Fixing unformatted excerpts in blog, archive and search lists

Core WordPress will not retain text formatting in blog, archive and search lists.  This can be an issue if you are using long or full content excerpts read from the main text, rather than the excerpt panel.  Most themes have enhanced the correlated templates to preserve formatting.   However, some themes have not. Once choice is…

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Overriding images sizes in a WordPress child theme

The WordPress function add_image_size allows the declaration of a size name to specific dimensions (see WordPress reference). Generally, these are declared in the functions.php file.  But what if there is a declaration in the parent theme that needs to be changed in the child theme?  Unfortunately, in this case, it will not be overwritten.   To…

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