WP theming

todo; fill out and link up

General

• Theme Development

Preprocess

See also preprocess, sass.

• https://github.com/roytomeij/sass-for-wordpress - requires ruby and stuff..

• SASS for WordPress - December 7, 2011

• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-less/
  • uses http://leafo.net/lessphp/

• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/lessjs/
  • bah

• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpless/ - ???

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

Basics

Custom settings pages so users can alter aspects of a theme can be handy.

• Settings API
  • Example given for choosing a background image.

• A Sample WordPress Theme Options Page

Frameworks

todo; compare;

• NHP-Theme-Options-Framework - extendable theme options classs, using Settings API. Custom error handling for validation classes, allows each tab to count its errors and display warnings for the user.
  • http://leemason.github.com/NHP-Theme-Options-Framework

• Options Framework Plugin - originally via Thematic Options theme
  • Options Framework Theme - newer plugin base starter theme

• The UpThemes Framework
  • various things.

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

• https://github.com/Automattic/table-of-contents - Adds a table of contents to your WordPress pages based on h3 and h4 tags. Useful for documention-centric sites.

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/