WordPress CMS modifications

A new official WordPress theme website has been launched, which is based on the same format as the WordPress plugins repository. This is great news for WordPress theme developers as it provides a proper central resource for hosting downloads and responding to feedback.

Where it differs from the plugin repository is that they have streamlined the upload process for authors - so you don’t have to worry about Subversion (to quote the announcement post ‘our back end magic takes care of all that for you’ - good work guys! Automated checks are carried out when you upload the theme in a zip file, with error reporting - nice!

This also means that users don’t have to worry about nasty adware and links when using these themes - if they stick to the official WordPress theme repository they should avoid these potential problems.

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When you start getting deeper into WordPress theme development, you will often have to reference images, includes and other files. To keep things tidy, you should keep all of these in the template folder. Then you can move your theme around different blogs and websites and all the paths will work.

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It’s easy to generate your own custom pages and include any code you wish. Once created, you select which page template to use in the write/edit page sidebar.

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