intro to wordpress theme development
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THEME DEVELOPMENTan introduction to the basics of theming with WordPress
About me
• Name: Thad Allender
• Web: ThadAllender.com & GraphPaperPress.com
• Twitter: @thadallender
• Email: thadallender@gmail.com
Poll
•Blogger?
•Designer?
•Developer?
Anatomy of a WordPress theme
• WordPress Themes are files that work together to create the design and functionality of a WordPress site
• http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development
Anatomy of a WordPress theme
• Themes live in /wp-content/themes/
• Themes include stylesheets, template & functions files, images, javascripts
Anatomy of a WordPress theme• style.css – The main stylesheet. This must be included with your theme.
• index.php – The main template. If your theme provides its own templates, index.php must be present.
• comments.php – The comments template. If not present, wp-comments.php is used.
• single.php – The single post template. Used when a single post is queried. For this and all other query templates, index.php is used if the query template is not present.
• page.php – The page template. Used when a page is queried.
• category.php – The category template. Used when a category is queried.
• author.php – The author template. Used when an author is queried.
• date.php – The date/time template. Used when a date or time is queried. Year, month, day, hour, minute, second.
• archive.php – The archive template. Used when a category, author, or date is queried. Note that this template will be overridden by category.php, author.php, and date.php for their respective query types.
• search.php – The search template. Used when a search is performed.
• 404.php – The 404 Not Found template. Used when WordPress cannot find a post that matches the query.
style.css/*
Theme Name: Twenty Ten
Theme URI: http://wordpress.org/
Description: The theme description.
Author: the WordPress team
Version: 1.3-alpha
Tags: black, two-columns, fixed-width, custom-header
*/
index.php<?php get_header(); ?>
<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
! <h1><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h1>
! <?php the_content(); ?>
<?php endwhile; else: ?>
! <p><?php _e('Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.'); ?></p>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>
Page Structure
• Made up of three basic building blocks: a header, the content, and a footer. Sidebars add additional functionality.
header.php
• Called with: get_header()
• Includes everything that comes before and including the <body>, meta info, scripts, styles, wp_head, site name, navigation.
index.php
• Typically displays content from the loop (title, content, etc.)
• Calls get_header(), get_sidebar(), get_footer
footer.php
• Called with: get_footer()
• Can include credits, copyright info, wp_footer hook.
sidebar.php
• Called with get_sidebar()
• Adds contextual site info. Typically includes widgets.
Template Hierarchy
• The order in which WordPress template files are chosen
• http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy
Template Hierarchy
Home Page Display
1.home.php
2.index.php
Single Post Display
1.single-{post_type}.php - If the post_type were videos, WordPress would look for single-videos.php.
2.single.php
3.index.php
Page Display1.custom template - Where custom template is the Page Template
assigned to the Page.
2.page-{slug}.php - If the page slug is recent-news, WordPress will look to use page-recent-news.php
3.page-{id}.php - If the page ID is 6, WordPress will look to use page-6.php
4.page.php
5.index.php
Category Display
1.category-{slug}.php - If the category's slug were news, WordPress would look for category-news.php
2.category-{id}.php - If the category's ID were 6, WordPress would look for category-6.php
3.category.php
4.archive.php
5.index.php
Tag Display
1.tag-{slug}.php - If the tag's slug were sometag, WordPress would look for tag-sometag.php
2.tag-{id}.php - If the tag's ID were 6, WordPress would look for tag-6.php
3.tag.php
4.archive.php
5.index.php
Custom Post Type Display
1.'has_archive' => true
2.archive-{$post_type}.php
3.archive.php
4.index.php
Author Display
1.author-{nicename}.php - If the author's nice name were rami, WordPress would look for author-rami.php.
2.author-{id}.php - If the author's ID were 6, WordPress would look for author-6.php.
3.author.php
4.archive.php
5.index.php
Date Display
1.date.php
2.archive.php
3.index.php
Search Display
1.search.php
2.index.php
404 (Not Found) Display
1.404.php
2.index.php
Attachment Display
1.MIME_type.php - it can be any MIME type (image.php, video.php, audio.php, application.php or any other).
2.attachment.php
3.single.php
4.index.php
Development Environment
Development Environment
• Mamp (Mac) or Wamp (PC)
• For running WordPress locally (Apache, PHP, MySQL)
• http://www.mamp.info/en/index.html
• http://www.wampserver.com/en/
• http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress_Locally_on_Your_Mac_With_MAMP
Version Control
• Simplifies collaborative development, comparing, releasing
• SVN - http://subversion.tigris.org/
• GIT - http://git-scm.com/
The Loop
• Displays each of your posts
• http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop
The Loop
<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
....add template tags here....
<?php endwhile; else: ?>
<p><?php _e('Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.'); ?></p>
<?php endif; ?>
Query Posts
• query_posts(‘cat=1&showposts=5’)
• http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/query_posts
query_posts()• Use it to control which posts show up in The Loop.
• Display only a single post on your homepage (a single Page can be done via Settings -> Reading).
• Show all posts from a particular time period.
• Show the latest post (only) on the front page.
• Change how posts are ordered.
• Show posts from only one category.
• Exclude one or more categories.
query_posts()<?php
query_posts('posts_per_page=5');
if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();
..
endwhile; else:
..
endif;
wp_reset_query();
?>
query_posts()
The query_posts function is intended to be used to modify the main page Loop only. It is not intended as a means to create secondary Loops on the page. If you want to create separate Loops outside of the main one, you should use get_posts() instead.
Get Posts
• get_posts(‘cat=1&numberposts=3’)
• http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/get_posts
get_posts()<ul>
<?php
global $post;
$myposts = get_posts('posts_per_page=5&offset=1&category=1');
foreach($myposts as $post) :
setup_postdata($post);
?>
<li><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</ul>
Template Tags
• Used to display dynamic information about your site
• http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags
Include Tags
• get_header()
• http://codex.wordpress.org/Include_Tags
Template include tags are used within one template file (for example index.php) to execute the HTML and PHP found in another template file (for example header.php).
Include Tags• get_header() - includes header.php or header-{name}.php
• get_footer() - includes footer.php or footer-{name}.php
• get_sidebar() - includes sidebar.php or sidebar-{name}.php
• get_template_part() - includes {slug}.php or {slug}-{name}.php
• get_search_form() - includes searchform.php
• comments_template() - includes comments.php or wp-includes/theme-compat/comments.php
Body Class
• body_class()
• http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/body_class
body_class()
• <body <?php body_class(); ?>
• <body class="archive category category-daily-photo">
Helps theme authors style more effectively with CSS by applying different classes to the
body element
Post Class
• post_class()
• http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/post_class
post_class()
<article id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" <?php post_class(); ?>>
<article id="post-1167" class="post-1167 post type-post hentry category-daily-photo tag-dc tag-georgetown tag-washington">
Get Template Part
• get_template_part()
• http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_template_part
get_template_part()• get_template_part( 'loop', 'index' );
• Looks for a file named ‘loop-index.php’ in the current theme
• If not found, looks for ‘loop.php’
• If this is a child theme, and neither of those templates exist, looks in the parent theme.
• Each of the major templates (‘archive.php’, ‘author.php’, ‘category.php’, etc) makes a call similar to this, looking for a loop template specific to the appropriate view.
Post Formats
• has_post_format()
• http://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Formats
Post Formats
while ( the_loop() ):
if ( has_post_format( 'gallery' ) ) :
// big block of HTML to format a gallery post
elseif ( has_post_format( 'video' ) ) :
// big block of similar HTML to format a video post
elseif ( has_post_format( 'image' ) ) :
// big block of similar HTML to format an image post
elseif ( has_post_format( 'aside' ) ) :
// big block of similar HTML to format an aside
else :
// big block of similar HTML to format other posts
endif;
endwhile;
get_template_part() and get_post_format()
while ( the_loop() ):
get_template_part( 'format', get_post_format() );
endwhile;
get_template_part() and get_post_format()
If the current post has post format ‘Link’, then we look for a file named ‘format-link.php’. If the current post has format ‘Aside’, we look for ‘format-aside.php’, if it’s a Quote, ‘format-quote.php’, regular posts look for ‘format-standard.php’, and failing all else, we use plain old ‘format.php’.
Enqueue Javascripts
• wp_enqueue_script()
• http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_enqueue_script
wp_enqueue_script()<?php
function my_init_method() {
wp_deregister_script( 'jquery' );
wp_register_script( 'jquery', 'http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4/jquery.min.js');
wp_enqueue_script( 'jquery' );
}
add_action('init', 'my_init_method');
?>
add_theme_support()
• http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_theme_support
Conditional Tags
• http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags
Used in Template files to change what content is displayed and how that content is displayed on a particular page depending on what conditions that page matches
Conditional Tags
if (is_home) {
echo ‘This is home!’;
} else {
echo ‘No home!’;
}
Confused? Comment your code
• <!-- END #container -->
• // PHP comment goes here
Child Themes
• Inherits the functionality of another theme, called the parent theme, and allows you to modify, or add to, the functionality of that parent theme
• http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes
Child themes: style.css/*
Theme Name: TwentyTen Child
Template: twentyten
Version: 1.0
Author: Thad Allender
*/
@import url("../twentyten/style.css");
Child themes: functions.php
The functions.php of a child theme does not override its counterpart from the parent. Instead, it is loaded in addition to the parent’s functions.php. (Specifically, it is loaded right before the parent’s file.)
Child Themes: Including files
TEMPLATEPATH - returns the path to the template files of a theme
STYLESHEETPATH - returns the path to the template files of the child theme
require_once( STYLESHEETPATH . '/path/to/file/in/child/theme.php' );
Child themes: File Overrides
•All other template files override their namesakes from the parent.
•Example: twentyten-child/single.php overrides twentyten/single.php
•This holds true to all templates in the WordPress hierarchy and new templates introduced using get_template_part()
Child Themes: ApproachesBecause a child theme’s functions.php is loaded first, you can make the user functions of your theme pluggable—that is, replaceable by a child theme—by declaring them conditionally in the parent.
if (!function_exists('my_index_loop')) {
function my_index_loop() {
// Do something.
}
}
In that way, a child theme can replace a PHP function of the parent by simply declaring it again.
Child Themes: Hooks
Enables you to add, remove or change code in supporting parent themes
http://themeshaper.com/action-hooks-wordpress-child-themes/
Theme Testing
Theme Testing Tools
• wp-config.php: define('WP_DEBUG', true);
• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/theme-check/
• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/log-deprecated-notices/
• http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development#Theme_Testing_Process
• Unit test your theme:http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Unit_Test
Questions?
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