Part VI : WordPress Reference This part will cover information to help you with your WordPress theme development from the two CSS class styles that WordPress itself outputs to WordPress’s template hierarchy—template tags and include tags—to a breakdown of The Loop along with a few other functions and features you can take advantage of. I’ll review the [...]

Part V : Your Theme in Action Now that we’ve got our theme designed, styled, and looking great, we just have one last thing to do. It’s time to share your theme with your client, friends, and/or the rest of the WordPress community. In this part, we’ll discuss how to properly set up your theme’s style.css so [...]

Part IV : Debugging and Validaton For simplicity’s sake, I’ve made this process a separate part. However, as you work on and develop your own WordPress themes, you will no doubt discover that life will go much smoother if you debug and validate at each step of your theme development process. The full process will pretty [...]

Part III : Coding It Up We’re now going to take our XHTML/CSS mockup and start working it into our WordPress Theme. We’ll take a look at how the mockup will be broken apart into template files and how to incorporate WordPress specific PHP code into the template pages to create our working theme. Got WordPress? First things [...]

I’m going to show you how to create a wordpress theme from scratch in daily published parts of tutorial series. Creating a WordPress theme from scratch is not hard. I’ll hold your hand through it. Tutorials on this topic have been written before and the WordPress website also has guides for you to follow. But are [...]

Part II B : Theme Design and Approach (Cont…) Welcome back, By now you should have completed with Part I and Part II A of this tutorials series.In today’s lesson we are going to continue with Part II of our How to create wordpress theme from scratch tutorials series. So, what are we waiting for, Lets get [...]

Part II A : Theme Design and Approach Welcome back, In this part, we’re going to take a look at the essential elements you need to consider when planning your theme design. We’ll then move on to discuss the best tools and process for making that design a reality. I’ll let you all in on my [...]

Part I : Getting Started as a WordPress Theme Designer : Welcome to WordPress theme design tutorial! This title is intended to take you through the ins and outs of creating sophisticated professional themes for the WordPress personal publishing platform. WordPress was originally, and is foremost, a blog system. Throughout the majority of this tutorial’s parts—for simplicity’s [...]