Now a days, making a website is a child’s play for many of developers and designer but actually they don’t even know to how a make a simple WordPress theme. Now a days, they just copy, paste the code snippet to make website which actually have a lot of security and validation issues.
Making a theme for WordPress is easier than ever these days but if you plan to be the creator of a good theme, a perfect WordPress theme, you need to train yourself very hard. In this couple of article series, I am going to go through the many aspects of creating a theme which will arguably the best theme you’ve ever created.
In the first post in this series, I like to talk about what I am going to be covering over the next few articles.
How to create perfect WordPress Theme?
Basic of WordPress
How to code for your best WordPress Theme?
How to avoid bad practice while coding?
Maintenance, Compatibility and Support
How to put all things together?
What is important in WordPress theme?
Design – Hmm… Code – OK
In my view, both but flexibility of design and code makes a theme best. First you need to make a design which will be good in all aspect of the resolution and condition which will come in future without ringing a bell. After designing code your theme in perfect object oriented and make both of them flexible for.
For this you need to stay updated for future updates or release of any framework and devices; make the changes accordingly before anyone notice it.
What is important to learn?
We have so much things to learn in WordPress but we need to go through some of the WordPress API first, not all of them this time but Option API, Setting API and of-course Theme Customization API.
Next we need to learn, how to write a better code. WordPress coding structure are important. Proper commenting is also important for every bit of the code. Validation and security is very crucial.
We need to take care of all bad practice we made at every step while designing, coding and debugging. We have so much things to complete it so Stay tuned for more..
In the next set of articles, I’ll discuss the Basic structure, APIs, localization, licensing and more.. Please don’t hesitate to comment on this post with your suggestions.
Making a theme for WordPress is easier than ever these days but if you plan to be the creator of a good theme, a perfect WordPress theme, you need to train yourself very hard. In this couple of article series, I am going to go through the many aspects of creating a theme which will arguably the best theme you’ve ever created.
In the first post in this series, I like to talk about what I am going to be covering over the next few articles.
How to create perfect WordPress Theme?
Basic of WordPress
How to code for your best WordPress Theme?
How to avoid bad practice while coding?
Maintenance, Compatibility and Support
How to put all things together?
What is important in WordPress theme?
Design – Hmm… Code – OK
In my view, both but flexibility of design and code makes a theme best. First you need to make a design which will be good in all aspect of the resolution and condition which will come in future without ringing a bell. After designing code your theme in perfect object oriented and make both of them flexible for.
For this you need to stay updated for future updates or release of any framework and devices; make the changes accordingly before anyone notice it.
What is important to learn?
We have so much things to learn in WordPress but we need to go through some of the WordPress API first, not all of them this time but Option API, Setting API and of-course Theme Customization API.
Next we need to learn, how to write a better code. WordPress coding structure are important. Proper commenting is also important for every bit of the code. Validation and security is very crucial.
We need to take care of all bad practice we made at every step while designing, coding and debugging. We have so much things to complete it so Stay tuned for more..
In the next set of articles, I’ll discuss the Basic structure, APIs, localization, licensing and more.. Please don’t hesitate to comment on this post with your suggestions.
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