This first article is meant to give you a global picture about creating Wordpress themes. Let’s start by answering a few common questions.
Do you need to know PHP to create or edit Wordpress themes?
The short answer is no. It would help to know some PHP but many theme designers don’t, and they do just fine.
Do you need to understand MySQL to create or edit Wordpress themes?
Again, no. Mysql is the database that drives Wordpress and is a key component … nonetheless, it has no impact on creating themes. So don’t worry about it.
What do you need to know in order to be able to edit or create a Wordpress theme?
I would say that you need to know three basic things:
- HTML/XHTML
- CSS
- The Wordpress page hierarchy and behavior.
I think the first two are obvious, but the last needs some more explaining.
Continue reading ‘Creating Wordpress Themes from scratch.’
Hi,
First things first: thank you for Akismet!
… I just wanted to offer my sincere appreciation for the Wordpress anti-spam plugin: ‘Askimet’.
This nifty plugin has saved me countless hours (and possibly days) of work by filtering out hundreds of spam post each and every day!
I can easily say that for me, Askimet has proven to be the most important plugin for Wordpress.
… Just in the time it took me to write this post, Askimet has caught 7 spam comments!
If you see a spammer, smack him!
It is clear that blog spammers are among the worst of Web citizens. They are the hyena’s of the Web, trying to steal traffic they don’t deserve.
Blog spam protection tips
Being a high value spam target (the juicier the traffic …), I can offer the following advice:
Continue reading ‘Protecting against blog comment spam.’
Hi,
I’ve just released parts 5 and 6 of my video series of configuring Wordpress.
Again, more basic stuff designed to help get people up and running as quickly as possible.
The new videos:
- Configuring Wordpress Part 5
- Configuring Wordpress Part 6
- Configuring Wordpress Part 7
- Configuring Wordpress Part 8
Thanks for reading.
Stefan Mischook
www.killersites.com
www.killerphp.com
Hi,
I decided to create a dedicated Wordpress section on killersites.com
Right now, I only a have a few videos (with a bunch more coming) but I am also thinking of maybe some written tutorials etc…
The videos:
So far I’ve only added a few videos but have another 40 minutes of video to edit that should be up this week.
Any comments or suggest are welcome.
Thanks,
Stefan Mischook
www.killersites.com
www.killerphp.com
The Wordpress text editor comes with a set of buttons that allows you to easily format your post by quickly inserting things like links, images and html list.
Though very useful, I found that I needed a few more buttons … and so I figured out how to do it.
I just released a new video tutorial on how to edit the Wordpress text editor:
The Video: Customizing the Wordpress Text Editor
I hope you find it useful!
Thanks,
Stefan Mischook
www.killersites.com
www.killerphp.com
