Rockstar Wordpress Designer
In recent years WordPress has taken off as a platform for not just blogging but all sorts of site management. How to Be a Rockstar WordPress Designer by Collis Ta’eed & Harley Alexander covers everything a web designer needs to bend WordPress to their needs through theming, plugins, codehacks and ingenuity.
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Table of Contents
1. Getting Familiar with WordPress
1-1. Introduction
1-2. Getting a WordPress Install
1-3. Main Concepts
1-4. HTML, CSS & basic PHP
1-5. The WordPress Codex
1-6. Preparing WordPress for Use Checklist
1-7. Further Resources for Getting Started with WordPress
2. Blog Design
2-1. How Blog Design is Evolving
2-2. Usability
2-3. Making Room for Advertising
2-4. Converting Visitors to Readers
2-5. Creating Community
2-6. Tips for Theme Design
3. Meet Creatif
3-1. Our Example Set of Designs
3-2. The Creatif Design Tutorial – Layout in Photoshop
3-3. The Creatif HTML Tutorial – From PSD to HTML
3-4. Further Resources on Photoshop and HTML
4. Introduction to Themes
4-1. Finding and Installing Themes
4-2. How a Theme Works
4-3. Template Tags
4-4. The Loop
4-5. Files and What They Do
4-6. The Default WordPress Theme
4-7. Further Resources on WordPress Theming Basics
5. Building a Basic Theme - Creatif Blog
5-1. Installation, testing, and activation of a theme
5-2. Absolute URLs
5-3. Bringing your HTML into WordPress
5-4. Changing
5-5. Image URLs
5-6. Dynamic Navigation and Adding Pages.
5-7. Creating a Featured Post with WP_Query
5-8. Showing the Rest of the Posts
5-9. Building the Sidebar
5-10. Widgetizing the Sidebar
5-11. The Footer
5-12. Breaking up Index.php
5-13. Creating the Single Post and Single Page
5-14. Adding Comments
5-15. Customizing a Search Results Page
5-16. The Archives
5-17. Adding a Custom 404 Page
5-18. Wrap Up of Creatif Blog
6. Tools for Advanced Theming
6-1. More on Conditionals
6-2. Custom Fields
6-3. Plugins
6-4. Page Templates
7. Building an Advanced Theme – Creatif Portfolio
7-1. Making a Plan
7-2. Post structure
7-3. Building off the Blog Theme
7-4. Using Custom Fields
7-5. Sidebar
7-6. Adding a Blog
7-7. Variations on the Portfolio Theme
8. Building a Non-Blog Theme – Creatif Site
8-1. Making a Plan
8-2. Building the Theme
8-3. Adding Page Hierarchies
8-4. Variations on the Site Theme
8-5. Plugins to make CMS Life better …
9. Innovative Ways to Use WordPress
9-1. WordPress as a Membership Directory
9-2. WordPress as an E-Commerce Store
9-3. WordPress as a Premium Membership Site
9-4. WordPress as a Social Media Aggregator Site
9-5. WordPress as a Musician/Band Website
9-6. WordPress as a Design Gallery
9-7. WordPress as a Podcasting Site
9-8. WordPress as a Resource Directory
9-9. WordPress as a Social Network
9-10. WordPress as a Job Board
9-11. WordPress as a Community News Site
9-12. WordPress as a Video Portal
9-13. WordPress as a Daily Image Site
9-14. WordPress as a Specialized Data Organiser
9-15. WordPress as a Twitter Clone
9-16. WordPress as a Real Estate Site
9-17. Even More Ideas for Using WordPress