Chapter 3: Exploring the Anatomy of a Theme
In This Chapter
Examining the theme’s stylesheet
Exploring template tags
Making widget areas
Understanding the main template files
This chapter breaks down the parts that make up your WordPress theme. Understanding your theme allows you greater flexibility when you customize it. Many of the problems people encounter with themes, such as not knowing which files edit certain functions of a site, comes from lack of understanding all the pieces.
There are those who like to get their hands dirty (present company included!). If you’re one of them, you need to read this chapter. WordPress users who create their own themes do so in the interest of
Individuality: Having a theme that no one else has. (If you use one of the free themes, you can pretty much count on the fact that at least a dozen other WordPress blogs have the same look as yours.)
