The goal of this title is to explain the basic steps of creating a WordPress theme.
This book focuses on the development, creation, and enhancement of WordPress
themes, and therefore does not cover general 'how to' information about WordPress
and all its many features and capabilities. This title assumes you have some level of
understanding and experience with the basics of the WordPress publishing platform
The WordPress publishing platform has excellent online documentation, which
can be found at
http://codex.wordpress.org. This title does not try to replace or
duplicate that documentation, but is intended as a companion to it.
My hope is to save you some time fnding relevant information on how to create
and modify themes in the extensive WordPress codex, help you understand how
WordPress themes work, and show you how to design and build rich, in-depth
WordPress themes yourself. Throughout the book, wherever applicable, I'll point
you to the relevant WordPress codex documentation along with many other useful
online articles and sites.
I've attempted to create a realistic WordPress theme example that anyone can take
the basic concepts from and apply to a standard blog, while at the same time, show
how fexible WordPress and its theme capabilities are. I hope this book's theme
example shows that WordPress can be used to create unique websites that one
wouldn't think of as 'just another blog'.