on Jul 29th, 2008How To Create WordPress Themes From Scratch
I stumbled around and came to this REALLY good tutorial in three parts for creating a WordPress theme. Very well written, deep and easy to follow.
I’ll be trying to follow this for my own designs since I’m working on a few websites now and really want to do everything from scratch, not use a pre-made template and modify it for my own use.
Anyway, here is the link to this theme. Again, it’s well written and everything. I’m impressed.
http://themetation.com/how-to-create-wordpress-themes-from-scratch-part-1/
I’m going to show you how to create a wordpress theme from scratch in these 3 parts of tutorial series. I will cover from Structuring, designing in Photoshop, slicing, coding into fully css based html, and finally wordpress implementation.
Below is the index of the topics that we will go through:
- Structuring, Designing in Photoshop.
- Slicing and Coding.
- WordPress Implementation.
- header.php
- sidebar.php
- about.php - a custom file for the about section in the sidebar.
- footer.php
- index.php
- featured-post.php - a custom file for the featured posts.
- page.php
- single.php
- comments.php
- archives.php, links.php
- search.php, searchform.php
- function.php
- image.php
Tad, is there a basic WordPress code base that you suggest starting with that has up to date code, works well with WP 2.6 and has a sidebar on all pages?
I originally built my theme form the default that came with my 2.1 years ago and I am wondering how antique that WP code base is if I ever decide to update to 2.6+ in the future.
Any advice here will be valued. - Chris Lang
Hey Chris,
The best idea is to go to:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development and look through there. I don’t know any 2.6+ tags but I think generally they are all still in effect.
Also, tryhttp://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags
Good ideas. Adviced to friends