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Category Archives: Twenty Eleven

Twenty Eleven Theme – Change Sidebar Width

Posted by Zeaks in Code Snippets, Twenty Eleven and tagged with sidebar width, twenty eleven theme September 3, 11
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Here I’ll show you how to change the sidebar width of Twenty Eleven theme. Twenty Eleven uses a fluid width, so widths are defined as percentages instead of pixels, which can be a bit confusing if you’re not used to … Keep reading →

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Better Twenty Eleven Comments

Posted by Zeaks in Code Snippets, Twenty Eleven and tagged with tips, twenty eleven August 29, 11
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I find the comments in Twenty Eleven take up far too much room and it’s always bothered me. I posted some CSS on the forums here that tightened them up a bit, but it had a few issues. Today while … Keep reading →

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Add Second Menu to Twenty Eleven Theme

Posted by Zeaks in Code Snippets, Twenty Eleven and tagged with tips, twenty eleven August 24, 11
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Adding a secondary menu to Twenty Eleven theme is really easy. This feature is available in my NomNom Child Theme and I’ll show you how I did it. We’ll be doing this by making a child theme and creating 3 files. Create a … Keep reading →

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NomNom Twenty Eleven child theme 1.2

Posted by Zeaks in Twenty Eleven and tagged with child theme, twenty eleven August 13, 11
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I just finished the new version of NomNom theme. There’s alot of backend changes and file structure changes in this version, 6 new color schemes, Google fonts for titles, 3 new layouts, second menu above the header and tabbed content … Keep reading →

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Resize Twenty Eleven header and add sidebar – plugin

Posted by Zeaks in Twenty Eleven and tagged with header, sidebar, twenty eleven August 12, 11
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I made up a simple plugin for Twenty Eleven that will re-size the header image, replace the default headers with re-sized ones, add a sidebar to post view pages and a Theme Options link in the admin bar. Just install … Keep reading →

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Twenty Eleven comments and Search for Twenty Ten – By request!

Posted by Zeaks in Twenty Eleven and tagged with comments, search, tips, twenty eleven August 2, 11
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I received a message on Twitter recently asking if I would create a post on how to use the Twenty Eleven comments in Twenty Ten theme. I’ve actually done this before with the previous theme used on this site as … Keep reading →

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Show Excerpts and Post Thumbnail Twenty Eleven Theme

Posted by Zeaks in Twenty Eleven and tagged with excerpt, post thumbnail, tips, twenty eleven August 2, 11
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Adding post thumbnails and excerpts to Twenty Eleven theme is not much different than how they would be added to Twenty Ten. The first step is to create a functions.php file for your child theme if you don’t already have … Keep reading →

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Enforce and customize ‘read more’ for twenty eleven. – Guest Post

Posted by Zeaks in Twenty Eleven and tagged with tips, twenty eleven July 31, 11
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The following article is a guest article of Jakob . Thanks for it. While trying to set up my new blog I figured out how to enforce WordPress to always show excerpts of the articles. This means at the homepage, at every archive’s … Keep reading →

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Easily add Wp-PageNavi to Twenty Eleven

Posted by Zeaks in Code Snippets, Twenty Eleven and tagged with page navi, tips, twenty eleven July 24, 11
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Adding Wp-PageNavi plugin to Twenty Eleven is a bit different than adding it to Twenty ten. The code must be placed into functions.php instead of the loop. This code will only work with a child theme, you’ll have to modify … Keep reading →

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Add sidebar to post view in Twenty Eleven theme

Posted by Zeaks in Code Snippets, Twenty Eleven and tagged with sidebar, tips, twenty eleven July 23, 11
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By default Twenty Eleven doesn’t display a sidebar on the post view page, but this can be added fairly easy. TricksMommy.com describes how this can be done by editing CSS. I ran into a few issues doing it this way. Using … Keep reading →

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