Quite a few users have been asking about how they can get all of the posts on the home page to look like the first featured post. It’s actually quite simple. All you need to do is create a Custom Action (http://presswork.me/2011/custom-css-and-custom-actions/) that will repeat the style of the first post throughout all the other [...]
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Unless you’ve been living under rock, you know how important it is to add share buttons to your blog or site to generate more traffic and help build a community around your brand, product, or point of view. There are many plugins and widgets for WordPress that will add various share buttons, but adding a [...]
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A few people have been asking how to do this so I thought I would write a quick post for our documentation section. The authorbox appears below the post content on all single post pages of your site. If you would like to remove this, you would first have to read these docs to understand [...]
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If you are familiar with PHP, you might have already taken a look under the hood of PressWork to see how things work. Hopefully it doesn’t all look like gibberish and you can pretty much understand how we decide to code it. We tried our best to comment every function so that you can easily [...]
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There are two places that you can officially get PressWork. The first is from the WordPress.org theme directory. The other is from http://presswork.me. If you have downloaded PressWork from another site, I really recommend deleting it and getting an official version from one of the two places mentioned above. The .zip file If you have [...]
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There are some theme options that are part of the WordPress core and those options need to be accessed through the wp-admin. One such option is the WordPress Background Editor. It offers the ability to set a background color for your site, or to add a background image. Go to the Appearance panel in your [...]
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Ordering your navigation menu has always been a bit of a pain. Luckily, the new menu system in WordPress (as of v3.0) makes it as easy as dragging and dropping an item wherever you want. Go to the Appearance panel in your wp-admin and click on the Menus link. Once you are on the Menus [...]
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When creating a site with PressWork, you might want to add some custom css on top of all the theme options that are available. The only problem with modifying any of the core theme files such as style.css is that when you upgrade, those modifications will be overwritten. That’s where a child theme comes in. [...]
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One of the most amazing things about PressWork is the ability to customize your site without leaving the front end. This would not be possible if it weren’t for the PressWork Toolbox. That’s what we call the collection of tools that appear in the lower left of your screen when you are logged in as [...]
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When you first install PressWork, it should look somewhat similar to our demo, minus the content and a few other things. Like most people, the first thing you probably want to do is get rid of our logo and add your own. You don’t have to of course, you could always just remove the header [...]
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With the first release of PressWork (v0.9.1) we have included the top twenty most popular Google Fonts. As with most things on the web, the Google Font directory is constantly growing so we thought it would be best to figure out an easy way for people to add more fonts if they want. The included [...]
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