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What is the wordpress optimization guide?

Wordpress Optimization Guid

There is no doubt that wordpress is an excellent blog system, and one of its most attractive features is that there are a large number of theme to meet the needs of personalized blog display.

But unfortunately, at present, more than 95% of wordpress themes are written by foreigners, and their design is based on western characters. When Chinese blogger uses these themes on Chinese blogs, there will be a lot of dissatisfaction; in addition, other people's themes are also very difficult to meet all their own personalized needs, so they need to do some optimization and personalized work.

The purpose of writing this article is to hope that when wordpress bloggers pursue borrowlism and use wordpress themes written by foreigners, they can take into account the characteristics of Chinese blogs and their own personalized needs, transform foreign themes, create personalized themes suitable for Chinese blogs, and finally improve the reading experience of Chinese blog readers.

one。 Knowledge preparation:

To optimize the wordpress theme, you need to have a certain understanding of php and css is a must, at least to be able to understand simple php statements, understand the date format customization method, rough understanding of css fonts, color blocks, spacing, pictures and other commonly used elements of the attribute control on it, not too clear you can use the search engine while learning. You also need to know a little bit about the file structure of Wordpress so that you can know which file you want to change. A brief description here is as follows:

Header.php footer.php: fixed content at the top and bottom of the page. The former is mostly used to put the name of the blog, navigation bar, etc., while the latter mainly contains copyright information.

Index.php: the content and appearance of the home page are controlled by this file.

Sidebar.php: the sidebar shows what is determined by this file.

Single.php page.php: the former controls the appearance of the log, while the latter controls the format of fixed pages such as the about page.

Archive.php: the format of the archive page. For example, the article of a certain category, the list of articles of a certain month, and so on.

Comments.php: the comment section at the end of the log.

Search.php: the page that displays the search results.

Style.css: stylesheets, the most important part of controlling appearance.

Some topics include function.php link.php, etc., which have a variety of functions and can be figured out on their own.

two。 Tool preparation:

It is recommended to use the EditPlus editor, which has the functions of code highlighting and finding and replacing in multiple files, which greatly improves the efficiency of optimization. The firefox browser is also recommended because it has a "View selected Code" function in the right-click menu, which can help you quickly find the section that controls a block in the stylesheet.

three。 Optimization begins!

1. Sinicization of words: English-Chinese translation is the first step, and the degree of Sinicization is up to you. Pay attention to the translation of the whole sentence in Sinicization, and avoid the reversal of a word. Sometimes it is necessary to change the structure of the sentence. For example, "Posted by in on" will show the on xxx time of the in xxx classification of the Posted by xxx author. If you want to turn it into Chinese, it can be changed to "because it is published in", which is more in line with the Chinese word order.

two。 Font change: many foreign wordpress themes use a lot of small characters to show that the Chinese is very ugly. It is recommended to search for all font-size and font elements in style.css. If the subsequent size attribute is less than 12px, it will be changed to 12px; if font-size uses em as a unit, go to the body {} section to find the basic size value set by font, and then multiply it by the em value. For example, if font-size is set to 12px in body and font-size is set to 0.9em in a certain chunk, the size of this chunk is 10.8px. It is recommended to change it to 1em. In addition, the default size of Song characters is relatively beautiful, which is probably 12px, 14px, 16px and so on. Do not use font size indiscriminately.

3. Font beautification: some larger text, such as the title of blog, it is recommended to use Microsoft Yahei font, vista users can get a more beautiful effect, most xp users do not install this font, will automatically change to Song character display.

4. Optimization of paragraph style: the beginning of a Chinese paragraph needs to be indented by two words, but wordpress wants to delete the space at the beginning of the paragraph, even the full-width space, so it is necessary to optimize it in the stylesheet by finding the .post .contentp section in style.css (the name may change, some topics are .post .entryp, etc.), and add text-indent:2em; For blogs that often quote other people's text, it is necessary to check whether the style of the block reference is set, otherwise you will have to modify the .blockquote section of the stylesheet.

5. Time format optimization: this is often overlooked, and most wordpress themes translated into Chinese still retain awkward time formats such as June 6th2008. Modify method: in index.php, archive.php, single.php, comments.php, page.php, search.php these files, look for comment_date and the_time function, change the following'F jS,Y' 'such time format to' Y year n month j day'or 'Ymurn Muk j' such format, the date can be displayed as a pleasing "xxxx year x month x day" such format.

6. Sidebar personalization: sidebar is often only categories, archives, meta and other content, if you like to use TagsCloud, the latest comments and other features, you need to add your own plug-ins or widget, some do not support widget themes, but also modify sidebar.php, and add the corresponding style in Style.css

7. Add plug-in support: wp-postview (display log clicks), wp-pagenavi (enhanced paging), wp-relatedposts (related logs) and other plug-ins are very commonly used, some need to modify the template, some need to change the style sheet. With the previous understanding of the template structure, you can modify it according to the technical documentation of the plug-in.

8. Template layout optimization: after the previous steps are done, the template is ready for your own use, but if you have the heart to further optimize, you can refer to this article: Creative Examples of Wordpress Themes Modifications, here are many examples to further transform some already good wordpress themes. But the method of optimization is more complex, and people who can make these optimizations can basically write their own topics. Therefore, learning to change the theme is a good way to create your own theme.

After reading this article, I believe you have a certain understanding of what the wordpress optimization guide refers to. You want to know more about it. Welcome to follow the industry information channel. Thank you for your reading!

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