Week Eight (MGDP2060)
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This article lists topics for week eight of Web Design and Development III (MGDP2060).
No exercise this week. Catch-up week. We will pick up again on [Week Nine].
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Contents
Reading
Reading:
WordPress theme development
Theme development refers to the creation of custom Wordpress themes.
- Theme development
- Developer Resources
- Site Design and Layout
- Anatomy of a WordPress theme
- WordPress Coding Standards
- CSS Coding Standards
- Know Your Sources
Templates
Template hierarchy
Template tags
Conditional tags
File header
The Loop
"The Loop" is a concept in WordPress.
Use the Loop to display multiple data records. For example, if your Home page displays the most recent blog posts, the Loop "loops through" each data record in turn.
Whatever HTML and PHP appears inside the Loop will be processed multiple times: one time for each item processed by the Loop/
Category templates
Untrusted data
Exercises
Reading for next week
- Adding new types of posts (510)
- Creating custom category pages (519)
See also
Week Eight exercises
Reading for next week
- Textbook, Chapter Nine: Plug-Ins
- Read the documentation for these plug-ins -- we will use them next week: