Learning Wordpress - the internal guide

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BreakdownA little less than you ever wanted to know
WordPress Overview
Post & Pages
Plugins
All-in-One SEO, EmbedIt, Gravity Forms
Widgets
Themes
PHP and WordPress
Hosting and Access
Questions

WordPress Overview
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPress
WordPress is a very popular blog publishing application and content management system. It was first released in May 2003 by its co-founders Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little as a (considered the official) successor to b2cafelog.
WordPress is a platform.

Posts
Pages
Categories
Tags
Users/Authors
More…

WordPress Posts & Pages

Add New
Edit Current
Title
Body
Images
Categories
Tags
Post Options (Sticky & Future)
Quick Edit
Difference between each

WordPress Plugins

View Installed
Add New
Upgrade
Activate/Deactivate
Settings
Common Plugins
EmbedIt
Gravity Forms
All-In-One SEO
WP-Spam Free

WordPress Widgets

What are they
How to add content
Available/Inactive

WordPress Themes

What are they
Why are they so cool
Anatomy of a WP Theme
How do I modify them

WordPress Theme Breakdown

style.css– The main stylesheet. This must be included with your theme.
index.php– The main template. If your theme provides its own templates, index.php must be present.
comments.php– The comments template. If not present, wp-comments.php is used.
comments-popup.php– The popup comments template. If not present, wp-comments-popup.php is used.
single.php– The single post template. Used when a single post is queried. For this and all other query templates, index.php is used if the query template is not present.
page.php– The page template. Used when a page is queried.
category.php– The category template. Used when a category is queried.
author.php– The author template. Used when an author is queried.
date.php– The date/time template. Used when a date or time is queried. Year, month, day, hour, minute, second.
archive.php– The archive template. Used when a category, author, or date is queried. Note that this template will be overridden by category.php, author.php, and date.php for their respective query types.
search.php– The search template. Used when a search is performed.
404.php– The 404 Not Found template. Used when WordPress cannot find a post that matches the query.

WordPress Template Hierarchy
http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy

WordPress Template Post & Pages
Home Page display
1. home.php
2. index.php
Single Post display
1. single.php
2. index.php
Page display
WordPress Pages:
1. pagetemplate.php - Where pagetemplate.php is the Page Template assigned to the Page.
2. page.php
3. index.php

WordPress Template Cats & Tags
Category display :: Category Templates:
1. category-id.php - If the category's ID were 6, WordPress would look for category-6.php
2. category.php
3. archive.php
4. index.php
Tag display :: Tag Templates:
1. tag-slug.php - If the tag's slug were “sometag”, WordPress would look for tag-sometag.php
2. tag.php
3. archive.php
4. index.php

WordPress Template Author & Date
Author display :: Author Templates:
1. author.php
2. archive.php
3. index.php
Date display :: Archive (Date) Templates:
1. date.php
2. archive.php
3. index.php

WordPress Template ‘the others’
Search Result display :: Creating a Search Page:
1. search.php
2. index.php
404 (Not Found) display :: Creating an Error 404 Page:
1. 404.php
2. index.php
Attachment display :: Attachment Templates:
1. image.php, video.php, audio.php, application.php or any other first part
of the MIME type.
2. attachment.php
3. single.php
4. index.php

WordPress Theme ‘Storeage’

wp-content

WordPress & PHP

The code for WordPress is in PHP.
PHP looks a lot like c and Javascript.
PHP is a scripting language
PHP is procedural
PHP object-oriented “like”

WordPress & PHP
<?phpget_header() ?>
<div id="container">
<div id="content“>
<?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post() ?>
<div id="post-<?phpthe_ID() ?>”>
<h2 class="entry-title"><a href="<?phpthe_permalink() ?>” rel="bookmark"><?phpthe_title() ?></a></h2>
<div class="entry-content">
<?phpthe_content() ?>
<?phpwp_link_pages() ?>
</div>
</div>
<?phpcomments_template() ?>
<?phpendwhile; ?>
</div>
</div>
<?phpget_sidebar() ?>
<?phpget_footer() ?>

WordPress Hosting & Access