Roughly... the Truth » PHP http://www.joelneuenhaus.com Just another WordPress site Tue, 14 Jun 2011 22:24:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 WordPress Theme Fundamentals http://www.joelneuenhaus.com/2009/08/15/wordpress-theming-essentials/ http://www.joelneuenhaus.com/2009/08/15/wordpress-theming-essentials/#comments Sat, 15 Aug 2009 21:25:17 +0000 Joel http://www.joelneuenhaus.com/?p=446 Template Tags, Themes and PHP Basics

Turn your WordPress Theme into a finely tuned machine. This concise breakdown of the most important pieces of your WordPress Theme will keep your coding efforts focused and productive. Even the experienced WP site developer will appreciate how these slides serve as a great reminder of the theming basics.

These slides are courtesy of Jeremy Clarke’s presentation at WordCamp: Intro to WordPress Theming.

WordPress Theming for Epic n00bs: Intro to Template Tags, Themes and PHP

You can find other great WordPress tutorials and presentations at WordPress.tv.

P.S. What I really like is the example showing all of the creative uses of custom sidebars (slide 30 & at 42 min. in the video):

And the code showing how to add new custom sidebars to your theme (slide 31):

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