Wordpress Theme Development Cheat Sheet – TOC
Introduction WordPress Theme Development
If anyone wants to become a wordpress expert he should definitely have the knowledge to develop a wordpress theme. Theme is what the end user sees when they visit your web site. Without a good and proffessional theme, your knowledge on plugins,posts, and wordpress core will not be much of a use. Developing a wordpress theme is not that difficult even for a highly technical web developer who does not have much knowledge on designing.
WordPress provides a comprehensive guide for theme developers. So I have developed a basic theme called IPress which will turn into a wordpress theme framework in the near future. In this tutorial series i am going to explain the neccessary functions to develop a wordpress theme. That is why I called it “WordPress Theme Development Cheat Sheet“. Anatomy of wordpress theme and how to build a wordpress theme from scratch will be provided in much future articles.
I have completed the mandatory requirements for a theme and uploaded my theme to wordpress.org and waiting for approval. It takes more than 2 months some times to get an approval from theme. So this post series will be updated based on the suggestions provided by wordpress.org authors.
What Will You Get By Developing a WordPress Theme
- Generate free traffic to your blog by uploading the theme to wordpress.org
- Sell it on themeforest and make money online
- Improve your wordpress knowledge. Get a step up in becoming wordpress expert
- Make your own style customizations and functions
Wordpress Theme Development Cheat Sheet Episodes
- WordPress Functions Required For Developing Theme Header File
- WordPress Functions Required For Developing Theme Sidebar File
- WordPress Functions Required For Developing Theme Index File
- WordPress Functions Required For Developing Theme Footer File
- WordPress Functions Required For Developing Theme Comments File
- WordPress Functions Required For Developing Theme Functions File
- WordPress Functions Required For Developing Theme Single File
- WordPress Functions Required For Developing Theme Page File
How To Make Use of Time Spent On This Post Series
If you are a wordpress expert you might not be reading this tutorial right now, and you might not become a wordpress expert just by reading this tutorial.
So Take Action Now
- Research on areas mentioned in “What Will You Get By Developing a WordPress Theme” section
- Download IPress theme
- Keep a copy and copy the original IPress folder to themes folder
- Change the codes in theme files as you go along with tutorials and experience practically.
To Be Continued

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