Comments on: How To Edit Your WordPress Theme

By: jurgen waibel

jurgen waibel — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 19:41:03 +0000

Hi!
Your instructional videos are just great and enable an ignoramus like me to work through with confidence. Whilst trying to register my sitemap at Google I’ve become stuck installing the Meta Tag – I read all about Tags, but the patterns seem to be different. Maybe you could add the Meta Tag installation to your Tag instructions?
Your explanations are very clear and easy to follow. Thank you very much!
Jurgen

By: Ninja Shawn

Ninja Shawn — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 20:36:17 +0000

Hi Ed, unfortunately I’m wouldn’t be the best person to ask, since I’m not a theme designer, just a techie who likes setting up blogs. I can tweak themes and customize them to my needs, but I don’t design them from scratch.

To use an analogy from the world of cars, I’m like a mechanic and a theme designer would be more like a body shop. We both work on cars, but completely different skill sets.

By: ed

ed — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 20:26:48 +0000

Very nice video. It’s really nice to see tha you took the time, and made life easier for the rest of us. it would be nice to see a better explanation on how to affect the graphical (boxes/pictues/borders) on a WP theme. I have a background working with GoLive, DreamWeaver, Photoshop to design sites and HTML is really confusing to someone used to a graphical interfase. Perhaps you can illustrate how to make a theme using one of these tools?

Linus made a good attempt at doing this here.

however, it falls short. Maybe a video guide would get us noobies farther along…

Thanks,

By: Evelyn

Evelyn — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 11:41:35 +0000

The video tutorials are awesome! I’ll go along with Christine on this one: How to manipulate the sidebar widgets.

I’ll look around before I ask for stuff that may already be here. This is a great resource! May I share this place with others who I think would benefit?

By: Christine Scaman

Christine Scaman — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 03:55:08 +0000

This is an excellent learning video. Very clear, easy to follow, and gives you the confidence to start working with code and realize it’s fairly intuitive (not something I say about computers very often). I appreciate most the feeling of independence from managing my own blog’s appearance.
It would be great to see more of these. Some topic suggestions: How to get the RSS button on the page with the appearance and location you choose ; How to manipulate the sidebar widgets ; How to display the tagline under the blog title in the header bar ; How to remove the ‘If You’re New… RSS Feed’ box that displays when new visitors log on ; How to create a sitemap for users, and have the number of posts in each category displayed in brackets beside the category name on the Home page; How to …I’ll stop there. This list should keep you busy for awhile.
Teaching people to do things online is the future of the Internet. And they will love you for it.
Christine