Designing for WordPress is something that a lot of people want to learn how to do. But don’t know where to start. Why? There aren’t too many great tuts out there for people wanting to get started with WordPress theme design. In this screencast we’ll be converting HTML to WordPress: a great place to start for any aspiring theme developer.
Why HTML to WordPress? Taking an existing template and converting it will get you familiar with the way WordPress’ file system works, which will then allow you to advance on to more complicated theme customisation and ultimately building your own theme.
So what does this screencast cover? All that is covered in this screencast is taking a simple HTML theme and putting it into all the different files WordPress uses (ie header.php, footer.php etc). We also start getting a bit more advanced, although not too much; that’s for next time!
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I find that designing for wordpress starts a step prior to this. As a graphic designer, you have to understand that menus are built dynamically (most of the time – and for good reason), how categories and tags work, etc.
As a developer, I have had to work with designers who are so used to print or old school static web design, they bring me designs that are almost impossible to convert into a wordpress theme.
Perhaps you could touch on this in one the next two segments.
Very helpful,
looking forward to part 2,
Thanks
Yep. Next time we\\'re going to be dynamicising the page and maybe even get stuck into the loop.
As the screencast shows though, any theme can be ported to WordPress, even if it remains static; you can use WP to use the same header and footer on all pages.
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