Over the weekend i pondered on writing an article about customizing WordPress , just little bits of knowledge that is in my head but today i stumbled upon this article and it is as good as it gets.
The article introduces it’s readers to WordPress, WordPress themes, structure of a WordPress theme, making a new theme, modifying the header of your theme, blog post templates, the post loop, page templates, sidebars and meta data/custom fields for page customization.
An excerpt:
So you want a custom loop? The loop is powered off of the current page query. The query is generated by WordPress, typically from your URL. So if your on your site and your at /category1/a-blog-post-with-id-12 the query to get blog post id 12 in category 1. The internal mechanics of how this happens are fairly complex, so we won’t go into them. It’s enough to know that each page has a query generated for it that will grab the correct content for that page. So if you want to customize your loop and grab something besides what WordPress would do by default you need to modify the query before you call your loop.
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August 10th, 2007 at 8:14 pm
nice article, worth reading