N.Design Studio

Building a Better WordPress Theme

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Want to build a custom and dynamic WordPress theme as seen on my sites: N.Design Studio, Web Designer Wall, and Best Web Gallery? Check out my recent article, WordPress Theme Hacks on Web Designer Wall. I have listed most of the common used WordPress features (with code samples) such as Conditional Tags, Query Posts, Custom Fields, WP List Pages, and Page Template. Check out the theme hacks article and don’t forget to digg it if you like it.

56 comments so far

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    Jess
    # 1

    October 15th, 2007 at 4:18 pm

    Great post! Are you planning on incorporating the new WP tag cloud soon as well?

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    SasaVtec
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    October 15th, 2007 at 10:55 pm

    great article nick :)

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    sturdy
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    October 15th, 2007 at 11:47 pm

    Great!
    I’m making a new theme today, and your blogs are an incredible source of codes and ideas!

    Thanks.

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    Manuel Merz
    # 4

    October 16th, 2007 at 2:35 am

    Wow great article. May you can post something about implementing moo.fx into wordpress?

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    sophie
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    October 16th, 2007 at 4:17 am

    great work! Really like your stuff here. :)

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    :: Arya ::
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    October 16th, 2007 at 5:06 am

    I’m a newbie in blogging and WordPress thing. And, my top 2 favorite WP themes are iTheme and Glossy Blue, both by you/N.Design (I’m using iTheme on my blog now). Since I still not able to make my own WP theme, I’m waiting for your next downloadable theme. Or, would you please to send me one to my email? …. :))

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    David
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    October 16th, 2007 at 9:55 am

    These Tips are great. I now use the conditional tage, and would be lost without them. Do you ever use page templates? I noticed all of you Pages (on Ndesign) have different layout, and thought this would be hard to achieve with WYSIWYG editor.
    Thanks for the update!

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    WP Themes Gallery
    # 8

    October 16th, 2007 at 10:52 am

    Hey Nick, great article! I really wasn’t expecting another update from you this quick.

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    Smart websites make money
    # 9

    October 18th, 2007 at 5:29 am

    Great article. Thanks for the tips. I never find time to read the manual so this kind of tricks makes me happy :-)

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    Arthur Araújo
    # 10

    October 18th, 2007 at 7:13 pm

    Great article! Nice design!

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    العاب
    # 11

    October 18th, 2007 at 11:11 pm

    Nice article , thanks

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    Boytoy
    # 12

    October 19th, 2007 at 8:11 am

    Yeeeeeyyy !!! I can’t wait for a new theme ! Please, let it include drag & drop sidebars !

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    McBilly
    # 13

    October 19th, 2007 at 1:44 pm

    Wow! That was very helpful Nick! :)

    Thanks a lot for compiling these and sharing them. I’m actually planning to make a new theme and I’m sure these will be very useful.

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    Mohamamd
    # 14

    October 19th, 2007 at 4:31 pm

    Thanks man
    but I meet hard to build theme
    however I will try
    thanks again

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    oyun
    # 15

    October 20th, 2007 at 6:24 pm

    Great article! Nice design!

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    Fouad Masoud
    # 16

    October 22nd, 2007 at 2:39 am

    just the thing i was lookin for.
    gr8 work buddy.

    Keep em comin.

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    samuel Reh
    # 17

    October 22nd, 2007 at 5:41 am

    cool

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    Design Submit
    # 18

    October 23rd, 2007 at 9:39 pm

    I’m still new to wordpress, this is really helpful thanks

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    Areg
    # 19

    October 26th, 2007 at 11:13 am

    i love this site

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    Anthony
    # 20

    October 27th, 2007 at 12:09 am

    It looks like you are getting a bit of spam comments in here Nick, maybe you should try putting a captcha image in the post comment form. Apart from that, I love your WP themes! I’m using one that you have made and people are always saying how good it looks!

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    pickupjojo
    # 21

    October 27th, 2007 at 11:51 am

    Thank you very much, it’s very helpful! :)

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    Nathan
    # 22

    October 28th, 2007 at 1:09 am

    If I wish to display my comment box in the same manner as yours, how would I do that? Yours does look really cool!

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    Yakup Gövler
    # 23

    October 28th, 2007 at 4:12 pm

    it is amazing. i love this.

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    vecihi
    # 24

    October 28th, 2007 at 9:14 pm

    i think that this is great article about WP themes. Very usefull for me. Thanks man.

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    caocao
    # 25

    October 29th, 2007 at 12:27 am

    请问下你的wp的主题那里有下载的?

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    Soren
    # 26

    October 29th, 2007 at 1:32 am

    Outstanding website and content. Nicely done, Nick.

    Soren, Los Angeles

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    smart
    # 27

    October 29th, 2007 at 8:40 am

    Cool design!

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    Carly
    # 28

    October 29th, 2007 at 7:14 pm

    Hey Nick, I was out and about today, and I saw your site (Web Designer Wall) in .net mag, and I saw this one in Web Designer 2.0 especially for WHSmiths!

    Go you!!

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    wow
    # 29

    October 30th, 2007 at 2:54 pm

    ciao

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    Popod
    # 30

    November 3rd, 2007 at 7:40 pm

    Hi ! Thanks a lot for your job. I’m using iTheme on my blog and it’s very nice.

    Popod / www.macnews.fr

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    patrickd
    # 31

    November 3rd, 2007 at 11:40 pm

    the web designer wall design looks great!!!

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    thepoet
    # 32

    November 8th, 2007 at 2:30 am

    this is very very helpful. thank you for sharing this.

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    art
    # 33

    November 10th, 2007 at 6:52 am

    thank you so much.

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    Ms Katie
    # 34

    November 10th, 2007 at 4:37 pm

    please please…add this theme to your wordpress themes to download. we need more!!! there are no wp themes like a ndesign theme.!!!

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    sara
    # 35

    November 11th, 2007 at 3:41 pm

    Please put your current theme up for download soon it is amazing!

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    Search Scripts Directory
    # 36

    November 14th, 2007 at 8:02 am

    Thanks for the information. By the way, would you offer your themes for download to others?

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    Lotta
    # 37

    November 15th, 2007 at 10:10 pm

    Just wanted to say that all your sites look fantastic. The layout and graphics make them both easy to read and beautiful, which is not an easy task. Great job!

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    Neo
    # 38

    November 17th, 2007 at 12:37 am

    I love the colors and layout on your theme. Keep up the great work… the Wordpress community needs you!

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    Wakish
    # 39

    November 24th, 2007 at 4:46 am

    I’m amazed by your creativity.. Wonderful! :)
    Keep going!

    - Wakish -

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    indo
    # 40

    December 21st, 2007 at 6:45 am

    Cool, and very helpfull, THanks!!

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    SMASHINGAPPS.COM
    # 41

    December 29th, 2007 at 10:24 am

    Its very good article. Keep up the good work!

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    Rakesh Sharma Jack
    # 42

    January 2nd, 2008 at 4:18 am

    Hey wow…fantastic…you have made our life simple and have given us tools to be more creative at our own…keep us the good work. BTW is your current theme available for download???I wish it could !@#$%^…plz.

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    readywpthemes
    # 43

    January 4th, 2008 at 3:47 pm

    Thanks for the information….

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    Yemek Tarifleri
    # 44

    January 8th, 2008 at 3:32 am

    I love the colors and layout on your theme. Keep up the great work… the Wordpress community needs you!

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    George
    # 45

    January 14th, 2008 at 3:01 pm

    Nice one, thanks for the info. Do you offer your current themes to others? ;)

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    web design , almog
    # 46

    February 11th, 2008 at 8:15 pm

    Hey really great this really helped me out with a project that I just did
    Thanks

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    Infobrokering
    # 47

    February 14th, 2008 at 6:10 am

    Only good thinks! It’s hard to belive, but its true.

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    Bilim Haberleri
    # 48

    March 28th, 2008 at 7:33 am

    Wonderful! Thank you

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    One Year Milly
    # 49

    April 7th, 2008 at 6:59 pm

    thanks for all the helpful tips here… great work. Ill try to implement it on my new blog!

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    marta
    # 50

    April 11th, 2008 at 2:07 pm

    Great and excellent article. Thank you :-)

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    Khan
    # 51

    April 14th, 2008 at 7:26 pm

    Thanks alot for this.

    From - http://uploadxs.com

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    hit
    # 52

    April 19th, 2008 at 11:03 am

    I love the colors and layout on your theme. Keep up the great work… the Wordpress community needs you!

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    Understanding vista
    # 53

    April 20th, 2008 at 3:07 am

    Really usefull, I will use what I learned from you, in redesigning my understanding vista site.

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    Movie and Tv Links
    # 54

    April 20th, 2008 at 5:35 am

    Was wondering on how to build a good wordpress theme and this tutorial helped me a lot…now I have got some ideas!!

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    arkadaşlık sohbet
    # 55

    April 20th, 2008 at 8:54 am

    arkadaşlık aktivite parti sohbet eğlence ne ararsan burda :))

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    Ken Nickless
    # 56

    April 20th, 2008 at 4:03 pm

    I just Dug this post. An absolute must for Wordpress bloggers! Great information.

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