Wordpress templates & hacks

Preparing this blog was exciting and it took longer than expected. It was the first time I got into Wordpress templating and as always, until you need it, you hardly enter a new domain.

Previous experience with Wordpress was resuming at making small changes to predefined templates and trying new plugins. In the quest of creating GetHelpFor.com blog I wanted to implement a template from scratch. Well, I did not designed it (see the footer credentials), I took it from the Open Source Webdesign website and attempted to adapt it to suit the Wordpress and this particular blog’s needs.

Now the recipe:

a template from Open Source Webdesign (OSWD) website;
for basic information I used the “So you want to create WordPress themes huh?” tutorial, found through googling;
for some tweaking and cool feature usage I tried “WordPress Theme Hacks“
first I modified the template from OSWD to make it look the way I wanted to;
and then I used the tutorials listed above to make it work in Wordpress.

All in one, it felt great learning something new (for me) and I want to send a big THANK YOU to all the designers who generously open-sourced some great templates on OSWD and to the authors of the two tutorials. I am sure there are literally hundreds of Wordpress tutorials out there on the web. If you have them, let us know. These two did the initial trick for me.

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