Tessa B. Silver & Matt Mullenweg: WordPress 2.8 Theme Design [EPUB]

Themes are among the most powerful features that can be used to customize a web site, especially in Word Press. Using custom themes you can brand your site for a particular corporate image, ensure standards compliance, and create easily navigable layouts. But most Word Press users still continue to use default themes as developing and deploying themes that are flexible and easily maintainable is not always straightforward. It’s easy to create powerful and professional themes for your Word Press web site when you’ve got this book to hand. It provides clear, step-by-step instructions to create a robust and flexible Word Press theme, along with best practices for theme development. It will take you through the ins and outs of creating sophisticated professional themes for the Word Press personal publishing platform. It reviews the best practices from development tools and setting up your Word Press sandbox, through design tips and suggestions, to setting up your theme’s template structure, coding markup, testing and debugging, to taking it live. The last three chapters are dedicated to additional tips, tricks, and various cookbook recipes for adding popular site enhancements to your Word Press theme designs using third-party plugins. Whether you’re working with a pre-existing theme or creating a new one from the ground up, Word Press Theme Design will give you the know-how to understand how themes work within the Word Press blog system, enabling you to take full control over your site’s design and branding.