Customizing your Wordpress Theme – Part 2
The site redesign is complete, carrying on where I left off in Part 1. The second part of the redesign brought me to the world of custom fields and really enlightened me on the possibilities and flexibility of Wordpress. I thoroughly enjoyed this process, here’s some essential resources.
Custom Fields
By reading and trying out the various hacks listed below, you will gain insight into the possibilities……
- WordPress Custom Fields; laying text over your lead graphic
- In Praise of Wordpress Template Tags, Part II: The Magazine Layout
- Combining Featured Posts with the Standard Loop
- Add Thumbnails to Wordpress with Custom Fields
- Wordpress Tip: 3 Awesome Custom Field Tricks
- Images, thumbnails and custom fields in WordPress
- Wordpress Codex - Using custom fields
Hacks
The functions you see on Neowster are all adapted from the following in one way or another.
- How to : Integrate a slideshow in your wordpress theme
- Sliding top panel using mootools
- Parsing and Hacking External RSS Feeds in WordPress
- Looking for a “Recently Updated” Wordpress Plugin
- Huge Compilation of WordPress Code
- How to: Integrate a pagination in your WordPress theme
Templates
Great free “Magazine” style templates for you to download, dissect, and digest.
Plugins
These plugins will make creating your magazine style theme much easier.
That’s it. After many late nights, not to mention the constant nagging from my wife, it was all worth it. Next stop, Wordpress as a eshop……
Neowster is short for Noel's & Esther's Own World. This is a personal hobbyist site, maintained mainly for the purpose of honing my knowledge in WordPress, and sharing useful information or knowledge to make someone's life easier. To a smaller extend, I hope to propagate the ideology of Crowdsourcing, as I see it as the best mechanism in regulating our unregulated capitalistic world, overcoming humanity's trait of greed, self interest, and fear, in arriving at the best decision. 
October 15th, 2008 at 10:51 pm
hello noel
would u mind sharing the theme now?
i’m greatly interested in it
October 15th, 2008 at 11:04 pm
Hi nazu,
Glad to see that you’re still interested. I am actually in the process of packaging it such that it will work “out of the box” with only essential plugins needed. Will let you know when its ready. In fact I plan for it to be the next post of this site. Just that couldn’t find time to get down working. Shouldn’t be long though.
October 17th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
hi noel,
thanks for the quick reply.
i’ll be waiting for the released.
thanks a lot :):)