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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

Creating a media template for a specific media type


Not all attachments are images, and so we shouldn't display them in the same way as we would display images. Perhaps you wish to link directly to a video or audio file, or you have a special Flash player that can read these files from the web and play them. Whatever your desired usage, it is easy to make sure that WordPress loads a specific template for certain media types.

Getting started

The only requirement for this recipe is that you are working on a modern WordPress theme (2.8 or 2.9). You will need to decide how granular you want your media type templates to be. For example, do you just want to display a certain attachment for all images, or do you want to display a specific template for JPEGs, GIFs, or PNGs? For now, we're going to assume that you want a different template for audio, video, and image files.

How to do it...

Back up any attachment.php file that you may have already created. Create image.php, audio.php, and video.php...