Books by Tessa Blakeley Silver

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WordPress Theme Design

by Tessa Blakeley Silver
333 pages - - 10.8 MB New!

This title will take you through the ins and outs of creating sophisticated professional themes for the WordPress personal publishing platform. It will walk you through clear, step-by-step instructions to build a custom WordPress theme. From development tools and setting up your WordPress sandbox, through design tips and suggestions, to setting up your theme’s template structure, coding markup, testing and debugging, to taking it live it reviews the best practices. The last three chapters are dedicated to additional tips, tricks and various cookbook recipes for adding popular site enhancements to your WordPress theme designs using third-party plugins.

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WordPress 3.0 jQuery

by Tessa Blakeley Silver
333 pages - - 10.5 MB New!

This easy-to-use guide will walk you through the ins and outs of creating sophisticated, professional enhancements and features, specially tailored to take advantage of the WordPress personal publishing platform. It will walk you through clear, step-by-step instructions to build several custom jQuery solutions for various types of hypothetical clients and also show you how to create a jQuery and WordPress Plugin.This book covers step-by-step instructions for creating robust and flexible jQuery solutions for today’s top site enhancements: expanding / sliding content, rotating slideshows and other animation tricks, great uses of jQuery’s UI plugin widgets as well as AJAX techniques. Along with these it will also show you best practices for jQuery and WordPress development.

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WordPress Theme Development Beginner’s Guide

by Tessa Blakeley Silver, Rachel McCollin
333 pages - - 10 MB New!

The “WordPress Theme Development Beginner’s Guide, 3rd Edition” is an educational book that reveals how to create a WordPress theme design using HTML5 and CSS3. Tessa Blakeley Silver and Rachel McCollin are the authors of this great book. Tessa’s background is in print design and illustration. She evolved over the years into web and multi-media development, where she focuses on usability and interface design. In this book, the authors will guide the readers through the process of building their first themes. They will guide you step by step how to write the HTML and CSS for the theme, and then convert that code into PHP for the use in WordPress.