Ya know an “edit” feature would probably be a handy thing to have here.
I don’t get what you’re trying to do. is it already installed? if so, did you go to
dashboard
->appearance
->themes
->editor
and then edit the index file from there?
There is one. You can edit your forum posts for a full hour after publishing them.
Have you also created header.php and footer.php template files in your new theme?
hey thanks for replying guys. Here is a list of the files I currently have present in the test site
404.php
archive.php
attachment.php
author.php
category.php
comments.php
date.php
footer.php
front-page.php
functions.php
header.php
home.php
image.php
index.php
rtl.css
search.php
sidebar.php
style.css
tag.php
taxonomy.php
And also While the header.php, sidebar.php and footer.php may not be coded correctly shouldn’t the Index.php pull something at least and display something ??
Ok I could see if there was a problem with the header.php file that might incorrectly setup the tags for the index page i.e. not properly opening teh body tag etc. SO I just tried substatuting the twety ten header.php for the header.php file in my new theme didn’t work still nothing displayes.
So I have WP running locally on my desktop machine I am creating the files through an editor, in this case Web Matrix . And I can open the site with Internet Explorer at the address http/localhost:21990/ which is local host on port 21990 the port Web Matrix setup in its test server in IIS
Interestingly Microsoft now supports PHP development through their Web Matrix product complete with a WordPress install and configuration for running PHP and a Database backend for WordPress to use.
It all runs fine except for the test theme I’m trying to work up to learn how to create my own themes. Any other theme works ujust fine.
Have you set debug to true on WordPress wp-config.php
That could help to tell what’s wrong.
OK just tried that. Getting nothing. Luckyly I can atleas get to the admin pages it’s just that the site itself won’t display /run
Is this a complete custom theme? Or are you modifying an existing theme?
I think what would be really helpful would be just the barest minimum flies and corresponding code to get a working theme.
Surely someone out there has such a thing and surely there must be such a thing.
I’m pretty sure if I start from just the barest minimum and then start adding things from there until something breaks , learning how themes work and the anatomy of a theme would be sooo much easier.
Or http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/oenology —
Though it’s not “minimal” in the way the above theme is, it’s designed “as an educational reference for Theme development” – it has lots of explanations built into the theme files.
Twenty Ten was designed as an instructional theme too – although I felt they over-complicated it a little. I expect they were just showing off π
Or http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/oenology —
Though it’s not “minimal” in the way the above theme is, it’s designed “as an educational reference for Theme development” – it has lots of explanations built into the theme files
Yeah actually the one above isn’t formatted to well as most, almost all of the menu is off the page. Really difficult to navigate the admin panel
thanks I’ll check this one out
Or http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/oenology —
Though it’s not “minimal” in the way the above theme is, it’s designed “as an educational reference for Theme development” – it has lots of explanations built into the theme files.
OK, well this certainly looks promising. Thank you very much.