At its base level, a content management system (CMS) manages your content. However, that merely realigns its name. A content management system will, as a minimum, perform several key tasks: Allow you to add, edit, and remove web pages from your website. Allow you to manage uploaded content for your site, be it pictures, audio…
WordPress is broken into two parts depending upon how you want to use it. They are commonly referred to as WordPress.Org or WordPress.Com. In reality, you will use the same software, it is just how you host and manage the software that changes. WordPress.Org WordPress.Org allows you to download WordPress to your local machine, or…
WordPress is what many would call a mid-level Content Management System (CMS). It offers some of the complex features of high end CMSes, but has some limitations and stays relatively easy to use. In most circumstances, you won’t need a special administrator to setup and run WordPress, like you would need with some CMSes. Best…
“The Loop” is where most of your work is done. However, it isn’t a single file. Rather, it is the part of the file which WordPress send your content to. Here you will have your different files, archive.php, category.php, single.php, etc. These different files will all have their own loop. But these files will not…
Most all themes will have a sidebar file. This will provide the sidebar that usually controls where the widgets will go. Most themes have a single sidebar. Depending upon your theme, you may find your side bar to the left or the right of the main content. However, some themes have additional columns. These themes…
When developing a theme for WordPress, we talked about the importance of a good theme header, the header.php file. This includes not just the mast head of the HTML document that you see, but also the head tag, which includes the doctype, title, CSS links, and more. Likewise, it is important to close with a…
There are a number of files that you can work on while you are building a theme. All of your Themes will involve the style.css file, and one or more PHP files. PHP, as you may remember, is a server side language. It will allow us to access the database, include external files, and more….
Menus are used to provide a way for end users to navigate through your website. You could require users to use the search widget, however, that would not be the easiest way to use your website, in most cases. To access your menus, go to Appearance > Menus. You theme will have one or more…
