Changing the template of your WordPress blog
The times passed a long ago, when themes were simple and nothing was required indeed to make your WordPress blog different. Pressed on activating button and everything is fine. Lately the free templates of steel are difficult even, in them many graphic arts, video, plagins, connecting, are used to remote services, integration of control panel et al. Therefore if you were thoughtful about changing of template, follow to my recommendations, to facilitate yours life. Some people take to itself a new theme, it for them does not work during the first activating, and comments to the template begin to be filled with a hysterics - a “theme does not work”… It always irritates me, because template worker and glitches in him are not present, it an user does not know bases and begins to produce claims on blank space and talk nonsense nonsense.
So, you decided to change the template for WordPress blog. The best of all to take themes directly on author sites, however much many search noncommunicative themes in a network. Here I come from that you chosen and got to itself anywhere a free version.
Old template
If some theme costs already for you, check, whether it has a page of tuning. More recently control panels on tuning, which are integrated in admin area during activating, were belonging of requiring payment premium-themes. Lately such panels of tuning are actively used and in free themes. If there is a control panel in your old theme, call at it and push the button “Upcast of tuning”. It is an important moment on which nobody not turns attention, but vainly. Tuning of template through such panel affects tables in a database, therefore you need to whip off the old tuning before to activate a new template.
Safety
1. Getting a new theme, check up it an antivirus.
2. Decompressing an archive, glance in the files of footer.php and index.php. If you see the construction of type of eval there(gzinflate(base64_decode(’DZe3EsTGEUR/RZmoQgDvShRZ8N67AxI - for you dilemma. Either for you on hands free author template the creator of which by encoding protects links from elimination or this theme was already after coded by the third party, that, whoever has a theme of relation to creation, but would like to warm hands on Your site. What to do with it? Open the file of style.css - in his beginning basic data of template - name, version, name of author, site of author or page of theme is published. Call on the site of author and get an original. If there is the same code in original “basement” - so, all is legal, and you have an only one question - whether to use this theme or not.
In case that in an original there is not such code is means that in this template someone the bad coded refs on the site, to begin to work on you. As a rule, not only refs but also part of code are encoded, therefore the delete of this fragment will result in bringing down of original appearance of your blog about blogosphera. It is therefore better to renounce from such template, and site which you got him on to add to the black-list.
There are special plagins which help you to check up the code of template for the purpose the presence of extraneous disseminations, it comfortably, because you independently do not need to climb in a code. Make attempt to find it with plagin, which is named TAC (Theme Authenticity Checker).
If the code of template is clean - inundate a template in the directory of wp-content/themes on your server and activate in admin area.
Plagins
1. Sometimes your template is supplied some plagins, which are needed for normal work of theme, as it was imagined by its author. Therefore many authors put the set of in-use plagins you will load new plagins and activate them.
2. Those plagins, which you had already activated, better for a time to disconnect - either all in succession or only those which do not behave to blog’s safety. Here my arguments:
- often meet such plagins, which conflict between itself. For example, plagin Light Box and featured content gallery. There are other examples. Therefore if you will not disconnect plagin, then during activating of theme will receive message about an error, and will not know how to remove him.
-to facilitate life to the user, authors will realize the functions of plagins that in the template, that, plagin is already built-in in a theme. If for you will be activated the same plagin to itself, there will be a conflict and template will not begin to work.
3. After activating of template, if you see that it is all right, come back to the plagin and connect them again. It is better to connect to for-one and after every activating to check up the state of the Main page. If you have some plagin-source of conflict, you thus will define easily. It is much simpler, than to include everything that is, and then to sit and guess, that means an error message which hangs for you on main in place of normally working site.
Editing of theme.
Template on that and template, that gives to you certain initial, intermediate space, base for creation of site. Many users begin to be engaged in alteration or revision of theme under the needs and presentations - independently, or attracting strange specialists. Abroad it is named customisation is modification in accordance with the requirements of customer. If you want to bring in change in the files of template, or, say, to prescribe advertising or banners, always use the only tested “correct” editors. Unlike ordinary Notebook such editors allow to save files after adjustment without superfluous characters, so-called “garbage”, which can appear in a file simply from work in a wrong editor (and in connection with the features of maintainance of files in such program). The question is about the signature of BOM (Byte Order Mark). Not to jut out into superfluous details, will say that by the consequence of appearance of such digital “garbage” is origin of errors which begin with CANNOT MODIFY HEADER INFORMATION, and frequently they appear exactly for those users which use an ordinary notebook.
Thus, if you need to edit the files of template, get to itself what ever from the normal editors of type of Notepad2 or Notepad++.
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