WordPress 2.8 Theme Design. Create flexible, powerful, and professional themes for your WordPress blogs and web sites Tessa Blakeley Silver

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Spis treści książki

• WordPress 2.8 Theme Design
  • Table of Contents
  • WordPress 2.8 Theme Design
  • Credits
  • About the Author
  • About the Reviewer
  • Preface
    • What this book covers
    • What you need for this book
    • Who this book is for
    • Conventions
    • Reader feedback
    • Customer support
      • Errata
      • Piracy
      • Questions
  • 1. Getting Started as a WordPress Theme Designer
    • WordPress perks
    • Does a WordPress site have to be a blog?
    • Pick a theme or design your own?
      • Drawbacks to using an already built theme
      • Using theme frameworks
    • This books approach
    • Core technology you should understand
      • WordPress
      • CSS
      • XHTML
      • PHP
      • Other helpful technologies
    • Tools of the trade
      • HTML editor
      • Graphic editor
      • Firefox
      • Developing for Firefox first
    • Summary
  • 2. Theme Design and Approach
    • Things to consider
      • Types of blogs
      • Plugins and widgets
    • Getting ready to design
      • A common problem
    • The solution: Rapid design comping
      • The radical, new processis not so new or radical?
      • Overview of rapid design comping
    • Getting started
      • Sketching It
        • Considering usability
      • Starting with the structure
        • Creating your design
        • The DOCTYPE
        • The main body
          • Adding the XHTML file requirements
        • Attaching the basic stylesheet
          • Attaching the CSS file
          • Creating a style.css file and including this basic shell
        • Basic semantic XHTML structure
          • Building out the body
    • Adding texttypography
      • Starting with the text
      • Choosing your fonts
        • Cascading fonts
          • Font stacks
          • sIFR
        • Font sizing
          • Why pixels?
          • Keeping it in proportion
          • Paragraphs
          • Default links
      • The layout
        • Column Layout: Floating div tags versus CSS tables
        • Posts
          • Making sure WordPress sticky posts get styled
        • Forms
          • Threaded and paginated comments
        • Navigation
          • Styling the main navigation
          • WordPress-specific styles for navigation
        • Color schemes
          • Two-minute color schemes
          • Color schemes with GIMP or Photoshop
          • Adding color to your CSS
          • Styling the special TOC headers
        • Creating the graphical elements
      • Relax and have fun designing
      • Slicing and exporting images
        • Don't forget your favicon!
          • Making your favicon high-res
      • Summary
  • 3. Coding It Up
    • Got WordPress?
    • Understanding the WordPress theme
    • Creating your WordPress workflow
    • Building our WordPress theme
      • Starting with a blank slate: Tabula rasa
      • Create a new theme directory
      • Including WordPress content
        • Understanding template tags
        • Getting a handle on hooks
        • Learning the Loop
        • Creating a basic loop
      • Modifying the timestamp and author template tags
      • Modifying the basic comments display
      • Including threaded comments
        • Styling threaded comments
          • Adding and styling comment pagination
    • Breaking it up: Header, footer, and sidebar template files
      • • Creating the footer.php template file
          • Hooking it up: Plugin API hooks
        • Creating the sidebar.php template file
          • Making the sidebar dynamic
          • Hooking it up: Plugin API hooks
        • The header
          • Creating the header.php file
          • Hooking it up: Plugin API hooks
      • More template files: Home, internal, and static pages
        • The home page
          • Creating a custom home.php template file
          • Creating a second sidebar
        • Internal pages
          • Updating the index.php file to be an internal page
        • Static pages
          • Creating a custom page.php template file
        • Quick review
        • Fun with other page layouts
        • Don't forget about your 404 page
          • Creating a custom 404 template file
      • Even more template files
      • Adding in the favicon
        • Activating the favicon
    • Summary
  • 4. Debugging and Validation
    • Testing other browsers and platforms
    • Introduction to debugging
    • Troubleshooting basics
      • Why validate?
      • PHP template tags
      • CSS quick fixes
      • Advanced troubleshooting
        • Quirks mode
    • Fixing CSS across browsers
      • Box model issues
      • Everything is relative
    • To hack or not to hack
    • Out of the box model thinking
    • The road to validation
    • Advanced validation
      • Firefox's JavaScript/Error Console
      • The Web Developer Toolbar
      • Firebug
      • Checking your work in Internet Explorer
        • Run multiple versions of IE
        • IE Developer Toolbar
        • Don't forget about the QorSMode bookmarklet
      • Optimizing for text and mobile browsers
        • The new mobile Safari browser
    • Summary
  • 5. Putting Your Theme into Action
    • A picture's worth
    • Theme packaging basics
    • Describing your theme
    • Licensing
    • Creating a ReadMe.txt file
    • Zipping it up
    • No way to zip?
    • Performing one last test
    • Getting some feedback and tracking it
    • Summary
  • 6. WordPress Template Tag, Function, and CSS Reference
    • Class styles generated by WordPress
      • The search bar ID
      • Classes output by the media manager
      • Classes output by the sidebar widgets
      • Classes output by the wp_list_pages template tag
      • Classes output by the wp_list_categories template tag
      • post_class class styles
      • body_class class styles
        • Why add custom class styles to template tags?
    • Using the template selector feature
      • Creating a custom page template
    • Template hierarchy
    • Template tags
      • Author template tag updates in 2.8
      • Template tags for tags
      • Adding tag display to your theme
      • General template tagsthe least you need to know
    • Conditional tags
    • Including tags into your themes
      • Creating custom header, footer, sidebar includes
      • Completely customstreamlining your theme
      • Creating a custom include in your theme
    • The Loop functions
    • Plugin hooks
      • WordPress core functions
        • WordPress shortcodes
          • Creating a basic shortcode
      • Summary
  • 7. AJAX / Dynamic Content and Interactive Forms
    • Preparing for dynamic content and interactive forms
      • Assessing if AJAX is appropriate for your site
      • Do it yourself or use plugins
      • Plugin pros and cons
    • The AJAX factor
      • jQuery now comes bundled with WordPress
        • Including jQuery in WordPress
        • Avoiding problems registering jQuery
        • Linking to jQuery from Google Code's CDN
        • Using WordPress' bundled includes versus including your own or using a CDN
        • jQuery plugins
      • Problem with setting up a Lightbox effect in WordPress
        • jQuery lightBox
        • Adding jQuery lightBox to your template
        • Implementing lightBox
        • jQuery's ThickBox and ColorBox plugins
    • Plugins and widgets
      • Plugins
      • Widgets
      • Getting your theme ready for plugins and widgets
      • Preparing your theme for plugins
      • Installing a plugin
        • Installing the AJAX comment preview plugin
      • Preparing your theme for widgets
        • Making your theme compatible with widgets
        • Google Reader widget
          • Installing the Google Reader widget
          • A small problem you may run into while installing the Google Reader widget
    • AJAXit's not just for your site's users
      • New work space features
      • pageMash
        • Installing the pageMash plugin
    • Summary
  • 8. Dynamic Menus and Interactive Elements
    • Dynamic menus
      • Drop-down menus
      • DIY SuckerFish menus in WordPress
        • Applying CSS to WordPress
        • Applying the DOM script to WordPress
        • Allowing only selected pages to display
        • Hiding pages the easy way with pageMash
    • Adding Flash to your theme
      • Flash in your theme
      • Handling users without Flash, older versions of Flash, and IE6 users
        • Is the ActiveX restriction still around?
          • swfObject
        • Adding a SWF to the template using swfObject
        • jQuery Flash plugin
          • Embedding Flash files using the jQuery Flash plugin
        • Passing Flash a WordPress variable
        • Adding sIFR text with the jQuery Flash plugin
      • Flash in a WordPress post or page
        • Adding You Tube video to a WordPress post
    • Summary
  • 9. Design Tips for Working with WordPress
    • The cool factor essentials
      • Backgrounds
      • Lists
        • See it in action
      • Rounded corners
        • The classicall four corners
        • The two-image cheat
        • CSS3the new way to round corners
      • Creative posting
      • Breaking boundaries
      • Keeping tabs on current design trends
      • Creative fonts
        • Graphic text
        • Using PHP to make graphic headers easy
        • Custom fonts with CSS3
    • Good design isn't always visuallooking at SEO
      • Search engine friendly URLs
      • Keywords and descriptions
        • DYI meta tags
        • Meta tag plugins
    • Summary
  • Index

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