Using Dashicons in WP Themes

Dashicons Font is a wonderful and useful set of icons included in WordPress since its 3.8 version as part of its new admin environment. WP uses these icons to identify posts, media tools, editor tools, etc. In admin environment you have not to do anything for loading this set –it is loaded by default by WP–, however Dashicons Font is not loaded as part of any theme. So, what do we have to do for using Dashicons inside our themes?

WordPress DashIcons Sample

Nowadays, most of browsers allow us the use of fonts for improving the appearance of our pages and this feature is supported via CSS Continue reading…

A different style for the external links

Sometimes inside a post or a page you have to include a link whose url doesn’t belong to your website; a external link is called. In most cases, this kind of external links are styled in the same way that the rest of internal links (links to your own website) and, in consequence, the readers can’t distinguish between them. Now, a simple method for styling your external links.

Styling external links in a different way. An example.

Our first step is to find out what is the basic difference between these two kinds of links because  Continue reading…