Welcome to part 8 of my tutorial on how to make wordpress 3.0 themes.
In this part of the tutorial I’ll focus on fixing all of the remaining pages in my theme. I’ll also show you how to embed your Twitter Tweets in your theme since that has been a major request.
Here is a link to a zipped archive of the WordPress Theme.
Continue reading WordPress Theme Tutorial Pt 8
I continue fixing up the wp_nav_menu and the rest of my style.css code from my previous tutorial Creating a WordPress Theme.
I’ve received numerous requests to walk you all through the process of creating custom menus using WordPress 3.0’s wp_nav_menu. So, here I’ll describe everything you need to know. It is actually very easy to create a horizontal wp nav menu.
I’m going to ignore some of the options for the wp_nav_menu on purpose just so that you are not confused. If you want you can simply copy a paste the code below and everything will work in fact.
Here I’ll show you what goes into Creating a WordPress Theme.
I previously showed you the HTML of a WordPress Theme and the CSS of a WordPress Theme. Now you’ll learn how to turn that website into a real working theme.
Here is a link to a zipped version of this sample theme. It is about 95% complete. You can use it in anyway you’d like, but I guarantee nothing.
In my previous WordPress Theme Tutorial I showed you all the HTML that goes into a WordPress Theme.
In this part of the video tutorial I’ll show you all of the CSS code that you need to style the theme. If you don’t understand CSS check out this CSS Layout Tutorial. You can also learn more about the menu used here CSS Layouts and Menu Tutorial.
All of the code I use is also available either for download and it also follows the video below. Here is the code:
In this part of the WordPress Theme Tutorial I show you all of the HTML that is needed to create a WordPress Theme.
When you create a WordPress Theme you basically create a template made up from HTML, CSS and JavaScript and then pull in all of your content using PHP code. You also need a MySQL database of course.
If you don’t know anything about the above subjects you can click the link that applies to learn more about them.
I haven’t written much about my iPad since I created my original review of the iPad. While there are many great apps available I wanted to point out one that needs to get more attention and that’s Blogsy.
If you run a blog the most irritating thing you have to do is grab content from multiple different sources. Blogsy eliminates all of that irritation and allows you to just access everything inside one nice little app.
I sign up for a countless number of email newsletters. I do this so that I can see the few fabulous newsletters.
Previously I showed you how to Create Email Newsletters in a nice video tutorial. I then went on to show you Email Newsletter Marketing Examples that you could use as a template to make yours.
Since I haven’t done this for a while I decided to show you the best newsletters I’ve received so far this year.
After I created the video tutorial Install WordPress on a Localhost I started receiving a ton of emails from people using Macs.
In this article I’ll show you exactly how to Install WordPress on Mac. You need to follow the instructions I covered in this tutorial Install WordPress.
Then you will need to do the following:
I continue showing you how to create WordPress Themes. I’ll show you the numerous ways you can access the information stored in the WordPress database.
If you missed the previous tutorials check out WordPress Theme Tutorial.
I’m not approaching this topic in the normal way. I’m presenting a bottom up complete coverage on exactly how WordPress Themes work and not a quick fix.
In part 2 of my WordPress Video Tutorial I continue to teach you all that you need to know to create custom WordPress themes. If you haven’t seen part one check it out WordPress Theme Tutorial Part 1.
Here I teach you how to grab very specific information from your WordPress database. You’ll then be able to better organize everything on your site to create featured content slide shows and numerous other tools.
Being that I write sales scripts for numerous corporations, I thought I’d teach you how to spot a potential scam. I specifically will focus on two groups in this article being Gold and Real Estate Investing.
I’ve recently contacted both by phone to analyze what sales techniques they are using and they are both using sales techniques that are normally used by scam artists.
Any time a sales person tries to sell you through emotions rather than facts you know you’re probably being scammed. These are the techniques used to sell using emotions!
In this tutorial I’ll show you how a WordPress theme comes together.
I’ll walk you step by step through the html, css and WordPress PHP functions and how they work. I will use the default theme in WordPress to start out, but then will create more complicated themes as the tutorial continues.
Here are some tutorials you may need to understand this tutorial: HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript.
In this video tutorial I investigate how to fool people into believing you are psychic.
I started on this journey as a Psychic Detective back in college. I’ll show you how to fool someone into believing you have a psychic friend. It’s a great trick you can use to entertain people in clubs.
I’ll then show you how real psychics fool people into believing they can:
In a previous tutorial I showed you how to spot bluffs and tells in Poker. It is available here Spot Poker Bluffs.
Because of the great demand for additional video tutorials on Psychology and Body Language, I decided to turn it into a video tutorial.
I’m creating a massive WordPress Theme and Plugin Tutorial, so I will first show you how to install WordPress on a Localhost for development purposes.
If you’re on a PC, you’ll probably want to get the Microsoft Web Platform Installer or Wamp Server. I prefer to install Apache, MySQL and PHP outside of a package system, but I leave that to you.
If you’re on a Mac or UNIX type system the following steps will work easily for you.
In this tutorial I finish the PHP Forum. If you missed the first part it is here PHP Forum Part 1.
This forum isn’t just built in PHP however. It also uses MySQL, JavaScript and JQuery. Watching this tutorial is a great way to see if you understand how to program more complicated sites.