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| Category: | General - Books | By: | Packt Publishing |
| More info: | www.packtpub.com ... | Author(s): | Tessa Blakeley Silver |
| Pages: | 277 | Year of publication: | 2009 |
It's easy to create powerful & professional themes for your WordPress web site when you've got this book to hand. It provides step-by-step instructions to create a robust & flexible WordPress theme, along with best practices for theme development. It will take you through the ins & outs of creating sophisticated professional themes for the WordPress personal publishing platform. It reviews the best practices from development tools and setting up your WordPress sandbox, through design tips & » Read more... |  |
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It's easy to create powerful & professional themes for your WordPress web site when you've got this book to hand. It provides step-by-step instructions to create a robust & flexible WordPress theme, along with best practices for theme development. It will take you through the ins & outs of creating sophisticated professional themes for the WordPress personal publishing platform. It reviews the best practices from development tools and setting up your WordPress sandbox, through design tips & suggestions, to setting up your theme's template structure, coding markup, testing & debugging, to taking it live. The last three chapters are dedicated to additional tips, tricks, and various cookbook recipes for adding popular site enhancements to your WordPress theme designs using third-party plugins.What you will learn from this book:- Set up a basic workflow & development environment for WordPress theme design;- Create detailed designs and code them up;- Enhance your sites by choosing the right color schemes and graphics;- Debug & validate your theme using the W3C's XHTML and CSS validation tools;- Customize & tweak your theme's layout;- Set up dynamic drop-down menus, AJAX/dynamic and interactive forms;- Download & install useful plugins and widgetize your theme;- Improve post & page content using jQuery;- Enhance the interactivity of your themes using Flash;- Includes a reference guide to WordPress 2.8 template hierarchy, markup, styles & template tags, as well as include & loop functions.