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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

Displaying a comment form on a post


Because comments are so important on a blog, it stands to reason that the best place to start is with how to display an appropriate comment form on each post. The comment form allows the appropriate visitors to leave comments with their name, e-mail address, and URL. The form presented in this recipe is the standard comment form that the default WordPress theme uses.

How to do it...

The first thing you need to do here is to open your single content template, either single.php or page.php, and insert the appropriate template tag. Scroll to the end of your post display code, and insert the following function call:

<?php comments_template(); ?>

Open up your site and browse to a single post. Upon arriving there, you should see one of two things. If you are logged in, you'll see a notice indicating your username and a Log out link, as well as the comment input box. This is shown as follows:

If you are not logged in, you'll see a Name, Mail, and Website...