This series of articles assumes you have at least basic XHTML and CSS skills, and little-to-no PHP skills.
One thing I get asked about quite a bit is how to customize (modify) an existing theme, in particular without using widgets. Basically the questions fall into 4 main categories:
- Changing the Header Image
- Modifying the Footer Content
- Changing text labels
- Modifying the Sidebar
Before we can jump into making any theme modifications, you need to understand how the sections of a post-related page are generated. This might seem a little more technical than you want to get, but trust me… it will make it all that much easier when you actually begin modifying a theme.
IMPORTANT: For the purpose of this series of tutorials, I’ll be using the WP 2.5.1 DEFAULT template for all examples.
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