Popular Wordpress Tutorials: Part 2

In the first part I gave you the link of some tutorials related to Wordpress Basics, Plugins and The Backends. In this part I will give you the link of some tutorials related to Wordpress Theme.

Theme Tutorials

- How to Create a WordPress Theme from Scratch

Nettuts+ author Sam Parkinson gives a thorough overview of how to make your own custom theme from scratch, complete with source code.

- So You Want to Create WordPress Themes, Huh?

A lengthy and thorough series of tutorials covering nearly every aspect of WordPress theme development. A must-read for beginners.

- WordPress for Designers: Video Series

Drew Douglass will teach us, using easy to understand screencasts, exactly how to design for WordPress.

- WordPress Theme Hacks

A collection of simple WordPress hacks that you’ll find yourself reusing all the time when working with themes.

- Designing for WordPress Screencast

CSSTricks has an excellent 3-step screencast that starts with the basics of solid theme design (step 2 andstep 3).

- Turning a Web Template Into a WordPress Theme

Instead of using one of the many standard WordPress themes, you could convert a web template into a WordPress theme with this video tutorial.

- WordPress CSS Guides

A slightly-dated but still useful guide on how to alter the CSS on default themes to create your own personalized theme.

- How to Create a WordPress Theme in 5 Minutes

Bothack has a quick-n-dirty rundown on how to create your own WordPress theme in 5 minutes.

- Mastering WordPress Theme Hacks and Techniques

Nuope has a 4-part series on Mastering CSS, one of which is how to master WordPress theme hacks.

- Blog Posts in Different Columns

If you’re wanting a little more advanced look and feel to your blog, try setting the posts to display in different columns.

- Adding Tabs to Your Theme’s Sidebar

Here’s a quick hack that adds tabs to your sidebar using Yahoo! Tab View.

- Category Styling

This tutorial shows how to add messages in the theme for posts in a certain category using CSS.

- Multiple Page Layouts in a Single Template

If you’re looking for a more diversified template for sub-pages in a template, check out this quick tutorial for mutiple page layouts in a single template.

- Rounded Corner Tab Menus

Rubique has a quick tutorial on how to use CSS to make rounded corners for your WordPress menus.

- Dynamic Classes or ID’s

Elliot Jay Stocks as a useful tutorial on how to apply a dynamic body class or ID to your templates, for styling purposes.

- Formatting Images for Feed Readers

How to make sure your images are looking good in many of your blog follower’s favorite medium: the feed reader.

- How to Highlight Author Comments in WordPress

Google blogger Matt Cutts offers some advice on how to style your author comments differently than the rest of the reader comments.

- Customizing Widgets Using CSS

Widgets are a great way to quickly add information to your layout (namely the sidebar). Here’s a tutorial onhow to style the widgets using CSS.

- Using Sliding Doors with WordPress Navigation

The Sliding Doors technique is a great way to utilize CSS and background images to make tabbed navigation. WPHacks shows us how to utilize Sliding Doors to enhance WordPress navigation.

- WordPress Categories in a Horizontal Drop-down Menu

How to use CSS and Javascript to make a horizontal drop-down menubar.

- Separate Comments from Trackbacks

It’s a good idea to separate trackbacks from your comments.

- Creating a Widget Ready Footer

There’s a trend for blogs to have footers that feature columns of extra information. Learn how to create awidget-ready WordPress footer.

- Make a Featured Post Carousel

Many blogs use a featured post carousel to show recent posts or flagship content. Learn how to create this nifty feature with Nettuts+ author James Lao.

- How to Lay Text Over Images

Add a little flair to your blog and add some text to your flagship images by only using WordPress custom fields.

- The Date/Image Hack

Interesting tutorial on how to combine a combination of images, CSS and WordPress hooks in order to graphically display the date of the published post.

- Dynamic Sticky Pages

Learn how to dynamically make posts stay on top longer in category and archive listings using multiple loops.

Thats' All for today.

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