Paul Cracknell Wordpress Themes and other stuff

Archive for June, 2009

Welcome to Wordpress Theme – Breathe

Saturday, 20 June, 2009

Read this Post first to help set up your Breathe Theme.

This is the working site of my free Wordpress theme Breathe.   I have put a lot of time into the design and adding some features that I think make the site more functional and are the kinds of thing I wanted when I first started using Wordpress.  To make your theme work like this one, you will need to download…

Changing the default thumbnail

Monday, 29 June, 2009

This thumbnail on the front page beside an excerpt of an article is a default image.  This image is called by the Plugin Get the image.  If an article has no images of its own the default image will be called.  If an article has an image the first image in the article is called.  Most people like pictures and this is why I have included it in this theme. …

Setting up the Navigation Menu

Monday, 29 June, 2009

Multi Level Navigation

Get the plugin (Multi Level Navigation) and activate it by following the directions with the plugin.

This plugin is particularly powerful in providing a navigation system that works in all browsers, looks good and is fully customisable.  By following the next few steps we will integrate it into the look and feel that compliments the Breathe Theme.

Lets get started.

Once it is activated your navigation will look like this as…

How to stop Firefox crasing when using Wordpress

Tuesday, 2 June, 2009

If your Firefox browser is crashing when you are using Wordpress, this is the fix.

Firefox has Google Gears as an add on which interferes with Wordpress. By disabling Gears you will fix the problem. This is how you do it.