WP theming

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• Theme Development

Templates

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

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

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.

• A Sample WordPress Theme Options Page

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

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• 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.

Preprocess

See also preprocess, sass.

SASS/SCSS

• Sass for Wordpress - 9 months ago
  • requires ruby

• SASS for WordPress - December 7, 2011
  • uses http://code.google.com/p/phamlp/

LESS

• LESS Compiler (wordpless) - This plugin compiles .less files in the active theme folder.
  • http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wordpless/
  • README
  • https://github.com/zsitro/WordpLESS
  • lessphp v0.3.3, latest is 0.3.5

• WP-LESS - Implementation of LESS (Leaner CSS) in order to make themes development easier.
  • uses http://leafo.net/lessphp/

• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/lessjs/
  • client side

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/

GUI

• http://scribu.net/wordpress/front-end-editor
  • https://github.com/scribu/wp-front-end-editor

Testing

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

• Codex: Theme Unit Test
  • https://wpcom-themes.svn.automattic.com/demo/test-data.2011-01-17.xml
• Easier Theme Development with Sample WordPress Content - 1409 days ago
  • http://wpcandy.s3.amazonaws.com/resources/postsxml.zip

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.

• WordPress Content Widget - Display WordPress post/page content in a widget.

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/