Something Personal Yet Public
Old Internet Explorer, version 6 and earlier, intend to be different from the rest, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Safari and Chrome. This style sheet is to fix old IE CSS bugs. Add display: inline; in floated division element will fix IE double margin bug.
For font wise, all the contents are Georgia, serif. The code will be Monaco, monospace. I just bold with all the headers. Simple circle for list style in the post.
Colour style sheet mainly to display the site with colours. Green and black will be the two main colours of the site. Hope you like it.
I would say this layout style sheet is the most challenging. First of all, I just want this WordPress theme to have a basic layout with fixed width consists of two columns, one for posts and another one for sidebar. On top of the content is header and of course footer at the bottom. Structure [...]
This style sheet mainly reset all the default setting in web browser. It will make the site looked the same in any modern web browser. It is based upon Yahoo UI library.
Now come to the look of the web site. Style sheets play an important role in this. I decided to slip the whole stylesheet into different categories: reset, layout, colour, typography and ie. Main style sheet, style.css, will import those categories. Main style sheet also include the style of WordPress default generated classes as shown [...]
I completed my first WordPress theme. It is a very basic theme. After done with all the contents in the WordPress theme, I inserted all the divisions that need for styling. In general, the pages consist a common layout which is as below:
Most of the basic theme template file are explained. We do felt error 404 page, 404.php, is quite important. There is always a chance that user might click on the page that does not exist. If it does happen, proper error 404 page as following will handle it.
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 [...]
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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