Download e-book for kindle: Building WordPress Themes from Scratch by Joe Casabona

stroll in the course of the steps you want to construct your own WordPress subject matter! incorporated with the e-book is a WordPress topic and different valuable records, so roll up your sleeves and enable Joe take you thru the method explaining what you must do - and why you’re doing it - each step of how. hello, I’m Joe, the writer of establishing WordPress topics From Scratch, and what began as an easy, open resource running a blog platform has now develop into a super-powerful content material administration approach (CMS) which may boast that it’s the main widely-used CMS on the net. From the instant I first all started utilizing WordPress approximately 8 years in the past, I fell in love with it at once and instantly began hacking away at it, studying the platform, making my very own adjustments, and gazing it develop through the years. during this booklet, I plan to educate you ways to exploit WordPress, in addition to the way to leverage the API to create your individual customized issues, plugins, and content material kinds. In different phrases, i'm going to enable you to make WordPress your individual. I’d wish to say that this booklet is for somebody attracted to WordPress, despite heritage. although, to maintain it streamlined, I do suppose that you've an effective figuring out of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Hypertext Preprocessor and MySQL. i'll be look­ing at changing HTML to a WordPress topic, development plugins, and extra, all from scratch. So, if you’d prefer to the right way to do all of this, then this publication may be correct up your alley! Packaged with this ebook, you'll find: 1) a completely functioning WordPress subject known as ‘Director’. 2) a collection of PSD records for the Homepage, listing web page, weblog, and unmarried company web page. three) a suite of HTML documents made out of the PSDs. they are going to be used to create the ‘Director’ WordPress subject. four) On most sensible of the 4 pages made from the PSDs, the HTML folder additionally incorporates a /css/ folder for 4 CSS records: style.css, reset.css, master.css, and ie.css. APlus, al pictures utilized in the HTML template also are incorporated. WHAT THIS publication COVERS: This ebook reads very similar to a protracted, multi-part instructional, the place I take you thru my layout method, explaining what I do (and why I do it) each step of ways. even if it’s a pretty linear advisor, my wish is that you should stopover at any major part of the publication for speedy reference. So, here’s what I’ll be doing: 1. changing HTML/CSS to a Dynamic WordPress topic integrated with the e-book is a PSD that I’ve remodeled into HTML. the 1st a part of this e-book should be taking the ensuing HTML/CSS and changing it to a WordPress subject. alongside the way in which, I’ll discuss a number of the subject pages we’re operating with, the WordPress subject matter hierarchy, and naturally, the WordPress Loop. 2. making a customized submit style This, in my humble opinion, is without doubt one of the top additions to WordPress in contemporary releases. having the ability to make your individual content material forms — every one with its personal subject template — you could take WordPress from being a CMS in basic terms constrained to web publication posts and pages, to a CMS which could deal with any form of content material you could think. during this booklet, we’ll be making a enterprise directory variety, so one can let us create a company listing. three. topic ideas and Widgets With WordPress, you can also make a topic your individual by way of including a ‘theme thoughts’ web page and customized widgets. during this part, we’ll make it really easy for those that use our topics so as to add their very own cus­tomizations with out delving into the code or making a baby subject. four. making a Plugin essentially the most robust elements of WordPress is the truth that it’s pluggable. we will upload func­tionality to our set up of WordPress with no altering the middle WordPress records. There are monstrous directories of either loose and top rate plugins on hand that greatly extend the functions of WordPress. during this ultimate part of this ebook, we are going to construct our personal plugin.