Portfolio site works well with dark and black colored themes. Using a dark Wordpress theme can be very effective as they may look to stand out more and at the same time give the site an elegant and sophisticated look. Only somehow we have to be very careful with readability issues with dark themes and make sure the text color selected is suitable with backgrounds. Anyway, finding free Wordpress theme is a time-taking job as you have to devote time to find the best themes. Check out this awesome list 47 of the best dark and black free Wordpress themes we gathered only for your use. Plus if they’re completely free, you have nothing to lose.
WPRecipes has featured a useful example on how to change wordpress excerpt length depending on which category you are on. This is important for some webmaster who likes variations on their excerpt length depending on different categories. Let’s taste the recipes.
Most blog themes present hyperlinks on the titles of single post pages. Since they are pointing exactly to the current page, some seo experts prefer not to have hyperlink on those titles saying the hyperlink might also cause some crawling problems for search engines, messing with the indexation of those pages. This may not totally true however some may choose whether to remove hyperlink from single post title with these simple steps.
While post excerpts can be displayed mainly on Homepage, they also able to be displayed on Category pages, search results and archives. Considering the fact that it would make no sense to display full posts on those pages since the reader needs to be able to scan through a larger number of posts to decide what he wants to read. Depending on your WordPress theme, if it is not displaying post excerpts instead full post, there is a very simple way to display post excerpts on wordPress pages.
Woothemes, well known for its huge collections of best free and premium themes for various blogging platforms. Woothemes was started by 3 passionate web designers from three different countries planned to make themes that stands out of crowd. Woothemes is the largest premium theme network which has about 1000’s of themes for various platforms.
By default, the WordPress loops displays 10 posts per page. You can change this inside WordPress admin panel manually without any headache of coding. However, in some circumstances you may require to overwrite those setting. There is a way to overwrite them in case you forgot to do so, here’s the hack to define how many post to display per page on WordPress website.
Are you using excerpts or full posts on your blog posts homepage? By default, there is no way to use both excerpts and full posts on your blog homepage at the same time. However there is a hack that can enable that. This way you can show full post and excerpts at the same homepage. Here’s a hack to do it.
Many blogs preferred to display post excerpts instead of full posts on the Homepage (eg. WPTidBits). For many reasons, it is still one of the most selected methods of displaying posts list on the Homepage. While there are many arguments with both ways, let see what are the advantages and disadvantages with this method.
Some WordPress theme by default are using excerpt instead of full post to display post list on Homepage. Do you ever wonder why the the_excerpt() function displaying [...] at the end of the post excerpt? We don’t find this beautiful to see. Let us see how to remove it.
There might be a situation where a WordPress blog visitor would want to see an archive page with a complete list of all posts in a page. Not only they can be of help to widen the scanning area of which post they might want to read, but also improving the time of visitors at a certain page or post in terms of SEO because they have a wide list of posts to read after that by directly going to the archive page. The only drawback to it is the page would take quite some time to load all the complete post in the blog if they contain lots of images or videos. We can always use excerpt to level that. Follow us on how to list all posts in a page like our archives page!
One of the most discussed topics at the moment, amongst WordPress users is undeniably a responsive web design. It is in response to the vast type of users opting to use mobile devices like Android, iPhone, iPad, and tablets besides computer. These devices will use different size of resolutions each, which requires the website to response with the respected type of device’s resolution. Sounds like left behind? Do not worry. Herewith we present you with 22 free WordPress themes with responsive layout.
This might be known to most WordPress developer that sensitive with search engine optimization for WordPress title. But for newbies, this will be useful and should always be taken into account when developing a WordPress theme. Without using any plugin this hack is very essential.
