Page templates are not an automatic feature of all WordPress themes, though many include basic ones like a “full width” option that lets you create a page without sidebars. Where Is it? To use a template, when you create a page you look in the sidebar for the drop down “templates” and simply select one […]

If you’ve spent any time looking at blogs, you’ve probably seen a variety of extra features in the sidebars of these sites: search boxes, tag clouds, archives by date, links to Twitter accounts, etc. WordPress comes with some basic widgets built in, but whether appear on your site and how they’re formated will depend on […]

WordPress designs are saved separately from the content as theme files. Any basic WordPress installation will come with at least one design installed, and there are thousands more to choose from. Themes control the colors, layout, and fonts of your site. They may also include some images – backgrounds, icons, etc. Like WordPress itself, the […]