You have the basic idea. You can build up a theme using html and css as you see fit. That controls the look and feel basically. The php brings the content and function. I learned to make themes by picking at other themes until I figured out what the php did. You can look up … Read more
The data generating PHP, if it truly stands alone and doesn’t use any WordPress code or WordPress’ data layer, can be licensed as a standalone library. You can use any license you want here without any problems. The only issues come when you start distributing your code. If you want your theme hosted in the … Read more
The most comprehensive review plugin is GD star rating. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gd-star-rating/ A theme is very subjective, you can integrate this plugin with any theme, I would suggest browsing the theme repository for one you like, http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/ To be specific in terms of layout your looking for a “showcase” theme.
Hi @JM at Work: Try wrapping $gallerypage->the_post(); with if ($gallerypage->have_posts()): … endif; It should look like this: if ($gallerypage->have_posts()): $gallerypage->the_post(); endif; See: http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop
I can’t answer how you’ll get your dynamic data with which to update your Post Title, but you can easily hook into the Post Title, using the the_title filter: <?php function mytheme_dynamic_title( $title ) { // do something to the Post Title, which is passed // into this function as the variable $title // and … Read more
The easiest and most straight-forward way is to put appropriate code in your wp_list_comments() callback, that outputs a message if a comment is awaiting moderation. The usual code looks something like this: <?php if ($comment->comment_approved == ‘0’) : ?> <em><?php _e(‘Your comment is awaiting moderation.’) ?> Otherwise, if you’re not using a callback, you can … Read more
The default fallback menu is created with wp_page_menu() function and if you want to customize it the you need to create your own fallback function : function my_fallback_menu(){ $args =array(‘whatever’); wp_page_menu($args); } and then call that function in your wp_nav_menu call as the fallback: wp_nav_menu(array( ‘theme_location’ => ‘mainnav’, ‘container’ => ‘nav’, ‘container_id’ => ‘mainnav’, ‘container_class’ … Read more
First, you need to use the front-page.php template file. In WordPress parlance, Home refers to the Blog Posts Index, whether on the site front page or another static Page, and Front Page refers to the Site Front Page. Second, you have several options for exposing a UI to manage your front-page quotes (in order of … Read more
Yes, use the code: wp_enqueue_script(‘tiny_mce’); This will include the TinyMCE javascript. Then simply use TinyMCE as you wish <script type=”text/javascript”> tinyMCE.init({ mode : “textareas”, theme : “advanced”, plugins : “autolink,lists,spellchecker,pagebreak,style,layer,table,save,advhr,advimage,advlink,emotions,iespell,inlinepopups,insertdatetime,preview,media,searchreplace,print,contextmenu,paste,directionality,fullscreen,noneditable,visualchars,nonbreaking,xhtmlxtras,template”, theme_advanced_buttons1 : “save,newdocument,|,bold,italic,underline,strikethrough,|,justifyleft,justifycenter,justifyright,justifyfull,|,styleselect,formatselect,fontselect,fontsizeselect”, theme_advanced_buttons2 : “cut,copy,paste,pastetext,pasteword,|,search,replace,|,bullist,numlist,|,outdent,indent,blockquote,|,undo,redo,|,link,unlink,anchor,image,cleanup,help,code,|,insertdate,inserttime,preview,|,forecolor,backcolor”, theme_advanced_buttons3 : “tablecontrols,|,hr,removeformat,visualaid,|,sub,sup,|,charmap,emotions,iespell,media,advhr,|,print,|,ltr,rtl,|,fullscreen”, theme_advanced_buttons4 : “insertlayer,moveforward,movebackward,absolute,|,styleprops,spellchecker,|,cite,abbr,acronym,del,ins,attribs,|,visualchars,nonbreaking,template,blockquote,pagebreak,|,insertfile,insertimage”, theme_advanced_toolbar_location : “top”, theme_advanced_toolbar_align : “left”, theme_advanced_statusbar_location : “bottom”, theme_advanced_resizing : true, skin … Read more
WordPress can do anything you mentioned. However your question is bit too generic to be sure about anything.