WordPress is a hugely popular CMS for blogging. The blog section of CSS-Tricks is run on WordPress and I am very happy with it. By popular request, we are going to walk through designing for WordPress. In part one, we will be downloading and installing WordPress. Then we will install the “Starkers” theme by Elliot Jay Stocks to start with a completely fresh slate for our new design. No sense starting with the default theme, it’s more trouble than it’s worth! In part two, we will go over the theory behind designing for WordPress and how it’s much like “working modularly” and actually get started designing. In part three, we will finish up the design and start in with some more advanced functionality.
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Chris great tutorial as always keep them coming however why didnt you setup the site on a local host?
Good idea, I added those links. There is also a home-base style post here:
https://css-tricks.com/designing-for-wordpress-com…
A quick suggestion would be if you could add links to the part two, three…. here that way we can bookmark this page and use it as a reference for anyone wanting to learn how to design a WP theme…
Anyways.. this is a great resource.
Thanks
Alexander Gounder
Thanks, fixed that.
Chris, your link to part three links to part two ;)
hi. i’m new to webdesign. quick quesiton, how do I sign up for joyent is it free. I tried to sign up for the open social developers. Is that what I want? sorry.
great tutorials for wordpress beginners man. Quick question though kind of off-topic what app or extension do you have installed on your mac that displays the download completed msgs?
http://growl.info/
Hey Chris,
Thanks for the awesome tutorial videos. I am learning tons from them. The WordPress ones have really peaked my interests though with my new website I am wanting to create.
I have a small question though. I have installed WordPress on my server; I get to the screen where it generates that random password and then I click on the Login button where it is supposed to take me to the actual login screen but nothing comes up. I even try clicking on the index page after and nothing comes up there either. Have you ever heard of this problem. Is this a server side problem?
Thanks for your help and I really appreciate you making those great videos.
Could you place a link to your videos on Youtube so I can watch them from my iPhone?
Thanks.
There is an iPhone Version specifically for this purpose. =)
Hi,
That’s really a great tutorial. Can’t wait to see the next one! This will really help a lot in building a home based business
Thanks a bunch for these videos mate.
Your tutorial is great and I have opted some great techniques to create new designs for my client. Thanks!
Now that there has been a number of WordPress updates since this tutorial was released
do you still use Starkers theme for your clean starting theme?
I just wanted to ask this same question because the starker theme link is just html.
Just realized the link has no CSS it’s meant to be naked. Does the theme work in 3.3.1? It says it’s good for 3.0.
Hello, I have tried to downloadthe starker but it is no more there… how is it possible to get it?
You can get the theme through their git hub.starker’s theme’s git hub
http://viewportindustries.com/ ^ Starker Theme
This post is a great resource for those of us who want to use WordPress effectively and have no idea where to start, thanks for your work, brilliant use of multimedia
Thx Chris and thx David Nguyen.
Thanks for a great tutorial, Chris! Before I watched this I didn’t know whether to run WordPress or Drupal on my new website. I have some experience from Drupal 7 so it would, of course, be an easy choice for me. However, after seeing you work with WordPress I really want to get my hands on it and start playing around!
I really enjoyed your unconventional way of removing your old site live! Haha!
hey, i get some trouble when i click on Download this video, so please help me how can i download this video?
Thanks, Chris. I am redesigning the WordPress theme for one of the sections of Latest Blog Posts, so this tutorial was very helpful.
Bruce
Hello, I have tried to downloadthe starker but it is no more there… how is it possible to get it?
Heya Chris, I know you must have heard it a thousand times over, but thank you for sharing your knowledge with the rest of us. It was definitly very useful and the way you take your time and and explain everything is just awesome. Thanks again and thumbs up from the Netherlands
Heya. tyvm Chris for sharing what you learn, its so helpful to a newbie like me.
Its helps a lot.:)
I always use for my wordpress blogs, I think it’s a great platform. I liked the video is true even if the post 2008 I congratulate you. Greetings!