• I’ve designed my own theme using images, CSS files, and index.html. I’m now looking to convert that to WordPress and have been reading up on theming:

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development
    http://yoast.com/wordpress-theme-anatomy/

    To start, I took the “twentyten” theme and tried revising it to only include the base stuff needed. My images don’t seem to be relative to the theme, so I tried the suggested bloginfo(‘show’) function. Problem is that nothing shows. :-/ Am I missing some kind of hook to link this theme to WordPress? The theme is activated ok and I have the information right at the top of the style.css file. Any ideas?

    Thanks,
    – Matt

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  • Thread Starter Mateo1041

    (@mateo1041)

    Looks like WordPress is a lot pickier than I thought when it comes to index.php and header.php file structure. I tried coming up with my own copy of header.php, but it looks like I’ll need to include everything from the twentyten theme’s structure for it to even read my style sheet.

    What was the structure of your own header.php?

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/bloginfo

    what is the exact code you are using?

    (you can post up to ten lines of code directly here; for longer code please use a http://wordpress.pastebin.com/)

    ‘show’ is not an actual parameter, but a spaceholder for the possible parameter mentioned later in the docu

    Thread Starter Mateo1041

    (@mateo1041)

    Here’s what I have in header.php:

    <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
    <html>
       <head>
       <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1250">
       <meta name="generator" content="PSPad editor, www.pspad.com">
       <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css">
       <title><?php
    	/*
    	 * Print the <title> tag based on what is being viewed.
    	 */
    	global $page, $paged;
    
    	wp_title( '|', true, 'right' );
    
    	// Add the blog name.
    	bloginfo( 'name' );
    
    	// Add the blog description for the home/front page.
    	$site_description = get_bloginfo( 'description', 'display' );
    	if ( $site_description && ( is_home() || is_front_page() ) )
    		echo " | $site_description";
    
    	// Add a page number if necessary:
    	if ( $paged >= 2 || $page >= 2 )
    		echo ' | ' . sprintf( __( 'Page %s', 'twentyten' ), max( $paged, $page ) );
    
    	?></title>
    <?php
    	wp_head();
    ?>
       </head>
       <body>

    And here’s the twentyten version:

    <?php
    /**
     * The Header for our theme.
     *
     * Displays all of the <head> section and everything up till <div id="main">
     *
     * @package WordPress
     * @subpackage Twenty_Ten
     * @since Twenty Ten 1.0
     */
    ?><!DOCTYPE html>
    <html <?php language_attributes(); ?>>
    <head>
    <meta charset="<?php bloginfo( 'charset' ); ?>" />
    <title><?php
    	/*
    	 * Print the <title> tag based on what is being viewed.
    	 */
    	global $page, $paged;
    
    	wp_title( '|', true, 'right' );
    
    	// Add the blog name.
    	bloginfo( 'name' );
    
    	// Add the blog description for the home/front page.
    	$site_description = get_bloginfo( 'description', 'display' );
    	if ( $site_description && ( is_home() || is_front_page() ) )
    		echo " | $site_description";
    
    	// Add a page number if necessary:
    	if ( $paged >= 2 || $page >= 2 )
    		echo ' | ' . sprintf( __( 'Page %s', 'twentyten' ), max( $paged, $page ) );
    
    	?></title>
    <link rel="profile" href="http://gmpg.org/xfn/11" />
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" href="<?php bloginfo( 'stylesheet_url' ); ?>" />
    <link rel="pingback" href="<?php bloginfo( 'pingback_url' ); ?>" />
    <?php
    	/* We add some JavaScript to pages with the comment form
    	 * to support sites with threaded comments (when in use).
    	 */
    	if ( is_singular() && get_option( 'thread_comments' ) )
    		wp_enqueue_script( 'comment-reply' );
    
    	/* Always have wp_head() just before the closing </head>
    	 * tag of your theme, or you will break many plugins, which
    	 * generally use this hook to add elements to <head> such
    	 * as styles, scripts, and meta tags.
    	 */
    	wp_head();
    ?>
    </head>
    
    <body <?php body_class(); ?>>
    <?php echo "TEST" . bloginfo('show') . "TEST"; ?>
    <div id="wrapper" class="hfeed">
    	<div id="header">
    		<div id="masthead">
    			<div id="branding" role="banner">
    				<?php $heading_tag = ( is_home() || is_front_page() ) ? 'h1' : 'div'; ?>
    				<<?php echo $heading_tag; ?> id="site-title">
    					<span>
    						<a href="<?php echo home_url( '/' ); ?>" title="<?php echo esc_attr( get_bloginfo( 'name', 'display' ) ); ?>" rel="home"><?php bloginfo( 'name' ); ?></a>
    					</span>
    				</<?php echo $heading_tag; ?>>
    				<div id="site-description"><?php bloginfo( 'description' ); ?></div>
    
    				<?php
    					// Check if this is a post or page, if it has a thumbnail, and if it's a big one
    					if ( is_singular() &&
    							has_post_thumbnail( $post->ID ) &&
    							( /* $src, $width, $height */ $image = wp_get_attachment_image_src( get_post_thumbnail_id( $post->ID ), 'post-thumbnail' ) ) &&
    							$image[1] >= HEADER_IMAGE_WIDTH ) :
    						// Houston, we have a new header image!
    						echo get_the_post_thumbnail( $post->ID, 'post-thumbnail' );
    					else : ?>
    						<img src="<?php header_image(); ?>" width="<?php echo HEADER_IMAGE_WIDTH; ?>" height="<?php echo HEADER_IMAGE_HEIGHT; ?>" alt="" />
    					<?php endif; ?>
    			</div><!-- #branding -->
    
    			<div id="access" role="navigation">
    			  <?php /*  Allow screen readers / text browsers to skip the navigation menu and get right to the good stuff */ ?>
    				<div class="skip-link screen-reader-text"><a href="#content" title="<?php esc_attr_e( 'Skip to content', 'twentyten' ); ?>"><?php _e( 'Skip to content', 'twentyten' ); ?></a></div>
    				<?php /* Our navigation menu.  If one isn't filled out, wp_nav_menu falls back to wp_page_menu.  The menu assiged to the primary position is the one used.  If none is assigned, the menu with the lowest ID is used.  */ ?>
    				<?php wp_nav_menu( array( 'container_class' => 'menu-header', 'theme_location' => 'primary' ) ); ?>
    			</div><!-- #access -->
    		</div><!-- #masthead -->
    	</div><!-- #header -->
    
    	<div id="main">

    Does wp_nav_menu really need to be in header.php, or can it be in index.php instead?

    Thread Starter Mateo1041

    (@mateo1041)

    My goal is to keep things simple. I really don’t need a lot of additional stuff as I’ll manually plug that into the theme itself. I’m ideally just looking for blog functionality (loop), side panels, menu generation, and pages.

    Thread Starter Mateo1041

    (@mateo1041)

    I think I’m beginning to figure things out. The main issue seemed to be the reference to style.css. From the guide I was reading, it seemed that a relative link of “style.css” would do. Instead, I had to use bloginfo( ‘stylesheet_url’). Stylesheet image references appear to be the only ones that are relative. I had to use the following in the index.php file for the logo:

    echo get_bloginfo('template_url') . '/images/logo.png'

    for child themes you can use get_stylesheet_directory_uri()

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