Theme Creation Of Wordpress.
- First of all we have to identify the basic thing like header,footer,sidebar,main content area.
- Here we demonstrate how wordpress theme look.
Here We Have To Create a Several Files.
- Header.php - File Contain The Header Section Of Our Theme.
- Index.php - This The Main File Of Our Theme.In This Other Files Included.
- Sidebar.php - This file will contain the Sidebar Of Our Theme.
- Footer.php - This File Contain The Footer Of Our Theme.
- Style.css - This file will handle the styling of your new theme;
Here We are Going Create Our First File Header File
- To Create a Header File Open Your favorite Text Editor Like Notepad.
- Save File as header.php
<html>
<head>
<title>Tutorial theme</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?>">
</head>
<body>
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="header">
<h1>HEADER</h1>//Heading Of Our Blog.
</div>
</div>
</html>Save File as Header.php.
- Now We Are Going To Create Index.php File.
- Add Following Code To Index.php File.
<?php get_header(); ?>//It Include The Header File
<div id="main">
<div id="content">
<h1>Main Area</h1>
<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<h1><?php the_title(); ?></h1>
<h4>Posted on <?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?></h4>
<p><?php the_content(__('(more...)')); ?></p>
<hr> <?php endwhile; else: ?>
<p><?php _e('Sorry, no posts Has Been Found.'); ?></p><?php endif; ?>
</div>
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>//Get sidebar
</div>
<div id="delimiter">
</div> <?php get_footer(); ?>//Get Footer
Save This File as index.php
- Now We Are Going To Create sidebar.php File.
- Add Following Code To sidebar.php File.
<div id="sidebar">
<h2 ><?php _e('Categories'); ?></h2>
<ul >
<?php wp_list_cats('sort_column=name&optioncount=1&hierarchical=0'); ?>
</ul>
<h2 ><?php _e('Archives'); ?></h2>
<ul >
<?php wp_get_archives('type=monthly'); ?>
</ul>
</div>
Save This File As sidebar.php
- Now We Are Going To Create footer.php File.
- Add Following Code To footer.php File.
<html>
<div id="footer">
<h1>FOOTER</h1>
</div>
</html>
Save This File As footer.php
- Now We Are Going To Create Style.css File.
- Add Following Code To style.css File.
body { text-align: center; }
#wrapper { display: block; border: 1px #a2a2a2 solid; width:90%; margin:0px auto; }
#header { border: 2px #a2a2a2 solid; }
#content { width: 75%; border: 2px #a2a2a2 solid; float: left; }
#sidebar { width: 23%; border: 2px #a2a2a2 solid; float: right; }
#delimiter { clear: both; }
#footer { border: 2px #a2a2a2 solid; }
.title { font-size: 11pt; font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; }
- At This Stage Our Simple Wordpress File Has Been Created.
- We Are Going to Test It.
- To Test It Copy The Folder Where Our All Files(index.php,header.php etc) Are stored.
- And Paste This Folder web directory where Your Wordpress Project Is Located
- C:\xampp\htdocs\wordpress\wp-content\themes
- Paste Your Theme Here.
- After Login Click On Appearance->themes
- Find Your Theme Here And Click On Active..................
Have Fun With Wordpress..........................................