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How To Change Theme Options While Using Multiple Themes Plugin In WordPress?

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In the previous lesson you have learned about Multiple Themes plugin that allows you to activate different themes on various posts, pages, post types, search queries, archive pages, etc on your WordPress site.

Plugin works same as advertised but one common problem any user experiences is changing theme options of specific themes activated on various sections of your WordPress site. 

In this lesson, you will learn how to change theme options like theme customization, widgets and menus etc when using Multiple Themes plugin in your WordPress site.

The plugin has no built-in functionality for updating theme options but there are some tricks as suggested by the plugin developer on Appearance -> Manage Themes -> Theme Options (Tab).

There are two methods:

  1. Using live preview method
  2. Using theme test drive method.

Method #1

  1. Visit your admin area dashboard Appearance -> Themes screen.
  2. Live preview the theme you wish to change.
  3. Using left sidebar you can customize theme options.
  4. Navigation appears when a menu is set from Appearance -> Menus page.
  5. Click Save & Activate button.
  6. Visit immediately to Appearance -> Themes and reactivate previously active theme by clicking ‘Activate’ button.

Method #2

  1. First deactivate the Multiple Themes plugin.
  2. Now install and activate the Theme Test Drive plugin.
  3. Visit your admin area dashboard Appearance -> Theme Test Drive.
  4. From usage section, select the theme you want to customize options for.
  5. Use ‘Enable Theme Drive’ button present at the bottom of admin panel.
  6. Make changes to the theme options. You can change Widgets, Sidebars, Menus, Background, Header and other Customizations.
  7. You can do same for changing theme options for other WordPress themes
  8. Deactivate ‘Theme Test Drive’ plugin.
  9. Now activate Multiple Themes plugin.

That’s it. Now both the alternate and active theme should now display all configured theme options.

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How To Use Separate Themes On Different Pages In WordPress?

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You can assign a separate theme on home, posts, search, archive and other pages of your WordPress site.

In this lesson, you will learn how easily you can get control over the look and feel of your website by assigning different themes to different areas of your website.

Simply navigate to your admin area dashboard to find and install Multiple Themes plugin. After activation visit your admin area Dashboard -> Appearance -> Manage Themes page to assign different themes over different sections of your website.

The plugin will enable you to choose

  1. A Theme for All Posts
  2. A Theme for All Pages
  3. A Theme for Site Home
  4. A Theme for an Individual Post
  5. A Theme for an Individual Page
  6. A Theme for Selective Archive Page
  7. A Theme for Selective Search Pages, Terms, and more

The plugin enables you to choose a different theme for everything and override the active WordPress theme on your website.

Updating WordPress Theme Options

Now the question arises how you would be able to change the theme options for any theme you want? Well that is possible, you will find the complete process in this lesson.

The plugin doesn’t changes the active WordPress theme on your website. Instead, it works by dynamically overriding the settings on the pages and sections selected by you.

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How To Center Align Twenty Fourteen WordPress Theme With CSS?

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Twenty Fourteen is the a beautiful and responsive WordPress theme official released by Automattic. But some bloggers don’t like its left alignment as that makes the website stick to the left leaving some spcae on the right side on big screens, whereas on small screens it is left unnoticed.

Likewise Fourteen Extended plugin (which was designed to tweak Twenty Fourteen theme) is missing from WordPress plugin repository (but is still available here). But the plugin is quite old so in this lesson we are sharing another easy way to center align the whole Twenty Fourteen theme on your website including its header, sidebars, content, footer etc.

How To Center Align Twenty Fourteen Theme?

All you have to do is add the following CSS on your admin area dashboard Appearance -> Additional CSS page.

#page {
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}

Alternatively, you may do this with Simple Custom CSS plugin. Simply navigate to Plugins -> Add New page to find and install Simple Custom CSS plugin.

After activation visit your admin area dashboard Appearance -> Custom CSS screen and add the given CSS code. Save your changes and the code will centrally align the Twenty Fourteen theme on your website.

You may also do this by creating a child theme and then adding this CSS in its style.css file

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How To Design Your Website When You Are Not A Developer?

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You can either use Website Builder or WordPress to start your website without any coding skills.

Website Builder provides you an automated step-by-step process to bring your website online and all it takes is 5 minutes to set up your WordPress website at SANGKRIT.net.

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How To Hide Your Theme From WordPress Theme Detectors?

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A WordPress theme detector detects all themes and plugins which are being used on some website. Earlier we have also discussed how you can completely hide the fact that you use WordPress on your websites. Now in this lesson you learn about a simple trick that will hide the name of your theme from such detectors. In result, WordPress detectors will not be able to detect which theme your are using on your website.

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If PSD To HTML Is Dead Then How To Start Designing Website?

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PSD to HTML is DEAD, you’ve read this hundreds of times but then how do you guys start? The question is popular on social media websites and forums. Well, still there are tools and tutorials in 2016 that explains you everything in this regard, just Google your question.

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How To Fix Image Gallery From Appearing Below Related Posts Column In Rowling WordPress Theme?

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Rowling is a popular WordPress theme with is a clean, simple and elegant magazine layout for WordPress websites. Theme features a responsive design, great typography, two menu locations, social menu support, custom accent color support, custom logo support, gallery post format support, editor style support, a Flickr widget and recent posts and recent comments widgets with thumbnails.

The problem comes when you embed image galleries inside your post content, by default they show up after related posts section column leaving empty space on the top.

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How To Scan Your WordPress Themes For Threats?

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Theme Authenticity Checker (TAC) allows you to easily scan all of your theme files for potentially malicious or unwanted code. The plugin searches source files of every installed theme for any signs of hidden malicious code or injection etc.

And if such code is present on your WordPress theme, the plugin will display you the path to that specific theme file, the line number, and snippet of the suspected code to be removed.

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What WordPress Should Do Next To Overcome Security Flaws?

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WordPress is the most popular website designing and publishing platform written in PHP. It is becoming better from update to upgrade but there are some very important functions; Automattic (the company behind WordPress) must work out and provide its users in future updates.

Like all other online applications WordPress is also not 100% secure, it can easily be hacked if the user has not implemented any security functions on his website.

There are plugins, apps and online tools that enables you to increase the security of your WordPress site but they are packed with useless and heavy code causing unnecessary load on the resources of your website.

Don’t you think some important security features should be included in WordPress core to make it easier for netizens to secure their websites and save themselves from online threats.

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How To Select The Perfect Theme For WordPress?

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Everyday, many free and premium WordPress themes are launched. A good WordPress theme leaves good impression on your website visitors, it is also counted as the first impression of your website.

A good WordPress theme is responsive, provides a good structure to your website which plays an important role in SEO i.e. search engine optimization.

In this lesson we will discuss about the important points to keep in mind while selecting a perfect WordPress theme for your blog or website.

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Enable Any Theme For One Website Only In WordPress Multisite Network

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When a theme is network enabled on WordPress multisite network, it automatically gets available for all website owners registered on your website network.

But lets say you have designed a theme for some specific website and you want to make it accessible only for that particular website admin then what?

In this lesson you will learn how to use any specific theme on any specific WordPress site on your multisite network.  Continue reading Enable Any Theme For One Website Only In WordPress Multisite Network →

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Easily Disable Theme Changing In WordPress

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Webmasters probably spent lots of time in customizing, creating and adding more specific features to theme for their client’s website and if by mistake your client switches to a new theme, deletes the old one could result in disaster.

So if you are also a website designer using WordPress to create client websites then here is a code snippet to remove “Themes” menu from “Appearances” section in your admin area dashboard.  Continue reading Easily Disable Theme Changing In WordPress →

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Translate WordPress Themes And Plugins Directly From Your Browser

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With Loco Translate, a WordPress plugin you can edit PO files and localizing your WordPress site themes and plugins. It provides you a translation editor and provides you features to create or update language files directly in theme or plugin.  Continue reading Translate WordPress Themes And Plugins Directly From Your Browser →

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Extend WordPress Theme Customizer With Fonts, Colors, Live CSS Editor & More

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Now you can easily extend your default WordPress theme customzier and add more options to it like you can add Fonts, Colors, Live CSS Editor and other customization options to active theme in your WordPress site.  Continue reading Extend WordPress Theme Customizer With Fonts, Colors, Live CSS Editor & More →

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Creating A Single Page Responsive Website With WordPress

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Creating a complete website with multiple pages and a side blogging or news section is easy but sometimes people go after one page website specially while launching new products, creating personal website with static content and important links etc.

Whatsoever may be the reason, now you can easily create single page websites in a few clicks.  Continue reading Creating A Single Page Responsive Website With WordPress →

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Extend WordPress Theme Customizer To Browse & Switch Themes

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Themes customization API added from WordPress 3.4+ versions allows you to control the appearance or your theme, header, background, widgets and other theme options from one page with live preview.

But still theme browser is a separate section of appearance menu. In this lesson we will show you how you can make it more useful by integrating theme browser and activator with in that.  Continue reading Extend WordPress Theme Customizer To Browse & Switch Themes →