Posted by Craig in themes
Tags: bad themes, themes

Hi folks

I just got off the phone (SKYPE) with a client and reader.

After logging into his blog I noticed something in his footer that should not be there…
Links with names of pharmaceutical drugs that go to drug sites.

I had to look up the words in the footer to find out what they meant.

Here is a screen shot:

How did this happen??

Well, there are people giving away Wordpress themes because they can get a back link to their site if others download and use their themes. (This is fine but not the above example and themes like that should be avoided.)

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Posted by Craig in themes
Tags: wordpress theme

A few folks have wrote asking if they can use my Wordpress blog theme I use here.

Today, I spent an hour preparing the theme so others can use it.

You can now download it here Free Wordpress Themes. It’s number 9.

As you will see, the header image is blank. The following is what to do to add extra content to it…

First upload the theme to your site.

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Posted by Craig in themes
Tags: editing footer

If you’ve downloaded one of the free wordpress themes from this site, you’ll notice there is a place for you to put links in the footer of the theme. Today, I’ll teach you how to do that

Here’s a video

And the following is the text walk through

1. Login to your Wordpress’s admin panel and navigate to Appearance > Editor.

2. In the right hand side look for the link “footer.php” and click on it.

3. Look for the following code.

<a href="#">Contact Us</a> | <a href="#">Terms of Use</a> | <a href="#">Trademarks</a> | <a href="#">Privacy Statement</a><br />

4. Replace # with your link and replace Contact Us with what you want to say.

Do this for the rest of the links.

If you want to delete one or more, you can delete one at a time by just deleting

<a href="#">Contact Us</a> |

And so on. Don’t forget to click “Update” at the bottom of the page to see your changes.

Posted by Craig in themes
Tags: editing header image, wordpress

Many folks downloading my free Wordpress themes want to replace the header with a custom one and get rid of the title and blog description that overlays the header image. If you’re one of these fine folks, the following should help you out.

If the following seems a bit cumbersome you can easily find someone to do it for you for 10 to 20 dollars on any of the out sourcing sites such as rentacoder.com or even a marketing forum such as the Warriorforum.com
Just make a post asking for someone to make you a custom blog header for 10 bucks. No bits, offer 20. But please do read the following so you have an idea of what it takes.

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