The inspiration for this tutorial comes from a tweet I received with feedback for the soon-to-be-released RS12 theme.
Although the widgetized footer did not ultimately make it in the release of the RS12 theme, I decided to write this tutorial to show people how exactly to add a widgetized footer in your theme. In this guide, you’ll learn:
- The HTML and CSS code needed to produce the widgetized footer
- How to add commonly used WordPress template tags as placeholders
- How to widgetize the footer and place widgets inside it
There’s going to be a lot of code in this post, so if you’re up for it, read on…
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It’s been a long time since I’ve written a tutorial here. I thought with Automattic’s acquisition of PollDaddy, this would be a good opportunity to write one about adding polls to your self-hosted WordPress blogs, more specifically – PollDaddy polls. In this tutorial I’ll go over:
- Installing the PollDaddy plugin
- Signing up to PollDaddy (if you don’t already have an account)
- Creating and managing polls from within your WordPress admin panel
- Inserting the polls you create into your WordPress posts and pages
And now onto the tutorial…
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Sites that frequently publish code examples, such as tutorial sites, need an easy way to display code on their pages. Fortunately for WordPress users, there are several great ways to display codes in your posts. In this tutorial, you’ll learn about:
- Manually displaying code
- The WP Code Shield plugin
- SyntaxHighligter Plus
If you run a tutorial site, or any other website that may require code examples, read on…
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