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How To Please a Woman with WordPress and CSS

It sounds impossible to do, but you can please a woman with WordPress and CSS.

A friend of mine runs her website with WordPress, and recently she turned to me to make some design and layout changes to her site.

The site was running a modified version of the Arras Theme for WordPress, and she wanted some more changes to make it look at lot cooler.

She had another friend produce a new “welcome” image and a background image for the site itself, and then my CSS hunting started. Hunting for the correct CSS styles to change in any WordPress Theme can be difficult, but if you have the right tools, you can save quite a bit of time.

The Tools

The actual editing was done with the Coda application from Panic on my reliable MacBook.

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The new venusohara.co.uk design

I used a combination of Web Developer Extension for FireFox as well as Google’s Chrome browser. The Chrome browser has a Developer Tool, which makes hunting and editing layout changes a lot faster.

How to do it live

Making changes to a live blog is never a good idea, but Vladimir has made a plugin that makes it possible for you to do, without disturbing your visitors while you work. The plugin is called Theme Test Drive, and if you activate it you can have logged in administrators see the modified theme, while everybody else will see the normal layout.

Theme Test Drive WordPress plugin allows you to safely test drive any theme on your blog as administrator, while visitors still use the default one. It happens completely transparently and they will not even notice you run a different theme for yourself. Best part is you can even set the testing theme options (if it has them) in the Admin panel while you are testing the theme.

An ingenious plugin, that I use on almost every project that takes place on a live site.

Vladimir Prelovac did an interview not long ago here on CleverWP.com

Making her life easier

Another part of the changes I did to the homepage, was making her day-to-day of adding new galleries easier. The previous version required her to make both a blogpost and a seperate page for each gallery/month.

Activating the WordPress plugin Clean Archives Reloaded and adding a shortcode to her “Galleries” page solved that problem in less than 3 minutes.

To help protect her material, I also added the WP-CopyRightPro plugin. The plugin disables among other things the right-click functionality on her blog, so saving a local copy of images is a bit more difficult. It is impossible to completely remove that, but the plugin helps make it more difficult.

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A happy customer

As you can see, Venus was quite happy to activate the new theme to her visitors icon smile How To Please a Woman with WordPress and CSS

You should go take a look at her page, or drop by her Facebook page.

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