I think you’ll agree when I say that website navigation in WordPress is one of the more important areas of creating a template. After all, without navigation, our visitors are going to have a mightily challenged experience while attempting to traverse our sites. With this in mind, in this post, I’m going to cover some […]
Website Development & Coding Tips, Tutorials & Techniques
The development section includes posts and articles that cover tips, tutorials and best practices for various areas of coding and web development. Discussion includes fundamental and moderately advanced topics in the worlds of PHP, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, WordPress and more. Additional topics include development tools as well as coverage of online communities that assist with the development profession.
Creating WordPress Page Templates
Once you begin creating templates in WordPress, you’ll quickly realize that the basis of each template is quite similar among them all. If you take a look at my previous post, where I described how one might go about formatting the WordPress loop, you’ll see that the code for the index.php file looks strikingly like […]
Understanding the WordPress Loop
If you’ve either looked into developing with WordPress or have developed with WordPress for any length of time, I’m sure you’ve heard of the “WordPress Loop.” The loop is one area of WordPress that you don’t want to skimp on. In order to be proficient in development, it’s important to understand exactly what’s going on. […]
Creating & Including WordPress Header & Footer Files
In most WordPress installs (and websites in general) headers and footers are consistent across many pages. Unless there are special sections that are unique to the majority, visitors will see the same layout, with perhaps some dynamic content, at the top of the page and at the bottom of the page. These layouts are pulled […]
Adding CSS and JavaScript to Your WordPress Theme
One of the very first areas that needs attention when creating a theme inside WordPress is to add, or include, your style sheets and JavaScript files inside of your template files. Without those, your theme development is going to be quite difficult. In this post, I’ll cover exactly how to go about attaching those types […]
Setting Up a WordPress Theme
In this post, I’m going to talk about setting up a WordPress theme. I’ll go over where exactly to put your theme files, what order to put them in, what to name them and how to turn your theme on. This isn’t a difficult process, but there are some rules to follow. Let’s get going. […]
Internal PHP Functions
I am currently embarking in the final stage of Hampton Paulk’s “PHP Functions” course at Treehouse. It’s been a good one so far. I’ve learned a lot. Hampton has a way of feeding information just slow enough as to be easily absorbed. In this post, I’m going to go over functions that are internal, or […]
WordPress Templates – Media, Search & 404 Pages
I’m coming towards the close of my WordPress template journey with Zac Gordon over at Treehouse. I’ve written about many types of WordPress templates over the last few posts and today, I’m going to go over the ones that are left. The media, search and 404 page templates. Media Page Templates I have to admit, […]
Getting a Handle on CSS
In this post, I’m going to be taking notes on Guil Hernandez’s “Basic CSS” course over at Treehouse. I already took the course a few months ago, but that was before I started this blog. I’d like to take it again for a few reasons. First, without writing about the course, I have nothing the […]
PHP Function Returns
Today, I’m going to continue on with my interpretation, or should I say – basically – my notes, on Hampton Paulk’s “PHP Functions” class over at Treehouse. I’ve been enjoying Hampton’s style and his teaching is remarkably understandable. In this post, I’m going to go over PHP function returns. Now, before I started writing today, […]