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gopinath para
2,880 PointsExtending Wordpress theme functionality
Hey Guys,
First of all let me tell you one thing,i'm asking this question just because of curiosity.because WordPress adventure is not yet completely updated. of course as per road map is will take middle of July to to update completely.
I already finished all the available stages in WordPress adventure till "Converting HTML site to WordPress". Now my question is how setup custom user fields for a wordpress theme i.e if you take any one of the wordpress theme ,the theme user would not bother about theme code.simple they will enter the details in fields that set by theme developers under "theme options".
Do i expect this WordPress theme functionality setup in upcoming wordpress learning adventure stages?
Hope you understand my question :)
7 Answers
Zac Gordon
Treehouse Guest TeacherHi, no we will not be covering how to build a theme options page. This video is aimed at beginning theme developers and that is a more advance topic that takes more than one or two videos to cover. If we did this is would go in an advanced theme building project (which is not currently in planning)
We do however cover how to make widget a and widget areas so you could use this to help display some custom content.
adrie silva
6,416 PointsHi Zac!
In the following video: http://teamtreehouse.com/library/websites/how-to-build-a-wordpress-theme/extending-wordpress-template-functionality/adding-content-in-custom-places-part-2
you mention that the "recent post" was going to exclude the category "featured" and that the ID for it was 4, @6:43 But in the code you put -1, instead of -4. Why is that?
Thank you.
Matt Campbell
9,767 PointsThings like custom header and background?
gopinath para
2,880 PointsYes , and things like logo,meta description etc...
Matt Campbell
9,767 PointsLook at the add theme support section on the codex.
gopinath para
2,880 PointsHai Zac,
Thanks for your replay.
Please take this in to consideration and try to plan for "Advanced theme building project" .because a complete wordpress developer required to know how to build all these :)
Don't they !! ??
Zac Gordon
Treehouse Guest TeacherThat was one of the main things an advanced one would cover :)
gopinath para
2,880 PointsSo you guys have any thought of Advanced one ??
Zac Gordon
Treehouse Guest TeacherThought, yes :)
Our next project is for plugin development. So I've begun planning for that (don't ask for a release date ;p).
Once we've got that released we'll move on to planning the next project. We're really trying to promise only projects that we've already begun so I can't speak to much to it, except that it will definitely happen and will definitely cover how to create theme options :)
gopinath para
2,880 PointsCool Zac ... Thanks for the information . I'm mad (:p) about WordPress and eagerly waiting to learn every possible thing about WordPress .. ;)
Zac Gordon
Treehouse Guest TeacherYou should check out the OptionTree plugin and this thread on ThemeForest.net about developing with it.
Should tide you over for a while ;)
James Barnett
39,199 PointsJames Barnett
39,199 PointsTagging Zac Gordon, the Treehouse Wordpress teacher on this one.