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Part 2: Setting up Self-hosted WordPress
Before we get started, there are a few things you’ll need; Internet Hosting A Domain If you don’t have hosting Site5 are currently offering a 30 day free trial with many of their hosting plans. All you...
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Part 2: Grasping Theme Anatomy
But have no fear! When you break down a theme into it’s basic parts, it’s much easier to understand what is going on and where to make your own customizations. This is a high-level review. Each of the...
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Part 8: Creating an Easy, All-in-One Archive Page for Your Theme
If you aren’t sure what an archive page actually is, consider this: any time you’re look at posts by category, date, tag, or author, you’re looking at an archive page. To understand where an archive...
View ArticleCouch to WP Pro Beginner Series Wrap-up
I had a great time putting it together and I hope you have all enjoyed it. Let’s do a review of what we’ve gone through, and what’s to come. What We’ve Covered Part 1: Setting up Self Hosted WordPress...
View ArticleIntroducing the Couch to WP Pro Intermediate Series: Extend Your Knowledge
The intermediate series picks up where the beginner series left off, we’ll be using the theme we built earlier, and will learn tweaks and customizations that we can perform, so that you can build it...
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Part 1: Customizing the User Login Experience in WordPress
You may not think that this is a theme development topic, but for me it’s one of the easiest ways to quickly – and memorably – brand your custom themes. So in this installation of our theme development...
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Part 2: Creating a Responsive Custom Homepage with a Carousel Slider
In this tutorial we’re going to create our theme’s custom homepage, it’s going to have a slider and some more content below that. To pull it off we’re going to learn some new functions, get our heads...
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Part 3: Creating a Customized Author Profile
Recommended Reading This tutorial is relatively easy, if you managed to get through the previous part, Building a Custom Homepage, then you wont have any problems with this. If you’re just joining us...
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Part 4: Creating More Useful Author and Category Archive Pages
Recommended Reading In the beginner series we built an all in one archive page for our theme that handles all four archive types, Category, Author, Date, and Tag. To pull it off, we used some of...
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Part 5: Creating a Breadcrumb Trail Navigation Element in WordPress
Common breadcrumb systems include location and category. Location breadcrumbs show where the reader is in the hierarchy of your content. Category breadcrumbs show the context of the content. For...
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