Week 33

Take your theme that you have installed on your hosting account and customise it as per this module. Then I want you to find some WordPress hacks that you can use to customise your website even further. The main thing with this project is to not just do things for the sake of doing them. I would like you to explain the tweaks that you have made and your reasoning for adding certain features.

When creating my portfolio in week 32, I also added 4 posts, an about page and played around with the options to customize it. Below I list those changes and the new ones I made this week.

• I changed some general settings such as title and tagline, site language, timezone, date format (d/m/Y) and time format (H:i).
• I changed comment settings so no one can comment. Since it is a portfolio and there is a contact form available, I preferred to disable this option.
• I changed the permalinks to use post name instead of the default one. It is more search engine friendly and gives the reader an idea of what the post is about.
• I installed the WPS Hide Login plugin to protect my website by changing the login URL and preventing access to the wp-login.php page and the wp-admin directory to non-connected people.
• Added a gravatar.
• I uploaded a logo and a site icon.
• I changed the number of columns in the post grid on desktop to three.
• I added a contact form to my About page. For that, I installed the Ninja Forms plugins.
• I added additional CSS in order to change the look of the navigation menu. The menu items were underlined and I changed it so they appear without decoration except on hover.
  This is the CSS code I added:
  .alt-nav a {text-decoration: none;}
.alt-nav a:hover {text-decoration: underline ;}
• Also adding additional CSS, I removed the left padding in the about page, so the photo and text are centered.
  .resume-template .entry-content {max-width: 500px; padding-left: 0;}
• Finally, I edited the file footer.php to change the hypelink text from the blog name to my name.

Here is a link to my portfolio.