Creating WordPress Themes: query_posts();

Now we’re getting into the good stuff. The problem is, the “gooder” the stuff, the harder it is to provide you with a good tutorial that makes sense! We’re now getting into the parts of customization where you really need to have an understanding of what’s going on, because what I’m about to describe to you can be used in many, may different ways – there’s no way I could possibly give you a...

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Creating WordPress Themes: Front Page Styling

Oh, this deserves a whole tutorial on its own – which is one of the reasons I decided to do this series. There are so many ways you can create a different look for your index page (or ANY page for that matter – pretty much every method in this part of the series can be applied to Pages, categories – anything). Most people like to have a different look for various parts...

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Creating WordPress Themes: Themes 101

Now that we’ve covered the basics, we’ll start diving in. Now, as I’ve mentioned before, in my previous tutorial on this subject, I got a LOT of comments about the pagination I used. I guess I never really thought about the “printability” of these tutorials – I was surprised to discover that I’m one of the few people who like to read off the screen LOL So I’m going to provide “jump...

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Creating WordPress Themes: The Basics

I’m going to pretend that my (three year old!) tutorial on creating WordPress themes doesn’t exist anymore. As I mentioned in the intro to this series, a lot of it still holds true, but enough has changed that it’s probably better to just start from scratch. And so I am.

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