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One of the easiest ways to customize a webpage is to add links to the footer of the themes template. You could add the link to any website you want and if your blog is part of your website adding a link to the homepage of your site will help your search engine rankings as well. This is a little WordPress Guide that will help interlink your website.

Step 1

First make sure you can edit your theme’s footer.php Login to your blog, click Presentation, then Theme Editor, look for the Footer.php file on the right and click it to open it in the editor. Don’t forget to copy all the content in this file and save it as a text file in Notepad on your computer. That way if you mess things up you can just paste the original code back in to start over.

Now look for the links that are already in place, for the default theme that will look like this:

<?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?> is proudly powered by
<a href=”http://wordpress.org/”>WordPress</a>

Step 2

We want to add a link right after this code, Place your mouse right after the original code and hit the space bar once and add your new link code. Or you could just copy the original code and paste it right after it and then edit the URL, the anchor text and even place some text in front of it like this:

<a href=”http://wordpress.org/”>WordPress</a> More Optional Text <a href=”http://YourWebsite.com”>Anchor Text</a>

I also recommend that you add this little line of code target="_blank" so that your code looks like this:


<a target="_blank" href=”http://wordpress.org/”>WordPress</a> More Optional Text <a href=”http://YourWebsite.com”>Anchor Text</a>

Here is some sample code to get you started:


<a target="_blank" href="###########">Link Name Here</a> | <a target="_blank" href="###########">Link Name Here</a> | <a target="_blank" href="###########">Link Name Here</a> | <a target="_blank" href="###########">Link Name Here</a> <br /> Copyright © %YEAR%. All Rights Reserved.

Final Step

Just replace the ###### with your link, and give your link a name, and you are ready to paste it into your footer.php file between the <p class="copyright"> and the </p>.

Your footer may look like this:

<?php
/**
 * @package WordPress
 * @subpackage Notepad_Theme
 */
?>

</body>
</html>

Now Click Update File, open your site and marvel at your handy work!

If you are using a free theme that someone wrote and it has a link to their website in it please leave the link intact. After all that is a small price to pay for what they have provided you.

Every Beaker Productions Theme includes our easy to use Footer link text box. Their is no more searching through .php files to find where to put your footer content. With our box it is as easy as plug and play, with example code pre-loaded into every theme. image below

Like always thanks for reading

Beaker

Beaker Productions theme store

Now i’m going to give you the low down on how my store works.

• Products are posted in the store (Created by me or my staff)
• The themes are sold (once the theme is sold 100 time it is removed from the store forever)

How to buy a theme

• Select the Add to Cart button that can be found on the bottom of the theme description.
• You can checkout at any time, The checkout button can be found in two places
  • In the right hand side bar
  • In the drop down menu under Theme Store in the navigation menu
• I use two payment gateways
  • Google Checkout
  • Paypal

• Select your form of payment

Downloading your purchase

• Select Transaction Results from the Theme Store drop down menu
  • A list of your purchases will be displayed
• Select your download file Example: grasstosky.zip

The only thing left is to uploading your theme. Check back regularly for new theme’s and great sales.

   A WordPress Plugin is a program, or a set of one or more functions, written in the PHP scripting language, that adds a specific set of features or services to the WordPress weblog, which can be seamlessly integrated with the weblog using access points and methods provided by the WordPress Plugin Application Program Interface (API).

Wishing that WordPress had some new or modified functionality?

The first thing to do is to search various WordPress Plugin repositories and sources to see if someone has already created a WordPress Plugin that suits your needs. A Google search will bring back a plethera of both free and purchasable plugins. Be sure that the plugin is compatible with your installed version of WordPress.

WordPress Plugins are designed by volunteers and are commonly free to the public. Plugins listed in the sources below have usually been thoroughly tested and considered "safe". But remember, Plugins are the responsibility of the author and the user, and they are typically works-in-progress as WordPress grows and expands.

Plugin Repositories

WordPress Plugins are available from several sources. The "official" source for WordPress Plugins: Official WordPress Plugins Repository

Not all WordPress Plugins make it into the above repositories. Try searching the web for "WordPress Plugin" and the keywords for the type of functionality you are seeking.

How WordPress Plugins Work

WordPress is conceptually simple and PHP is pretty straightforward (it’s a scripting language). SQL is SQL, arcane as always, but totally standardized.

Put them all together, though, and it’s somewhat dizzying, at least for a newbie at it like me. The structure of WordPress plugins is regimented, but is too complex to allow one to just dip a toe in the water. Plugins may require modifying WordPress files and templates.

Familiarity with PHP, HTML, CSS, and CHMOD may be necessary.

Modifications may be necessary if the color scheme, font styles or some other reason will make the plugin mesh better with your theme. Often the plugins offer options in the management module in WordPress’ back office but just not quite the tweak option your seeking.

When this happens you will find yourself exploring the plugin editor and delving into the .php and .css files. This is part of the fun of site development and WordPress life, just remember to backup your site before starting and you should have hours of  fun.

Pages and you

  In Tips and tricks #1 Planing your page, I helped you layout what you would like to see on your webpage. I also told you how to create pages and what pages are, Now lets go a little further into detail and show you how to change your Permalinks to not only improve your user experience and the over all dynamic look of your page. Permalinks: links that follow your web address such as (Http://beakerProductions.com/creating-a-favicon/) the /creating-a-facicon/ is your permalink text. Now lets refresh a bit on the topic of pages.

What Pages Are:

• Pages are for content that is less time-dependent than Posts.
• Pages can be organized into pages and SubPages (pages under pages).
• Pages can use different Page Templates which can include Template Files, Template Tags and other PHP code.

 What Pages are Not:

• Pages are not Posts, nor are they excerpted from larger works of fiction. They do not cycle through your blog’s main page.
• Pages cannot be associated with Categories and cannot be assigned Tags. The organizational structure for pages comes only from their hierarchical interrelationships, and not from Tags or Categories.
• Pages are not files. They are stored in your database just like Posts are.    

Creating Pages

To create a new Page, log in to your WordPress Select the Administration > Pages > Add New option to begin writing a new Page.

Changing the URL (or "Slug") of Your Pages

If you have Permalinks enabled, and you have selected the Day and Name option (Click the Settings tab, and then click the Permalinks subtab), then the permalink automatically shows up below your post title when you start typing in the body of your post (not just the title).

Permalink settings

However, if you don’t have permalinks enabled at all, you have to do the following to edit your page URL:

    1.    Write a page by going to Pages > Add New.
    2.    Click the Publish button to publish your page.
    3.    Go to Pages > Edit.
    4.    Click Edit under the name of your page.
    5.    See the permalink under the title, and click the Edit link to change it.

Pages > Add New

Publish

Edit Permalink

You have to publish your page before you can set its URL’s or change your Permalinks before hand.

Now you are ready to edit your existing pages and to create new ones with meaningful permilinks.
 

A favicon (short for "favorites icon") is an icon associated with a website or webpage intended to be used when you bookmark the web page. Web browsers use them in the URL bar, on tabs, and elsewhere to help identify a website visually.

A favicon is typically a graphic 16 x 16 pixels square and is saved as favicon.ico in the root directory of your server. You can use a favicon with any WordPress blog on a web server that allows access to the root directories.

Starting your Favicon

A favicon can be easily created using any graphic program that will allow saving of .ico graphic files. There are also online services that will allow you to create a favicon for free, such as www.favicongenerator.com.
The image should be clear and designed to match your blog image and/or content, a big task for something so small. Although the rewards for doing it correctly are enormous.

To prepare the image to be saved as favicon.ico:

    1.    By cropping or adding space around the image, make the image square.
    2.    Resize the image to 16 x 16 pixels.
    3.    Save the file as favicon.ico.

If using an online service to create your favicon, such as www.favicongenerator.com, follow the instructions provided by the site. Then download the image of the favicon.ico to your computer.

Installing a Favicon in WordPress

    1.    Upload your favicon to your server.
    2.    With an FTP Client, upload the new favicon.ico file into your current theme’s main folder. ( Filezilla is a good free version )
    3.    Upload another copy of your favicon.ico file to the main directory of your site (ie. http://example.com/favicon.ico). This will display the favicon in your subscriber’s feedreaders.

In order for your favicon to show up you will need to edit your page header.

    1.    Go to your WordPress Administration Panel.
    2.    Click on Design (called Appearance)
    3.    Click on Theme Editor.
    4.    Select the file called Header or header.php to edit the file.
    5.    Search for the line of code that begins with

<link rel="shortcut icon" and ends with "/favicon.ico" />. Overwrite it, if it exists, or add the following code below the <head> HTML tag .<link rel="shortcut icon" href="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>/favicon.ico" />

    6.    Save the changes.

Congratulations

If everything was done correctly then,To see your new favicon, clear your browser’s cache. You may need to restart your browser in order to see the new favicon.

 Planning your webpage

The best websites come with a good plan. If you want to create a useful and popular webpage you need to know where you are going.
Now lets take some time and describe your site. Take ten minutes to come up with your Mission Statement, or what your web page is about.

Answer the following questions:

    1.    What am I going to do with this?
    2.    Who is going to read this?
    3.    What kinds of information will I be posting?
    4.    Why am I doing this?
    5.    Who am I doing this for?
    6.    How often am I going to be posting and adding information?

Using questions 1 & 2

Now lets pick something appropriate for the generation of readers. If you are providing factual information about a serious subject, then you will probably want a more conservative look where the information is more important than a flashy theme.

If you have a theme in mind lets take a moment to use this information to reconsider your design. Now does the theme that you had in mind work for your page?

Using questions 3 & 4

You already know the categories for your site. The topics and subjects you will be covering are listed in your reason for making the page.
Now, lets think of some subcategorys that might be under your topics. You can have sub-sub-categories later, but let’s just stick with subcategories for right now. Don’t forget to write these down, you will be needing them.

Using questions 5

If the date of when you posted the information is critical to the success of the page, then having links to your posts referenced by date is important. If the information itself is more important and timeless, then having your posts referenced by category is the choice for you.

Paper Draft

Now lay out your website on paper, consider whether you want both categories and dates, or just one of them in your sidebar. What information you have and how you want to help the user find the information is critical to your website design.

What Information Do You Want/Need to Share?

As you think about what information the user will need to know, you have to consider what information you are willing to share with them. That information may include how to contact you, what the purpose of the site is, who you are, and what your expertise is.

WordPress features

In WordPress you have a feature called Pages that makes the process of presenting information in an easy fashion. Pages are mostly used to present unchanging information such as Pages for About Us, Contact Us, Testimonials, Registration | Your Account | Terms and Conditions, and other static information. Before creating your individual Pages, you need to think about what information you would like the Page to hold. Write down the possible Page titles and describe the information you are willing to share online on each Page.

Comments

Part of the fun of WordPress is the ability to have viewers leave comments on your site. It creates a dynamic interchange between you and the viewer. Do you want comments on your posts?
Responding to comments and moderating them can also take up a lot of time. If they are critical to your site, then include them. Think about how this will impact your overall site.

With this basic information, you are ready to start laying out your site and setting it up.

Now you can get started creating a page

Select the Administration > Pages > Add New option to begin writing a new Page.

Take your layout that we worked on above and start putting your webpage in motion.
 

Welcome

Beaker Productions is now fully up for business. We are now proud to present up to date WordPress themes at a discounted price. My staff and I strive for excellence  in everything that we do! If you have not had a chance to read the About Beaker Productions page than I highly recommend that you take a look and get to know us a little better.

A little more about Beaker Productions

As I stated on our about page we are a start up Business that was comprised in 2009. The business’s primary focus at that time was to build webpages for our friends and family. During our endeavors in the wonderful world of web creations, I beaker discovered that I had found a new passion. Along with building web pages I found myself creating custom themes specifically designed for our cliental. 

What we do

I would like to consider us at Beaker Productions a full service Web Development business. By that I mean that there is not much that we have not dabbled in. If you look at some of the pages that we have created you will see that we can do it all. If you look at some of the links below you may notice that there are many examples of different CMS‘s such as; WordPress, Blogger, Drupal, and HTML. I also have the ability to create themes for ASP.net, Code Charge Studio, and Joomla if that is what you are running and need, or convert themes that you see on my sales page to the CMS of your choice. Prices for themes are all inclusive.

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Theme’s

If you have suggestions on theme’s that you would like to see for sale on the page please feel free to contact us. I will soon be adding a Forum with specific discussion topics for this reason, until then drop us a line VIA our contact forum by clicking here, or finding it in the navbar above. Hopefully in the near future I will be adding some military branch theme’s.

Specialty Themes

If you notice the Specialty themes have some issues with the full page images, this is due to the fact that the backgrounds are stationary and look the same no matter where you scroll on the page. Rest assured this is only the demo image, and not a problem with the theme itself.

Beaker Productions Tips and Tricks

A New addition to the site will be coming in the form of a newsletter. In the newsletter you will find everything from MySQL to basic setup such as creating a title and tag line. I will also be reviewing plugins and giving you useful links and tools. Occasionally I will offer exclusive products and coupons for themes from my store. Get exclusive deals delivered right to your mail box just by signing-up to our newsletter.

Thanks again for visiting

We look forward to servicing your web site needs. Please check back for more updates and T&T.