Comments on: Developing a CMS Site. Part2: Coding Structure

By: LorraineDesign

LorraineDesign — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:07:19 +0000

Sweet: thanks for the advice. I’m trying (slowly!) to develop a more custom theme, so your series is perfect timing!

By: Clay McIlrath

Clay McIlrath — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:56:57 +0000

@Lorraine: I prefer to edit in a text based program such as Coda (for mac only) or dreamweaver. The nice thing about wordpress is, if you don’t have the knowledge or experience connecting to your site via FTP, you can simply edit the files right within the admin of WP. Just go to the “Design” section and then to “Theme Editor.” This will show you all the files within your theme’s folder. In there just look for the typical style.css or any other stylesheets you may need to edit and have away. Best practice if you do edit that way is to copy the text before you edit and save it in notepad or something on your local computer that way if you make a mistake you can always just re-paste the old styles back in. If you make a habit of doing that everytime, you should be golden

By: LorraineDesign

LorraineDesign — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:25:33 +0000

So when you are tweaking a theme, do you usually edit it in dreamweaver? textedit? How do you test it? With all of the supplementary files that come with a WordPress theme, that part always confused me about creating one from scratch…

By: » Developing a CMS Site. Part2: Coding Structure

» Developing a CMS Site. Part2: Coding Structure — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 08:24:06 +0000

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