OK folks, here’s the final installment of the hefty ‘create your own wordpress theme’ tuts. What I’m basically going to do to this time is demonstrate a few different small php scripts that bring that ever-important wordpress functionality to your site. I will outline where the different snippets go within your code, and what each bit means, so you can play with the variables yourself! The fantastic thing about WordPress is; there is so much you can do with it, it’s so versatile and there’s a massive community out there constantly coming up with new plugins, ideas and improvements. To discover more that you can do with this awesome blogging platform – visit the WordPress site at www.wordpress.org or go to the wordpress codex section for more code and help. Blog functionality OK, let’s attack the bulky bit first. WordPress’ central use is as a blog. The wordpress backend already gives you all the tools you need to create, edit…

We’re Back! OK folks, here’s part 2 of the 3-part series on creating your own WordPress theme. To view the first part – Layout, click here. This tutorial isn’t as long, I’m basically going to create a simple design in Photoshop that I can incorporate into the dimensions I’ve already specified for my theme. As I stated in part 1, I’d normally design my site first then build the HTML and CSS around the design, but for the purpose of these tutorials I created the code first. Photoshop – The Design Of course this design is purely for example purposes, it’s not copyrighted and as it’s designed to be very simple, I’m sure you’ll wish to build your own designs. Therefore this is NOT A PHOTOSHOP TUTORIAL – I’m assuming that you can already create your own designs and are capable with Photoshop/Fireworks or whatever image editing software you choose to use.

NOTE FROM AUTHOR I wrote these articles over 2 years ago. Although I’ll leave them on the site for reference I would recommend trying somewhere else for tutorials on WordPress theme development. WordPress has changed massively over the years and is now far more accessible and sturdy then when I wrote these articles, thus I doubt wasting your time following this series will be of much benefit. Thanks for all the kind commenters so far. Nathan Waffling Intro As Usual Welcome one and all to the first part of a 3 part series I’m tirelessly venturing to create on how to create your own WordPress Theme. 2 questions come to mind regarding this tutorial. Firstly – why WordPress? Well the simplest reason is that I’m quite handy at WP – I use in on the majority of my websites whether a client’s looking a blogging system or just the ability to edit their own sites. It’s also one of the…