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WordPress 2.8 Themes Cookbook

By : Nick Ohrn, Lee Jordan
Book Image

WordPress 2.8 Themes Cookbook

By: Nick Ohrn, Lee Jordan

Overview of this book

Themes are among the most powerful features that can be used to customize a web site and give it a professional look, especially in WordPress. Using custom themes you can brand your site for a particular corporate image, ensure standards compliance, and create easily navigable layouts. But most WordPress users still continue to use default themes as developing and deploying themes that are flexible and easily maintainable is not always straightforward and lot of issues pop up during the process.This easy-to-use step-by-step guide will help you create powerful themes for your WordPress web site, and solve your theme development problems in a quick and effective way. It enables you to take full control over your site's design and branding and make it look smarter.WordPress is distributed with two ready-to-use themes. You can use these themes to give a common look to your website, or use the techniques described in this book to create custom themes. This book includes over 100 useful recipes to help you get started and create advanced themes. It starts with the basics of WordPress themes and creating a theme from scratch. Then, it covers how to enhance your template and add effects to get a rich look. You will learn how to manage pages, categories, and tags for your blogs, and how to make your posts look unique. You will also learn about the comment system and sidebars that will help you give a new feel to your blog and web site.This book will help you through the most common problems encountered when developing a WordPress theme. You will get tips to enhance your design skill and eventually enhance your blog's design.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
WordPress 2.8 Themes Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
Preface

About the Authors

Lee Jordan is a web designer and new media developer who designs and maintains websites, web-based applications, templates, and social media for a privately-held technical services company. She brings a strong design background and concern for the visual and emotional impact of media to web-based projects. Experienced in multiple CMS platforms including Expression Engine, Plone, WordPress, PostNuke, and Google’s Blogger, she has maintained, explored, and used most of them on a day-to-day basis. She spends her spare time as the leader of a local scout troop, taking long hikes with her family in the beautiful North Georgia woods, trying to taste every variety of chocolate that exists, and playing with code and pixels. Design topics, or whatever she can think of at the time, are posted on her blog at http://leejordan.net.

Lee has previously written two books with Packt Publishing: Project Management with dotProject, and Blogger: Beyond the Basics.

Nick Ohrn holds a bachelors degree in Computer Science from the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. He graduated in 2008 and has been running his own independent software development company ever since.

As an independent business owner, Nick has had the pleasure of working on a variety of high profile projects. He enjoys creating applications that are both usable and have a high-quality codebase. Nick specializes in custom WordPress development and web applications.

Nick balances his time between programming, managing others, reading, writing on a variety of technical platforms, and contributing to open source software. When he isn’t working, he enjoys weight training, bodybuilding, and other athletic endeavors.

Find Nick’s custom WordPress development business at http://plugin-developer.com. You can find his personal site at http://nickohrn.com.