5. • Content Blocks
• Design for WP user AND reader
• Customization vs. Control
• Many types of content
• Sidebars, sidebars, sidebars
• Custom Menus
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6. Questions!
• What will this navigation look like with 12 items? Should we
support nested items?
• Which plugins are most likely to be installed? What will
they look like when in sidebar A, sidebar B, etc?
• What about this layout is fluid? What is fixed?
• What is part of the template and non-editable? What will the
user want to change?
• You are the designer. It’s your job to ask these questions
and to provide guidance to on how to answer them.
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7. A Basic Theme’s Structure
• Home Page • Search Results
• Blog River / Posts Page • Search Form
• Single Blog Page • Sidebar(s)
• Category Listing • Posts Archive
• Author Bio Page • 404 Page
• Post Format Templates • Basic Page Template
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8. Ok... and?
You are not the one in control.
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10. Posts
• Customizable into post types (products, books, etc.)
• Grouped and ordered by date posted (blog river)
• Appear in RSS feed
• Multiple formats
• Categories
• Tags
• Excerpt
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11. Featured
Images
• Attach an image to
any post, page or
custom post type.
• Use this image and
WordPress’s many
image features to call
the post out visually
anywhere.
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12. Pages
• Are implemented as a custom post type
• Explicit ordering
• Hierarchy
• Templates
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13. Empty
Pages
• Give it a name
• Select a template
• Content/structure/
etc. is defined in
template, not page
content
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15. Part of Sidebar
Page w/Widgets
Template (Custom &
Jetpack)
Custom Menu
8 Custom Menus
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16. Custom Post Types
• Not simply different “kinds of blog posts” (image,
quote, video, music, etc.), used to describe different
kind of thing (books, products, plants, etc.)
• Can be based on intrinsic post or page type
• Addition of custom meta fields make them very
powerful
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17. Post Type Labels
• Name • Not Found Text (“No Speakers
found that match your search”)
• Singular Name
• Not Found in Trash Text (“No
• Add New Text (“Add New
Speakers found in trash”)
Speaker”)
• Parent Item Name (Speakers
• All Items Label (“All Speakers”)
belong to a “Company”)
• Edit Item Label (“Edit Speaker”)
• Menu Name (if different from
• New Item Label (“New Speaker”) Name)
• View Item Label (“View Speaker”)
• Search Items (“Search for
Speakers”)
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18. Post Type Options
• Label (“Speakers”) • Show in Admin Bar (y/n)
• Labels (all on the last page) • Menu Position (#)
• Visible to Public Users (y/n) • Menu Icon
• Exclude from Search (y/n) • Capabilities (read, edit, delete,
publish, read private)
• Show Admin UI (y/n)
• Hierarchical (categories, etc)
• Show in Menus (y/n)
• Search Items (“Search for
Speakers”)
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19. Post Type Features
• Title • Custom Fields
• Editor • Comments
• Author • Revisions
• Thumbnail/Featured Image • Page Attributes
• Excerpt • Post Formats
• Trackbacks
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20. Custom
Taxonomies
• Categories & Tags are
implemented as
Custom Taxonomies
• Groupings and
parents of your
custom post types
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21. Custom Fields
• Custom data attached
to posts or custom
post types
• This data is available
during the Loop
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