WordPress for Designers
Hey guys after reviewing many of the “WordPress for Designers” videos at blog.themeforest.net Ive decided to go ahead and repost them , and write out commentaries describing the main features that this video blog series hits.
The series will be separated into days, starting with day two… ok lets get started.
Day 2 : WordPress Admin panel.
Introduction
In our video here we quickly reviewed all the necessaries that we would be using in order to use and edit our new WordPress install. He quickly went over the WordPress file structure. The necessary changes that needed to be made to the wp-config.php file when we upload, and the location of our all important theme files.
www.example.com/wp-content/themes/theme1
Body
Moving on through the video the main bulk of this video was getting the understanding of the different template files in your wordpress theme, what they do and how they work, so lets move through a few of them.
As described in our video if we go to APPEARANCE | EDITOR we will be able to see all the template files included in the wordpress theme currently activated.
If we start by importance usualy index.php would come to mind in a wordpress site. We can see there’s no doctypes or much html data in our file at all, but rather many simple php requests to header and footer and sidebar etc.. These are essentially statements that calls in those files from you directory. So header.
In our header.php we find our doctypes and titles tags and start of our html elements. This is loaded at the top of every page or post that calls get_header(). Pretty easy to understand.
Similarly our files typically end with out get_footer() call and our footer.php contains all the closing tags for information contained within our document.
Single.php – used for individual post pages.
404.php – used when a page within your wordpress blog cannot be found.
Sidebar - calls widgets and other custom information into the 1 or more sidebars in your wordpress theme.
Conclusion
After looking through and familiarizing yourself with the themes directory withing your wordpress install you should be able to identify the different files and what they more or less accomplish. With this basic knowledge we will be able to simply identify where and what files we need to be editing in the future while we move on to developing our own theme, in the new few videos.
If you’re having problems understand the videos or information please comment and we will see if we can help you out.
Tags: Css, Design, Development, Php, Tutorials, Webmaster, Website, Wordpress
