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An Introduction to Theming WooCommerce for WordPress

Tutorial • Beginner

WooCommerce is a popular eCommerce platform for WordPress that is being rapidly developed by WooThemes. In this article, I'm going to guide you through the...

Joe Clifton • 21 Jan 2014
Theme Development

Creating a WordPress Theme From Static HTML: Adding Navigation

Tutorial • Beginner

If you've been working through this series, you now have a working theme with template files which you've uploaded to WordPress. In this tutorial, you'll...

Rachel McCollin • 20 Jan 2014
Theme Development

Creating a WordPress Theme From Static HTML: Setting Up the Header

Tutorial • Beginner

So far in this series, you've learned how to create a basic theme from static HTML. You've done the following: Prepared your markup for WordPress ...

Rachel McCollin • 9 Jan 2014
Theme Development

Creating a WordPress Theme From Static HTML: Adding a Loop

Tutorial • Beginner

In the first three parts of this series, you learned how to prepare static HTML for WordPress and to create a theme by splitting your HTML file into a set of...

Rachel McCollin • 1 Jan 2014
Theme Development

Creating a WordPress Theme From Static HTML: Uploading Your Theme to WordPress

Tutorial • Beginner

In the first two parts of this series, you learned how to prepare static HTML for WordPress and to split your HTML file into a set of template files. You...

Rachel McCollin • 23 Dec 2013
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Creating a WordPress Theme From Static HTML: Preparing the Markup

Tutorial • Beginner

Last year I did a small (and admittedly very un-scientific) survey among other WordPress developers. What I wanted to know was this: When they built their...

Rachel McCollin • 13 Dec 2013
Theme Development

Making the Perfect WordPress Theme: Bad Practices

Tutorial • Beginner

We discussed how to do good in the previous part of this series: We learn how to write better code, how to comply with the standards, how to make our code...

Barış Ünver • 29 Nov 2013
Theme Development

Making the Perfect WordPress Theme: How to Code Well

Tutorial • Beginner

In the previous part of this series; we went through various WordPress APIs that we should learn about, talked about the importance of making a theme...

Barış Ünver • 26 Nov 2013
Theme Development

Moving Away From TimThumb to BFIThumb

Tutorial • Intermediate

TimThumb has been a long time favorite image resize script for WordPress theme authors. But, with the new WordPress Theme Submission Requirements on...

Benjamin Intal • 19 Nov 2013
Theme Development

Integrating the Envato WordPress Toolkit to Your Theme: The Library

Tutorial • Intermediate

In the last part of the tutorial we learned how to use the TGM Plugin Activation class to require the Envato WordPress Toolkit Plugin whenever our theme is...

Benjamin Intal • 11 Nov 2013
Theme Development

Integrating the Envato WordPress Toolkit to Your Theme: The Plugin

Tutorial • Intermediate

As WordPress authors in ThemeForest, we like to make our customers happy by providing them with occasional bug fixes and enhancements to our themes. But one...

Benjamin Intal • 7 Nov 2013
Theme Development

A Guide to the WordPress Theme Customizer: Advanced Controls

Tutorial • Intermediate

Throughout this series, we've been taking a look at the Theme Customizer, how to implement it in our themes, how to save, serialization, retrieve settings,...

Tom McFarlin • 5 Nov 2013