over 100 simple but incredibly effective recipes for creating powerful, custom wordpress themes /
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Lee Jordan, Nick Ohrn.
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Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Birmingham, U.K. :
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Packt Open Source,
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2010.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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1 online resource (iv, 296 pages) :
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illustrations
CONTENTS NOTE
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Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Authors; About the Reviewers; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: WordPress Theme Basics; Introduction; Finding documentation on WordPress.org; Downloading themes from the WordPress theme repository; Downloading themes from third-party websites; Installing and activating a theme; Displaying the blog name; Getting the absolute directory path of the active theme; Creating a theme from scratch; Creating a child theme; Creating a theme by using a theme framework; Adding expected WordPress hooks; Including PHP files from your theme
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Chapter 2: Creating NavigationIntroduction; Listing all of the pages that exist on a blog; Listing all of the categories defined for a blog; Listing all of the tags in use on a blog; Highlighting the current page in the navigation; Adding a search function to a theme; Getting the category page link from a category name; Displaying page links only if the destination page exists; Creating a category drop-down menu; Creating drop-downs using child pages; Chapter 3: The Loop; Introduction; Creating a basic Loop; Displaying ads after every third post; Removing posts in a particular category
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Highlighting search terms in post contentDisplaying login/logout links; Adding navigation through older/newer posts; Displaying an edit link for posts; Displaying custom field content; Displaying a post author's avatar; Chapter 5: Comments; Introduction; Displaying a comment form on a post; Displaying comments on a post; Displaying the latest comments on your blog; Highlighting the post author's comments; Alternating the style for comments; Displaying threaded comments properly; Chapter 6: Sidebars; Introduction; Using the Text widget for custom sidebar content
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Including a dynamic sidebar in your themeIncluding multiple dynamic sidebars in your theme; Setting the default widgets for a sidebar in your theme; Positioning multiple sidebars in your theme by using CSS; Styling the appearance of sidebars in your theme by using CSS; Displaying different widgets on different; pages by using the Widget Logic plugin and conditional tags; Showing asides in the sidebar by using the Miniposts plugin; Adding an interactive Facebook-style wall to a sidebar by using jQuery; Chapter 7: Custom Page Templates; Introduction; Creating a simple page template
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Removing posts with a particular tagHighlighting sticky posts; Creating multiple loops in a single template; Displaying only posts in a particular category; Styling every other post differently; Styling posts in a particular category differently; Showing every post in a category on a category archive page; Chapter 4: Template Tags; Introduction; Displaying the post title; Automatically limiting the number of words of content; Determining if the user is on a specific page; Determining if the user is viewing a post in a particular category; Displaying the post date for each post
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"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. 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."--Resource description page.