WP theming

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Templates

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.

Settings API

  • Settings API - Allows admin pages containing settings forms to be managed semi-automatically. It lets you define settings pages, sections within those pages and fields within the sections.
    • Example given for choosing a background image.

Options API

  • Options API - a simple and standardized way of storing data in the database. The API makes it easy to create, access, update, and delete those options. All the data is being stored in the wp_options table under a given custom name. This page contains the technical documentation use the Options API.

Theme Options

todo; compare;

Preprocess

See also preprocess, sass.

Process, etc.

  • 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...

Testing

Layout

Sidebars

Typography

quick webfont plugin hack;