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WordPress Complete

By : Hasin Hayder
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WordPress Complete

By: Hasin Hayder

Overview of this book

<p>WordPress is an open-source blog engine released under the GNU general public license. It allows users to easily create dynamic blogs with great content and many outstanding features. It is an ideal tool for developing blogs and though it is chiefly used for blogging, it can also be used as a complete CMS with very little effort. Its versality and ease of use has attracted a large, enthusiastic, and helpful community of users.<br /><br />If you want to create powerful, fully-featured blogs in no time, this book is for you. This book will help you explore WordPress showing you what it offers and how to go about building your blog with the system.<br /><br />You will be introduced to the main aspects of a blog – users, communities, posts, comments, news feeds – and learn how to manage them using WordPress. You will develop the skills and confidence to manage all types of content, be it text or images, on your blog, and also understand how users interact with the blog. In working through the book you'll be inspired as well as informed, and have the capability and the ideas to make your blog cutting edge and exciting to maximize its impact.</p>
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
WordPress Complete
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface

Plan for a Design


Before creating a theme, always have a clear idea about the look and the features of your theme. WordPress themes can be of one-column, two columns, three columns, or four columns. Among these, one-column and two-column themes are the most common and popular as opposed to four-column themes.

Please note that table-based layout designs are not a good idea for designing layouts. Try to use<div> object and CSS for layout design. This will give you extreme flexibility over your themes.

In this chapter, we will cover a typical two-column theme since it is impossible to cover every type of layout. However, we will also cover the layout code for three-column and four‑column themes. A two-column theme could be either of the following two; that is, we can have our sidebar either on the left or the right side.

Out of the preceding two layouts, we will design the first one here. However, it is not a big issue to convert our design to the second one.

In the sidebar, we will display...