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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

Determining if the user is on a specific page


There will come a time when your theme should do something special for a certain page. Maybe your About page should display the author biographies or avatars, or perhaps you want your Contact page to include your phone number and address at the top, in addition to whatever other content appears.

How to do it...

Decide on the page that you want to customize, and remember its name. Open your theme's page.php file. This template file is used when displaying a single page. Place the cursor in the template where you want your custom content to be displayed, and then insert the following code:

<?php
if(is_page('Page Name')) {
// Put special content code here
}
?>

Replace Page Name with the name that you previously determined. Save the file and view the special page in your browser. Whatever content you added specifically for that page should appear. However, if you navigate to a different page, then the special content will not appear.

How it...