WooThemes Modding Series Part 4: Adding the Extra Features

Posted on 30. Nov, 2009 by admin in Tutorials | 2 responses

In the final part, we are going to finish off our series by adding extra feature to our Moviestar theme. Nothing fancy, we will be adding a header banner to the theme (with zero margin, you will see), which comes with a theme options to change it.

Adding Extra Theme Options

We will call our new feature ‘Custom Banner’. And we will add the theme options under ‘General Settings’, just below ‘Custom Favicon’.

custom banner
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WooThemes Modding Series Part 3: Customize the Look & Feel

Posted on 29. Nov, 2009 by admin in Tutorials | 2 responses

In this part, we are going to change the look and feel of the theme.

We are going to give a ’stardom’ feeling to the theme (since it will be called ‘Moviestar’). For that purpose, we’ve picked this stock photo as the background image (courtesy of Pixmac):


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WooThemes Modding Series Part 2: Remove Stuff We Don’t Need

Posted on 28. Nov, 2009 by admin in Tutorials | 0 responses

In part 2, we are going to declutter – removing stuff we don’t need in the theme.

Removing Items in Theme Options

We looked at the theme options and figured we don’t need two things:

- The Theme Stylesheet selection (as we are going to define our own style).
- The ‘About You’ option (as we thought it could be better replaced by the blog tagline).
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WooThemes Modding Series Part 1: Personalize the Theme Options

Posted on 27. Nov, 2009 by admin in Tutorials | 0 responses

In this part of the series, we will play around with the theme options. If you haven’t download the Rockstar theme, download it here. Let’s get started:

A look into the Theme Options files

All of the theme’s functions details (including files and locations) can be located under ‘functions.php‘:
functions.php

So, since we are messing around with the theme options, the files we are going to modify are:

- functions/admin-interface.php: the theme options interface.
- includes/theme-options.php: the theme options items.
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WooThemes Modding Series: Turning Rockstar into Moviestar

Posted on 25. Nov, 2009 by admin in Tutorials | 7 responses

To prepare for the upcoming first ever WordPress theme mod competition, we have decided the publish a 4 part tutorial series on modding WordPress premium themes.

We’ve chosen Rockstar theme from WooThemes for this purpose because it’s free download for everyone, high customizable and the fact that we just love WooThemes.

The new modded theme will be named Moviestar. Here are what we will be covering for the next 4 days.

Part 1: Personalize the Theme Options.
Part 2: Declutter – remove stuff we don’t need.
Part 3: Customize the Look & Feel.
Part 4: Adding the Extra Features.

The entry level for this tutorial series will be fairly easy. Anyone who has a thin grasp of HTML, CSS and PHP would be able to follow.

Stay tuned.