Assignment
Install the iPirateMinimal theme and play around with it
Lecture Notes
The Basic Theme
Creating Page Templates
To create a page template, copy an existing template file, or start from scratch and add this to the top of your file:
1 2 3 4 5 | <?php /* Template Name: Company */ ?> |
The WordPress Codex on Pages has some great info on Page Templates
Sidebars
The iPirateMinimal theme contains 2 sidebars, you can create as many sidebars as you like and put them in any theme files you wish, just remember to register them in your functions.php (see lecture 5: Widgets)