Quick tutorial that goes over the different ways you can write PHP if statements within WordPress theme files. This is very important information to know when trying to display the different options from the Theme Options panel and developing custom WordPress themes.
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In this tutorial I go over some CSS that needs to be added to our WordPress theme based on the position of the navigation to work with the WordPress toolbar. This is determined by the users theme options selection from the WordPress dashboard. If the WordPress toolbar is enabled and the user has a fixed navigation, it might overlap. To fix this, we just add a little CSS to target the fixed navbar.
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In this tutorial you will learn how to add a "Header" section to the WordPress theme options panel. In this theme options section, we will add two different switches to allow your theme users to edit the Bootstrap navigation/navbar.
The first switch will enabled or disable the fixed navbar. If the theme user enables the fixed navbar setting, the navbar on the front-end of the site will stay fixed at the top of the browser window. If this option is disabled, the navbar will be static. The second switch will allow the user to enable/disable the Bootstrap inverse navbar styles.
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This tutorial goes over the basic settings for the WordPress theme options panel to get it ready for our custom theme options. After this tutorial you will have a blank theme options panel with all your selected menu names and link URLs.
I recommend saving this version of your theme after you finish this tutorial. It is a good starting point when creating a new premium WordPress theme in the future.
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This tutorial is the start of the Theme Options series. In this series we are going to add a theme options panel to the WordPress theme you have been building in the previous tutorials. This tutorial will go over how to get the files in place needed to create the theme options panel. By the end of this tutorial you will have a theme options panel framework installed in your WordPress theme and ready for further development.
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If you like using Bootstrap and WordPress as much as I do, you should now have the perfect base WordPress theme to start any project moving forward. At this point, our WordPress theme has all the Bootstrap components and features, several custom page templates, styled comments, Font Awesome, custom functions, and much more.
In the following video, I go over how you can use this base theme for your WordPress projects and how you can quickly add a custom homepage to the theme.
This tutorial goes over how to customize the WordPress search result page. We are going to make the post meta look like the rest of the site and also highlight the searched terms throughout the content of the results page. This will provide a better user experience for your visitors since they will be able to easily scan the content to find exactly what they are looking for on your site.
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This tutorial will go over how to add a built-in contact form to your WordPress theme without having to use a plugin. I am not saying that using plugins are bad, it is just nice to have this functionality built-in to your WordPress theme out-of-box.
In this tutorial you will learn how to create a new contact page template, go over the PHP code that does the form processing and error handling, build the Bootstrap contact form, and create a contact widget area. We will also add the Bootstrap Alert component to display the status of the form submission to the user.
By the end of this tutorial you will have a working contact form that sends all submissions to the admin's email.
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