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WordPress is one of the most popular applications in the web design community not only for its ease of use as a blogging platform, but for its versatility in any kind of content managed website. Building custom themes for WordPress is pretty straight forward, making it one of the easiest templating systems to master. This post rounds up 15 of the best WordPress theme tutorials, each taking you through the process of building your own WP theme from scratch.
This thorough 11 part tutorial series takes you through every detail of creating your own WordPress theme from scratch. The series begins with a look at the structure of a WordPress theme before taking a close look at each of the various template files.
Even some of the oldest WordPress theme tutorials are still the best today. I remember reading this WPDesigner post back in 2007 and using it myself to get the hang of building WordPress themes. A lot of features have been included in WordPress since 2007, but the core process of building themes remains the same.
Sam Parkinson takes us through the process of building this custom blog theme in his tutorial on Nettuts+ and describes the use of each template file along with code samples.
Another tutorial that I remember being really useful was Chris Coyier’s video screencast series. This three part tutorial takes a live look at building a WordPress theme, which gives that extra insight you just don’t get from a written guide.
Oneextrapixel hosts a more up to date WordPress theme tutorial that explains some of the newer features and functionality such as custom post thumbnails and the revised method of calling the whole comments list and comment form from WordPress 3.0 and beyond.
Nur Ahmad Furlong’s Training Wheels tutorial series is written specifically for those who haven’t had any experience with CMS code or PHP and covers the very basics of creating a custom WordPress theme, right down to the theme screenshot.
Chapter two of the complete WordPress theme guide on Web Designer Wall focuses on the building of a custom theme. Parts one and three cover the installation of WordPress and moving/exporting WordPress to create a comprehensive series for anyone building a complete WordPress powered website.
One of my first WordPress theme tutorials was posted on my Blog.SpoonGraphics website. In this tutorial I cover the basics of WordPress theme creation and go through the process I used when building my ‘Sticky’ WordPress theme.
Dan Walker’s tutorial on Wptuts+ not only covers the basic how-to of building WordPress themes, but also includes tips on creating public themes. The initial overview of features alone is useful for anyone creating a generic theme to sell or give away.
This multi-part tutorial from WPShout takes a detailed look at each of the various template files and gives a simple description of how it all works in “plain english”. Code samples without the HTML makes it easy to identify the WordPress template tags.
The complete code samples in this tutorial from Developer Drive makes it easy to see how WordPress template tags are combined with HTML to provide that dynamic functionality, as well as being easy to copy and paste straight into your working files.
All the tutorials so far have explained how to build a WordPress theme, but this guide from Themetation explains the whole process of building a WordPress powered website from the Photoshop concept, the HTML/CSS coding and finally the WordPress implementation.
Just in case you’re new around here, I also have a bunch of WordPress theme tutorials. This recent tutorial takes you through the process I used to create my Typo WordPress theme.
One of my more popular WordPress theme tutorials here on Line25 was my guide to creating a basic portfolio theme. This tutorial covers the usual template tags, but also explains how custom page templates can be used to tailor the blogging platform into more of a content management system.
Finally we have one of my first WordPress theme tutorials on Line25. I’d recommend this post in particular out of my collection as it’s one I went into the most detail when describing how the various template files and template tags work.
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We developed a 5.8 GHz high speed transmitter for artificial satellites. It consists of an exciter module with a 115.2kbps FSK modulator and a liner amplifier which amplifies a 10mW signal to 4W.
But, these two modules were too big for a cubesat. So, we have developed a new module which combines the exciter and the liner amplifier of 2W output.
Using this module, we have developed a small artificial satellite named FITSAT-1. It also has the nickname "NIWAKA". The shape is a 10cm cube, and the weight is 1.33kg. The main mission of this satellite is to demonstrate the high speed transmitter developed. It can send a jpeg VGA-picture(480x640) within 6 sec. NIWAKA will be launched from the International Space Station at 15:44 on 4th October 2012 (UTC) as shown here.
NIWAKA also uses the 430MHz band for beacon transmission and remote commands.
The beacon signal is a standard Morse code CW signal.
The signal starts with “HI DE NIWAKA …” and telemetry data follows.
(telemetry format)
The following table summarizes the radio frequencies of NIWAKA.
NIWAKA has another experimental mission to test the possibility of optical
communication by satellite. It will actually twinkle as an artificial star.
NIWAKA’s high power LEDs will be driven with more than 200W pulses to
produce extremely bright flashes. These, we hope, will be observable by
the unaided eye or with small binoculars.
NIWAKA will write messages in the night sky with Morse code as:
The LEDs will also be driven in detecting faint light mode.
The light will received by a photo-multiplier equipped telescope
linked to the 5.8 GHz parabolic antenna.
Duty 30%, 10Hz signal is modulated with also duty 30%, 5kHz signal.
So the average input power will be 220W x 0.3 x 0.3 = 20W.
In order to detect the faint light, a high gain amplifier with
5kHz filter may be useful.
While, the Morse code is modulated with duty 15%, 1kHz signal. So, the
signal can directly drive a speaker with AF-amplifier to hear Morse sound.
Overview (Flight Model)
(Bottom View)
Block diagram
The NIWAKA body is made by cutting a section of 10cm square aluminum
pipe. Both ends of the cut pipe are covered with aluminum plates.
The surface of the body is finished with black anodic coating.
The CubeSat slide rails and side plates are not separate; they are
made as a single unit. The thickness of the square pipe is 3mm, but
the surfaces attached by solar cells are thinned to 1.5mm because of
weight limit. In order to make the 8.5mm square CubeSat rails, 5.5mm
square aluminum sticks are attached to the four corners of the square
pipe.
The following picture shows the inside of NIWAKA.
The “L” at upper left is a lever to push the deployment switch.
The rotor at upper center is 437MHz antenna extension mechanism.
The antenna element is stored in a polycarbonate case in spiral.
This mechanism was developed by an undergraduate student.
There are connectors for flight pin and testing functions at upper right.
The trajectory of the ISS is inclined 51.6 deg from the equator, so NIWAKA will
travel between 51.6 degrees south latitude and 51.6 degrees north latitude.
NIWAKA will carry a mounted neodymium magnet to force it to always point to
magnetic north like a compass. When NIWAKA rises above the horizon, it will
be to the south of the Fukuoka ground station, and both the 5.8 GHz antenna
and the LEDs will be aimed accurately enough by the magnet aligning itself
and the satellite with the earth’s magnetic field that the Fukuoka ground
station will be within the main beams.
We will perform both 5.8 GHz high-speed and optical communication experiments
for about 3 minutes as the satellite travels along the orbit shown as the red
line in the figure.
The name NIWAKA is from “Hakata Niwaka”, which is traditional impromptu comical
talking with this mask. Here, Hakata is old name of Fukuoka city.
The 5.840 GHz signal is converted to 440 MHz with LNB which is attached
to the focal point of 1.2m parabola antenna. The parabola is mounted on
an equatorial telescope.
The 440 MHz signal is converted to 10.7 MHz by AR8600 receiver.
The 10.7 MHz signal is detected by 280/500 kHz FM detector.
As we use a simple FSK, FM detector directly generates RS232C
signal for PC.
A jpeg-picture data consists of 128 bytes packets as follow:
(Photo Data)
00 00 7A 00 FF D8 FF E0 …
01 00 7A 00 09 0A 16 17 …
…
12 34 56 00 ….. FF D9 …
Namely, the first 4 bytes and the last 2 bytes do not consist the
photo data. Data size of all packets except the last is 122(=7A hex).
A jpeg-picture data starts with “FFD8” and ends with “FFD9”.
The jpeg picture is made by connecting the data part of each packet by
removing the first 4 byte and the last 2 byte.
20 VGA-pictures are sent at a time. Each picture is sent around 4-6 sec.
There is 8 msec interval between packets. and 5 sec interval
between pictures.
All circuits are designed by JA6CYY Mr.Takakazu Tanaka who is the founder of Logical Product Corp. and now he is the chairman of the company. We appreciate him that he opened his designs to public. [1] 5.84GHz to 440MHz converter (LNB) [2] 5.4GHz local oscillator for converter [3] DC-power supply to LNB through coax [4] 10.7MHz discriminator for 115.2kbps FSK
I appreciate Timothy HB9FFH who made a telemetry decoder for FITSAT-1. It is available from the Carpcomm website: http://carpcomm.com/satellite/fitsat1 One of our student also made the similar software on windows: http://turing.cs.fit.ac.jp/~fitsat/CWFM/FITSAT_CW_Analyzer1.zip All programs for 5.8GHz are developed on Linux. A simple schell script controls receiving data and displaying pictures. Here is tgz file which we have developed.
[1] Takushi Tanaka, Takakazu Tanaka: "Development of a 5.8GHz-band High Speed Communication Radio Module for Small Artificial Satellites", Bulletin of Information Science Isnt., Fukuoka Inst. Tech., vol.20, pp.1-6, 2009 (in Japanese). [2] Kenta Tanaka, Takushi Tanaka, Yoshiyuki Kawamura: "Development of The Cubesat FITSAT-1", UN/Japan nano satellite symposium (to appear in October 2012). [3] Yuka Mizoguchi, Kaihua FENG, Takanori Soda, Toshiki Otsuka, Tatsuro Kinoshita, Kohei Nishimoto, Yoshiyuki Kawamura, Takushi Tanaka: "Ovbservation of The LED signal from FITSAT-1", UN/Japan nano satellite symposium (to appear in October 2012). [4] Yoshiyuki Kawamura, Takushi Tanaka: "Emission of LEDs from a ultra small satellite", The 418th Topical Meeting of the Laser Society of Japan (to appear October 2012). [5] Takushi Tanaka, Yoshiyuki Kawamura: "Over view of FITSAT-1", The 53rd Symposium on Space Science and Technology in Japan, (to appear November 2012).
FITSAT sends the beacon signal 30 min after the deployment. Please send
the signal report and your postal address to fitsat1@hotmail.co.jp and
also cc to tanaka@fit.ac.jp. You will receive this verification card.
The beacon frequency 437.250MHz of FITSAT-1 conflicts with the satellite
PRISM of Tokyo Univ. Please confirm that the CW starts “HI DE NIWAKA …”.
The orbit is almost same as ISS.
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I’m redesigning my site, this post will help me! Thank’s Chris!
How much does it cost??
顶起,路过……
What about Joomla! and Drupal ?
Very Nice Article I Like all of them
Nice will go through these thanks.
Finaly some web site who can help me to create a theme!
Thank Chris!
Now this is a post I’ll be reading through for a little while. Great idea for a post, Chris!
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Good post but maybe you shouldn’t have included some of those older tutorials
The older tuts are outstanding. I’m working my way through one now, it’s the first that really explains the php tags and how to build a wp powered site. And sorting out what to do with the deprecated calls is educational too!
Good Post, I found some great tutorials that help me , thank you 🙂
Great one Chris! Thanks a lot for this compaction.
wow… great resources, Thanks for share this tutorial 🙂
Awesome suggestions.Nothing like some work along tutorials and hands on action to learn faster.
Or of course, we could just buy a theme for $25 and be done!
Wow! This is a great list. I’ve actually used several of these sites in the past to help with theme development, but I’ll check out the other ones too.
Word press will always remain my one of the best Platform to publish content. The best part of this CMS is that they have number of plugins inbuild in the which makes the management of entire website as an ease. Even I have got plugins to run my eCommerce website through Word press platform.
I currently use Drupal 7 and I’ve only recently been getting to grips with WordPress and so far I’m enjoying it as well. Thanks for the great article!
Very nice post, helps to create stunning and unique theme. Thanks for this tutorial.
Chris – Naturally your Tutorials are the best in that list!
I actually created the theme for my site based on your tutorials.
“roundup” posts are generally RUBBISH and this fails to break the trend.
this post offers no added value, you would save time simply issuing a query in GOOGLE. 🙁
Now, if this post actually went into some detail about which one was the best to read and why, it would be worthwhile.. ugh
Excellent, we are in process of renewing our theme for a custom theme in WP and this info will be helpful, of course.
I need to rebuild my template. More speed and less features!
Posts like these have helped me a lot with my coding skills.
Thank you and keep em coming.
Been googling for good wp-tutorials for a while, thanks for the tips 🙂
If you are only looking at WordPress for its CMS feature, and not its blogging feature “CMS Made Simple” is something to consider. As it provides the same tools as wordpress, it is just easier to set up and manage on a day to day basis.
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