WP theming

todo; fill out and link up

General

• Theme Development

Theme Features

• Theme Features allows a theme to register support of a certain feature. Theme support functions should be called in the theme's functions.php file to work.
  • Sidebar Widgets
  • Navigation Menus
  • Post Formats
  • Post Thumbnails
  • Custom Backgrounds
  • Custom Headers
  • Automatic Feed Links
  • Editor Style

Templates

• Templates
  • Stepping Into Templates
  • Template Hierarchy
  • Template Tags
  • The Loop

Settings API

Custom settings pages. Example given for choosing a background image.

• http://codex.wordpress.org/Settings_API

• http://themeshaper.com/2010/06/03/sample-theme-options/

• http://wptheming.com/options-framework-plugin/ - originally via Thematic Options theme
  • https://github.com/devinsays/options-framework-plugin

Process, etc.

• Site Design and Layout

• Theme Review - Guidelines for designing and developing WordPress Themes plus WordPress Theme Directory standards and practices.

Theme customizer in 3.4 - still need to grok relation to Settings API, etc...

• http://ottopress.com/2012/how-to-leverage-the-theme-customizer-in-your-own-themes/
  • http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/customizer/

Testing

• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/theme-check/ - automatically check a theme against Theme Review guidelines

• http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Unit_Test - dummy data
• http://wpcandy.com/made/the-sample-post-collection

Layout

• https://github.com/paulirish/infinite-scroll

Sidebars

• http://codex.wordpress.org/Customizing_Your_Sidebar#New_way_of_adding_sidebars
  • stackoverflow: Adding a 2nd Sidebar in a specific Wordpress theme

Typography

quick webfont plugin hack;

• http://pippinspages.com/wordpress/wordpress-font-uploader-plugin/