So you want to create WordPress themes huh?
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Creating a WordPress theme from scratch is not hard. I’ll hold your hand through it.
Tutorials on this topic have been written before and the WordPress website also has guides for you to follow. But are those tutorials and guides really helpful to you when you don’t understand the lingo? Even I got lost while reading the WordPress guides.
Tools - Before we get started tomorrow, you’ll need:
- WordPress installed on your computer. Follow the instructions on Installing WordPress Locally Under Windows XP. If you can’t install WordPress on your computer for whatever reason, no worries, just make a dummy WordPress install on your website.
- Notepad or other text editors. I use Notepad.
- SmartFTP - If you’ll be testing your theme online, I’d suggest that you download and install SmartFTP or another FTP program to upload your theme files.
- Bookmark XHTML Validator and CSS Validator. You’ll need those tools to validate your theme. They also come in handy when you need to spot and fix errors.
Complete Lessons Listing
#1 Intro
#2 Template Files and Templates
#3 Starting Index.php
#4 Header Template
#4b Header Template Continues
#5 The Loop
#5b The Content
#5c Postmetadata
#5d Else, Post ID, Link Title
#5e Posts Nav Link
#6 Sidebar (and Categories)
#6b Page-Link Listing (wp_list_pages)
#6c Get Archives and Links
#6d Search Form and Calendar
#6e Widgetizing Sidebar
#7 Footer
#8 How to Validate
#9 Style.css and CSS Intro
#10 hex Codes and Styling Links
#11 Widths and Floats
#12 Post Formatting and Miscellaneous
#13 Styling Sidebar
#14 Footer and Dividing Index
#15 Sub-template Files
#16 Comments Template
Might I recommend Programmers Notepad: http://www.pnotepad.org/
It helps you see the syntax easier and it’s super fast, just like Notepad.
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Cheers to you for the tutorials. I’m looking forward to following them through in practice.
I had a bit of trouble with the install of XAMPP. I tried Webserver On a Stick WOS instead and managed to get that working fine - http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/usb/
Hope it’s OK that I have used your “so you wanna…” badge to link back to these tutorials from my blog. If not I’ll remove it no problem.
Thanks again for what your doing here.
Yea, it’s fine. The button is easier to recognize anyway. That’s why I made it ;-).
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Thanks for this tutorial. It’s very helpful and well written.
And - Dean, thanks for the tip on programmer’s notepad. I love it! If anyone uses it, turn on line numbers. If you get a parse error or anything that says …on line xx, you’ll find it right away in PN!
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Can you release this in the form of a pdf file so that it will be very helpful to refer, search etc
Wow, an advanced guide!
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How would go about making the sidebar and container’s height fill all the way down to the footer?
I’ll write a lesson on that in a day or two.
Thanks man. My experience with this tutorial has been great.
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hai i need some help here
how to have an membership modul that i can have my own membership form for my member, and i can control what page that they can access or not, please i need this so much, can u send by an e mail ??
tnk a lot for your help . . . .n bravo
dony - I can’t help you with that. You have to find a membership plugin that will do that for you or just use the Password feature of WordPress.
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This looks like a great series. My only comment is that there is no printable version of it to make printing easy. I find I have trouble reading and retaining print from the computer screen. I think there was a study done once about this very thing!
Thanks for the tutorial! Much appreciated!
Thanks for the tutorials!! Great work!!
I have come accross one problem after running through your tutorial. Now when I attempt to make any changes to my blog via presentation or options I received the following error.
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/upperlak/public_html/wp-content/themes/upperlakepa/functions.php:1) in /home/upperlak/public_html/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 275
Please let me know if you have any suggestions.
I don’t have any.
SP, you know I’ve followed your blog for a while, but I’m now *finally* making my own theme. By following your tutorial, I’ve got a tremendous step in the right direction and I’m nothing but impressed by your tutorial’s flawless execution.
I really want to express a heartfelt “thank you” for all of your effort in this and your themes - I really feel like I’m accomplishing and learning something, which is (sadly) the first time I’ve felt that in a while.
FYI - the functions.php error I mentioned above was caused by the file being edited in an editor other than notepad or something very basic. My editor added blank spaces for formatting, and this is what screwed the file up (per wordpress).
Just figured I would pass along the info just in case…
Excellent tutorial
Thanks all
Thanks for taking the time and making the effort educating us
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I just wanted to say thank you so much for taking the time and doing this tutorial. It was just what I needed and I’ve actually learned some things. I plan to repeat your tutorial until I no longer need it.
Again, thanks so much!
thanks. excellent tip!
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This is probably going to sound like a dumb question but I’ve looked everywhere and can’t find the answer? Now I’ve created my own new theme from scratch using your brilliant tutorials, how do I make my wordpress blog use my new theme? It’s probably really simple but I can’t find an upload or import link anywhere in my Admin dashboard. Surely it must be possible or why would you and everyone else bother designing themes? I’m baffled. Please help. thanks
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Ignore dumb question earlier as I have now worked out that I can’t install my own theme on my tenerifeproperty.wordpress.com blog and that I have to install wordpress on my privately hosted domain.
Thanks again for tutorials.
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I may have missed it somewhere. I have finished the whole tutorial and everything looks great, but how can I get the date and time to display on a post.
Thanks
Jason
I actually forgot to put that in. You can download one of my themes and check out the date function. It’s the_time(). But, that’s not the complete code so don’t just use the_time by itself.
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I’ve written a similar turorial -
Developing a Wordpress Theme
Designing a Wordpress Theme
It seems that i’m ggetting a 404 error with my php. i’ve installed xampp where i want to it works so i’ve decided to install the wordpress withing the same place and it seems to work but its telling me the url is incorrect and like i said the error shows up what can i do?
the wodpress folder should be installed under the xampp/htdocs folder.
Thank you so much for making the tutorials. You are very good at explaining things and making it clear. I have seen many on the internet and by far, this is the best one.
I have worked with wordpress and making layouts before, but I was not quite sure of what I was doing. Just a bunch of trial and errors. Thanks to this, I have gained a better understanding of wordpress and making themes. Not only do you tell us how to do it, you also explain the reasons behind it. Thank you for your hard work.
Thanks for the compliment Thao
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Thanks! I was looking for such tutorial.
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arr i stopped a few months back on this lol, im gonna read it all over again now to put it back into my brain
thank god its summertime
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Hello,
I just want to know before I throw myself into another tutorial: ” I have 0 experience in PHP and only basic knowledge of html and css, will I be able to make a decent website?” I can make some cool graphics with photoshop and illustrator, and I can make STATIC sites pretty well. But is it possible to implement a link in your side-bar where so that when you click on “Blog” you get the sidebar etc, with the things you want in it?
Thanks. Greets!
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Sven - My tutorial series was written for total newbies. It’ll guide you through php, xhtml, and css. As for your question about displaying the sidebar after clicking on a link, I don’t get what you’re trying to do.
http://www.ndesign-studio.com
Here you can see that he has a button for portfolio, blog etc. I want to be able to seperate the main content of my site from my blog. Is it possible to just put the Thingy on a site that I created myself with CSS?
Regards,
Sven
Those buttons are simply links taking you to different pages. But, knowing how to code button or tab menus take much more coding experience than what my tutorial series can show you.
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Great stuff. This is helping me to understand what’s behind all this. Thanks so much.
Thanks for the tutorial. I used it to code the wordpress theme on my blog. Thanks!
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Have you considered showing your students how to add comments to the code? I came in knowing HTML, so I’ve been adding comments to the tutorial code as I’ve been going along. It’s a really useful organisational tool when the thing seizes up or needs changing.
David
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Hi, great tutorial.
I have worked through it, but am slightly confused on something.
At the top of my page i have a welcome section, i only want this on the home page, when i click on stories or pages the welcome message comes to.
Like your Pink Shampoo client (worst ever! lol)
http://www.wpdesigner.com/…pinkshampoo.gif
you have the about at the top how would you dispose of this when clicking on a different story/page
cheers for any help
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Hi Small Potato
First of all : Thank you for this tutorial which I have followed and learned a lot from.
I’m having trouble with wordpress when I upload a the theme I’ve created based on your tutorial.
I changed a few things - mainly the css. And I’ve switched around a few of the php- calls for a different order of things.
Everything seems to work fine with the default theme on wordpress. But when I choose the theme I’ve created as the current theme there’s the problem that when I want to log in or log out I get blank pages. Also when I try to go back to the default theme I get a blank page.
I’ve seen in the forums that the problem with blank pages can arise from plugins - so I first removed all plugins. I have reinstalled Wordpress - and the databases several times and the problem is still the same.
So I thought there is some sort of problem in my themes interaction with the rest of wordpress - but how do I find out what? Is there some way of validating your theme except from the css and html - which seems to be fine?
Have you any experience in common mistakes when creating your own themes that might cause this interaction problem (the blank pages)?
I hope you have a good idea?
best Kaja
I don’t know what’s the problem there and how to solve it. I have to know what modifications you’ve made. If you still have this problem, please post your questions at the forums.
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