Free Ebook - A Beginner’s Guide to WordPress Theme Development
Date: 9 June 2011 | Posted by: kampret
“A Beginner’s Guide to WordPress Theme Development” by Alex Denning
Getting started with WordPress theming can be a daunting prospect, and before we start, I’ll say this now; I’m going to assume a good solid understanding of both CSS and HTML. Good places to gain this knowledge are CSS-Tricks and Nettuts+. We are going to go quite quickly in order to rattle through this in a week. If you need any further explanation, then leave a comment and I’ll be happy to help out.
A couple of things to sort out first – you’ll need to get yourself a code editor. If you’re using Windows, the free Notepad++ is an excellent tool to have and if you’re on a Mac then I’m sure there are plenty of great free editors, but the one that everyone raves about is called Coda (and it’s not free). If you’re serious about design then Coda will be worth it in the long term. The only other quick thing we need to do is install WordPress locally. Conveniently I posted how to do this just the other day; follow that tutorial for all the details.
CHAPTER 1: The fundamentals of any WordPress theme.
CHAPTER 2: The index.php and style.css files.
CHAPTER 3: The header, sidebar and footer.
CHAPTER 4: The single, comments and page files.
CHAPTER 5: The archive, home and functions files
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http://wpshout.com/a-beginners-guide-to-wordpress-theme-development-day-6-free-ebook/
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