Building a Better WordPress Theme
October 15th, 2007 Filed in: WordPress Jump to comments
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.
October 15th, 2007 at 4:18 pm
Great post! Are you planning on incorporating the new WP tag cloud soon as well?
October 15th, 2007 at 10:55 pm
great article nick :)
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.
October 16th, 2007 at 2:35 am
Wow great article. May you can post something about implementing moo.fx into wordpress?
October 16th, 2007 at 4:17 am
great work! Really like your stuff here. :)
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? …. :))
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!
October 16th, 2007 at 10:52 am
Hey Nick, great article! I really wasn’t expecting another update from you this quick.
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 :-)
October 18th, 2007 at 7:13 pm
Great article! Nice design!
October 18th, 2007 at 11:11 pm
Nice article , thanks
October 19th, 2007 at 8:11 am
Yeeeeeyyy !!! I can’t wait for a new theme ! Please, let it include drag & drop sidebars !
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.
October 19th, 2007 at 4:31 pm
Thanks man
but I meet hard to build theme
however I will try
thanks again
October 20th, 2007 at 6:24 pm
Great article! Nice design!
October 22nd, 2007 at 2:39 am
just the thing i was lookin for.
gr8 work buddy.
Keep em comin.
October 22nd, 2007 at 5:41 am
cool
October 23rd, 2007 at 9:39 pm
I’m still new to wordpress, this is really helpful thanks
October 26th, 2007 at 11:13 am
i love this site
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!
October 27th, 2007 at 11:51 am
Thank you very much, it’s very helpful! :)
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!
October 28th, 2007 at 4:12 pm
it is amazing. i love this.
October 28th, 2007 at 9:14 pm
i think that this is great article about WP themes. Very usefull for me. Thanks man.
October 29th, 2007 at 12:27 am
请问下你的wp的主题那里有下载的？
October 29th, 2007 at 1:32 am
Outstanding website and content. Nicely done, Nick.
Soren, Los Angeles
October 29th, 2007 at 8:40 am
Cool design!
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!!
October 30th, 2007 at 2:54 pm
ciao
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
November 3rd, 2007 at 11:40 pm
the web designer wall design looks great!!!
November 8th, 2007 at 2:30 am
this is very very helpful. thank you for sharing this.
November 10th, 2007 at 6:52 am
thank you so much.
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.!!!
November 11th, 2007 at 3:41 pm
Please put your current theme up for download soon it is amazing!
November 14th, 2007 at 8:02 am
Thanks for the information. By the way, would you offer your themes for download to others?
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!
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!
November 24th, 2007 at 4:46 am
I’m amazed by your creativity.. Wonderful! :)
Keep going!
- Wakish -
December 21st, 2007 at 6:45 am
Cool, and very helpfull, THanks!!
December 29th, 2007 at 10:24 am
Its very good article. Keep up the good work!
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.
January 4th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
Thanks for the information….
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!
January 14th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
Nice one, thanks for the info. Do you offer your current themes to others? ;)
February 11th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
Hey really great this really helped me out with a project that I just did
Thanks
February 14th, 2008 at 6:10 am
Only good thinks! It’s hard to belive, but its true.
March 28th, 2008 at 7:33 am
Wonderful! Thank you
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!
April 11th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
Great and excellent article. Thank you :-)
April 14th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
Thanks alot for this.
From - http://uploadxs.com
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!
April 20th, 2008 at 3:07 am
Really usefull, I will use what I learned from you, in redesigning my understanding vista site.
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!!
April 20th, 2008 at 8:54 am
arkadaşlık aktivite parti sohbet eğlence ne ararsan burda :))
April 20th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
I just Dug this post. An absolute must for Wordpress bloggers! Great information.
June 1st, 2008 at 1:47 pm
One more reason to use WP.. Ever! Tanks
July 10th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
Wow you have pointed out all the important factors in wordpress themes. Thanks!
July 24th, 2008 at 5:50 am
Thanks alot for this
August 18th, 2008 at 9:18 pm
Here are a few wordpress themes I designed alot better than whats out there for wordpress now, and I want to share them with you guys. please enjoy these
http://rapidshare.com/files/136749398/WordpressPreThemesFeb08.rar.html
Preview my themes
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greentec
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freshnews
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August 24th, 2008 at 6:52 am
wow.Thank you for sharing it. I am looking in the internet for some themes that I can use. Its a good thing I found this site.
August 24th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
thanks a lot for this! kudos! :D
August 25th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
Thanks you gread site..
September 13th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
I used your template and it has transformed my site. It is about Jamaican news. Thanks a lot.
October 6th, 2008 at 5:25 am
i was looking for some wordpress themes thanks for sharing
November 19th, 2008 at 2:45 am
Thanks a lot for this
December 1st, 2008 at 12:14 am
I really like this site.
December 1st, 2008 at 12:16 am
Oh! a very cool site.
December 1st, 2008 at 1:49 am
One more reason to use WP.
December 1st, 2008 at 4:06 am
Nice web. Thanks for the tips.
December 1st, 2008 at 11:17 am
i love wp , thank you for your share.
December 1st, 2008 at 10:54 pm
Wordpress very good CMS
December 7th, 2008 at 12:33 am
Thanks a lot for this. I really like this site.
December 14th, 2008 at 3:39 am
I will try to build WP theme.I’m sure this tips will be very useful for me.Thanks for the tips.
December 21st, 2008 at 7:27 pm
I enjoyed reading your article on WordPress theme…….these tips will be very useful for my future design projects.
December 29th, 2008 at 3:24 am
This is really really helpful, thanks a lot for this!
January 23rd, 2009 at 12:42 pm
Love the work, just saved your site for future WP inquiries on design :).