Basic Tips for Improving WordPress Themes

Six Revisions write nice article about 10 Basic Tips for Improving WordPress Themes. This tips really useful for all of you to create your WordPress Theme stunning and much better than others. WordPress become more popular as CMS this not only Personal Publishing Platform anymore. WordPress is more than this. There are big company using WordPress.

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1. Reduce the Size of Theme Images
   Use your Theme image wisely, the most important is use the right format for you image, JPG for photos and PNG or GIF for solid colors, you can try to reduce your  image using Image Resizer Online Tools such as Smush.it
2. Custom Favicon
   Create WordPress Theme and added own favicon will be improve your themes popularity, to add Favicon on your theme is simple. Put your .ICO or .GIF favicon file in 16x16px and added extra code on your header.php

   <link rel="icon" href="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />

3. Use PHP Flush
   By calling the PHP flush function right after your header, you will be able to speed up your WordPress blog. Simply add this line to your header.php file after the closing tag:

   <?php flush(); ?>
   

   This code simply forces your web server to send your website’s header before sending the rest of the content. By using the flush function, the browser has time to download all the stylesheets referenced in the header while waiting for the other parts of the web page.

4. Secure Your Theme
   For some reason that you wont be display is your currently WordPress version, because some attacker using this version the hijack our site. That why it’s better we hide it. To Hide our WordPress version is simple, open your header.php and remove this code

   <meta name="generator" content="WordPress <?php bloginfo(’version’); ?>" />

   And to prevent WordPress added again, we need to hook the code by added this code on functions.php

   <?php remove_action('wp_head', 'wp_generator'); ?>

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