This is a quick post on using Javascript and the JQuery framework in particular within your WordPress theme. It’s quick and pretty painless. This is just for regular themes, not admin themes, plugins, or posts.
Step 1:
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Creating your first WordPress theme – Part 1
Wednesday, May 26th, 2010Content Management Systems and WordPress is so powerful because it allows site owners to update their sites efficiently and to customize their sites and their CMS experience. WordPress themes control both the look of a site and the options a site owner has in terms of customizing this look.
That sounds pretty good and rather vague. It’s hard to describe what you can do with WordPress themes, since they can do a lot. It’s like trying to describe all the things you can do with a nail. It all depends on how you use it.
In light of this, it seems like the best thing to do would be to go through an example of building a WordPress theme. I’ll go through a theme as I develop it, and I’ll try to build it starting at the simplest level and working to progressively more complicated iterations.
Before we begin, there’s a few things that I’m going to assume:
- You’ve got WordPress installed on your site. It’s usually pretty easy to install WordPress.
- You can access the files in your WordPress install.
- You can access your WordPress admin panel.
Why use a Content Management System
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010You can feel free to skip this entire article if you have a website that you are happy with… hold on, there’s something else… and you can easily update it. Notice that I said you, not your latte drinking, jargon spouting, charge by the hour web air quotes consultant.
One of the main reasons to use a content management system is to enable you to update the content, and sometimes the look of your site. A CMS (I’ll explain what it is soon) should enable you to do this in a painless way. In other words, without cracking open any sort of O’Reilly book with “the Definitive Guide” somewhere in the title.
