The Perfect Blog Theme
What is the perfect blog theme ? I’ve been thinking about it and I think I have the answer
Registering New Sidebars for Custom Page Templates The Smart Way
One of the cooler ideas for a new WordPress default Theme that’s come up has been the idea of including a not-so-blog-ish custom home page template with the Theme. Something optional that you could use if wanted your home page to look a little different. Maybe more of a traditional web site look (whatever that is) or a magazine look.
40+ Thematic Resources, Tutorials and Links
The post Build WordPress Sites Fast With the Thematic Theme Framework by Es Developed is a great resource for anyone wanting to get started with the Thematic Theme . It lists over 40 resources and tutorials that’ll get you where you want to be with rapid WordPress Theme development.
How To Reset & Rebuild WordPress Theme CSS & Define Your Layouts
CSS can be tricky . It can also be incredibly easy. I had a lot of help getting my head wrapped around CSS when I was first starting out and I take great pleasure in helping others the same way I was first helped: with solid code examples to learn from.
The WordPress Theme Sidebar Template
I know you’ve been waiting patiently for this one. Everybody loves the Sidebar Template. But we’re going to do ours a little differently than everyone else.
The Archive, Author, Category & Tags Template
Much like we did with index.php , we’re going to get one master template done right and use it to build our other templates. Our master Template in this case is the Archive Template
The WordPress Theme Search Template and Page Template
The Search Template and The Page Template are vital to any complete WordPress Theme. And they’re both really easy to code. For both these two Templates we’ll start with our template-template again.
The WordPress Theme Comments Template
I hate the Comments Template . There, I said it. It can be a confusing mess.
The WordPress Theme Single Post, Post Attachment, & 404 Templates
You’ve built an index of all your posts, now you need to create a template to frame each piece of content (or missing content) on it’s own. The Template for Templates The structure of single.php (and almost all the other templates we’ll be creating) is largely the same as index.php .
The WordPress Theme Index Template
Index.php is the most crucial WordPress Theme Template. Not only because WordPress needs to use it if you’re missing any of it’s brother and sister templates (like, category.php or tag.php ) but because the work we do here, getting this template right, will help us breeze through the rest of our templates (with the exception of the dreaded comments template; that’s just plain difficult no matter how you look at it). The Loop Even though it’s stuck right in the middle of your template, in a metaphorical sense index.php begins and ends with The Loop
