Reading: Wordpress Themes

Wordpress Starter Themes

March 12, 2009, Category: Wordpress Themes

While Wordpress Theming is fun and exciting; there are some pretty redundant tasks you go through each time when making a theme. Things like setting up the theme files (index.php, sidebar.php, style.css and so on). If you don't want to get your hands dirty with the php and xhtml that is needed when making themes there is a solution. What...

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How To Customize Just Category Pages

March 12, 2009, Category: Wordpress Themes

If you want to customize your site it’s best to have things separated. The default wordpress theme comes with an archive.php that handles category, all archive, tag and author pages. So if you want your category pages to look different than the other pages you will have to separate them by creating a category.php file. Doing so is really easy...

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How To Make Your Theme Widget Ready

March 11, 2009, Category: Wordpress Themes

widgetsOne of the most useful parts of the Wordpress platform is the ability to make use of "widgets". Widgets are little accessories that will automatically display information in "widgetized" areas of your theme. Some themes come with many widgetized areas, while other themes leave them out all together. Themes that work with widgets...

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