You have now learned the key theme design considerations to make when planning a WordPress theme. We've walked through the basics of creating a great, functional XHTML/CSS mockup, complete with careful typography and color scheme considerations, tableless layout, and great graphics that we know will fit the layout because they were custom made just for XHTML and CSS. Now that we can see and even get a sense of the user experience of our mockup, let's dive right in to coding it up into a fully working WordPress theme!
WordPress 2.8 Theme Design
WordPress 2.8 Theme Design
Overview of this book
Themes are among the most powerful features that can be used to customize a web site, 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.
It's easy to create powerful and professional themes for your WordPress web site when you've got this book to hand. It provides clear, step-by-step instructions to create a robust and flexible WordPress theme, along with best practices for theme development. It will take you through the ins and outs of creating sophisticated professional themes for the WordPress personal publishing platform. It reviews the best practices from development tools and setting up your WordPress sandbox, through design tips and suggestions, to setting up your theme's template structure, coding markup, testing and debugging, to taking it live. The last three chapters are dedicated to additional tips, tricks, and various cookbook recipes for adding popular site enhancements to your WordPress theme designs using third-party plugins.
Whether you're working with a pre-existing theme or creating a new one from the ground up, WordPress Theme Design will give you the know-how to understand how themes work within the WordPress blog system, enabling you to take full control over your site's design and branding.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
WordPress 2.8 Theme Design
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface
Free Chapter
Getting Started as a WordPress Theme Designer
Theme Design and Approach
Coding It Up
Debugging and Validation
Putting Your Theme into Action
WordPress Template Tag, Function, and CSS Reference
AJAX / Dynamic Content and Interactive Forms
Dynamic Menus and Interactive Elements
Design Tips for Working with WordPress
Index
Customer Reviews