Custom WordPress Design and Developments
This post will start a series of articles about building custom Websites based on WordPress and the Semiomantics XO Theme.
We will therefore use most of our remaining daily Ycademy calls this month to go into advanced customization issues. But first we will start at the beginning by planning and formulating a project which will allow us to test code, functions and design.
Semiomantics XO Custom Theme for WordPress
The WordPress Custom Project
For the purpose of this exercise, we will build plan and execute a hypothetical customer’s project.
The new website will be about WordPress, namely about WordPress Tips, Themes and Plugins. It’s a site for a WordPress developer and web designer.
The Architecture of the site
The structure of the Website will be based on WordPress and include some static pages such as the About, Contact, Imprint and Privacy pages as well as structured dynamic content. As the site will focus on 3 main topics, Tips, Themes and Plugins, we will build for each of these topics custom Posts and Taxonomies.
The Developer’s environment
To build the new website in a test environment, we install BitNami and namely the WordPress stack (free download). BitNami creates an independent (Apache) server environment with MySQL server and installed WordPress, ready to use via our browser. If you are used to Firefox and Firebug, you will find it easy to customize your styles and designs.
Now we can access the WordPress Dashboard via the browser and the files using windows explorer.
We are ready to start working on our project. Please look forward to the next related post where we will start adding Semiomantics XO and start building our custom child theme.
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