Secrets of WordPress Theming

For an amazing examination of building a WordPress Theme, dissecting every detail of the modular PHP building blocks and code that goes into a full, do-it-yourself WordPress Theme, check out the The Secrets of WordPress Theming by Chris J Davis from Sillyness Spelled Wrong Intentionally.

Begin at the beginning with some basic core tips and techniques in Part 1. Then get more into the code in Part Two to understand more about building template files, including custom template files for specific needs like 404, search, and more. Chris recently introduced Part 3 which examines how to make your home.php custom template work for you with feeds and more.

Expect more in this great series that exposes all involved in a WordPress Theme and just brushes against all the possibilities for customization when working with the power of WordPress.

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5 Comments

Michael Sync

Posted July 22, 2007 at 1:53 am | Permalink

I’m getting this error for those URLs.. is the Server down or something?

Controller Object ( [base_url] => / [stub:private] => 2005/05/26/secrets-of-wp-theming-part-1 [action:private] => [handler:private] => ) Unmatched rule: 1
Lorelle VanFossen

Posted July 23, 2007 at 8:25 pm | Permalink

Chris’s site is a mess. I honestly cannot find the new link to the post, which I’ve changed several times. He’s gone on to other topics, and while I much respect all he has done for WordPress, it’s really frustrating as this was such a fantastic and helpful article. But I can’t find it on his site, but please, give it a try. If you find it, please let me know so I can update the link. He might have removed all of his WordPress articles when he switched to Habari. I just don’t know.
Andrew da Silva

Posted July 24, 2007 at 7:58 am | Permalink

Here’s the link to the article:
http://www.chrisjdavis.org/secrets-of-wp-themeing-complete-series

Enjoy!
salpickering

Posted May 19, 2009 at 10:11 pm | Permalink

Hi, I’m new to blogging. How do I create a sidebar to allow subscribe, twitter etc?
Lorelle VanFossen

Posted May 20, 2009 at 6:38 am | Permalink

You don’t “create” a sidebar, you simply add the information for subscriptions and sharing to your sidebar. There are a variety of WordPress Widgets and Plugins that will do that for you, or you can create it manually as I have done with a text widget. See Customizing RSS Feed Links for WordPress.com and WordPress Sidebar Widgets for some tips.