On my blog I am using a free theme and I like the layout but I am working on making a few changes. In the footer of my blog it is setup with popular tags, recent comments, and most commented. I would like to change it to recent readers (mybloglog), popular entries, about. My question is I am not sure how. My question though is how?
Hi, you got to work in footer.php, css style sheet, index.php etc etc There's a lot of how to around, google it a bit or get some pro help. Get your hands dirty and do it your self, or try at least. I started changing wp templates a few weeks ago and the learning is easy,,, Just do it!
First make a backup of the theme if you don't have one. I find it easier to edit a theme right from the dashboard so your themes files will need to be writable. From the dashboard: Presentation, Theme Editor. You can add the HTML right into the footer for MyBlogLog but will it be formatted for it? Usually it is formatted vertically for a sidebar. The "About" link can just be a regular HTML link. Not sure about the popular entries, if you dig around in the plugin you may find the call for it or even a help file to tell you what code you need to use.
Setup a test blog and you can mess up as many times as you can. Just do it. doing it is the absolute best thing, which theme are you using?
I am using the wptp-chocolate from http://wpthemesplugin.com/. You can view it on my blog at www.budcalabrese.com
Have a copy of theme. First make a backup of the theme if you don't have one. And if u have html and php coding experience or understanding then open ur desired file in fp or dreamweaver and goto coding view and edit them. Mostly i use dreamweaver. U can also use notepad as a txt editor.
style.css, header.php, footer.php - that are all files you need to make ugly default theme look like this: coolwall.info