I want to use WordPress as a CMS for a reasonably basic site rather than a blog.  I have several pages and at the moment, I don't intend to have a "news" page. 
While there are ways to make this work, ...

I have found and downloaded a theme.  However I want to tweak the CSS some to change the design, colours etc.  a bit.  How should I go about doing this, while still being able to update the theme without ...

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I'm finding myself building more and more WP sites "from scratch" as it were (ie: ignoring any theme designs out there and just creating a design wireframe purely on the needs of the client. ... 

So I'm using Starkers to base my next WP theme on and I've run into a small issue, I was including my own version of jQuery in the header.php file but when inspecting my site using Firebug I noticed ...

I'm using Photospace as a gallery slider within my hatch pro wp theme (you can check here). 
The default transition effect between slides is a crossover effect (like this example), but the effect in ...

I would like to create a theme options page based only on changing the site wide CSS styling.  For instance body/container background colors, font-sizes, font colors, etc. 
I have accomplished this by ...

For example i have category coffee machines, and one template for coffee machine single product template, but for category coffee i want to have different single-product.php template, how to implement ...

I use to generate the ogp tags in themes I code but this commercial one is beyond my knowledge.  The client want to share a page but any image option shows up. 
Instead of a taxonomy-name.php template ...

I'm trying to create an one page template [ w/out infinite scroll ].  The two problems I'm running into are adding a class to the list pages function [ or finding some other way to target the menu for ...

I see a lot of plugins making use of object-oriented coding when there isn't really necessary. 
But what's even worse is that theme developers are starting to do the same thing.  Commercial themes and ...

I've done created a lot of Wordpress themes and plugins, but I haven't done much with the Wordpress WooCommerce plugin from WooThemes. 
If someone asked me what general theme they should work with to ...

As part of a theme for a client, I want to be able to show a custom menu (defined via the admin) in a select box that automatically changes pages after changing the selection. 
Is there a plugin (or a ...

I'm developing a child-theme using Wordpress 3.4.2 and the development version of the Options Framework by David Price.  This is my first theme and I'm relatively new to this, so I've had a look into ...

I recently started to develop plugins and themes and I found that I need to use several functions of on both. 
Sometime I think about to check if function / class exist before declared as said on this ...

I'd like to test some theme changes on my live site, but I obviously don't want regular users seeing any errors that may arise from it.  I'd like to just duplicate my theme folder and if I'm logged in ...

What would be your suggestions for learning CSS and WordPress theme development ? 
I have been using WordPress for over 4 years now, but I have never really gotten comfortable with CSS or theme design ...