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In a previous post I elucidated the tried and trusted method of creating a child theme in WordPress.  In this article we are not going into the “why” of a child-theme, only the how. The manual way Again, the purpose is as much for me to not forget, as it is about to be generally […]

I keep forgetting how to do this .. so here is my aide-memoire. A child theme is configured like a theme, which means a theme directory, and a style.css file in it.  Template files and functions.php are not required in this directory, as they will be picked up from the parent theme.  The one distinguishing line in […]

Audience.  People with a web development background, or a web development interest, who are either new to WordPress or new to developing for WordPress.  This series is based on WordPress 3.3.x. In the “WordPress .. Displaying Content” article we introduced WordPress Template Tags, and showed how they are used in index.php to retrieve and render content stored in the WordPress […]

Audience.  People with a web development background, or a web development interest, who are either new to WordPress or new to developing for WordPress.  This series is based on WordPress 3.3.x. In the “WordPress themes introduction” article, we built a valid, yet relatively useless, theme for WordPress.  The two files that mattered were the style.css, which allowed the “theme” […]

Audience.  People with a web development background, or a web development interest, who are either new to WordPress or new to developing for WordPress.  This series is based on WordPress 3.3.x. Why an introduction to WordPress themes?  Believe it or not it can be a source of some confusion.  WordPress, when installed, comes with two themes.  The […]