Decided to continue working on the WordPress Stubborn theme
Stubborn theme found a home in github—I’ve always wanted to try github and learn git anyway—so this is perfect fit, I get to continue working on the Stubborn theme while using git for configuration management. There are bits and pieces of the Stubborn theme which, right now, from hindsight, I don’t like as much as [...]
A bit of a requirements process for WordPress theming
You could think “Requirements gathering for WordPress theming? What?”–you could think that, that’s what I thought too at first. However, building a WordPress theme, which is not necessarily for blog purposes, I quickly slowly realized that when you start using WordPress for purposes other than a blog, you’re right down a different alley. You are [...]
Coding the blog front page
The frontpage for the blog or a site is the page which first appears when a web user types in http://www.yourdomainname.com, it is at the top of your page hierarchy. The templating system of WordPress has some established rules which defines what page the user will see, which templates takes precedence over others. At a [...]
Basic checklist for project preparation
You can surely start your WordPress theme project with just your notebook, a text editor, a compiler/interpreter environment and good connection to the Internet. However, as your project grows (in terms of code size, participant and reviewers), you will quickly realize that using email to communicate changes, observations, possible bugs is very inefficient and time [...]
Creating a WordPress theme
This is a work in progress. The post is not complete–just in case you landed on this page (which I doubt because I’m inside the Google sandbox), just in case, I wrote this post, and made it sticky too, because it’s a note for myself. This post constitutes a list of things I will tackle [...]