Download pptx - Quick & Dirty Wordpress Customization

http://j.mp/quickWP

Starting with Twenty Twelve Theme• Default Theme

(everyone has it)• Responsive• SEO friendly• Free• The code is well

documented• Good Starting

point

http://wordpress.org/themes/twentytwelve

Starting with TwentyTwelve

Goal: To customize the TwentyTwelve WordPress Theme For the Domain: GlutenFreeGreensboro.com

http://wordpress.org/themes/twentytwelve


http://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/web-developer/

• Hosted WordPress website/blog

• Web DeveloperAdd-On for Firefox (or Chrome)

• FTP Client (with ftp access)• Html editor (or text editor)


https://filezilla-project.org/download.php


• Web Developer Add-On for Firefox (or Chrome)

• FTP Client (with ftp access)• Html editor (or text editor)


http://download.cnet.com/Komodo-Edit/3000-2212_4-139739.html


• Web Developer Add-On for Firefox (or Chrome)

• FTP Client (with ftp access)• html editor (or text editor)

JetPack

http://wordpress.org/plugins/jetpack/

• Jetpack• Woo Sidebars• Meteor Slides

Woo Sidebars

http://woothemes.com/woosidebars/


Meteor Slides

http://wordpress.org/plugins/meteor-slides/


Make a Child Theme

http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

• Backup Everything You do!

Background image:Create one, orDownload one

(Google “seamless background image”)

Or buy one onstock photo sites

Background image:Tile Horizontally

Make background white

Tile Horizontally

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-move-menu-below-header-image-in-twenty-twelve-

theme?replies=3

Move the Header Up


theme?replies=3

Move the Header Up


theme?replies=3

Move the Header Up

Move the Header Up

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-move-menu-below-header-image-in-twenty-twelve-theme

Google Fonts

Currently 629 Fontshttp://www.google.com/fonts/

Google Fonts

Google Fonts

Google Fonts

Editing the CSS (oh my!)

Using the Firefox Web Developer Add-on


Using the Firefox Web Developer Add-on


Copy content of Styles.css and paste it into a html

editor.

Editing the CCC (oh my!)

Find line 697ChangeColor to#623101


Find line 697ChangeColor to#623101

Turn Off Comments on pages

Pages> Select All>

Edit

Turn Off Comments on pages

Comments>Do Not allow

http://glutenfreegreensboro.com/

The Result: (still in progress)

With a few simple modifications it no longer looks like the same theme!