November 30, 2009, in Web Design.
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So, you've just created the new CMS that will replace every piece of software used on websites. Of course, the next step would be to release it to the public, right?
After you've got the functionality, you need to work on the design.
Sure, the default theme that users see is pretty important, so that you can effectively show off all of the great features. But it doesn't need to be perfect, since most people will use change the theme anyway.
You're going to be "selling" your software to the people who will be using the back-end. When convincing people to use your software, its overall usability will be greatly influenced by the back-end, because the visitors of a website don't care what platform it's running.
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November 26, 2009, in WordPress.
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On sites containing many pages, with many sub-pages, organized into many categories, navigation can sometimes be a real hassle. Sites with many different levels of depth often use breadcrumbs to help improve navigation.
With Wordpress being such a commonly used CMS, there will of course be plugins to do this, such as BreadCrumb NavXT. While these will usually be a good solution, what if you want to use a simpler method, without relying on a plugin, or you would like to distribute a theme with breadcrumbs?
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November 23, 2009, in Web Design,WordPress.
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In this final part of our Creating a Wordpress Theme sub-series, we will be working on one of the most important parts of a blog: the comments section.
If you haven't been following the series, don't worry! All of these same techniques will still work on any Wordpress theme.
The comments section of a blog generally has three main parts: a list of trackbacks/pingbacks, the actual comments, and the comment form. Along with those, there are also several "options", such as having comments closed, being required to be logged in to comment, and many more.
All of these will be covered in this post, to create a simple comments template.
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November 16, 2009, in Web Design,WordPress.
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In the previous post in this sub-series, we learned how to start displaying content on our Wordpress blog. Today, we will start working with individual posts and pages.
Sub-Template Files
To start off, we will first need to split our template into several sub-template files. These contain different parts of the template, such as the header, footer and sidebar.
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November 9, 2009, in Web Design,WordPress.
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In the previous part of this sub-series, we started taking the first few steps to creating a Wordpress theme from a Gimp .xcf design.
Today, we will be looking at using multiple loops in our Wordpress theme to separate featured (sticky) posts from regular posts on the home page of the site.
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