After getting the child theme’s index.php done, from previous theme development experiences, I imagine you already know what I need to do for single.php and page.php. Nothing fancy, copy, past and delete the extra.
single.php
Change
<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
to
<?php the_content(); ?>
Add this line to support multiple pagination.
<?php wp_link_pages('before=<div class="page-link">' .__('Pages:', 'thematic') . '&after=</div>') ?>
Then I add comments template after page navigation
<?php comments_template('', true); ?>
Switch all widget area’s name to single
<?php get_sidebar('index-bottom') ?>
to
<?php get_sidebar('single-bottom') ?>
page.php
Apart from changing the widget area name again, I only added one extra line. Because the default thematic theme have a drop down menu design for sub pages which does not go well with my textured theme, I added this extra line for sub pages under post title.
<?php $children = wp_list_pages('title_li=&child_of='.$post->ID.'&echo=0'); if ($children) { ?> <?php echo $children; ?> <?php } ?>
Footer.php
Only simple copy, past add “subsidiary” widget area.
<?php global $options; foreach ($options as $value) { if (get_settings( $value['id'] ) === FALSE) { $$value['id'] = $value['std']; } else { $$value['id'] = get_settings( $value['id'] ); } } ?> </div><!-- #main --> <?php thematic_abovefooter(); ?> <div id="footer_bg"> <div id="footer"> <?php get_sidebar('subsidiary'); ?> <div id="siteinfo"> <?php /* footer text set in theme options */ echo do_shortcode(__(stripslashes(thematic_footertext($thm_footertext)), 'thematic')); ?> </div><!-- #siteinfo --> </div><!-- #footer --> </div><!-- #footer_bg --> <?php thematic_belowfooter(); ?> </div><!-- #wrapper .hfeed --> <?php wp_footer() ?> <?php thematic_after(); ?>
Finally, all done. the theme is free for downloading soon.
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Brilliant post! I’ve been busy making some themes myself, and what started out as just one theme ended up as over 20 wordpress sales page themes!
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Nice explanation
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