Congratulations! This is the final part fo my guide and by the time you read this you should be able to code your own wordpress theme. This is mainly a recapitulation of previous four parts. I suppose that you have read through all previus chapters - if not, check them out: Part I, Part II Part III Part IV (more…)
Getting closer to finishing your first wordpress theme. However there’s one important thing left - sidebar. That’s right, every blog needs a well organized and user-friendly navigation. It’s actually pretty simple. We just need to call few wordpress functions, add few lines to the stylesheet and we’re done. (more…)
By the time you read this, you should already have archive.php, header.php, index.php and page.php completed. Now we will move to a single post and a comments template. (more…)
Make sure you have read the first chapter and have done everything I’ve been explaining there. In this part, I will show you how to create the wordpress loop. The loop is the most important portion of your theme. It takes care of displaying posts and articles. (more…)
Does your wordpress blog look too dusty? Need a new refreshing theme? You’ve probably already spent hours browsing the web in order to find an ideal one but most of the free themes you’ll find just won’t be good enough. Well, what about making your own theme? Yeah. It’s not that hard. All you need is some experience with HTML and CSS plus maybe a little knowledge of PHP syntax (though this isn’t necessary - it’s enough to copy and paste all PHP codes). (more…)