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 links” for the...

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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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Creating WordPress Themes: Introduction

Okay all, one of the most popular sets of postings on my site happens to be the “How to Create a WordPress Template or Theme,” which was actually written a loooong time ago, back when I was using version 2.0. (Or was it 1.5? I can’t even remember!) needless to say, that was back in 2006 – holy cow, almost three years ago! – and although a lot of that stuff still holds true, much...

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Allow End Users to Add Images to Your Gallery

A common question I’ve seen on the WP forums – as well as other places – is the idea of allowing people to post images to your WordPress site. I’ve actually had two different clients of mine also request this feature: one wanted the images to be posted to a “showcase gallery,” while the other wanted commenters to leave images in the comments section when they contributed to discussions. Although I don’t really recommend this,...

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