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What are the main parts of a Wordpress Template?

This may sound like a stupid question, but... What are the main parts of a Wordpress template, and which parts are mandatory and which parts are optional? So far I am aware of: Posts (mandatory) ...
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Theme development: What NOT to do? [closed]

I have some experience with wordpress, coded some plugins, customized a lot of themes and did some core mods for a custom multisite network. It wasn't hard since I already knew PHP, but I never really ...
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Best practice for including plugin output in a template without using shortcode?

I need your recommendation for the best practice here: A custom post type I have created needs a list of attachments at the end of the post content. I have created a series of functions that handle ...
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Opinions and recommendations on the best barebones base theme [closed]

Preamble I'm finding myself building more and more WP sites "from scratch" as it were (ie: ignoring any theme designs out there and just creating a design wireframe purely on the needs of the client. ...
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364 views

TwentyTen: Overloading template.php files vs. get_template_part

I'm studying TwentyTen, under the assumption that it contains the best practices for writing themes and modifying them using child themes. I'm noticing what looks like a really redundant practice, ...
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What are the current recommended best-practices for comments.php?

I'm getting ready to submit a theme to the .Org repo and wanted to make sure that everything is in ordnung. One of the biggest holes left in my design is the comments template. I've taken a look at ...