Welcome to WP Theme Tutorial, it’s all about WordPress and how to get things done in WordPress using current best practices. WP Theme Tutorial has been born out of my dislike for many of the other tutorial sites for WordPress that are out there. 95% of the tutorials I find assume that you know most of the subject matter already. When I moved from primarily being a designer that hacked up a bit of HTML and CSS to someone that really only sees Photoshop while slicing up a WordPress theme I often found that even the ‘basic’ tutorial was above my head. Looking back the author could have provided a bit of background first and it would have made things much clearer.
There will be some ‘quick’ tips and functions as well but I’ll be heavily favouring deeper articles with lots explanation.
###Not just WordPress Themes
The url of the site is a little misleading, it was the best one I could find available a few months ago when the full idea was hatched. We’re not simply going to cover WordPress themes, we’re going to cover how to get things done in WordPress, BuddyPress, bbPress, and WordPress Multi-site. That may mean we work in a plugin or we work in a theme, or we use plugins built by others it just depends on what is most appropriate for that situation.
Here are some topics that are currently on the list
- Custom Post Types and Taxonomies
- User Capabilities and Roles
- including files in WordPress
- Submitting your Theme to the WordPress Theme Review
- lots of other stuff
If you’ve got things you’d like covered please hit the contact form and let me know.
###How Often?
I’ll only be posting once a week at first. The plan is to go in deep and cover topics well. If you’ve never worked with Capabilities and Roles before then by the end of the tutorial you’ll know pretty much everything possible and just need to spend some time actually doing it to gain working knowledge. These aren’t going to be little blog posts, lots of reading and writing will be done and it takes time to do them properly so I’ll only be going for 1 post per week.