A WordPress Theme is a collection of files that work together to produce a graphical interface with an underlying unifying design for a blog.
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Tips for using WordPress as a CMS? [closed]
I want to use WordPress as a CMS for a reasonably basic site rather than a blog. I have several pages and at the moment, I don't intend to have a "news" page.
While there are ways to make this work, ...
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WordPress frameworks and parent themes [closed]
By now there is a considerable amount of WordPress code around that is meant to be re-used by other developers. Unfortunately there is little to none practical and solid information on it and ...
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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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Where can I download WordPress themes from? [closed]
What sites offer WordPress themes to download? (Can be paid-for or free)
It's community wiki so if we had one site per answer, and with a little additional detail on each site, what sort of themes ...
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Using OOP in themes
I see a lot of plugins making use of object-oriented coding when there isn't really necessary.
But what's even worse is that theme developers are starting to do the same thing. Commercial themes and ...
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What Are Security Best Practices for WordPress Plugins and Themes? [closed]
As suggested in this question, I am adding this topic as a new question, for community discussion/voting regarding best-practices for Plugin/Theme security.
Here is the starting checklist, based on ...
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Where can I sell WordPress themes and plugins? [closed]
I've been building some WordPress themes and plugins. What are the online marketplaces I can sell them?
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How do I turn off self-closing tags for markup in WordPress (for HTML5, or HTML4, for example)?
I want to use HTML5 in my WordPress theme, how do I turn off wptexturize?
I don't mind WP adding breaks, but I want them to be <br> and not <br />. How do I get control over how those ...
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Customizing a WordPress theme without changing it?
I have found and downloaded a theme. However I want to tweak the CSS some to change the design, colours etc. a bit. How should I go about doing this, while still being able to update the theme without ...
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What are all the available parameters for query_posts?
The WordPress codex page for query_posts states that it does not cover all the parameters which query_posts takes:
Parameters
This is not an exhaustive list yet. It is meant to show some of ...
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Adding an Arbitrary Link to the Admin Menu?
Is there a way to add a arbitrary hyperlink to the WordPress admin menu (I mean the menu on the left when you log into the admin dashboard)? For example, can one add a link to Google?
In my ...
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Where can I learn to create my own theme?
I want to learn to create a theme for Wordpress
Where can i find information and resources on how to do it?
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get_template_part vs action hooks in themes
It seems to me both of these afford the opportunity for the end user to modify a theme without actually editing the themes files (via child themes).
My question is, is one method preferred over the ...
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Wordpress API Menu/Submenu Order
I'm developing a child-theme using Wordpress 3.4.2 and the development version of the Options Framework by David Price. This is my first theme and I'm relatively new to this, so I've had a look into ...
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Is there a blank theme framework compatible with WP 3.0?
I don't feel like making my own theme from scratch, so I looked for some theme frameworks, but they're all old and when I install them on WP 3.0 they produce loads of errors and don't behave properly. ...
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Adding admin-ajax.php to the frontend. Good or bad idea?
I love admin-ajax.php. But I hate having to localize in order to point frontend scripts to it, and I wish there was an equivalent, easy-to-find file for themes. (It also just bothers me to see ...
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How to maintain W3C standards compliance of a theme
When I wrote a theme, I made sure it was compliant with XHTML 1.1 and CSS 2.1. Then I added plugins and the theme is no longer compliant with XHTMl 1.1. Then I used Google API font in my CSS and it is ...
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Starter Theme vs Parent Theme? Pros and cons
I'm building a theme to be used as an example for other websites for the company I'm working. In another project we used the Hybrid Parent Theme and was really easy to build, but REALLY hard to ...
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How to Link External jQuery/Javascript files with WordPress
So I'm using Starkers to base my next WP theme on and I've run into a small issue, I was including my own version of jQuery in the header.php file but when inspecting my site using Firebug I noticed ...
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after_setup_theme always runs
I am setting up a child theme for some of my faculty members, and as a part of the theme, I would like a handful of plugins to be activated at the time that the theme is activated. So, naturally, I ...
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What is the role and history of the $content_width global variable?
I just stumbled over a global variable called $content_width. It was new to me, so far I could see that it's used in themes, both the standard twenty ten one and third party ones.
It looks like that ...
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Allow user to select a theme to install when they signup
Is it possible to allow a user to select which theme they would like installed from the new site signup page? And once the site is created, it obviously installs whichever theme they chose.
I found ...
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CSS classes for theme
Does anybody know predefined (suggested by WP) CSS classes which should I use in my theme?
I have seen somewhere in Internet a list of all CSS classes, which are used in WP theme, but can't find it.
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Can wordpress theme folder name be changed freely and nothing technically happens
Can the wordpress theme folder be renamed any time freely and everything works fine after that ,
themes/oldthemename
themes/whatevernewname
or is it so that if you change the folder name that ...
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Shared functionality in plugins and themes
I recently started to develop plugins and themes and I found that I need to use several functions of on both.
Sometime I think about to check if function / class exist before declared as said on this ...
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Using classes instead of global functions in functions.php
In many themes I've seen (including TwentyEleven) and in the examples I've found online, when building the functions.php file for a theme all functionality is declared in a global scope. To clarify, ...
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What does exactly GPL license mean for my WordPress theme?
To put it like this:
I have created a WordPress theme for myself which consists of the following:
PHP code - GPL v2 licensed like WordPress
CSS files - All rights reserved
JS files - All rights ...
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Am I allowed to license my Wordpress theme under the aGPL
I was interested in the recent conversation about whether WordPress themes need to be licenced under the GPL or whether they can be closed source. The video can be reached from matts blog and my ...
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How do I white label my self-hosted site created by wordpress?
I have seen code in an answer to this question, how to remove the promotional back link to WordPress.org in my theme. I have added this to my theme's CSS but there is no change.
Am I missing see ...
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Create theme files for plugin
Basically I've made a plugin to create a new post type (event).
Now I want to create a single-event.php layout file.
I don't want to have to stick it in the theme folder, I want to put it into my ...
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How can I create a bash install script for my Wordpress sites setup (WP+plugins+theme)?
I build a lot of websites with Wordpress, and my initial setup is basically always the same :
Latest version of WP
Latest versions of about 5 plugins
My naked development theme
Instead of ...
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Experiences with adding Nonces to the comment form
I was wondering about the impact nonces would have on the default comment form a theme has. Because Nonces are a built-in feature of WordPress I thought about giving it a try.
Does somebody has ...
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How can I version the main CSS file?
How can I instruct wordpress to use a filename other than 'styles.css' for my main stylesheet - for example, styles-1.css? I'd like to do this for versioning and caching purposes.
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How to prevent plugin, theme installation failures on Wordpress?
I am unable to install any theme/plugin to my wordpress 3.0
Downloading install package from http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/contact-form-7.2.3.1.zip…
Unpacking the package…
Installing ...
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What Wordpress E-Commerce theme should I use to get started?
I've done created a LOT of Wordpress themes and plugins, but I haven't done much with the Wordpress E-Commerce plugin. If someone asked me what theme they should start playing with to learn about ...
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How to create a new theme from scratch?
I'm new to wordpress.
Which steps would I need to do, to get my new design implemented as a wordpress theme?
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Looking for a lightweight theme using WP3 new tags and features (not 2010)
I design & build a lot of bespoke Wordpress themes for clients, and before I just took the best parts out of the default Kubrick and made my own 'vanilla' theme.
The new default, TwentyTen is way ...
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what the best way to include images from the template's images folder?
what the best way to include images from the template's images folder? is it by using get_bloginfo('template_url')? I understood that its better to hard code the path to the images folder since this ...
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Categorising themes by folders in backend
I want to organize themes like:
wp-content/themes/themeshop/theme1
wp-content/themes/themeshop/theme2
wp-content/themes/themeshop/theme3
Now from my understanding, this organization works ...
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Free/Open-Source Theme Frameworks as an Alternate to Thesis?
What good free and open source alternatives exist to the Thesis theme ??
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Adding Language Support using .pot and .mo files to a WordPress Theme?
How do we add language support using .pot and .mo files in a WordPress theme? And how we retrieve the theme?
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Custom Post Type Templates from Plugin Folder?
I'd like to offer my custom post type as a Plugin, so that people can use it without touching their theme folder. But custom post type templates -- such as single-movies.php -- reside in the theme ...
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Why doesn't default Wordpress page view use force_balance_tags?
I noticed that the default WP theme uses force_balance_tags for listing posts' excerpts. This way, it doesn't cause major html breakage whenever someone writes a post like
<div><b>This is ...
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Reordering themes in admin panel
I've been searching for a hook to change the order in which themes are displayed in the admin panel (i.e. wp-admin/themes.php) but so far haven't been successful.
Is there an existing hook to do ...
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How do I add nested categories to drop-down menu in twenty-eleven?
I know how to do it by writing a separate ul/li css for wp_list_categories, but I find menus of "twenty eleven" already well designed and flexible, so I`d like to use them.
Custom menus, when I have ...
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How to make a theme with more than one CSS file?
I've made my first theme and now I want to create different "profiles". These profiles are just independent CSS files that user can try. The point is, how to make these files to allow users to choose ...
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Difference between a theme and a plugin?
I'm curious as to what the specific differences are between a theme and a plugin. I get the gist of it...themes have to do with look and feel (html / css) and plugins have to do with adding ...
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How do I add a new string to a .po or .pot file?
I have a .pot file that came with my Wordpress theme. Now I want to add strings to it, that weren't there in the original theme. How do I do that?
Do I have to update the .pot file? but 1) How do I do ...
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How do I add support to my theme for custom menus?
I've read a few tutorials on how to add the functionality of the custom menus added in version 3.0 to my theme but they all seem to differ somewhat, and I'm not sure whether they contain superfluous ...
