Around two years ago or so I started developing themes for WordPress for the company that I work, and one thing that never ceased to amaze me is how incredible is the simplicity WordPress give to developers to build themes. There are a lot of great functions and constants to help you, not only to develop but also to keep your theme code flexible and clean.

A little while ago I noticed that wordpress 2.6 introduced the ability to add captions to images.
This seemed like a great idea, and looked great in the actual Wordpress Admin WYSIWYG editor (TinyMCE), however I couldn’t actually find any themes that had the proper CSS for the captioning, so decided I would make it up myself.

Not only the design changed since version 2.5. Also the markup was changed immensely, so there might be changes in the editor area, if you use pluigns, which implements data there.

Wordpress is a great blogging engine. It’s easy to get it up and running and there’s a lot of free themes available. But if you want to be a bit more creative and design your own theme or even use Wordpress as a CMS (content management system), this can be easily done.

This article will show you how to build a custom WordPress theme. Although the Codex site provides very good documentations on how to create a theme, but I find it too complicated for a beginner. In this tutorial, I will explain the basics of how WordPress theme works and show you how to convert a static HTML template into a theme. No PHP skill is required, but you need Photoshop and CSS skills to create your own design.

Do you ever wanted to be able to load different sidebars according to the current category? Here is a very simple recipe to learn how to easily create a dynamic sidebar.

Here is a common navigational scheme, with parent pages on top and child pages (if they exist) on bottom:

WordPress makes it very easy to change themes and completely change the design of your blog. That’s a great feature, and it allows non-designers and people with limited CSS/HTML/etc. experience to do some amazing stuff.

Creating a WordPress Theme, The Homepage Following on from the recent article on “PSD to HTML”, this tutorial will look at taking a HTML/CSS template and turning it into a functioning WordPress theme. There is so much you can do when creating your own theme we couldn’t nearly cover it all. So, we’re going to look at how themes are structured, creation of the core files and splitting up that index.html file.

WP_Query is a powerful tool to control what comes out of your loop. Learn how to use it by making a 3 columned newspaper theme that has all your main blog posts in the main column, and off to the side a set of posts with a certain category. Using the 960 CSS framework for the basic layout and reset of our theme.