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Build Your Own Wicked Wordpress Themes by Cole
Wicked WordPress Themes is a step-by-step guide to creating beautiful themes for the world's most popular CMS, WordPress. By following the book's advice, readers can produce designs that are aesthetically stunning, consistent, and for-purpose -whether it's for their own use, or to drive a high price on the theme marketplace. All facets of theme design are from design, coding, and deployment, to ensuring readers' designs are ready-to-go as soon as they're installed. Wicked WordPress Themes teaches readers how to leverage theme design frameworks to dramatically shorten development time, enabling them to enter the theme market faster.
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First published June 25, 2010
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Allan Cole
73books66followersAllan Cole was an American author and television writer, who wrote or co-wrote nearly thirty books.The son of a CIA operative, Cole was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and raised in Europe, the Middle East and the Far East. He collaborated with Chris Bunch on the Sten science fiction series, as well the Far Kingdoms Series, and the historical novels, A Reckoning For Kings and Daughter Of Liberty.
He co-authored a non-fiction book A Cop's Life with his uncle, Thomas Grubb; and a fantasy novel Lords Of Terror with Russian author Nick Perumov.His solo books include the fantasy novels that make up the Timura Trilogy and the thrillers, Dying Good and Drowned Hopes.
He sold more than a hundred television episodes, including ones for Quincy, M.E., The Rockford Files, The Incredible Hulk, Dinosaucers, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Magnum, P.I., Werewolf, and Walker, Texas Ranger.
He was also a Los Angeles newspaper editor and investigative reporter for 14 years.
Cole was married to Chris Bunch's sister, Kathryn. He died of cancer in Boca Raton, Florida, aged 75, on March 29, 2019.
He co-authored a non-fiction book A Cop's Life with his uncle, Thomas Grubb; and a fantasy novel Lords Of Terror with Russian author Nick Perumov.His solo books include the fantasy novels that make up the Timura Trilogy and the thrillers, Dying Good and Drowned Hopes.
He sold more than a hundred television episodes, including ones for Quincy, M.E., The Rockford Files, The Incredible Hulk, Dinosaucers, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Magnum, P.I., Werewolf, and Walker, Texas Ranger.
He was also a Los Angeles newspaper editor and investigative reporter for 14 years.
Cole was married to Chris Bunch's sister, Kathryn. He died of cancer in Boca Raton, Florida, aged 75, on March 29, 2019.
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September 8, 2010
This is an excellent primer with clear directions on how to build your own Wordpress Themes.
It is not intended to be an introduction to Wordpress, installation, management, etc. It assumes that the reader already has basic Wordpress skills and a clear understanding of HTML, CSS, some PHP/javascript/JQuery, etc.
It is not intended to be an introduction to Wordpress, installation, management, etc. It assumes that the reader already has basic Wordpress skills and a clear understanding of HTML, CSS, some PHP/javascript/JQuery, etc.
August 11, 2016
كتاب ممتاز جداً ولكن يحتاج إلى أن تكون ذات خلفية جيدة عن نظام ادراة المحتوى وردبريس
September 8, 2011
كتاب جيد جدا لتعلم تصميم قوالب وورد بريس حيث يبدأ بك من الأساسيات وانتهاءا بكل ما تريد ويعتمد في التصميم على طريقة القوالب المبنية على أخرى أو ما يسمي Child themes
March 6, 2022
Very strong read for web adopters from early days, has a mixture of web 1.0 being upgrade to web 2.0
February 23, 2014
This book had excellent information on creating a theme presented in a enjoyable and readable manner. I'd recommend it to anyone creating a theme. It goes into a reasonable depth without focusing on the detail. The only thing I found missing was walkers, but they are so specialized and code focused I found excluding them to be a reasonable choice.
March 19, 2014
Very helpful. My only hangup is that I wish it was more universal and not written with a certain framework (Thesis) in mind. But, if you are familiar with the WordPress set up, you can tweak and customize just about any theme or create your own child themes with the help of this book.
January 3, 2016
Finally a theming book that doesn't assume one is a designer and/or wants to start in Photoshop. This is a theming book for Wordpressers. Had to find the third (?) edition to have something on custom posts -> make sure you get hold of the newest edition,
January 28, 2011
it's a good start for anyone looking to them. using a framework to begin with is a genius idea (kinda like using design patterns....you can revert if you screw up)
February 3, 2016
I thought this was an excellent source of information for anyone looking to build a WordPress theme. It was well laid out and had some good code tips in it.
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