Pro Wordpress Development
Published on 1. October 2006
Book
Hardback
250 pages
978-1-59059-715-6 (ISBN)
Description
Deals with computers/software.
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Edition
2007 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Popular/general
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 178 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-59059-715-6 (9781590597156)
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Person
Chris J. Davis has been a blogging enthusiast and software developer since 1999, with most of his time spent hacking on b2 and later its successor WordPress. He is well versed on the internals of WordPress and understands what makes it tick. He is the creator of Persian, one of the more successful themes for WordPress, as well as co-developer of K2 the successor to Kubrick the most successful theme ever released for WordPress. Chris is also an author on the book Blog Design Solutions (1590595815, friends of ED, 2006) . He is also an international speaker on Technology and Social Software traveling to places as far flung as Stuttgart, Germany.
Content
Anatomy of a WordPress Theme.- Overview of theme files.- Basic Themeing.- Advanced Themeing.- Anatomy of a WordPress plug-in.- Dissecting the Hello Dolly Plug-in.- Interacting with WordPress through your plug-ins.- Extending WordPress through your plug-ins.- First you need a map: A guide to the code base of WordPress.- The pitfalls of hacking the code directly.- When plug-ins just aren't enough: modifying the WordPress code base directly.- Dealing with local changes when updating WordPress.