The growth and popularity of Wordpress continues to spiral to a seemingly endless end. It continually proves itself time time and again that it has very few limitations, and is rapidly pushing itself to being, if not the best, but certainly the most versatile CMS available. Out of the box it is certainly not perfect, but in the hands of the huge WP community, it might just be.
Your New Wordpress Website Step By Step. Beginner’s Guide
First of all and when starting on a website, you should understand that WordPress is not just some place where you can post just any kind of updates. This is an amazing content management system that can be used to create any type of website of any complexity. What you usually see online is the 10% usage of the WordPress functionality and capabilities while most possibly you’ll be using only 5% if you just plan to post news from time to time.
Your New Wordpress Website Step By Step. Beginner’s Guide »
WordPress Template Hierarchy and Conditional Comments
WordPress’s popularity and usefulness as a multi-purpose content management system, continues to grow, and the more people flock to using this CMS the more an understanding of some of the basics of how it operates becomes necessary.
Technically you only need two files for a WordPress theme to work, index.php and style.css.
However, if you would like to make your theme a bit more unique and have some variance in the way different content is presented, you will want to use some other template pages. Now this is where the hierarchy comes into play, because WordPress runs off a Template Hierarchy.
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The Essential Elements of your First Wordpress Design Site
In this article they discuss the key points you need to cross off, if you wish to setup your own design site. They discuss finding your design sites niche, which plug-ins are the best to use and how to setup your brand image.
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Complete Theme Design Tutorials
How To Create a WordPress Theme: The Ultimate WordPress Theme Tutorial
In detailed 11 individual lessons this tutorial will show you how to build a powerful, up-to-date, SEO friendly WordPress theme from scratch. At the end of the tutorial, with code in hand, you’ll be able to do almost anything you want. You can even think of the finished Theme as your own personal website development framework for WordPress.
How To Create a WordPress Theme: The Ultimate WordPress Theme Tutorial »
Custom WordPress Homepage with Customizable Widgets
In this Tutorial, you’ll learn how to build a Custom homepage for your WordPress Theme using Page Templates: Complete with a featured content slider, and customizable Widgets.
Custom WordPress Homepage with Customizable Widgets »
How to Build a Custom Wordpress Theme from Scratch
This tut shows the process of how to build a custom Wordpress theme, from design concept through to completed theme. You will see how the static design is split up into the various Wordpress theme files, and discover how the simple PHP snippets can add that dynamic functionality of a blog.
How to Build a Custom Wordpress Theme from Scratch »
WordPress Theme from Scratch
The tutorial series “WordPress Theme from Scratch” teaches you how to build a WordPress theme, starting with the initial design in Photoshop, converting it to HTML and finally splitting everything into the various WP theme files.
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How to Create a Theme Development Environment for a Live WordPress Site
Any good website owner knows that they need to be constantly looking at ways to improve their site even through small little tweaks. If you’re using Wordpress you’ll notice that it isn’t easy to create a development version without creating a separate installation. Of course, you can make changes directly on a live WordPress site but that isn’t recommended for anything other than minor tweaks.
With the help of an excellent plugin for WordPress called Theme switch and preview, this tutorial will allow you to easily switch between the live site and development versions using two different themes on the same installation of WordPress.
How to Create a Theme Development Environment for a Live WordPress Site »
19/04/2010 at 11:56 am Permalink
designjuices.co.ukThanks for including my Wordpress guide also be sure to check out the other two parts to the series so far over at http://www.designjuices.co.uk
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21/04/2010 at 2:37 am Permalink
Thanks for this! I’m in the process of redesigning my site and converting my psd design to wordpress and this post will save me significant amount of searching
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21/04/2010 at 5:37 am Permalink
Really Glad you found the post useful