Completely confused on how to upload a template

Thanks Aaron. I will have to take a longer look at that. I looked briefly at it and it looked like it might help.

Thanks Kevin! It does answer a lot of them.

WordPress is written in PHP and all the WordPress hooks follow PHP so I recommend learning that and then WordPress makes a lot more sense. It's not just a case of putting an HTML and CSS doc in WordPress. It needs hybridising for WordPress.

Thank y'all. I'm gathering that there's no way of learning WP without PHP. It's OK I like php better than any other programming language.

I can use my own template for this project right?

Hey Eric Nevitt this is exactly what we designed our How to Build a WordPress Theme project to address! Hope that helps :)

After about the third video I was completely confused. I'm going to watch it again now and see if it makes more sense after I read the Bootstrap article.

Zac and the other staff here keep up the good work!

The confusion might be because that project really takes a big picture look at the entire theme building process. The blog article may give a little more targeted help, but the bottom line is you'll have to build a theme with all the php and WordPress code a WP theme requires and then upload it to your wp-content > themes folder.

Hope that helps! Let us know if you hit any snags :)

The last set of videos about setting up a template from a static site is where I got lost. It would be great to have some code to follow with the video. That way you can hear about the code and see what the code looks like. It seemed a bit rushed to me.

Yeah, I hear you. With this project we did not have code challenges or code to download along the way but we likely will with the next project.

If enough folks ask for it though I may try to go back and add some of the code for download if I can.

Thanks sir. When is the next project going to be open? Is there anything on HTML5 here? I know HTML 4 pretty well, but the world is wanting 5 now.

I'm not finding my HTML button in the admin panel. All I see is visual and text buttons.

On my main menu there is no place to log in. How do I add that to my site?

Shouldn't there be an "automatic" one that allows you to log in to the dash board?

I understand that. I am just curious if there was a automatic log in on the menu bar or if you had to add that.

The next question I have is about the functions.php. Where it says wpbootstrap_scripts_with_jquery() I use the the name of the theme I'm creating right?

<?php

function wpbootstrap_scripts_with_jquery() { // Register the script like this for a theme: wp_register_script( 'custom-script', get_template_directory_uri() . '/bootstrap/js/bootstrap.js', array( 'jquery' ) ); // For either a plugin or a theme, you can then enqueue the script: wp_enqueue_script( 'custom-script' ); } add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'wpbootstrap_scripts_with_jquery' );

if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') ) register_sidebar(array( 'before_widget' => '', 'after_widget' => '', 'before_title' => '<h3>', 'after_title' => '</h3>', )); ?>

My index page isn't working right. It's not showing the content that is on the home page.

wp_register_script( 'custom-script', get_template_directory_uri() . '/bootstrap/js/bootstrap.js', array( 'jquery' ) )

What if I don't have any JS at the moment? Do I need JS? All I have in my WP file is jquery.

Is there a way that I can share my code as I have it now?

Yes I changed the settings to a static page for the front page and nothing happened. Everything works to the point of changing the index to just include the header and footer, after that every crashes.

Yeah, I think you're right we're looking at some code files needed at this point :). You can always save them as text files and throw them up on Dropbox.

My code is here https://teamtreehouse.com/forum/editing-the-home-page-on-the-how-to-build-a-responsive-wordpress-theme?sort=newest&topic=Wordpress. How can I access Dropbox?