Something Personal Yet Public
There is a new template tag for search form, get_search_form();, in WordPress version 2.7. However, the template tag will look for search form, searchform.php, first. If the file does exists, it will use that file. If not, it will generate the HTML. We decided to use this new template tag. Hence, we will replace the [...]
Normally, header.php will start with html doctype declaration, and xhtml namespace. By default, WordPress theme is using XHTML 1.0 Transitional. WordPress function, language_attributes();, will display the language attributes for the html tag. If you want your site supporting XFN (XHTML Friends Network), you can add profile=”http://gmpg.org/xfn/11″ for the header tag. Inside header tag, you will [...]
I decided to develop WordPress theme from scratch in order to learn how the WordPress theme works. This WordPress theme development series is for WordPress version 2.7. Some of template tags that I use only available in WordPress version 2.7. So you might want to modified it to suite other WordPress version. First of all, [...]
Recently I start using Gravatar (an abbreviation for globally recognized avatar). It is a free service for providing globally-unique avatars which was created by Tom Werner for blogs and web forums. I want to embedded it in my WordPress 2.7 template. So I try to insert the additional code as below in comments.php and it [...]
WordPress Theme Development 7 – Comments
There is an enhancement for comment display in WordPress 2.7. New template tags are introduced. This WordPress theme will be using those enchancement too. In the header file, header.php, code as following is added right before the call to wp_head(); for supporting new JavaScrip functionality with comment threading in WordPress 2.7.
Posted by Ivan @ May 6th, 2009 in WordPress with Comments, WordPress Theme
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