WordPress Notes.md

How to press a site

How to create wordpress custom themes

• installing wordpress
• install xampp
• download wordpress
• create empty database
• install wordpress in browser
• installing blank theme
  • sitename/wp_content/themes
  • drop theme in folder
  • install theme
  • wordpress-> appearance->themes -> selects theme and install it
• Create html and css for theme
• Config settings for wordpress permer links
• Add HTML and CSS to CMS

Othe WordPress notes

Lynda.com Tutorials

• Video 0309 - Query Post - Return data on the post, date, title, excerpt.
• Video 0308 - Wordpress nav - Contains all pages on wordpress site with option to add these pages to navigator change order or add custom external links

Wordpress Search - Built in ability to search post

Adding feature image to word press post

	add add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails' ); to functions.php

This code will enable featured image support for all your post in the admin panel.

Set the size of the thumbnail for the post page

	set_post_thumbnail_size( 150, 150);

add code to functions.php

Set the size of the image on the single featured page

	add_image_size( 'single-post-thumbnail', 590, 180 );

add code to functions.php

Add image to single

	<?php the_post_thumbnail( 'single-post-thumbnail' ); ?>

Add image to post

	<?php the_post_thumbnail(); ?>

Other good wordpress links

• http://code.tutsplus.com/categories/wordpress

• http://www.wpbeginner.com/

• https://codex.wordpress.org/

    <!-- Set the number of post per page -->
    <?php $args = array('post_status' => 'publish', 'posts_per_page' => 3); ?>
    <?php $the_query = new WP_Query($args); ?>
  

Blank WordPress Themes

• https://github.com/bassjobsen/jamedo-bootstrap-start-theme
• http://320press.com/wpbs/

Wordpress page and folder structure

http://www.slideshare.net/markparolisi/wordpress-structure-and-best-practices