{"id":151,"date":"2010-09-21T14:41:45","date_gmt":"2010-09-21T14:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/?p=151"},"modified":"2022-07-25T23:27:41","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T22:27:41","slug":"book-review-build-your-own-wicked-wordpress-themes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/2010\/09\/book-review-build-your-own-wicked-wordpress-themes\/","title":{"rendered":"Book review &#8211; Build your own wicked wordpress themes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/wicked-wordpress-themes-book-review-poor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-152\" title=\"wicked-wordpress-themes-book-review-poor\" src=\"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/wicked-wordpress-themes-book-review-poor.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"251\" \/><\/a>I was disappointed with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sitepoint.com\/books\/wordpress1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this book <\/a>(<em>Build Your Own Wicked WordPress Themes<\/em>). I <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World's_Biggest_Bookstore\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">picked it up <\/a>recently when on holidays, for a read on the flight home, ahead of a web design project I had ahead of me. It was a hasty decision in highinsight.\u00a0After a two-minute glance, I saw that it was based on WordPress 3 and it mentioned some keywords on taxonomies and other new features, however it didn&#8217;t deliver once I started to read it fully.<\/p>\n<p>The Main Downsides in my opinion were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No information on making a totally new\u00a0theme from scratch (what\u00a0I acually wanted)<\/li>\n<li>Only covered making a child theme (based on another existing theme)<\/li>\n<li>Focused too much on using the &#8220;Thematic Theme&#8221; as a framework to build upon.<\/li>\n<li>Lacked depth in discussing the Template Hierarchy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pros to the book were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Some useful code and information on widgets (however again, it was based on the thematic theme)<\/li>\n<li>Information on hooks and filters I didn&#8217;t know previously.<\/li>\n<li>Some inspirational\u00a0images of site designs (not what I was looking for).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It looks like I&#8217;ll have to go back over my original reference for creating a new wordpress theme. Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpdesigner.com\/2007\/02\/19\/so-you-want-to-create-wordpress-themes-huh\/\">http:\/\/www.wpdesigner.com\/2007\/02\/19\/so-you-want-to-create-wordpress-themes-huh\/<\/a>\u00a0I can&#8217;t recommend this series of articles enough. They really go through and explain creating a wordpress theme from the ground up. And anyways, most people who build static websites with xhtml, css and php\u00a0will have no bother creating all the elements required for a wordpress theme. First principles first!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was disappointed with this book (Build Your Own Wicked WordPress Themes). I picked it up recently when on holidays, for a read on the flight home, ahead of a web design project I had ahead of me. It was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/2010\/09\/book-review-build-your-own-wicked-wordpress-themes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,15],"tags":[16,35],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":697,"href":"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions\/697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}