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WordPress Theme Development: The Pre-Coding Homework You Ought to do

The razmataz of the WordPress realm continues to beam and grow at an unprecedented rate as more and more webmasters lean towards it, choosing to host their blog on a CMS platform that gives them the maximum room to innovate and ideate. WordPress fits the fill, ever so obligingly.

Pre-Coding Homework You what to do

Now, there are folks who would rather develop their own WordPress theme rather than going in with the deluge of free and paid themes that are available on on the web. And they do draw a lot of confidence from their exceptional coding abilities. Besides, they want their own name up there on WordPress.org as a theme contributor. But, is a darn too coding procedure all that there is to developing an impressive WordPress theme? Arguably not.

There are hordes of things for you to consider before you begin writing the codes, and this is what this article aims to introduce you with:

To Begin With

With increasing number of developments making their way into the WordPress ambit, creating your own WordPress theme is becoming easier by the day. The standard way of starting to building a theme is having an index.php and style.css file and you are good to go.

That said, is that all you need when the agenda is to stand out from the herd? Not really. What you need is to branch out to the seemingly uncharted territories and strive to innovate. And this is where you would need a comprehensive knowledge of HTML and CSS so that you can dig in your heels deeper and get down to the fibre of theme development. Having hands-on expertise in HTML5 and CSS3 is what would make difference at the end of the day. Working on WordPress becomes an exercise with much-greater benefits once you know your way around these two tools.

Furthermore, you need to be clear-eyed about the fact that your theme should create no compatibility hassles with the latest versions of WordPress (upgrading to which is critically important at all times). Besides, the plugins you wish to install should work in perfect unison with your theme.

Chart Out Your Tasks Well in Advance

As iterated earlier, theme development goes beyond coding. And there are a bunch of considerations to keep in mind. You should have time as luxury for:

Constantly upgrading the theme and applying patches to it
Be responsive to the customer issues
Ensure theme maintainability at all times

What would rather serve you the best is a detailed study of the WordPress documentation.

Look at Few Themes for the Influence and Know Your Files

There are some exceptionally impressive and inspiration WordPress themes out there to learn from. I won’t mention any specific as it would rather serve you better if you do a fair bit of research and get a diversified idea.

Now, there are files that form the very fibre of any WordPress website. Get to know them:

index.php
single.php
page.php
style.css
functions.php
search.php
header.php
sidebar.php
footer.php
archive.php
comments.php
404.php

Evidently, any Wordpres theme consists of a diverse range of PHP template files and you have to get them in order for every element of your theme to work appropriately.

Coming back to the documentation and the WordPress submission guidelines, make sure you don’t skimp over the basic ones.

The APIs Will Help You Sail Through

The basic process of writing a WordPress theme has to be accompanied with knowing the APIs inside out. The APIs cover several aspects of theme development and having a clear-eyed idea of how they would assist you in deliverables like theme customization, widgets, shortcodes, among others, will go a long way in streamlining your exercise.

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You would need to be sure about elements like licensing and the architecure. Now you can use any of the several services that provide you with necessary tools to create themes without worrying about APIs, compatibility, licensing, etc. that is, if you are willing to spend a bomb. Note: avoid using the theme generators, as they are more often than not rejected by WordPress.org

Let your theme development endeavor have a sense of order and half the ground is covered. For the rest of it, your coding talent should suffice.

add custom background wordpress functionality support to theme

In new wordpress version we can add the background image or color to wordpress websites. Many older wp themes has no support for custom background functionality.

add custom background wordpress

You can very easily add the custom background support to your wordpress theme. You just need to copy following code and put in your functions.php file.


add_filter( 'body_class', 'wpapi_body_class' );
function wpapi_body_class( $classes ) {
	$background_color = get_background_color();
	$background_image = get_background_image();

	if ( empty( $background_image ) ) {
		if ( empty( $background_color ) )
			$classes[] = 'custom-background-empty';
		elseif ( in_array( $background_color, array( 'fff', 'ffffff' ) ) )
			$classes[] = 'custom-background-white';
	}

	return $classes;
}

// Activate custom background and set callback function
if ( function_exists( 'add_theme_support' ) ) {
    $defaults = array(
    'default-color' => '000000',
    'default-image' => get_template_directory_uri() . '/img/background.png',
    'wp-head-callback' => 'my_theme_background_cb',
    'admin-head-callback'    => '',
    'admin-preview-callback' => ''
    );
    add_theme_support( 'custom-background', $defaults );
}

WPtouch Mobile Plugin review by our team

Till year of 2012 many of wp developers are using the wptouch plugin for mobile responsiveness. Here we given full WPtouch Mobile Plugin review by our team.

WPtouch Mobile Plugin review by our team

Now these days wptouch wp plugin is became vintage plugin for wp developers. Now these day every wp theme needs to be responsive. There are many Internet users who are using websites on mobile devices. There are too many types of devices like Iphone, Ipad, Android, Windows and tablets. Every tech guy and girls are using the handy devices for net surfing. We do use tech gadgets for many purposes. So it is necessary to your site need to be Mobile and device friendly.

What is WPTouch Mobile plugin?

WPtouch Mobile Plugin

WPtouch is a mobile plugin for WordPress that automatically enables a simple and elegant mobile theme for mobile visitors of your WordPress website. The mobile WordPress theme is complete with AJAX loading articles and smooth effects when viewed from popular touch mobile devices like the iPhone, iPod touch, Android mobile phones, BlackBerry OS6+ mobile devices, and more.

The administration panel allows you to customize many aspects of its appearance, and deliver a fast, user-friendly and stylish version of your site to your mobile visitors, without modifying a single bit of code (or affecting) your regular desktop theme.

The theme also includes the ability for visitors to switch between the theme on your mobile WordPress website and your website’s regular theme.

Now Available: WPtouch Pro 3

With 3 all-new themes, an intuitive admin panel and great one-to-one ticketing support, it’s the best WPtouch yet!

For more information visit the WPtouch Pro 3 Product Page.

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WPtouch Mobile Plugin review by our team:

It is very easy to Use and configure in wordpress
Easily create any WP theme responsive
Clean UI and very neat on any mobile device
Minimal Code and not heavy to load
Site loading will be faster
Nice Font and great for blogger
There are many configurations for admin
Who have not responsive them they can use this plugin
Plugin is cross browser compitiable
Image gallery support

Comments: I personally used wptouch plugin for some years. Without doing anything we can reach all mobile viewers. I can suggest all webmasters who have not using the responsive the wp theme they must use the wptouch wp plugin. But still my personal opinion is you should get the responsive wordpress design. There are too many wp themes which 100% free so you must use the mobile friendly wp theme,

add second sidebar in twenty thirteen wordpress theme

All wp developers and wordpress theme developers know about twenty thirteen wordpress theme. I do not need to talk about this more. Many people discussed about it issues and features. Many people are developed child themes based on twenty thirteen wp theme.

Some people asked me, how to add second sidebar in twenty thirteen wordpress theme. We can very easily add the second sidebar to it’s child theme.

add second sidebar in twenty thirteen wordpress theme

Using following simple code you can add the second sidebar to twenty thirteen wordpress child theme. If you are creating the child theme of twenty thirteen then you just need to add the following code into your functions.php file and that sit.

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function second_sidebar() {
register_sidebar( array(
'name'&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; => __( 'Second Widget Area', 'twentythirteen' ),
'id'&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; => 'sidebar-3',
'description'&nbsp;&nbsp; => __( 'Appears on posts and pages in the sidebar.', 'twentythirteen' ),
'before_widget' => '<aside id="%1$s">',
'after_widget'&nbsp; => '</aside>',
'before_title'&nbsp; => '<h3>',
'after_title'&nbsp;&nbsp; => '</h3>',
) );
<?php dynamic_sidebar( 'sidebar-3' ); ?>
}
add_action( 'widgets_init', 'second_sidebar' );

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Above code will add the second sidebar to your child theme. using following code you can add the second sidebar to your child theme.


<?php dynamic_sidebar( 'sidebar-3' ); ?>

you just need to place above code into your single.php and index.php file or you can add above code where you need to show the second sidebar in your child theme.

Based on child theme code you need to do some CSS changes so your second sidebar will look perfect. I suggest to use the any grid system wordpress framework or you can use bootstrap CSS grid system for fuild HTML framework.

How to add second sidebar in twenty thirteen wordpress theme

how to develop wordpress theme with 978 grid system

Earlier 960 grid system was very popular among the wordpress theme developers. But 960 grid system is becoming older. Now days 978 grid system is becoming very popular. So I decided to create wordpress theme with 978 grid system.

how to develop wordpress theme with 978 grid system

In this article I will tell you how to create the wordpress theme with 978 grid system. For this you dont need to the PHP or wordpress API knowledge. If you are having basic HTML and CSS knowledge then also you can easily create the wordpress theme with 978 grid system. Main advantage of creating wordpress theme with grid system is SEO. If you add the grid system in your wordpress theme then that will be helpful for SEO also.

Setup the local development environment and wordpress

For local wordpress theme development you need to install PHP, Mysql, apache on your computer or laptop.If you are using the windows then you can install wamp or xxamp server on your machine. If you are using Linux or Max then you need to install the PHP, Mysql, Apache to your PC.

After Server setup first install the wordpress to your local box. Then go to your wordpress installation folder. Go to WordPress root folder and open following folder.

wp-content->themes

Start developing new wordpress theme with 978 grid system.

Create new theme folder in themes folder. (you can keep name as per your choice. I kept grid978 name for my wordpress theme)

For creating wordpress theme following files need to be created in theme folder(for me in grid978 folder)

style.css – The main stylesheet. This must be included with your Theme, and it must contain the information header for your Theme.
index.php – The main template. If your Theme provides its own templates, index.php must be present.
comments.php – The comments template.
single.php – The single post template. Used when a single post is queried. For this and all other query templates, index.php is used if the query template is not present.
page.php – the page template. Used when an individual Page is queried.
author.php – The author template. Used when an author is queried.
archive.php – The archive template. Used when a category, author, or date is queried. Note that this template will be overridden by category.php, author.php, and date.php for their respective query types.
search.php – The search results template. Used when a search is performed.
attachment.php – Attachment template. Used when viewing a single attachment.
image.php – Image attachment template. Used when viewing a single image attachment. If not present, attachment.php will be used.

Or If you are not having knowlege of creating those files then you can download the empty wordpress theme or you can download wordpress framework. Check following article and download empty framework.

List of free wordpress theme frameworks for wordpress theme developer

I always like the Twenty ten wordpress theme. If you are not having good knowledge of CSS then you need to download this theme form following URL. After downloading copy paste the all the files in to your theme folder.

Twenty Ten

Or If you are having good knowledge of CSS then you can download the complete naked and blank wordpress theme from following URL: (I used the starkers wodpress framework)

http://starkerstheme.com/

Download the 978 grid system

Then go to following site and download the 978 grid system.

http://978.gs/

how to develop wordpress theme with 978 grid system

I downloaded the zip file called brothersroloff-978-Grid-System-9bea20f.zip file. I extracted the folder.The package comes with a lot of files. I just coped the 978 Templates\CS978.css file in my wordpress theme folder. I opened the file and copied css code into my theme style.php file.

Change your Theme name

Open your style.css file and put following code in that file.


/*
Theme Name:grid978
Theme URI:https://purabtech.in
Description:The completely 978 grid system ready wordpress theme (Based on Twenty Ten)
Version:1.0
Author:purabtech.in
Author URI:https://purabtech.in
Tags:wordpressapi, grid, 978 grid, 3 column, clean, basic
*/

you need to change the theme name and other information as per your choice.

Create Screenshot.png file with size on 400 width and 350 height and put that in your theme folder. Now if you check your theme in wordpress admin section. Your theme will be visible in wordpress admin section.

Use Reset CSS in style.css file

You need to use the following style code in your style.css file for applying the reset CSS.


html, body, div, span, applet, object, iframe,
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, blockquote, pre,
a, abbr, acronym, address, big, cite, code,
del, dfn, em, font, img, ins, kbd, q, s, samp,
small, strike, strong, sub, sup, tt, var,
b, u, i, center,
dl, dt, dd, ol, ul, li,
fieldset, form, label, legend,
table, caption, tbody, tfoot, thead, tr, th, td{background:transparent; border:0; margin:0; padding:0; vertical-align:baseline}
body{line-height:1}

h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6{clear:both; font-family:Helvetica,Arial,verdana,sans-serif}
ol, ul{list-style:none}
blockquote{quotes:none}
blockquote:before, blockquote:after{content:''; content:none}
del{text-decoration:line-through}
/* tables still need 'cellspacing="0"' in the markup */
table{border-collapse:collapse; border-spacing:0}
a img{border:none}

If you taken the twenty ten theme as a base then you dont need to put reset css in that file.

Select your grid system and layout for your wordpress theme.

I planned the keep 390px as sidebar area and 558px as content area. For more information you can check following image.

Plan your layout for developing the wordpress theme with grid 978 system. I planned the following layout for creating the wordpress theme.

Start using the 978 grid system for building the theme

Note :In this tutorial I am given the whole wordpress theme files for download with all the assets. You can download the our grid978 wordpress theme and check the code.

For setting the main container. I first opened the header.php file and inserted the following code after the body tag.


<div class='layout-978'>

Then I opened the footer.php file and before wp_footer() function put the close div code.

Setting header and menu section using 978 grid system.

Open your header.php file and after ‘layout-978’ div put following code in file.


<div class='row header'>

// Here is all header and menu code

</div>

Setting footer section using 978 grid system.

Open your footer.php file and after ‘layout-978’ div put following code in file.


<div class='row footer'>

// Here is all footer code

</div>

Setting up the main content area and sidebar area with grid 978 system

Using following code you can set the main content area and sidebar.


<div class='row'>
<div class='col7'>
// Main content Area
// This block code used in loop.php, single.php and page.php file
</div>
<div class='col5'>
// Top Side bar Area
// This block code used in sidebar.php file
</div>
<div class='col5'>
// Main Side bar Area
// This block code used in sidebar.php file
<div class='col2'>
// Primary Side bar Area
// This block code used in sidebar.php file
</div>
<div class='col3'>
// Secondary Side bar Area
// This block code used in sidebar.php file
</div>
</div>

For this I used the header.php, footer.php, singe.php, page.php and sidebar.php file.

Note : In this tutorial I am given the whole wordpress theme files for download with all the assets. You can download the our grid978 wordpress theme and check the code.

Set the content width for your theme

Open your functions.php file and find the following code and replace it to


if ( ! isset( $content_width ) )
 $content_width = 558;

Set the menu with CSS style

For multilevel menu support you need to put the following code in to your style.css file.


/* =Menu
-------------------------------------------------------------- */
#access{display:block; float:left; background:#51011f; margin:0 auto; width:978px; border-bottom:1px solid #28000f}
#access .menu-header,
div.menu{font-size:14px; font-weight:bold; margin-left:0px; width:978px; text-shadow:1px 1px 1px #000}
#access .menu-header ul,
div.menu ul{list-style:none; margin:0}
#access .menu-header li,
div.menu li{float:left; position:relative}
#access a{color:#fff; display:block; line-height:34px; /*line-height:38px; */padding:0 10px; text-decoration:none}
#access ul ul{box-shadow:0px 3px 3px rgba(0,0,0,0.2); -moz-box-shadow:0px 3px 3px rgba(0,0,0,0.2); -webkit-box-shadow:0px 3px 3px rgba(0,0,0,0.2); display:none; position:absolute; top:34px; left:0; float:left; width:180px; z-index:99999}
#access ul ul li{min-width:180px}
#access ul ul ul{left:100%; top:0}
#access ul ul a{background:#51011f; line-height:1em; padding:10px; width:160px; height:auto; opacity:0.9; color:#fff}
#access li:hover >a,
#access ul ul:hover >a{color:#B8F01C}
#access ul li:hover >ul{display:block}
#access ul li.current_page_item >a,
#access ul li.current-menu-ancestor >a,
#access ul li.current-menu-item >a,
#access ul li.current-menu-parent >a{color:#fff; background:transparent url(images/arrow2.png) top center no-repeat}
#access ul ul li.current_page_item >a,
#access ul ul li.current-menu-ancestor >a,
#access ul ul li.current-menu-item >a,
#access ul ul li.current-menu-parent >a{color:#fff; background:#853E08}
* html #access ul li.current_page_item a,
* html #access ul li.current-menu-ancestor a,
* html #access ul li.current-menu-item a,
* html #access ul li.current-menu-parent a,
* html #access ul li a:hover{color:#fff; background:#853E08}

You can change this code as per your wordpress design and colors.

Set the footer widget area

Open your functions.php file and find and replace the following code.

find before_widget section for footer section and add the div with class “col3”. I used the 222px grid size for footer widget section.

You can add this code in sidebar-footer.php file also. you just need to add the div with class “col3” before all widgets.

Your wordpress theme is completed with 978 grid system. You can change and add more styles to your wordpress theme as per your design and colors.

How theme is looking

After creating theme is looking as follows:

How to mange the widget section the grid978 wordpress theme.

If you check your wordpress admin area. Go to appearance->Widgets section. This will look as follows:

Apart from this you can mange the Menu, Background and header image from this wordpress theme.

You can download the complete source code here.

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If you want to see the Demo of Grid978 wordpress theme then you need to check following URL:

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This 978 gird system based free wordpress theme framework is created by purabtech.in. If you are having any doubts about developing wordpress theme with 978 grid system then you can write to me on wordpressapi@gmail.com

fresh lite wordpress theme free download

From wordpress 3.0 version so many new features added in to wordpress. We need to modify the wordpress themes as per wordpress 3.0 standards. free wordpress themes, fresh lite wordpress theme free download. WordPress created some wordpress framework for creating the wordpress 3.0 ready themes.

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For more information you need to check following article for checking free wordpress 3.0 ready frameworks.

List of free wordpress theme frameworks for wordpress theme developer

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In this article I created the list of some very nice wordpress themes which are wordpress 3.0 ready.

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