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October 31, 2012#
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Well this has been quite the journey. Originally I expected to be working from the new office by mid October. Between being assigned different people for install, delays, scheduling, several different concrete bids etc, we’re not there yet…

As of a few weekends ago, however there is a nice new foundation sitting in the corner of the yard – so I can now look out there in the mornings and see where the office WILL be. Justin and I started digging a trench this weekend that will hold the electrical conduit. We’re probably about half way done with the digging.

After some material sourcing issues, Studio Shed says that the installer should be here on Friday (bright and early) to start putting this thing together. I can’t wait to see it all unfold.

October 23, 2012#

Jumping into themes

http://codex.wordpress.org/Stepping_Into_Templates

Template files are the building blocks of your WordPress site.

At the very minimum, a WordPress Theme consists of two files:
style.css
index.php

The index.php template file is very flexible. It can be used to include all references to the header, sidebar, footer, content, categories, archives, search, error, and any other page created in WordPress.

Most basic structure

HEADER
CONTENT

FOOTER

footer.php
header.php
sidebar.php

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<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
 
<?php get_footer(); ?>

More typical / More Complex Structure

HEADER
CONTENT
SIDEBAR
FOOTER

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<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development
http://codex.wordpress.org/Templates

THE Loop

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<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
	<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>    
	<!-- do stuff ... -->
	<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php endif; ?>

http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop
http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop_in_Action
http://wp.tutsplus.com/tutorials/theme-development/a-beginners-guide-to-the-wordpress-loop/

LET’S CREATE A THEME…

http://www.siteground.com/tutorials/wordpress/wordpress_create_theme.htm

THEME STYLESHEET

http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development

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/*
Theme Name: Twenty Ten
Theme URI: http://wordpress.org/
Description: The 2010 default theme for WordPress.
Author: wordpressdotorg
Author URI: http://wordpress.org/
Version: 1.0
Tags: black, blue, white, two-columns, fixed-width, custom-header, custom-background, threaded-comments, sticky-post, translation-ready, microformats, rtl-language-support, editor-style, custom-menu (optional)
 
License:
License URI:
 
General comments (optional).
*/

wordpress generated classes
http://codex.wordpress.org/CSS

http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy

Custom Page Templates

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<?php
/*
Template Name: Snarfer
*/
?>

FUNCTIONS

http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development#Functions_File

Adding Featured Image support

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add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails' );

http://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Thumbnails

October 9, 2012#

WOW!

October 6, 2012#

Playing Hookie

Yesterday was a short day at work – sometimes you just need to get your head right. There’s no better way to accomplish that than on the seat of a bike.