Launch yourself headfirst into WordPress theme development. Get the first theme up and running quickly using one of the world's most popular WordPress frameworks - Thematic. Learn to develop custom widgets, color variants, page templates, and theme option pages.

Written for developers, The WordPress Anthology will take you beyond the basics to give you a thorough overview of the WordPress universe. With a cookbook-style approach, you can pick and choose what you need from each chapter to suit your projects. Gain a comprehensive overview of installing, customizing and getting the most out of the web's most versatile content management system Dive into the inner mechanics of WordPress and make the code work the way you want Explore the world of plugins, themes and APIs to add extra functionality Adopt Multisite capabilities to host and manage your own centralized network of WordPress websites Learn how to launch your application on a global scale with localization techniques and marketing tips

Walk through the steps you need to build your very own WordPress theme!Included with the book is a WordPress theme and other necessary files, so roll up your sleeves and let Joe take you through the process explaining what you need to do - and why you're doing it - every step of the way.Hi, I'm Joe, the author of Building WordPress Themes From Scratch, and what started out as a simple, open source blogging platform has now become a super-powerful content management system (CMS) that can boast that it's the most widely-used CMS on the Internet.From the moment I first started using WordPress about eight years ago, I fell in love with it straight away and immediately started hacking away at it, learning the platform, making my own changes, and watching it grow over the years.In this book, I plan to teach you how to use WordPress, as well as how to leverage the API to create your own custom themes, plugins, and content types. In other words, I will show you how to make WordPress your own.I'd like to say that this book is for anyone interested in WordPress, regardless of background. However, to keep it streamlined, I do assume that you have a solid understanding of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP and MySQL.I will be look­ing at converting HTML to a WordPress theme, building plugins, and more, all from scratch.So, if you'd like to learn how to do all of this, then this book will be right up your alley!Packaged with this book, you will find:1) A fully functioning WordPress theme called 'Director'. 2) A set of PSD files for the Homepage, Directory Page, Blog, and Single Business Page. 3) A set of HTML files created from the PSDs. They will be used to create the 'Director' WordPress theme.4) On top of the four pages created from the PSDs, the HTML folder also includes a /css/ folder for four CSS files: style.css, reset.css, master.css, and ie.css. APlus, al images used in the HTML template are also included.WHAT THIS BOOK COVERS:This book reads much like a long, multi-part tutorial, where I take you through my design process, explaining what I do (and why I do it) every step of the way.Although it's a fairly linear guide, my hope is that you can visit any main section of the book for quick reference. So, here's what I'll be doing:1. Converting HTML/CSS to a Dynamic WordPress ThemeIncluded with the book is a PSD that I've transformed into HTML. The first part of this book will be taking the resulting HTML/CSS and converting it to a WordPress theme. Along the way, I'll talk about the various theme pages we're working with, the WordPress theme hierarchy, and of course, the WordPress Loop.2. Creating a Custom Post TypeThis, in my humble opinion, is one of the best additions to WordPress in recent releases. With the ability to make your own content types - each with its own theme template - you can take WordPress from being a CMS only limited to blog posts and pages, to a CMS that can manage any kind of content you can imagine. In this book, we'll be creating a business listing type, which will allow us to create a business directory.3. Theme Options and WidgetsWith WordPress, you can make a theme your own by adding a 'theme options' page and custom widgets. In this section, we'll make it very easy for people who use our themes to add their own cus­tomizations without delving into the code or creating a child theme.4. Creating a PluginOne of the most powerful facets of WordPress is the fact that it's pluggable. We can add func­tionality to our installation of WordPress without changing the core WordPress files. There are vast directories of both free and premium plugins available that vastly expand the capabilities of WordPress. In this final section of this book, we will build our own plugin.

An unparalleled compendium of inspirational designs, photos, and web site looks As the world's most popular resource for web designers and developers, Smashing Magazine has a reputation for inspiring and informing and this new book upholds that stellar esteem. Unlike most other books available on the shelf that only provide thumbnail images, The Smashing Idea Book offers a lavish array of timeless and enduring graphic designs, photos, images, and web site designs... and then goes one step further to present you with practical guidance on how to apply this inspirational selection to your own designs. You'll benefit from the coverage on current trends as well as valuable advice on where to go online to discover your own sources of inspiration. Provides inspiration to web designers from a variety of sources, including existing web site designs, graphic designs, product design, photography, and more Encourages you to look to all areas of your life for inspiration and provides you with methods for finding more creativity beyond the book Offers helpful advice on how to use those visuals as inspiration and translate them into unique and memorable web site designs Examines what makes for good design, looks at a variety of web site design styles, and explores other avenues of inspiration including fashion, architecture, and interior design The Smashing Idea Book is a great idea if you're looking for design inspiration and motivation!

This book is a result of the 2013 CLAVIER Conference held in Modena in November 2013, and includes a selection of the papers presented on that occasion. As the title suggests, this volume encourages cross-generic and cross-disciplinary investigations, in order to advocate integrated approaches to the study of media discourse regarding both theoretical background and practical applications. Bringing together a wide range of case studies, the book fosters debate on a variety of aspects related to the representation of specialised discourse in and through the media, including, for example, voice and point of view, argumentative practices, knowledge construction, multimodality, the re-contextualization and re-conceptualization of knowledge, opinion formation and peer-to-peer communication, and popularization in and through traditional, digital and social media. Taken together, the contributions to this volume provide extensive exemplification of the type of research currently being conducted on these issues. The variety of the questions posed and the wide array of methods used here therefore represent a substantial contribution to sharpening existing knowledge and furthering the ongoing debate among scholars in the field.

This book will help you take your first steps in the WordPress theme development process, with 5 different projects centered around creating unique and responsive WordPress themes Key Features Learn the basics of WordPress theme development in a step by step manner Make your themes more dynamic by integrating components of Bootstrap and JQuery 5 carefully-selected projects to help you get beyond the theory and create highly marketable WordPress themes from scratch Book Description WordPress has emerged as a powerful, easy-to-use tool to design attractive, engaging websites. Themes play a big role in making WordPress as popular as it is today, and having an eye-catching, fully-functional theme could separate your website from the rest! This book will help you take your first steps in the WordPress theme development process, with 5 different projects centered around creating unique and responsive WordPress themes. Start with creating a simple WordPress theme using HTML5, CSS, and PHP. Then, you will move on to incorporate different APIs, widgets, and tools such as Bootstrap and jQuery to create more dynamic and highly-functional themes. Whether you want to create a photo gallery theme, a highly customizable e-commerce theme, or a theme designed to suit a particular business, this book will teach you everything you need to know. By the end of this highly interactive book, you will have the required mastery to develop WordPress themes from scratch. What you will learn Simple and advanced themes – covers basic syntax and files along with archives and search pages Photo Gallery – add simple animation and use the W3.CSS framework to design a photo gallery theme Wordstrap – incorporate Twitter Bootstrap into the theme and use the WP_NavWalker class E-commerce theme – build an e-commerce theme using the Foundation framework Who this book is for If you are a blogger or a WordPress user who wants to learn how to create attractive, eye-catching WordPress themes, this book is for you. A basic understanding of HTML5, CSS, PHP, and some creativity is all you need to get started with this book.