Hello, Good Morning and welcome to the NairaLand WordPress Developer Thread, in here I'll take the honor of explaining all your questions about WordPress Themes and Plugin development, I'll give relevant links to my Web Development, Web Design, Graphic Design and WordPress tutorials blog where necessary and hope that we learn a thing or two from each other.

To start with here's a post on how to generate an XML Sitemap in WordPress without using a plugin

Here is another on how to add custom pagination to your WordPress Theme

This are all for educational purposes and I hope it helps somebody.

Hehehehehe this will be fun. Evil smiley

pcguru1:
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talk2hb1:

I want to see the type of advice given in terms of Wordpress development, obviously am sure you know why .

Pls OP, what's d difference between WordPress theme and template?

pcguru1:


I want to see the type of advice given in terms of Wordpress development, obviously am sure you know why .

Cant Wait to see what

Supposing I want to go into WordPress theme development ( I might), what are the tools/frameworks that're available that one can use so as to reduce the development time and also reduce the codes that needs to be written?

CRAZYMADMAN:
Supposing I want to go into WordPress theme development ( I might), what are the tools/frameworks that're available that one can use so as to reduce the development time and also reduce the codes that needs to be written?

You don't need any framework to develop WordPress themes, get wamp or xampp (I use xampp) get WordPress from wordpress.org find a good text editor (I use sublime text) and develop locally. For starters look into the default themes that comes with WordPress to see how things are set up... check codex.wordpress.org for functions reference

You need to know HTML, CSS and PHP to develop themes for WordPress jQuery to add some cool.

If you're not already a developer already read about which programming language you should learn first and start with

cheers.

deondazy:


You don't need any framework to develop WordPress themes, get wamp or xampp (I use xampp) get WordPress from wordpress.org find a good text editor (I use sublime text) and develop locally. For starters look into the default themes that comes with WordPress to see how things are set up... check codex.wordpress.org for functions reference

You need to know HTML, CSS and PHP to develop themes for WordPress jQuery to add some cool.

If you're not already a developer already read about which programming language you should learn first and start with

cheers.

You seem to mistake me for someone just starting out with web development. I could probably develop a few wordpress themes given enough time, however, time is what i do not have. Am just curious as to whether there are resources, libraries, etc that would help out with some functionalities so I don't have to code all the functionalities that I might need

CRAZYMADMAN:


You seem to mistake me for someone just starting out with web development. I could probably develop a few wordpress themes given enough time, however, time is what i do not have. Am just curious as to whether there are resources, libraries, etc that would help out with some functionalities so I don't have to code all the functionalities that I might need

You can quickly create a custom theme from most WordPress theme out there.
All you need to do is create a child theme from the parent theme, and customise the child theme to your taste. You will even enjoy the benefit of updating the parent theme without losung your work on the chikd theme. Example of wordpress fremework theme is the 2013-15 theme.

CRAZYMADMAN:
Supposing I want to go into WordPress theme development ( I might), what are the tools/frameworks that're available that one can use so as to reduce the development time and also reduce the codes that needs to be written?

. You can use underscore _S or root. I assume that what you mean is stater theme, if yes google search "Wordpress stater theme".

CRAZYMADMAN:


You seem to mistake me for someone just starting out with web development. I could probably develop a few wordpress themes given enough time, however, time is what i do not have. Am just curious as to whether there are resources, libraries, etc that would help out with some functionalities so I don't have to code all the functionalities that I might need

WordPress guy here.

It's a lot easier to start from scratch and fill in your gaps with plugins than to start with a theme and disable the functionality you don't need.

Build your site like it's a normal site then leverage wp plugin ecosystem to fill in your gaps.

Sorry guys, I've been away offline for a while, now I'm back...
Any questions on WordPress Theme Developmnent??

Good Morning guys, be sure to keep an eye out for the new series on How to create a WordPress Theme from scratch starting tomorrow @ Tutsdose

Have a great day.