Category Archives: Design

Move the WordPress pages to the header – revisited

Posted on January 25, 2010 by James Piggot

This updated article describes how to use the page widget to build a page menu in the WordPress header. For the background to this see the previous post Move the WordPress page links to the header that described a simple … Continue reading →

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Move the WordPress page links to the header

Posted on April 27, 2009 by James Piggot

The default theme for WordPress places the links to pages in the sidebar. Moving them to the header is relatively easy to do if you’re comfortable making minor changes to the code. The first thing is to find the path … Continue reading →

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Move the WordPress search box to the header

Posted on April 2, 2009 by James Piggot

There is an updated version of this article for WordPress 3, see Move the search box to the header – WordPress 3 revision The default theme in WordPress places the search box in the sidebar. Moving it to the header … Continue reading →

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Cross-browser and platform compatibility

Posted on November 29, 2008 by James Piggot

How do you test your pages to ensure they don’t look awful on another platform? How do you make sure your carefully crafted pages don’t fall to pieces when viewed with Safari on Mac OS or collapse in a heap … Continue reading →

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Style columns in tables with CSS

Posted on October 28, 2008 by James Piggot

How do you style columns in HTML tables without resorting to styling the individual cells? There doesn’t seem to be an easy answer to this question that will work with most browsers. The method shown here works fine for my … Continue reading →

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