You are reading Make your Own Wordpress Theme - Part 3. To read other parts, click on the link below.
Now we will going into the hard part. Index.php file is the core file in our theme file.
Hopefully your index.php will look like this. (Read Part 1 - The Layout )
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Part 2 will be more detail on things and functions needed to put in your Wordpress header file. Open your header.php file.
After I released my first Wordpress theme to public, I make another theme for my site, CypherFS Royale . Then an idea sparkling into my head. Why not I make a tutorial on how to make Wordpress theme to public? I’m sure there are many peoples are looking to make their own theme for their website. So lets get started.
But before we proceed, I want to tell you first that this tutorial only covers on how to set the layout and the tags or functions needed to make your Wordpress theme works perfectly. It is really basic. I will not teach you html, css and php here. You need to learn them by yourself. There are many tutorials available on the net. I’m sure you can found them in ease.
Ok, I split this tutorial to 7 parts. Here are some details for each part.
James emailed me on how I display my adsense in certain posts. As you can see on my homepage, there is an adsense above the content in my first post. And after the first post, there is another post that has adsense but without content. To do it, you just need to put a counter. We create the counter by using PHP.
First we need to declare the variables that we want to use.
$postnum - This variable use for count how many posts in the loop
$showads# - This variable is use the adsense that we want to display.
Note: Replace the # with number, eg: 1, 2, etc.
Ok here is the trick. Put this PHP code before the loop.
Actually Bat and me want to release our theme (my theme: CypherFS Bliss) together. And this is the theme designed by Bat from Infomalaya. Another Malaysian wordpress theme maker.
Theme Name: Tulus
Theme URI: http://www.infomalaya.com
Description: 3 column theme. Easy to customized.
Version: 1.0
Author: Mohd Huzairy@Bat Mohd Rezuan
Author URI: http://huzairy.wordpress.com
This theme name is Tulus with version 1.0 beta. It is 3 columns with fixed width and nice header. Clean and neat with white background. He also has included the .psd file for the header so you can edit the header image as you wish.
For a demo, you can visit the theme here, Tulus 1.0 beta and for download here is the link: Tulus2.zip [tags]themes, skin, tulus, infomalaya[/tags]
At last here is the release of my first public theme for Wordpress. Some of you may already know about the name. This theme name is CypherFS Bliss with version v1.20061204. Why the version looks kinda weird? Well that is my types of naming a theme version. Lol… He3.
This theme is valid Xhtml and CSS. If you wish to download the theme, you can visit the theme page here, WP Theme: CypherFS Bliss. Thanks for your time. [tags]themes, skins, cypherfs bliss[/tags]
I’m testing my CypherFS Bliss theme at my personal blog website. You can view the demo on that site.
And here is the latest screenshot:
Not many changes made. And I will release this theme in about two or three days later. [tags]wordpress theme, skin, theme, cypherfs bliss[/tags]
There are many anti-spam plugins available on the net that you can use to prevent your website from getting/blocking more spams in comments or trackbacks. Some of them are working just fine and some of them are too strict which even blocking human visitors (there are two types of visitors, human and robots) from visiting your website. I’m sure many of Wordpress users use Akismet (wiki) as their website spam protection because it comes in the installation package. But using Akismet alone is not enough. Why?
Akismet will check the comment entered and compare it with the database in Akismet web service. If it found that the comment is a spam, it will block and waiting you to decide whether to delete or de-marked it as spam. If you only use Akismet plugin, you will get about 10 or 30 (maybe more) spams caught in one day. And some of the comments maybe came from legit visitors comment or we can say good comments. Do you will use the all-delete button or you will analyze each comments one by one?
I would like to announce my new plugin, Today Posts. This plugin will list down your posts for that day. Let say, you have published multiple post in a day. So maybe some of the posts published will not be read by your site visitors because they need to scroll down. By list down your today posts, the chances for your posts be read by your site readers will high.
Plugin Name: Today Posts
Plugin URI: http://www.cypherhackz.net/plugins-themes/today-posts/
Description: Display a list of today posts. Useful for bloggers who publish multiple posts in a day.
Version: 1.0
Author: Fauzi Mohd Darus
Author URI: http://www.cypherhackz.net/
For more details, demo and download link, you can visit the plugin page here, WP Plugin: Today Posts . [tags]plugin, post, update[/tags]
I just edited my Easy Announcement plugin which is, it will display a link to edit the announcement when you are login to your website. So you can directly go to edit file page, without need to go to admin panel > manage > edit file. Here are the screenshots on what I mean.
Image 1: When you are not login
Image 2: When you are login
I have update the plugin and you can download the plugin from the plugin page. Read the readme on how to update the plugin. [tags]download, plugin, tweak[/tags]
Cypher: I don’t know why but I love watching the chicken dance. Lol… 
