Adding more styles to your wordpress theme, and why is that “style” highlighted ? Simple : because, this post is about making your blog look more stylish, by adding few more stylesheets ie, style sheets for categories.

I was reading this post from http://tarskitheme.com about a brilliant plugin : Category Style Sheets. by Benedict  Eastaugh.  It is a simple but awesome plugin that allows you to add style sheets for each category of your blog. That means, you can have different background colors, images, link colors etc for individual category archives, and each post in that category.

What I have done, ( So Far )

I have created two style sheets for two of my categories. WordPress & Blogging. I have changed background colors for category archive pages, and individual pots in these two categories. Now, go to any blog post in that category and you will see the plugin in action. I have changed only the background color. Should I try more ? Do you have any suggestion ?

How To Do This

All you need to do is,

1.  Download the plugin, activate it

2. Create a new style sheet for a category and name it  category-n.css (where n is the category ID). To know the category ID, Go go Dashboard > Categories > Edit category

3. Now, go back to your blog, and check it out.

Next Step, Without the Plugin

I did something else after that 3rd step. I really wanted to learn and test theme functions, ( the functions.php file ) So I created a new functions.php file for my child theme, and then added the plugin’s code there. Deleted the original plugin from my plugin’s directory, and tested the feature again  and it worked like a charm !!

I am planning to release this child theme for the wordpress community. However, I am unsure if I can include this feature since I do not have permission from the plugin author for this. I will give it a try, anyways !

It’s your turn now !!

Yes, go ahead and try this plugin. You will love it !! But don’t forget to leave a comment here if you liked it, or if you find any trouble while enabling this feature. You can subscribe to this blog to get more updates about this feature, and you can probably grad this feature built in, when I release the theme.

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Now, if you have read that post from Ian, you will understand how easy it is, to build a powerful theme using the Child theme technique. So, the guy who built this theme did nothing but few css tweaks. The guy who did all the hard work is Justin. Say thanks and congrats to him.

Still, if you want to use this theme, just subscribe to this blog, and the theme will be available for download very soon. Do you like this theme.. ? Do you have any suggestion ?

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I’ve been reading a lot of blogs, about designing, especially the web 2.0 design which made me a fan of themes with more white space. It was a fun ride, reading ebooks, and blogs, about wordpress design and css etc, and I feel I haven’t learned even 1% of what is available out there !! . But one thing, I can assure you, for those who want to learn, there are lot of resources available, and the community is very very helpful !!. 

Now, I need to start reading all your new posts, kept unread on my google reader, see you there !!

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Its time for a break. I will be working behind the scenes, on design and coding, trying to learn more. More updates about me and my blog, on the other end of the break !!

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If any of you guys wants to use it, let me know, I can send you the theme, eventhough it is not ready for a public release. So, if someone wants to use it, I can make few more changes needed, and then send the zip file.

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CSS is awesome.

CSS is really great, and it is awesome. It can do many wonders on your web page. It can make your blog look good or bad, or beautiful or even sexy. There are n number of beautiful things that you can do with CSS. Last week I spent hours looking at CSS wonders that other people have created, and finally decided to learn CSS,

CSS is fun

I don’t have trainers. Google and the Web are my teachers. You guys are my classmates, if you are interested. I won’t be the best student in the class, so no competition from me for ranks.. I swear !!

Classmates share ideas, notes and even help in Exams .. ( kopykats !!!!) … being in the same class is fun .. right ? think about all your fellow bloggers as your classmates ? everyone in a single classroom ?  will be fun for sure  !!!

Share your notes

So, time to share your notes with me, okay ? Send me links, e books ( anything that comes free, you get the idea now .. right ? ), anything you have, about css.

With Love,
Your classmate, Dinu

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