Category: A-Tutorials
How to Add 125×125 Banner Ads to Your Right Sidebar (and Making This a Very Long Title Indeed, Do You Know What I’m Saying?)
Many people like to display 125×125 banner ads in their sidebar. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to add them to your own site. Step 1 – Upload a Generic 125×125 Banner The image to the right is already located in the /images folder found in your theme folder, so you can use that if you like. The file name is banner125.gif.
How to Create a Site Map Page
You may have noticed the Site Map page on this site. That’s done with the built-in Site Map template, and it’s easy for you to create a site map for your own site.
How to Write a Post
Don’t let the title of this post fool you … I’m not meaning to insult your intelligence when I imply that your DON’T know how to write a post with WordPress (I’m sure you do). It’s just that there are a few features built into WP-Smooth, and it’s worthwhile to tell you how to get the most out of it.
If you look at the home page of this demo site, you’ll see that all the posts – including the featured posts at the top – display a post introduction (or excerpt) rather than the full post itself. It’s the same on the category pages, archive pages and search results pages. Then, when you click through to the individual post, you get the full post content along with comments and other information.
There are 2 possible methods to create the post introduction or excerpt …
Set WP-Prolific to Use Post Excerpts, and Use the Excerpt Field
Go to your Theme Settings page, and click “Basic Post Settings.” You’ll see an option to use the Post Excerpts or Post Content (default value is Excerpts). You’ll want to leave it set to Post Excerpts.
Now that the theme is set up for excerpts, the trick is to tell WordPress how to create the excerpt the way you want it rather than it’s own way. Without any other instructions, WordPress will create the excerpt on it’s own. Here’s what it does …
How To Control Autoscroll Feature Glider
By default, your featured articles will change automatically each 7 seconds. To change the time period between featured articles, you will need to make one little change within the one of the theme files. The file you need to change is the slideshow.js file, which is found in the /js directory within your WP-Prolific theme [...]











