Understanding the theme details in style.css

Prince’s answer is technically true, but doesn’t answer your specific questions. In the interest of getting you to learn more about WordPress, I’ll get those: For Author, is that the blog owner, or the theme creator? This should represent the theme author/creator. Author URI, is that the blog owner’s personal website, or the creator’s? Again, … Read more

Adding Sidebars in WordPress Theme

Use this in your funtions.php to register sidebar if ( function_exists(‘register_sidebar’) ) register_sidebar(array(‘name’=>’Sidebar ‘, ‘id’=>’sidebar’, ‘before_widget’ => ‘<div>’, ‘after_widget’ => ‘</div>’, ‘before_title’ => ‘<p>’, ‘after_title’ => ‘</p>’, )); To use it in your theme use the following <?php if ( !function_exists(‘dynamic_sidebar’) || !dynamic_sidebar(‘sidebar’) ) : endif; ?> Refer this to know more : http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_sidebar

Recommended Media Size for Twenty Fourteen

Twenty Fourteen uses 2 custom media sizes: 672x372px for post thumbnail image size and 1038x576px for ‘twentyfourteen-full-width’ custom image size So for images uploaded after the theme is activated, these 2 size are created automatically, but for images uploaded before twentyfourteen is activated, an available size is used and image is resized via html/css properties. … Read more

Define theme information other than through style.css

The presence of style.css with a name is a hard requirement for a valid theme. From quick look through the code it’s unlikely you can easily work around it. However it seems you can manipulate rest of the data. There is dynamic extra_{$context}_headers hook in get_file_data(), so filtering extra_theme_headers will probably let you splice data … Read more