Build a Custom WP with Semiomantics XO This post focuses on setting up our Main Theme and a Child Theme. For the purpose of this exercise we will use Semiomantics XO as the parent theme because it’s flexible, user-friendly and highly optimized. In fact you can use most any decent WP theme to follow this tutorial, namely the TwentyEleven which comes with the WP installation. Adding a Theme Like on any live site, our test site on BitNami allows us to add themes either from the Dashboard (upload the theme’s zip file) or by pasting the theme into the themes folder in wp-contents. Access your BitNami environment using Windows Explorer and surf to the themes folder. You will see the same folders and files structure under htdocs as you are used to when accessing your WordPress folder on a server using an FTP client. In order to add Themes, we just drop theme folders into the ‘themes’ folder as per above. As you can see, I have amongst others) added my Semiomantics XO (the ‘xo’ folder under themes). XO will serve as the parent theme of the new website. Instead however of customizing XO directly, I will create a child [...]
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Copyright © 2011 Yorgo Nestoridis. Visit the original article at http://yorgonestoridis.com/yorgo-nestoridis/how-to-edit-multiple-columns-on-wordpress/.Multiple Columns on WordPress Recently a customer was looking for a smart way to edit posts and pages with multiple columns on WordPress. While there are many plug-ins available for the purpose, we have developed a custom solution and coded the function into an XO Child theme. This post shows what post or page editors can achieve with an XO Editors Child Theme. 5 Columns Example For the purpose of the demo I will just insert some dummy content here. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetuer aliquam enim dui pellentesque gravida. Et eros leo Maecenas urna tempor Quisque sodales tincidunt Pellentesque eleifend. Dignissim eu Curabitur Sed massa nunc at Pellentesque ultrices et dolor. Nunc ac augue id vitae Nulla tempus tempor Morbi wisi ligula. Cursus auctor. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetuer aliquam enim dui pellentesque gravida. Et eros leo Maecenas urna tempor Quisque sodales tincidunt Pellentesque eleifend. Dignissim eu Curabitur Sed massa nunc at Pellentesque ultrices et dolor. Nunc ac augue id vitae Nulla tempus tempor Morbi wisi ligula. Cursus auctor. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetuer aliquam enim dui pellentesque gravida. Et eros leo Maecenas urna tempor Quisque [...]
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