How to Make Your Own Theme – END NOTES

Last Updated on Tuesday, 12 March 2013 07:20 Written by TJ Marsh Wednesday, 13 March 2013 12:00

End Notes and Future Tutorials

I really enjoy working with WordPress. The development team has done an excellent job of putting together a stable piece of software that provides an almost limitless flexibility. I’ve yet to take on a project that WordPress hasn’t been able to handle. Here are a few suggestions for taking your WordPress theme development and customization even further:

How to Make Your Own Theme – PART 8

Last Updated on Saturday, 9 March 2013 03:35 Written by TJ Marsh Tuesday, 12 March 2013 12:00

The last step is to replace the styles in style.css with your own and to edit the theme information. The header comments “default” CSS sheet read as follows:

How to Make Your Own Theme – PART 7

Last Updated on Saturday, 9 March 2013 03:34 Written by TJ Marsh Monday, 11 March 2013 12:00

Now that we’ve covered the basics, it’s time to step into new territory and do some experimenting of your own. For this particular theme, I will continue the customization by modifying the following template files:

How to Make Your Own Theme – PART 6

Last Updated on Saturday, 9 March 2013 03:33 Written by TJ Marsh Sunday, 10 March 2013 12:00

Step Six: Finishing up with the Footer

Alrighty! We’re almost there! Let’s get started on the footer.

1. First, let’s take a look at our “default” footer:

How to Make Your Own Theme – PART 5

Last Updated on Wednesday, 6 March 2013 04:14 Written by TJ Marsh Saturday, 9 March 2013 12:00

Step Five: Customizing the Sidebar

Now that we have the header and the main index template in place, it’s time to tackle the sidebar. For those of you working on a theme without a sidebar feel free to skip this section. But for the sake of some of the more advanced things we’ll be covering, I’d recommend looking it over just to be sure you didn’t miss anything.

Let’s begin once again by taking a look at the “default” source code: