Since WordPress 3.0 it is possible to create various menus easily from the admin panel. These menus can contain any number of links and can be placed anywhere on the website.
How to create a new menu
Insert firstly a name for the menu and save. Afterwards you can choose your links from the selection box on the left. WordPress provides all available internal links (post, pages, categories, tags and even custom posts and taxonomies). External links can also be inserted and added to the menu. [ read more ]
The background colour or background image of a website can be easily changed via the admin panel since WordPress 3.0. To do so you have to register the background-support in your functions.php
add_custom_background();
Now there’s an additional link called ‘Background’ available under the ‘Appearance’ section – it refers to the background settings.
To display different content at different areas of a website or blog it is useful to create more sidebars. These additional sidebars can be easily included and designed differently. Please consider also that the term sidebar is not meant literally, “sidebars” can be included anywhere in a template. [ read more ]