60+ Awesome WordPress Tutorials

April 7th, 2009 by kailoon under Blog, Tips

Everyone want to have their own WordPress theme, they want to be unique and be able to present their own style. Here I have compile a list of “how to create your own WordPress theme” tutorials/articles. I hope this can save your time on searching and pay attention to your very own WordPress theme development.

Installation

Before start your own WordPress Theme, you may need to know how to install WordPress. Just in case if you don’t know.

1. How to Install WordPress on Your Own Server + Video Tutorial

Michael D. Pollock shows you how to install WordPress on your own server via step by step tutorial and screencast.

2. Multiple WordPress Installations Using a Single Database

Streamline your WordPress set-up by installing multiple instances of WordPress on the same database.

3. My WordPress Install Process

David Peralty is sharing his experience on how to install WordPress and break down the process into step by step tutorial.

4. Leopard: How to Install WordPress

Installing a local version of wordpress is one of the first things most designers and developers need to do. Leopard adds many new wrinkles to this task. These steps should get you up and running as painlessly as possible on OS X 10.5.

Theme Tutorials

I don’t know why, I think the most wanted tutorial from WordPress is designing a theme.

5. So you want to create WordPress themes huh?

A series of tutorials guiding you to create your very own WordPress theme. I think this quite popular.

6. How To Create WordPress Themes From Scratch

A series of tutorial guiding you to create a WordPress theme from scratch. Ya, this is by me. This is a little bit advance because there is a section involved creating featured post.

7. Make your Own WordPress Theme – Part 1

Another series of tutorial guiding you to create a WordPress theme. This tutorials break into 7 parts, quite details.

8. Stop Tweaking! Create Your Own WordPress Theme

This is a very basic tutorial, I recommend to anyone how are very new to WordPress but wish to learn how to create WordPress theme.

9. Premium WordPress Theme Design Part 1 – The Photoshop Mock Up

As you can see from the title, this is something premium. So, make sure you have enough knowledge to continue reading…

10. How to Create a WordPress Theme from Scratch

Nettuts present this awesome tutorial (written by Sam Parkinson).

11. How-To: Create a WordPress Theme in 5 minutes

This is hardcore, in 5 minutes. But it is quite complete, I admit that.

12. WordPress for designer

This is my favorite tutorial, it is fun to learn via screencast. Besides, the tutorial is very complete.

13. Complete WordPress Theme Guide

A comprehensive guide on how to install WordPress and customize theme. Also check out the part 2 of this tutorial – Building Custom WordPress Theme.

14. Build a Newspaper Theme with WP_Query and the 960 CSS Framework

For a non-traditional or magazine-style layout, this tutorial will take you through the specific WordPress coding that’s involved and you’ll create a simple, but attractive, sample layout.

15. Designing for WordPress

Chris Coyier of CSS-Tricks has a three-part video series for downloading and installing WordPress, all the way through everything else involved with designing a custom theme. The example theme that is built through the series is a personalized homepage theme.

16. Developing a WordPress Theme

Deziner Folio did a tutorial that covers the basics of the header, sidebar, footer and index files. This one is not as in-depth as some of the others on this list, but it is a good place to get a quicker understanding of theme development.

17. Creating a WordPress Template

A video tutorial series ( part2 and 3) for creating a WP theme using a variety of free tools.

18. How to make a “child theme” for WordPress

A video tutorial.

19. Creating A WordPress Theme

Another nice guide.

20. How to write your own wordpress theme

A very extensive tutorial which covers the basics.

WordPress Theme Hacks and Techniques

Here are some WordPress hacks for you to make WordPress a better blogging tool.

21. Mastering WordPress Theme Hacks and Techniques

By Noupe.

22. WordPress Theme Hacks

A collection of simple WordPress hacks that you’ll find yourself reusing all the time when working with themes.

23. Category Hacks for WordPress Theme Designers

Category Hacks for WordPress Theme Designers by VandelayDesign. Also check out the Category Styling for posts in a certain category using CSS.

24. Multiple Page Layouts in a Single Template

If you’re looking for a more diversified template for sub-pages in a template, check out this quick tutorial for mutiple page layouts in a single template.

25. WordPress as a CMS – Content Management System

Turn WordPress into a real CMS.

Menu And Navigation

Menu is the main part of a web design. It may somehow attract people to navigate, also, easy to navigate is still the key. But nowadays, people want it to be more advance and nice looking!

26. Rounded Corner Tab Menus

Rubique has a quick tutorial on how to use CSS to make rounded corners for your WordPress menus.

27. Using Sliding Doors with WordPress Navigation

The Sliding Doors technique is a great way to utilize CSS and background images to make tabbed navigation. WPHacks shows us how to utilize Sliding Doors to enhance WordPress navigation.

28. WordPress Categories in a Horizontal Drop-down Menu

How to use CSS and Javascript to make a horizontal drop-down menubar.

29. How To: Making a Categories Drop-Down Menu

Making a Categories Drop-Down Menu.

30. Magazine style Horizontal dropdown menu

Magazine alike horizontal dropdown menu. Great one!

31. Dynamic Menu Highlighting

Dynamic menu highlighting is a way to give users a reference point with which to navigate.

Comments

Well, people like to discuss, debate and even fire to each other. So, a nice comment design is necessary.

32. Styling Your WordPress Comments

How to make your comment area looks more standout.

33. Separating Trackbacks from Comments

How to separate trackbacks and comments. I also have the same tutorial here.

34. Adding Recent Comments To Your WordPress Theme

How to display recent comments in the sidebar.

35. Ajax Commenting

Implementing Ajax into comment. Make it more interactive and user friendly.

36. How-to style WordPress author comments

Make author comment more stand out.

37. Separate Comments from Trackbacks

It’s a good idea to separate trackbacks from your comments.

Theme Option Or backend

38. Custom Write Panels in the WordPress Backend

Design blog WeFunction shows us how to create extra write panels for adding extra bits to the “Write” page of the admin area.

39. WordPress as a CMS

WordPress isn’t just a blogging tool, it can also be a CMS with the help of some plugins and theme retooling.

40. Exporting WordPress Data

Learn how to import and export your WordPress posts and comments with this handy screencast.

41. Create an Options Page For Your WordPress Theme

In this article we will be incorporating an options panel for the ‘WordPress Classic’ theme. The methods you learn will allow you to very easily integrate it into an existing theme you’re working on.

42. Create an Options Page For Your WordPress Theme

Plugins

43. Your First WP Plugin

Mark Jaquith has a short-and-sweet screencast on how to create your first WordPress plugin in under 5 minutes.

44. How to Write a Simple WordPress Plugin

A step-by-step guide to a simple and fun WordPress plugin.

45. Screencast on Writing a WordPress Plugins

If you’re rather see a visual demonstration of how to write a WordPress plugin, look no further than the Weblog Tools Collection screencast.

46. How to create WordPress Plugin from a scratch

47. How to make a WordPress plugin with less than 20 lines of code

48. How to Make a Social Bookmarking WordPress Plugin – Step by Step

Make a social bookamarking plugin.

Miscellaneous

49. Making Better Use of Your Error 404 Page

50. Creating a dynamic sticky

51. How To Display Ads Only To Search Visitors

52. A custom login page

53. Display Twitter messages in WordPress

54. Allow Users To Submit Blog Post

55. Creating An Automatic Sitemap

Sitemaps help users navigate the site, as well as allow search engines to have quick access to all of your blog’s pages. Here’s a tutorial on how to create an automatic sitemap for your WordPress installation.

56. Build a Dynamic Design Portfolio

A terrific guide on how to utilize the query_posts tag to create a design portfolio with WordPress.

57. Create a User Contributed Link Feed w/ WordPress Comments

If you’re wanting to add a Nettuts+ style link feed, Collis has an excellent tutorial on how to utilize WordPress comments to create the feed.

58. Add a Twitter Field to your Form

How to install the twitip-id plugin to include a field for commenters to leave their Twitter ID.

59. How to Add Photo Captions

Good photo captions aren’t that something that WordPress themes usually come with out of the box. This screencast shows how to correctly add photo captions into your posts.

60. RSS-Only Posts

This tutorial shows you how to create posts that only appear in RSS feeds, in hopes to improve RSS subscriber counts.

61. WordPress SEO

Yaost has a lengthy tutorial on how to squeeze the most SEO out of your WordPress blog.

Notes

Am I missing something? If you have any other good resources about WordPress tutorials, feel free to leave it with your comment. I hope you enjoy this list!

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From old to new:

Akay April 7th, 2009

Nice collection thank you
izuddin.helmi April 7th, 2009

Thx!
Coooooool

I need a week to study that
Michael Martin April 7th, 2009

Awesome collection of tuts, thanks for including my site in there too!
Website Design April 8th, 2009

Very good list. Thanks. The ‘how to build a wordpress theme in 5 minutes’ was actually a lot better than I was expecting from the title. Check it out. Pretty good stuff.
Michael April 10th, 2009

By far, my favorite collection of collections.

To the point, one of the posts within one of these posts helped me solve a dynamic menu item i was setting up for a new site.

I’m glad I’ve kept themetation in my constantly trimmed rss library.

THANKS again for your effort with this post.
Terri April 19th, 2009

This is a very nice collection. I found this with a Tweet. Very cool.
Thomas April 28th, 2009

Thanks, great selection, I found the Theme Forest tutorial very interesting.
Rudy Silva May 6th, 2009

Woww! Nice collection..Im Impressed!
china May 31st, 2009

Good strong? Have no English
tea china May 31st, 2009

thanks for sharing information!!! ^0^
Levoltz June 2nd, 2009

Good collection..Im Stumbled!
Team Nirvana June 9th, 2009

A well deserved post.

Never did I find such a comprehensive list of all the things that can be done on WordPress.
Cherilynn Stone June 10th, 2009

Great info and very detailed! Thanks a lot for sharing this.
aliplanning June 14th, 2009

Thank you to share
Stop anxiety attack June 14th, 2009

Great compilation! This is very comprehensive about wordpress hosting. Thanks for sharing!
iwpdesign June 28th, 2009

Great article. I like this blog. Congrats.

ps. I’ve put your blog on my blogroll.
Maggie July 1st, 2009

Great links to start with wordpress. Thanks for sharing!
china wholesale August 18th, 2009

Thank you for this great theme!
We’ve translated it into Polish here.
ZoopMedia September 10th, 2009

Great list of resources. Already bookmarked this post!
mark September 20th, 2009

I will definitely use some of these tuts for myself.I also have a site about wordpress and some tutorials would fit into that.Thanks for great post
Популярные стили и мебель October 22nd, 2009

Спасиб .было оч интересно.
vikas ghodke November 26th, 2009

woow great collection
Tech-Freak Stuff November 28th, 2009

Freaking Amazing list! Thanks a ton! I am stepping stone to creating WP Themes…Very helpful list for me!
Anjang December 3rd, 2009

That’s very useful…many thanks
Subhadeep Gayen December 27th, 2009

Excellent tutorials listed here really helped me a lot keep up the great work , i’d also like to add this : How to add author details with gravatar on every post : http://pcandweb.com/tutorials/how-to-add-author-details-gravatar-wordpress-post.html
kakday January 16th, 2010

thanks sharing your collection
Lisa Bennett January 27th, 2010

Suggest you also check out the Kaltura WordPress plugin for all your video and rich-media needs on any WP blog: http://www.kaltura.org/project/video_wordpress_plugin
Nimit Kashyap February 1st, 2010

Very useful article, almost all the necessary tutorial of wordpress covered in this article.
Rikin Panchal February 23rd, 2010

Nice Tutorials to start wordpress
Wonoutorg April 19th, 2010

That’s a great tutor.. I can learn easily..
safety valve April 24th, 2010

Thank you for sharing, I really like
jonky July 27th, 2010

Awesome tutorial dude! Lovvin’ it..
lazaac September 8th, 2010

thanks… these list was helped me a lot..
Rezin Akbar October 13th, 2010

Thanks!

I’ve decided to follow your instruction
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Nice tutorial
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Very good written article. It will be useful to anybody who usess it, including yours truly . Keep up the good work – for sure i will check out more posts.
Wordpress Tutorials February 10th, 2012

Awesome Tutorial. Thanks for sharing!