Week Ten (MGDP2060)
This article lists topics for week ten of Web Design and Development III (MGDP2060).
Contents
Simple custom theme
Last week, we created a simple custom theme.
Review:
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Theme development using multiple theme folders
When creating a custom theme, you can structure your work work as several different custom themes, each representing a different stage in the development of your final theme.
That way, you can look back on previous stages of development, comparing your current theme with earlier versions.
If something goes wrong with your current version, you can examine the previous version, figure out how to figure your current version, perhaps copy-and-paste code from previous versions to the current version, etc.
This is often helpful, for novice and experienced developers alike.
Creating a new version is easy:
- Create a copy of the current theme folder, with a different folder name
- Pick folder names that indicate version, e.g.
MyTheme1,MyTheme2,
- Pick folder names that indicate version, e.g.
- In the copy, in
style.css, change the Theme Name.
The alternative is to keep modifying one custom theme until it is complete.
WordPress CSS
As we saw last week, you can hard-code links style directly into your theme (in header.php).
Hard-coding is a hack -- a temporary solution, in this case as a classroom example, to demonstrate how WordPress works.
The proper solution is to do it the WordPress way:
- In
style.css - In other external style sheet(s), the WordPress way
style.css
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Other external style sheets
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