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Are WordPress Themes open source? Is it right to release them on a pay-to-download basis?
… what these premium theme providers are doing … we would call that “Evil”Chase Sagum
… themes link and use lots of internal WordPress functions, which make them linked under the GPL and subject to being a GPL-compatible license. If a theme (or a […]
Now that Gravatar support is part of the WordPress core adding them into your WordPress theme is easy. Adding them to your comments has been documented. How about adding them to your post titles to highlight the comment author? Within the loop? That’s fairly easy too. Here’s the code:
<?php echo get_avatar( get_the_author_email(), ‘80’ ); ?>
Pretty simple, huh? […]
Now we’re starting to get into the real meat of WordPress Theme development: coding the HTML structure.
The Goals of Any HTML Structure
When coding a web site you should have 2 goals in mind: lean code and meaningful code. That is, using as little markup (HTML tags) as possible and making sure that the markup is meaningful […]
Google Code is Google’s hosting repository for open source projects. Got an open source project? Google Code will host it for free. Want to make a killer WordPress theme that just plain works? Then Google Code is your best friend. Three projects on Google Code will help you get your WordPress theme done right. […]
Much like we did with index.php, we’re going to get one master template done right and use it to build our other templates. Our master Template in this case is the Archive Template.
What archive.php does (and all it’s related templates) is show posts based on a select criteria. A date range, or posts by a certain […]
The Search Template and The Page Template are vital to any complete WordPress Theme. And they’re both really easy to code. For both these two Templates we’ll start with our template-template again but, of course, each one is going to take it’s own different path.
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