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WordPress 2.7 Cookbook

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WordPress 2.7 Cookbook

Overview of this book

About 120,000 blogs are created every day. Most of them quickly die, but a few stay, grow up, and then become well known and respected places on the Web. If you are seriously interested in being in the top league, you will need to learn all the tricks of the trade. WordPress 2.7 Cookbook focuses on providing solutions to common WordPress problems, to make sure that your blog will be one of the ones that stay. The author's experience with WordPress enables him to share insights on using WordPress effectively, in a clear and friendly way, giving practical hands-on solutions to WordPress problems, questions, and common tasks ñ from themes to widgets and from SEO to security. Are you feeling limited with WordPress, or are you wondering how popular blogs do a certain kind of thing that you can't? With this cookbook, you will learn many WordPress secrets and techniques, with step-by-step, useful recipes dedicated to achieving a particular goal or solve a particular problem. You'll learn the secret of expensive premium themes, how to optimize your blog for SEO and online profits, and how to supercharge WordPress with killer functions used by the most popular blogs over the Internet.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
WordPress 2.7 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
2
Finding and Installing Themes
Index

Modifying your theme colors


Have you ever come across a WordPress theme available online and thought, 'Wow, this is a great theme but it would look even better if it had a green layout!'? This happens to me really often, and I'm pretty sure it's happened to you as well.

Luckily, changing the theme color scheme isn't as difficult as it seems to be.

Getting ready

Of course, you'll need at least one readily available WordPress theme. You'll also need a text editor. In this example, we shall use the Vi text editor—which is my favorite text editor; however, even other decent text editors can do the job (TextEdit on Mac, gEdit on Ubuntu, or Notepad on Windows).

If you don't have a favorite text editor, you can use Vi text editor—which is available by default on Mac and Unix systems and freely downloadable from the link: http://www.vim.org/download.php#pc

On Mac and GNU/Linux systems, just open a terminal and type vi in order to open the Vi text editor. Type vi myfile.php in order to open a file in...