WordPress Theme Construction Help

PHP
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I’m looking for someone who could help me with the PHP portion (some CSS knowledge would help so it all ties it together nicely) of a blog theme, that I’m constructing ? What method would I have to go about in designing if any, for the PHP portion would go a little easier.

2

First, it would be best to refer to the WordPress codex as that is where there is many tutorials about WordPress. It is pretty simple to use but has somewhat of a learning curve since you need to learn the API (and everything is obfuscated).

3

That is why, I’m asking for help. I want to create something original, but at the same time I don’t have the time for this particular subjects learning curve, I hope you can understand :slight_smile:

4

That is why, I’m asking for help. I want to create something original, but at the same time I don’t have the time for this particular subjects learning curve, I hope you can understand

I’m not even clear as to what your asking. WordPress templates are pretty simple, at least they can be, but you might lose some robust functionality.

They can be essentially a PHP/XHTML source file, which call WordPress methods like get_title() <– wild guess

Something like:

<html>
  <head>
    <title><?php echo get_title(); ?></title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <?php echo get_content(); ?>
  </body>
</html>

There are many functions in which you can call to dynamicize your template and more tightly integrate into the WordPress engine itself, the above is a very crude, simple example of how it is done.

You will NEED to refer to codex if you want more detailed explanations of each method, etc, or hire someone to build one for you if you do not have the time.

Cheers,
Alex

5

How about starting with one of the many super plain themes out there and modifying it to your needs? Quick and simple and a good way to learn.

6

Powerbuoy - True but if I could work along side with someone…

7

I’ve seen some themes out there that are so plain and so free of design that all you’d really need to change would be some CSS to make it your own.

Unless you want to start moving things around (post dates, titles, comment author names etc) you will probably not even need to modify the HTML/PHP.

Even the default theme, Kubrick, is pretty easy to start with, but it does contain a bit of design-related HTML.

Here’s one I found Googling “semantic accessible plain wordpress theme”:

8

I do want to move things around :slight_smile: And have things placed in different locations.

9

Well most of the moving around can be done with CSS. The kind of moving I’m talking about is changing this (for example):

Article Title

Publish date and categories

Content

Number of comments and tags

To something like this:

Article Title

Content

Publish date and categories AND Number of comments and tags

And even if you want to do that it should be easy as long as you know your way around HTML.

10

This is with Sandbox theme ?

What about major visual changes ?

11

That is pseudo-code for any theme. Major visual changes are done with CSS.

12

I’ll give it a try.