WP Theme Lesson #16: Comments Template

Follow this WordPress Theme Tutorial Series from the beginning. You’re almost done. Hang on for just one more lesson. Today, you take on the life of all blogs; the comments template. In my opinion, a blog is not a blog if it doesn’t allow readers to comment. To some, comments are not important, but it’s [...]

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WP Theme Lesson #15: Sub-Template Files

Follow this WordPress Theme Tutorial Series from the beginning. To continue with where we left off, you’re going to create more sub-template files like yesterday’s header.php, sidebar.php, and footer.php files. Now that the index.php file’s divided, it gets even easier.   Step 1 Before you do this step, look at the Sidebar, click on an [...]

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WP Theme Lesson #14: Footer and Dividing Index

Follow this WordPress Theme Tutorial Series from the beginning. Today, we wrap up styling and start dividing the index.php file into multiple small files. You’ll need the style.css early in today’s lesson. Later, you’ll work with index.php along with creating some new files. Finally huh? Yes, you’re almost done. Open Xampp, theme’s folder, Firefox, IE, [...]

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WP Theme Lesson #13: Styling Sidebar

Follow this WordPress Theme Tutorial Series from the beginning. After styling the Sidebar, this tutorial series will be almost over. Already? Yes, but don’t worry. I’ll follow up with case studies (break down of how I created my themes). Again, you don’t need the index.php file today. Open Xampp, theme’s folder, Firefox, IE, and style.css [...]

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WP Theme Lesson #12: Post Formatting and Miscellaneous

Follow this WordPress Theme Tutorial Series from the beginning. You don’t need index.php today. Open Xampp Control, theme folder, Firefox, Internet Explorer, and style.css. Before we start, forget yesterday’s screenshot that I showed you. I had the widget plugin turned on while taking the screenshot, which explains why my sidebar looked different from yours. Also, [...]

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WP Theme Lesson #11: Widths and Floats

Follow this WordPress Theme Tutorial Series from the beginning. This lesson will cover how to set the width for each DIV (or invisible box) and how to arrange them. It’ll also show you some work-arounds to get your theme to display right or look the same in both Firefox and Internet Exlporer. Before we start, [...]

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WP Theme Lesson #10: Hex Codes and Styling Links

Follow this WordPress Theme Tutorial Series from the beginning. Continuing from yesterday’s introduction to CSS, we’ll do more coloring and learn more about hex codes. The color property, followed by a hexadecimal (hex) code, is for coloring texts (words). For example body { color: #000000;} means all texts (words) in the body of your page [...]

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WP Theme Lesson #9: Style.css and CSS Intro

The best way to learn CSS is to dive right in. Unlike XHTML and PHP, you don’t need to touch the core files of your template. You also don’t need to understand any basic concept. Just dive in. Trial and error is the way to go. Before we start, you should already have some information [...]

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WP Theme Lesson #8: How to Validate

You need to learn how to validate your codes, before stepping into CSS and working with the style.css file. Validate/Validating/Validation simply means making sure there’s no error. At beginning of this series, I gave you two links to bookmark, XHTML Validator and CSS Validator. For this lesson, you’ll use the XHTML validator. I’ll keep this [...]

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WP Theme Lesson #7: Footer

This lesson on the footer is simple. You’re going to add a DIV or invisible box under the Sidebar DIV and fill in some copyright text for the footer. Think you can do that without my instructions? Go ahead a try it. Come back to this lesson to double check.     Step 1: Add [...]

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