of 10 it will).
- Use an image legally, take the time to find out who the author of the image is.
- Just because an image is on the Internet, and you can right click to save to your desktop, doesn’t mean it’s free to take an use, especially for commercial use.
- If you don’t want to do any of that, make your own graphics or images.
- If you don’t want to make your own images and still take whatever you want, legal action could be taken against you by the artist or image owner.
Just remember, the Internet is not a place to just take whatever you want and use it. The sad truth is that it happens way to much and many artists and designers are left with the bad taste in their mouth from copyright infringement.
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Making .htm extensions work
If you can’t get .htm extensions to work if you’re using HostGator, try adding the line below to your .htaccess page. This works, especially if you’re using Option Cart on your site.
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 .php .htm .html
