Posts Tagged ‘wordpress’

New Wordpress Themes Video Tutorial

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008

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Hi,

I just released a new video course on how to create a Wordpress theme/template from scratch.

About the video:

Video Synopsis – Building a Simple WordPress Theme

In these 12 videos, we will take someone with some beginner HTML and CSS skills through the steps needed to build a WordPress template from scratch. The videos use only a collection of freely downloadable tools that are available on Windows and Mac.

The goal of this set is to focus on the different files used in a functional WordPress template and how they all work together to build a unified design that is extensible and driven as much as possible from the WordPress blogging framework.

Included in this set is the construction of a dynamic top-level navigation, a widget-friendly sidebar, a customized search form and a specially-designed home page.

It is assumed that the viewer understands HTML and a bit of CSS. A basic understanding of PHP is helpful, but not required.

While its best to follow along, the project files are included in this video.

Those who know me, know that I am a big believer that both PHP programmers and web designers, should learn at least one CMS or blog software package. I jumped into the Wordpress camp a while back for a bunch of reasons:

- It’s popular.
- It’s easy to use.
- It’s easy to customize.

… And it is built with PHP.

Regardless, learning to create templates for Wordpress will help you with your PHP skills because you will learn about how PHP can be used to build a templating system.

Thanks for reading,

Stefan Mischook

www.killerphp.com
www.killersites.com

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Does Wordpress 2.5.1 suck?

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

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I know I will probably get blasted/flamed for this post … but that’s the life of a nerd with an opinion.

So does WP 2.5.1 suck? I’m not sure!

:(

UPDATE:

I have since discovered new information and have resolved the problem … kind of. You can find details in the comments below.

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So what’s the problem with Wordpress 2.5.1?

I just recently installed the this latest version of Wordpress (2.5.1) and quickly found it hanging (while trying to load a page) for as long as 40-50 seconds!

I then proceeded to isolate the potential causes (database, custom fields, custom theme) and have since found out that something stinks in 2.5.1’s core.

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Killer Open Source PHP Projects

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

Part of PHP’s power is actually found in the variety of open source (free to use) PHP based applications. I’m talking about things like blogs, web frameworks, forums, cms’ etc …

… I was just thinking, that a list of ‘killer’ PHP open source projects would be useful … for a few reasons:

  1. Once upon a time, a master programmer I know gave me a great piece of advice:

    “Grasshopper, it is always a much better idea to use proven code (that means good open source projects) than to start from scratch.”

  2. Checking out examples of quality code, is a great way to learn how to become a better programmer.
  3. Who doesn’t need a list of ‘best of breed’ projects?

I’ve been snooping about the PHP world for a while now, and I’ve come across some crappy PHP projects (I will not name names) but I’ve also come across many great PHP projects.

To be totally honest about it, we’ve seen much of the good stuff coming out of the PHP world, in the last few years.

… PHP developers are leap-frogging ahead with regards to their level of skill and the quality of code they produce.

That all said, the following are my favorite ‘killer’ PHP open source projects:

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