Comments on: Wordpress Theme Development: Post Mortem

By: elena

elena — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:59:35 +0000

i’m triyng to do my own template so this informations helped me a lot..thanks very much Have a nice day

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By: Colin Barrett

Colin Barrett — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:13:32 +0000

@joshlews The archives were broken. I’ve fixed them.

By: Josh

Josh — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:27:04 +0000

My wife and I will soon be making our own template, and I'm more scared about it now than I was before I read this entry! I'm pretty handy with PHP, though, and she's got a pretty cool design up her sleeve, so hopefully we'll survive.

I really dig the sparseness of this one. Nice work. It lets the text stay in the center as the focus and doesn't distract me with a bunch of useless junk.

(Do you really only have two posts, or are your archives broken?)

By: Colin Barrett

Colin Barrett — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 01:36:18 +0000

I’ve updated the post with some new information. Thanks Robert and Peter!

By: Colin Barrett

Colin Barrett — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:10:43 +0000

Perhaps I should have been more specific. I'm using the next_post_link() and previous_post_link(). There isn't a display parameter nor is there a get_next_post_link() function.

By: Peter Hosey

Peter Hosey — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 23:59:06 +0000

The first annoyance is that most of the post-related functions (e.g. the_title()) don’t return their value, they output it directly.

And most of those (if not all of them) come in a “get_” version that returns the value. So, in this case, get_the_title.

ob_start();
the_title();
$title = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();

$title = get_the_title();

By: Robert Accettura

Robert Accettura — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 21:57:57 +0000

$title = the_title('','',false);

When in doubt, Google it.

Docs are good.

By: Anne

Anne — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 09:53:42 +0000

"I hope you all like the new theme, and that I never have to write another Wordpress template ever again."

You and me both! Looks great though, congrats!