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Wordpress is one of the most successful blogging platform which we too are currently on. From the past few articles we have been giving out a few cool wordpress themes for download. Instead of coming up with some more themes, we decided to write a tutorial on how to develop a wordpress theme which we are sure will help a lot of you to design as you wish and bring them out into wordpress.

We are not too advanced wordpress developers but still we are sure the below tutorial will help you successfully develop a wordpress theme. Below you will learn to convert your xHTML CSS site into a Compact Wordpress Theme (final output is same as the normal theme but here code is shorter and easier to understand).

Initial Steps

• The first step is to come up with a design for your theme… Keep in mind that the navigation almost everywhere in your site is going to be in form of a list, so make sure you have atleast one long sidebar to stuff all your widgets.
• As usual convert your design into a xHTML & CSS standard site. Put the images in an images folder. (we can’t explain this too…)
• Wordpress runs of PHP so, from the below step you will have to start working on a server environment (Apache…) & on your local system its going to be localhost.
• Download wordpress from http://wordpress.org and extract the files in to your localhost.
• Create the database (part of the installation)
• Learn here http://wordpress.org/docs/installation/5-minute/
• Create a new folder under localhost-dir\wordpress\wp-content\themes\ and give it your theme name (without space)
• Drop all your xHTML, CSS & files into this folder.

Theming Steps

• Files to create under your theme folder
  • header.php
  • index.php
  • sidebar.php
  • footer.php
  • comments.php
  • style.css - your theme css master file
• You will be splitting your xHTML code into the above files.
• Open your xHTML theme file and follow the steps below:

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header.php

• The content starts from the DOCTYPE definition and goes till where ever you think the real content (like the articles…) start. This file will have the start/end of HEAD, start of BODY and maybe your Horizontal site navigation too…
• The includes in the header (Javascript/CSS) shouldn’t ever have absolute URLs.
• <?php bloginfo(’stylesheet_directory’); ?> is used to return your theme URL like http:\\localhost\wordpress\wp-content\themes\yourtheme. Eg. http:\\localhost\wordpress\wp-content\themes\yourtheme\javascript\slider.js
• TITLE Tag
  • <title><?php bloginfo(’name’); ?> <!– returns the title of your wordpress blog –><?php if ( is_single() ) { ?> <!– condition to check if single page (below line will show on the Title only if you enter an inner page) –>- Blog Archive<?php } ?> <!– end of condition –><?php wp_title(); ?> <!– Title of the article - will show only if in inner page –></title>
• Standard HEAD includes for wordpress (add all of these within your HEAD Tag)
  • <link rel=”alternate” type=”application/rss+xml” title=”RSS 2.0″ href=”<?php bloginfo(’rss2_url’); ?>” /><link rel=”alternate” type=”text/xml” title=”RSS .92″ href=”<?php bloginfo(’rss_url’); ?>” /><link rel=”alternate” type=”application/atom+xml” title=”Atom 0.3″ href=”<?php bloginfo(’atom_url’); ?>” /><link rel=”pingback” href=”<?php bloginfo(’pingback_url’); ?>” />
• If you need your logo linking to the home (if your logo is in an anchor tag)
  • <?php bloginfo(’url’); ?> will link to the homepage of your blog.
• Coming to your Navigation, you don’t need dynamic links form wordpress, not your static xHTML links. The xHTML standard of Naviagtion is UL > LI > A. The below code will generate the main navigation - which are actually your pages.
  • <ul><li class=” <?php if ( is_home() or is_archive() or is_single() or is_paged() or is_search() or (function_exists(’is_tag’) and is_tag()) ) { ?>current_page_item<?php } else { ?>page_item<?php } ?>“><a href=”<?php echo get_settings(’home’); ?>“><?php _e(’Home’); ?></a></li> <!– this will return only the homepahe link and assigns class=”current_page_item” to the highlighted page –><?php wp_list_pages(’sort_column=id&depth=1&title_li=’); ?> <!– returns all the menu links except for the homepage –></ul>
• Hurray… you have completed the header.php

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sidebar.php

(not the widget way, you manually place the php to generate stuff on your sidebar here)

• As I have mentioned in the initial steps, you would have created a DIV for the sidebar which either floats to the left or right of your page.
• Take the whole sidebar DIV and place the xHTML into this file. Eg. <div id=”sidebar”> ….. </div>
• Almost everything in the sidebar will be in list format because its vertical. While designing your theme and developing the xHTML you would have have some sort of division between the different sidebar widgets or snippets. Below we will discuss a few PHP interesting PHP snippets to generate your sidebar content. (place these snippets into each DIV which you would created to separate the widgets. Eg. <div class=”sidebar_snippet”> … your PHP snippet …</div>).
• Categories
  • <ul><?php wp_list_cats(’sort_column=name&optioncount=0&hierarchical=0′); ?></ul>
  • optioncount=1 will show the number of posts under each category next to the category name.
  • hierarchical=1 will show the sub category under each category
• Archives
  • <ul><?php wp_get_archives(’type=monthly’); ?></ul>
• Recent Posts
  • <?php$today = current_time(’mysql’, 1);if ( $recentposts = $wpdb->get_results(”SELECT ID, post_title FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_status = ‘publish’ AND post_date_gmt < ‘$today’ ORDER BY post_date DESC LIMIT 5″)):?> <ul><?php foreach ($recentposts as $post) { if ($post->post_title == ”) $post->post_title = sprintf(__(’Post #%s’), $post->ID);echo “<li><a href=’“.get_permalink($post->ID).”‘>”; the_title(); echo ‘</a></li>‘; }?></ul><?php endif; ?>
  • LIMIT 5 will return five recent articles in the list. Change the number to your need.
• Search
  • <form method=”get” id=”searchform” action=”<?php bloginfo(’home’); ?>/”><input alt=”search” type=”text” value=”<?php echo wp_specialchars($s, 1); ?>” name=”s” id=”s” /></form>
• More
  • Find them at the online wordpress documentation or the forums.
• Again Hurray… you have completed the sidebar.php

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footer.php

• This file will only contain the footer content which is common for every page like the copyright…
• Eg. <div id=”footer”> … Copyright stuff … </div>
• Good… we have completed the footer too. One for file and you will be done…

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index.php

• This is the parent file for your whole theme. This file is the one which will load up when your theme is chosen. The index.php is contains the main body content (the articles… comments…. pager…. titles….) and the inclusions of the other files you created above.
• Follow the same order as we go below or you will mess up the layout. Basically you will be including each file now.
• Header Include
  • <?php get_header(); ?> <!– includes the header.php file –>
• Your Body Main Body Content - The LOOP (maybe placed into a DIV to split the articles with other content)
  • This PHP LOOP is the most important aspect of wordpress articles. Your inner body content will be placed inside this loop so that the content is repeatedly generated for every post/page on your site.
  • <?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?> <!– the LOOP –> <div class=”post” id=”post-<?php the_ID(); ?>“> <!– assigning post ID (dynamic) to every post so that you can control every single post –> <div class=”date”><?php the_time(’M’, ”, ”); ?> <?php the_time(’d’, ”, ”); ?></div> <!– article published date & month –><h1 class=”posttitle”><a href=”<?php the_permalink() ?>” rel=”bookmark”><?php the_title(); ?></a></h1> <!– the article title - linked so you can click and get into the article –><?php comments_popup_link(__(’( 0 ) Comments’), __(’( 1 ) Comment’), __(’( % ) Comments’)); ?> <!– number shows the number of comments on that particular aticle –> <div class=”storycontent”><?php the_content(__(’more…’)); ?></div> <!– the content of the article –></div><?php comments_template(); ?> <!– will inclued the comments.php file (displayed only when inside an article) - see below for the file–><?php endwhile; else: ?> <!– end of the LOOP –> <p><?php _e(’Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.’); ?></p> <!– if LOOP fails, this text will be displayed –> <?php endif; ?> <!– end if the LOOP fails –>
• Pagenation
  • <?php posts_nav_link(’ ‘, __(’« Previous Page’), __(’Next Page »’)); ?> <!– returns Next and Previous anchor tags –>
• Extras (can be used anywhere in the above loop)
  • <?php edit_post_link(__(’Edit This’)); ?> <!– returns a link which opens the wp-admin editor for that article –>
  • <a href=”<?php trackback_url(true); ?>” rel=”trackback”>Trackback</a></span> <!– returns an anchor tag for the trackback URL –>
  • <?php the_category(’,’) ?> <!– returns the list of categories (anchored) under which that particular article is posted –>

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comments.php

• The comments.php contains the list of comments and the comment form for each article/page. This is a bit longer to explain so we are giving out our standart comments.php which we usually use for all our wordpress themes. Please download the file below and place it in your theme folder.

Download

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Extras

• Tip: To have more control over your theme, you can place all the PHP snippets in DIVs and style each using your CSS. Same applies to the comments.php too, IDs/Classes are already assigned to almost everything. You just need to get the ID/Class names and style them in your CSS.

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Success

You have successfully converted your design into a Wordpress theme. Now, go ahead and upload it into your sites wp-admin and start of publishing your content trough wp-admin (wp-admin is the admin console of Wordpress where you manage your sites content and options).

Sure from our side that this whole dev process can be done within 30 - 40 minutes. How about you ?

We hope that this (bit) long tutorial has been of some use to you. Feel free to question trough comments (and report if we had made a mistake above). Please do support us how ever you feel to (we have seen many of our content being stolen and there is nothing we could do…)

Updates

• Our Way of Highlighting a Page with custom content

Replace

the_content(__(’more…’));

With

if($_SERVER[’REQUEST_URI’]==”/pagename/“){
include_once(TEMPLATEPATH .”/custom.php“);
}else{
the_content(__(’more…’));
}
?>

Create a new page (will show up on your standard wp navigation) in the wp-admin and give some junk content into it. Now as above, you will replace the php snippet in your index.php. pagename is the same name of the page you just created in wp-admin.

custom.php is a custom php file you will create in your theme folder with any content (can include wordpress php content too…) which will show up in your content area instead of the junk content you added to your custom page in wp-admin.

This is how the sitemap section on our site works. By this way you can have more control over your custom content and highlight the page in the wordpress navigation too. You can also have multiple pages like this by adding the else if in the above snippet.

1. Sridhar Katakam
Keep track of blogs and leave comments on them. A good way to keep the conversation going is to install a MyBlogLog widget and visit the blog of people visiting your site.

2. Ian Delaney
Nothing creates long-term traffic more than value. Consider writing posts with resources or explaining how things work. Useful things get linked to and they get onto del.icio.us, which is far better long-term than a digg front page.

3. Scott Townsend
Inform search engines and aggregators like Technorati (using the ping functionality) when your blog is updated, this should ensure maximum traffic coming from those sources. (check the List of Ping Services)

4. Kyle
Simplify. Pay attention to complex issues in your field of work. It may be a big long publication that is hard to wade through or a concept that is hard to grasp. Reference it and make a shorter “for dummies” version with your own lessons learned and relevant tips. When doing this, I have been surprised to find that the simplified post will appear before the more complex version in search results. Perhaps this is why it results in increased traffic; people looking for more help or clarification on the subject will land on your blog.

5. Grant Gerver
Try to be polemic. I write obsessively about all-things political from the left-wing perspective in the form of humorous, sarcastic one-liners.

6. Daniel
A simple tip that will probably boost your page views: install a translator plugin. I decided to use a paid plugin for this, but if I am not wrong there are some free ones as well. The translation is not very good, as you can imagine, but it helps to attract readers that are not fluent in English.

7. Rory
Submit articles to blog carnivals (http://blogcarnival.com) that are related to your niche. Your article almost always gets posted, and it must generate a handful of visitors, at least.

8. Ramen Junkie
Newsgroups. I always see a spike when I post a review to a newsgroup.

9. Eric Atkins
Create a new design for your website. Not only will it be more attractive to your regular readers, but you can submit it to some CSS gallery showcase sites that feature great designs. This will give you exposure on those sites while generating a lot of traffic and backlinks from those types of sites.

10. Megan Taylor
Participate in conversations on related blogs. Start conversations on your own blog. Don’t just post about a story and leave it at that, engage your audience, ask questions and call to action.

11. Guido
Comment on blogs, write useful content and make good friends on forums.

12. Brian Auer
You must be active to generate traffic. I post comments on other blogs that are related to mine, and I post my site link in my signature at the forums. Spread the word about your blog and it will certainly attract readers.

13. Shankar Ganesh
Just browse around MyBlogLog.com and you will surely get visitors to your blog. Also try to join as many communities as possible that are related to your topic.

14. Andrew Timberlake
A great tip for generating traffic is off-line by including your url in all your off-line liturature from business cards, letterheads, pamphlets, adverts through in-store signage if applicable. I even have our website on my vehicle.

15. Cory OBrien
Read lots of other blogs. Leave trackbacks. Make sure your blog is optimized for search engines. Leverage social bookmarking sites like digg (both for new ideas and for traffic).

16. Jester
Leave comments on other blogs. If you’re already reading them, it takes
just a couple of seconds to leave a message agreeing or disagreeing
with the author, you get to leave a link to your site, and you will almost
ALWAYS get traffic from your comments.

17. Goerge Manty
Post 3-5 times a day. Use ping services like pingomatic or set up wordpress to ping some of the ping services. Engage your readers. Put up polls, ask them questions, give them quizes, free tools, etc. Make them want to come back and tell their friends about you.

18. Engtech
Community. It’s one word but it is the most important one when it comes to blogging. The only “blog metric” that makes sense is the vibrant community of readers it has. Building a community around your blog will bring you increased traffic, but how do you start? The boilerplate response to building traffic is always “SEO, social networking sites, and commenting on blogs” but it can be simplified to “be part of a community”. The easiest way to seed your blog is with an already existing community. But the only way to do that is to be part of the community yourself.

19. Chris
Squidoo Lenses are a good way to generate traffic. By using a lense,
you can generate your own custom “community” of webpages, including some
of the more popular pages in your “neighborhood.” Including your own
webpage in such a list is a good way of generating traffic.

20. Splork
I’ve had good success writing articles and submitting them to EzineArticles. Articles that have been written from well-researched keyword phrases and accepted by EzineArticles tend to rank very high in Google for that search term. Placing anchor text in the footer of those articles so the reader can visit my relevant website has always increased my site traffic.

21. Jen Gordon
I came upon some unexpected traffic when my blog popped up on some css design portals like www.cssmania.com and www.webcreme.com. If you can put some time into the concept behind and design for your blog, I’d recommend submitting your site to a design portal not only for
additional traffic but to build an additional community around your site.

22. Kat
I’ve recently gotten involved with several “MySpace-like” community sites that focus on my target audience. I share my thoughts in their forums, post intros to my real blog on their system blog and I’ve even created a group for my specific niche. It’s been very, very successful for me.

23. Inspirationbit
Well, obviously everyone knows that social bookmarking sites like Digg, del.icio.us, etc. bring lots of traffic. But I’m now submitting some of my articles to blogg-buzz.com (a digg like site for bloggers), and I always get not a bad traffic from there.

24. Mark Alves
Participate in Yahoo Answers and LinkedIn Answers where you can demonstrate your expertise, get associated with relevant keywords and put your URL out there.

25. Tillerman
Be the first to write a post about the ‘Top Ten Blogs’ in your niche. The post will rank highly in any general search for blogs in your niche and other bloggers in your niche write about the post and link to it.

26. Nick
Participating in forums is a great way to get loyal readers. Either link baiting people in your signature or posting great advice and tips will give you high quality traffic, which will result in return visitors.

27. Brandon Wood
A simple trick I’ve used to increase traffic to my blog is participate in group writing projects. In fact, that’s what I’m doing right now.

28. Alan Thomas
Don’t forget your archives. I just posted a roundup of all interviews I did over the past seven months. One of them generated a new link and a big traffic spike from a group of users that look like they will be loyal readers now.

29. KWiz
Write something controversial. I don’t think it’s good to write something controversial just for the purpose of getting traffic necessarily (especially if it’s only for that purpose and you’re being disingenuous), but it works.

30. Dennis Coughlin
Find the best blogs on your niche and contact the authors. Introduce yourself and send a link of your blog. This might help them to discover your blog, read it and possibly link to it.

Basically, footers need to provide users with the information they are looking for.

CSS Beauty presents its recent forum discussions and job openings at the bottom of the page. It’s unclear whether they belong to the footer, though.

YoDiv sends little bubbles in race.

Volll has a family of octopus and an umbrella on the ground.

Vimeo takes a look at little humans from user’s perspective.

Kulturbanause.de with a waterfall and water ground. Beautiful and (really) unusual WordPress blog design.

The Rissington Podcast has a helicopter plane ready to fly. Comic in use.

Rapidweaver has taken care of the smallest details. This sweet language selection fits perfectly to the site design.

MB Dragan loves hand-drawing. We too. Simple and beautiful.

Miloslav Lešetický is an illustrator which is why one of his illustrations is placed in the footer.

Paul Otaneda with a light green theme in the footer. Icons, a tree and three birds inclusive.

TNTPixel — oh-oh, you better be careful with this one.

Roman Leinwather has some green flowers for us…

and on Web4Biz.ro it seems to be quite cold at this period of time.

A little city on StrawPollNow.com.