The anatomy of a WordPress theme (Infographic)

FWIW - I made "the simplest possible Wordpress theme" in an effort to understand what the bare minimum Wordpress theme requires (to get into their theme directory). You can see it here: http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/simplest

Re: The anatomy of a WordPress theme (Infographic)

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Post by btig » Tue, Jan 11, 2011, 9:03 AM UTC

Here's another that's been sitting in my bookmarks: How to Build a Custom WordPress Theme from Scratch - http://www.blog.spoongraphics.co.uk/tutorials/how-to-build-a...

Re: The anatomy of a WordPress theme (Infographic)

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Post by shashank261 » Tue, Jan 11, 2011, 9:04 AM UTC

Very good infographic, would have helped if more info had been provided. Useful anyway

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Post by arkitaip » Tue, Jan 11, 2011, 11:01 AM UTC

chanri wrote: post #2

Excellent graphic describing wordpress theme file structure. It would be very interesting to know if other CMS's share a similar file structure. How does this compare to Drupal or Joomla for example?

As someone who works with both Wordpress and Drupal, let me just say that theming Wordpress feels easy and fun where Drupal feels too complex and very hard to grasp because there are so many aspects of the system that can be themed and each part does theming differently. Start using Drupal with CCK and views and you will know what I mean, you will know and weep :(

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Post by RP_Joe » Tue, Jan 11, 2011, 12:06 PM UTC

I sure could have used this info 6 months ago. Thank You!

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Post by ambiate » Tue, Jan 11, 2011, 12:46 PM UTC

Notice the link at the end of the infographic. Boosting with backlinks is fun. I never used infographics for SEO, but that sure does seem to work for link/keyword juice on these types of sites.

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Post by jeffclark » Tue, Jan 11, 2011, 1:00 PM UTC

Wordpress, despite it's "n00b"-y feeling, makes it really really ridiculously easy to get your MVP out the door. Simple account management, simple CMS'ing, and well documented enough so you can spend your time on your business and not your framework.

Groupon's MVP was an WP blog and we used it for http://playlookit.com