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How to create a custom page template in Wordpress

admin — Fri, 29 May 2009 03:00:42 +0000

David Risley dot com shows us how to create a custom page template in our wordpress themes. This can be very handy if you are trying to create a custom look for a particular page. Like for instance, say you want a wordpress landing page without any sidebars well, this would be a tutorial you definitely want to take a look at:

All Wordpress themes have a file called page.php. This is your template file for all pages you have on your blog (remember, pages are distinctly different than posts). The page.php file is your default page template. To create a new one, just open that file in any text editor then “save as” a different file name. In my case, I named the template for my sales page signup_page.php.

Now, at the very top of this new file, you’re going to want a block of PHP code as follows:

/*
Template Name: [your page name here]

*/
?>

This is a PHP comment. Leave the “Template Name:” in place, but you need to change the name of the page. Once you have done that, upload
this new file to your blog theme’s folder.

Then, in Wordpress, when you go to add or edit a page, scroll way down and you’ll see a setting for “Page Template”. You should see your new page template listed in the dropdown, using the name you entered above. To the right, you can see what my dropdown list looks like in my own Wordpress admin panel. I have many different custom page templates in my system, all for different purposes.

Here is the original tutorial:

How To Use a Custom Page Template In Wordpress | David Risley dot com

How to remove encrypted wordpress footers

admin — Fri, 29 May 2009 02:38:49 +0000

I love wordpress and I use this CMS on most the sites I develop / own. I also love all of the free themes that are available…however, I don’t like all the annoying footer.php encrypted links that come with those free themes. It is also my belief that Google may not like those spam links either.

Fortunately for me, I’m not the only one who feels this way and there are quite a few good tutorials about how to crack wordpress footer.php and I present these tutorials on how to crack the footer.php links:

First of all each footer.php has it own challenges and not every crack with work on every theme so:

1) For those with code that looks simliar to this:

There is this handy tool:

HTML & JavaScript Encoder/Decoder

Just place everything after “(unescape(” into the right side box and click the left arrow button to get the decrypted text:

2) Or for those with footer.php themes that look like this:

You can use this tutorial:

http://www.ifoundafix.com/2009/01/14/how-to-remove-the-footer-encryption-in-a-wordpress-theme/

It is a little lenghier than the other tutorial, but works just the same. It has you adding some hidden code in the wordpress index.php file and then viewing the generated source code and copying and adding that code (from the source view) into your footer.php.

Enjoy your cracked wordpress themes!

Twitter Font

admin — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:22:08 +0000

Have you always wondered what font is used in the twitter logo? This information can be useful if say, you are trying to create your own take on the logo (as I am).

Well, a little bit of searching and I found it! The name of the font used in the twitter logo is “Pico-alphabet” and here is the link to the site where you can downlad that font for free:

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