12. Advanced Theme Development
In This Chapter
Anatomy of a WordPress Theme 174
Building a Theme from Scratch 176
Working with Template Files 186
Working with Template Tags 188
In this chapter, you’ll learn to design and build a simple theme from scratch. Theme building in WordPress requires a strong knowledge of Web design, HTML/XHTML, CSS, and PHP. Novice users need not apply! For designers and developers, however, building your own theme offers unparalleled flexibility and power, especially when compared to using or modifying a prebuilt theme.
Anatomy of a WordPress Theme
Your theme may appear as one cohesive whole, but many different pieces go into each page of a site .
The front page of this ...
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