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WordPress 3.0 Theme Development Links
These are some of the best, currently available resources on the various WordPress 3.0 features relevant to theme development. I’ve been using and growing this list personally for a while as a sort of launchpad and they should be enough for most development needs.
There are plenty other resources, tutorials, and tips out there that I do not include here, though. For that, Google is your friend.
Menu
Custom Post Types
- Custom Post Types in WordPress
- Rock-Solid WordPress 3.0 Themes using Custom Post Types
- Custom Post Types in WordPress 3.0
- Extending Custom Post Types in WordPress 3.0
- Codex
Custom Taxonomies
- New and Exciting Ways to Organize Your WordPress Powered Website
- A Refresher on Custom Taxonomies
- The Essential Guide to WordPress 3.0 Custom Taxonomies
- Codex
Multisite
- How to enable Multi-Site option in WordPress 3.0
- WordPress 3.0 Walkthrough: Getting Started with Multisite
- Codex
Custom Header and Background
Editor Styles
New Theme Template Files
- front-page.php
- single-[post-type].php
- author-[nicename].php and author-[id].php
- taxonomy.php, taxonomy-[taxonomy].php, taxonomy-[term].php
Miscellanea
- WordPress 3.0 release announcement
- Codex about Version 3.0
- Various small new theme and plugin development updates
- Thelonious Monk, the jazz pianist whose name is used for 3.0
# 1862
Theme Options UI: Consistency Matters!
Doing it right: #genesiswp ‘s theme options UI mimics WP’s look instead of having its own fancy UI.
A lot of you must have seen how various WordPress themes have different theme options UI design. Most of them opt for pretty looking options page with labels, inputs, buttons, icons, and forms that look wildly different from the rest of the Dashboard.
If your theme is like that, you’re doing it wrong.
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What you can learn from Panic’s approach to email marketing
See how they create the airmail line on their design. Clever.
