This is the third part in the series about how to create a WordPress theme. In the last part I showed how to convert your idea into a regular html page. In this part I show you how to add the WordPress functions that are needed to make it compatible with WordPress. During the course of the tutorial I also discuss how to make it

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Browsing around, I see a lot of posts about SEO but I rarely see a post that discusses how to validate your web pages. It's almost as if validation is taken for granted! There are two validations to be performed on a page - xhtml and css. In this post I show you:

1> Why you should validate a web page.
2>

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This is the latest in my WordPress Series dealing with how to create a WordPress theme. In previous part I discussed why you should have a unique theme and various methodologies on how to come up with your theme. Converting the design into a theme is a two step process. This post details the first step - that of turning the des

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This is the first part in the new series on how to create a wordpress theme from scratch. In this part I discuss why you should consider having a unique theme instead of picking one of the thousands of free themes available.

Next we look at the different types of layout you can use. There are many ways of designing the look

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This is the next part of the WordPress series. In this part you will learn how to modify a WordPress theme. This part deals with modifying the comment section of the single post page.

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This is the latest in my WordPress Series dealing with how to modify a WordPress theme. In this part I show you how to use Cascading Style Sheets to modify the appearance of a post on the single page.

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Social Networking is all about building relationships. One way you can do this is by thanking those that Stumble your posts. If you do this they are more likely to Stumble other posts for you. But how do you know who did it? This foxed me for a while until I came up with this solution.

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This is the next part in my WordPress series, specifically it is the second part on how to modify a WordPress Theme. In the last part we modified the header and navigation bar, in this part we modify the sidebar.

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How would you like an extra $100? A group of us have got together to create this contest with a prize of one hundred dollars. The contest is extremely easy to enter (see blog post for details) and you can have multiple entries.

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This is the next part of my WordPress series. In this part you will learn how to modify a WordPress theme. You shall be using the Sandbox theme as a base. You will learn how to edit the php and css files to change the appearance of the page header and navigation bar.

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This is the next part in my series about WordPress themes. In this part I discuss what (free)tools you will need to create your page layouts. Next up, I go over what HTML and CSS is. There are some exercises for you to practise some very basic html and css coding. This was written with the total novice in mind.

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This is the next part in my WordPress series. So far we have created a local web server, installed a local copy of WordPress and copied the theme and plugins to it. In this part we duplicate the database on the local mirror of your blog.

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There comes a time in some blogs when you have to change your permalinks. This is often because of a lack of planning at the start of the blog, a change in focus or a change of blog software.

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This is the second in my WordPress series on creating a local mirror of your blog. This series is very hands-on practical stuff and is written for the total newbie, though geeks are also welcome ;)

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There are many ways to choose a wordpress theme and there are many sources where you can obtain them. Choosing the right theme for your blog can be difficult, it must suit the subject matter of the blog, it must be seo (search engine optimized) and it should support widgets.

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