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Statistics released on June 21, 2011, show that WordPress is used in 63% of all websites using content management systems, commonly called CMS. Content management system distribution is calculated from the top million websites on the Internet. The CMS with the second place position among content management based websites is Joomla, but at a mere 10% it pales in comparison to the popularity of WordPress. This is a testament to the superiority of WordPress as an overall website CMS. WordPress has a simplicity that makes it very popular with end users, yet it’s potential for functional complexity is unlimited. WordPress web designers appreciate the straight forward templating system and the power to create virtually any web design from a WordPress website. Companies appreciate that WordPress is the most stable and up to date website CMS in the industry. And software developers reap the benefits of the WordPress open plugin architecture, allow anyone to program a custom website application that simply ‘plugs in’ to the WordPress core. WordPress was voted best website CMS in 2009 and 2010, and there is no doubt it will claim a Hat Trick in 2011.

Below is a chart displaying the current website CMS distribution ratios, with WordPress claiming the vast majority share of 63%.

Website CMS Distribution in Top Million Sites

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WordPress web design customization can be a simple task for experienced WordPress developers. By simply adding function calls and filters to the active theme’s ‘functions.php’ file, you can perform just about any WordPress web design customization, to both the front end and backend of WordPress websites.

WordPress has a built in function for logging users in and out called ‘wp_loginout’. The default text displayed for this is ‘Log in’ and ‘Log out’ respectively. But what if you want your login link to display as ‘Sign in’ and ‘Sign off’ instead of the default ‘Log in’ and ‘Log out’? Add a filter to the active theme’s functions.php of course.

/**
 * Change login text
 */

add_filter('loginout','loginout_text_change');
function loginout_text_change($text) {
$login_text_before = 'Log in';
$login_text_after = 'Sign in';

$logout_text_before = 'Log out';
$logout_text_after = 'Sign off';

$text = str_replace($login_text_before, $login_text_after ,$text);
$text = str_replace($logout_text_before, $logout_text_after ,$text);
return $text;
}

Now upload the edited functions.php file, and when viewing the WordPress web design in a web browser, the ‘Log in’ text link will now display as ‘Sign in’.

In Web design, the navigation selections are commonly all the same color. However, some web design clients may request that specific navigation selections be a different color from the rest. In a static HTML web page, this is easy. But in a CMS web page this can be difficult, as cms website navigation is typically generated from a database, then formatted by a global template and stylesheet.

WordPress will often generate unique class definitions and/or id’s from which you can style specific elements. View the page source and find the specific element you want to style uniquely. If WordPress has generated a unique ID or CLASS definition, just add this definition to your style sheet with your desired unique web design stylings. Your navigation selection will reflect the unique style.

When you create a new web page in WordPress, the order for the new web page defaults to ’0′, which positions the display of it’s navigation menu at the beginning of the stack. To change the web page order:

- Open the web page in the editor.

- On the right column there is a panel titled ‘Attributes’.

- This panel includes two menus: ‘Parent’ and ‘Order’.

- The ‘Parent’ menu allows you to make the web page a child of another web page.

- The ‘Order’ menu is where you specify the numeric web page order.

- Set this to whatever you want the respective web page’s order to be.

- For example if you have five parent web pages, set each web page’s ‘Order’ numerically from 1-5 respectively.

- When adding a new web page, set the new web page’s ‘Order’ to ’6′ if you want the web page navigation menu to display after all the other web pages, and so forth.

- Another example would be that you want a new web page to display fourth in the middle of the current web pages. To accomplish this, set the new web page’s numeric order to 4, then open the web pages that were previously set as 4 and 5, and change them to 5 and 6 respectively.