Computer. How to Upgrade to WordPress 2.7 Safely and Ensure Compatibility. Building Custom WordPress Theme. This is the Chapter II of the Complete WordPress Theme Guide series. This chapter will show you how to build a custom WordPress theme. Although the Codex site provides very good documentations on how to create a theme, but I find it too complicated for a beginner.
In this tutorial, I will explain the basics of how WordPress theme works and show you how to convert a static HTML template into a theme. No PHP skill is required, but you need Photoshop and CSS skills to create your own design. 1. The Blog Frontend Before you start, let's take a look at the WordPress default theme and see how it is structured. Default Frontpage (index.php) Default Single (single.php) 2. Based on the information gathered from the default theme, design a Photoshop mockup of your blog. After the PSD design is done, create a static HTML+CSS template of each page. Why Create a Static HTML File First? Mainly because it will make the development process a lot easier. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Open the index.html file. 9. 10. 11. College press. This is a new weekly feature debuting today at the JI. Every week I’ll take a look at a student newspaper Web site, feature on that site, story or other content that I like.
The inaugural College High Five of the Week goes to The Independent Florida Alligator for its Best Photos of the Week in News feature. Here is why I like this feature: it’s an easy way to get more life out of content, while also serving users better. Does it get any better then that? Basically, Alligator staffers select the best staff photos of the week, put them in a slide show and boom they have new content. Second, this feature is a showcase for a newspaper’s best work. Finally, this is an easy, Web-only feature that people enjoy. It happens. Now, there are a few ways to improve this feature.
This would allow the Alligator to track the page views for each photo. Let’s take this concept a step further. I think this would be a huge way of getting more life out of existing content. Widgetize Blogs for Opera.