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Screencast #4 – Creating a WordPress Theme – Part 2

Posted by Tom on 26/06/10

In part two of this tutorial I show you how to finish off creating a basic WordPress theme, demonstrating the creation of a single post page as well as looking at how the commenting system works. Also in the video is how to create custom page templates and then apply them to different pages, as...

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Screencast #3 – Creating a WordPress Theme – Part 1

Posted by Tom on 19/06/10

In part one of this tutorial I show you how to get started creating a WordPress theme, explaining all about the core files and how WordPress works. I'll show you how to install WordPress and how to convert existing markup into a theme. In the tutorial I develop a theme named "Curiosity" - the markup...

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Screencast #2 – Creating a Comment Preview in WP

Posted by Tom on 19/05/10

So it's been a while since I've done a screencast, but here it is, number 2! In this screencast I'll show you how to create a comment preview section in WordPress which dynamically loads user information and updates as you type! For it I use the trusty jQuery library and a little bit of PHP...

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Screencast #1 – Creating perspective

Posted by Tom on 28/02/10

In this first ever screencast I will show you how to add perspective to your websites by using a really simple trick which comes into play when users re-size their windows. In the screencast I focus on creating a fancy city-scape for a footer with three basic levels of perspective. The final effect is viewable...

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