Starting WordPress?

bfintal said
I think I can help with this by describing my experience. I just started this January with no idea on how to develop for WP, and now I have 2 themes in TF

I started out by making sites using WP, I created 3 basic corporate websites using themes I bought from TF. I customized the hell out of these themes so I started to gain experience on how they worked.

Basically I read a lot of the WP codex while customizing the themes to get an idea on how stuff worked and how they’re implemented: widgets, the menu, pages, posts, and custom posts. The codex is a bit overwhelming, jumping to the examples part helped a lot for me.

Then after I finished on the sites, I started to create my own theme. It’s hard to start from scratch, so I found an amazing blank WP framework: http://whiteboardframework.com/ I downloaded this, then started customizing the layout in css. Afterwards I went on to changing the script files for pages and posts. During this stage I was very confused on how all the scripts fit together, the codex helped a lot here:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy

After that, it was just a matter of customizing part by part to have them look and behave the way I wanted. Here’re some links that really helped me build my own theme framework:

WP Menus: http://justintadlock.com/archives/2010/06/01/goodbye-headaches-hello-menus

Superfish menu: http://users.tpg.com.au/j_birch/plugins/superfish/#getting-started

Admin options: http://www.mojo-themes.com/2010/09/create-a-wordpress-option-panel/

Custom post types: http://justintadlock.com/archives/2010/04/29/custom-post-types-in-wordpress

Sidebars: http://justintadlock.com/archives/2010/11/08/sidebars-in-wordpress

Creating widgets: http://www.packtpub.com/article/how-write-widget-wordpress-3

Goodluck!!!

Thanks a lot for this info, although 1 year old this is really helpful for me as i am at this exact stage at the moment!

Thank you!!

bfintal said
I think I can help with this by describing my experience. I just started this January with no idea on how to develop for WP, and now I have 2 themes in TF

I started out by making sites using WP, I created 3 basic corporate websites using themes I bought from TF. I customized the hell out of these themes so I started to gain experience on how they worked.

Basically I read a lot of the WP codex while customizing the themes to get an idea on how stuff worked and how they’re implemented: widgets, the menu, pages, posts, and custom posts. The codex is a bit overwhelming, jumping to the examples part helped a lot for me.

Then after I finished on the sites, I started to create my own theme. It’s hard to start from scratch, so I found an amazing blank WP framework: http://whiteboardframework.com/ I downloaded this, then started customizing the layout in css. Afterwards I went on to changing the script files for pages and posts. During this stage I was very confused on how all the scripts fit together, the codex helped a lot here:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy

After that, it was just a matter of customizing part by part to have them look and behave the way I wanted. Here’re some links that really helped me build my own theme framework:

WP Menus: http://justintadlock.com/archives/2010/06/01/goodbye-headaches-hello-menus

Superfish menu: http://users.tpg.com.au/j_birch/plugins/superfish/#getting-started

Admin options: http://www.mojo-themes.com/2010/09/create-a-wordpress-option-panel/

Custom post types: http://justintadlock.com/archives/2010/04/29/custom-post-types-in-wordpress

Sidebars: http://justintadlock.com/archives/2010/11/08/sidebars-in-wordpress

Creating widgets: http://www.packtpub.com/article/how-write-widget-wordpress-3

Goodluck!!!

One year old thread so i’m not sure if i’ll get replied or not. But, wanna ask if you’d prefer the same if one has no experience with development ? I do know HTML /CSS but no PHP . So, would this all help ?