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Tiga1 is a simple three column theme that I did as a learning exercise in order to understand the WordPress theme system.
Writing a new WordPress theme from scratch is surprisingly not too difficult, given the excellent documentations.
Perhaps one day I’ll write a simple tutorial on how to do it if there’s enough demand.
To install:-
- Download tiga.zip (version 1.0.2).
- Unzip it to your local PC.
- Upload the ‘tiga’ directory to ‘wp-content/themes’ so that you have ‘wp-content/themes/tiga’.
- Go to the ‘wp-admin’ presentation page and select ‘Tiga’ as your active theme.
After a successful installation go to the ‘Presentation’ tab in the ‘Admin’ interface. You will see a new ‘Tigarator’ submenu there. If you click on this tab, a page with various configurable options can be seen.
If you need to configure the theme even further, you can edit ’style.php to add your changes.
Once you’re satisfied with your changes you can go to:-
http://your-wp-path/wp-content/themes/tiga/style.php
to retrieve the CSS file produces and save it in ’style.css’.
Important: Please do this from IE! This is because ‘style.php’ generates some extra codes for IE compatibility. So doing this from IE will ensure that this extra code is generated and your pages would look consistent in IE and also most modern browsers.
You can then switch to this stylesheet by selecting a checkbox in the admin page. You may also want to do this to produce a back up of your style changes.
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