Here I finish my WordPress Theme Tutorial by showing you how to create the archive and 404 pages.
I also show you how to issue custom queries and how to use a bunch of other WordPress functions in this tutorial.
All of the code for this whole theme is here Create a WordPress Theme. You can also download the finished theme there for free. And, if you missed part 1 of this series check out How to Layout a Website.
Here I show you how to make single.php, page.php and search.php. All of the code and theme is available here Create a WordPress Theme 1. You should definitely check out that video before you watch this one.
As well, I show you how to retrieve post data like post authors, dates, categories, comments and articles.
We are almost done with the theme!
In this part of my WordPress Theme Tutorial I fix all of the CSS for the main blog page. I layout the sidebars and fix up any errors that may have come out while making this theme.
All of the code from this tutorial is available in part 1 of this tutorial here Create a WordPress Theme. You can use the code however you’d like.
Feel free to also download the theme. It is free to use as well.
Here I continue showing you how to create a WordPress theme from scratch. Definitely watch part 1 of this tutorial as well as How to Layout a Website before watching this video.
I focus on how to make dynamic sidebars in this tutorial. You’ll learn how to make static sidebars as well as sidebars that work with widgets but also have embedded functionality.
If you want to download the theme it’s here WordPress Theme 3.
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.
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