In this Tutorial you will learn how to create a unique WordPress theme to showcase your portfolio. This layout can be used as well for a business website.
It will require good knowledge of CSS / PHP if you want to transform this PSD into a wordpress theme.
This is a crisp rounded theme that comes with lots of features like built in drop-down menus, Feedburner settings (RSS and Subscribe by e-mail), Twitter, Tabs for Popular/Recent posts, Featured post section, 3 sections to pull posts from different categories on home page, auto generated thumbnails (for both home and the single entry page), threaded comments, widgetized sidebars and 3 widgetized sections on the bottom. On top of all this, Urbane comes with integrated theme options that let you specify categories to use on the home page, configure your feedburner/twitter settings and much more.
To start building your theme, first create a sub-folder in the wp-content/themes directory in your WordPress folder. For the purpose of this Tutorial, we will call the folder “Tutorial_theme”. The name of the folder should correspond to the name of the theme you want to create. To do this you can use either your favorite FTP client or the File Manager tool in your cPanel.
In the default WordPress installation, there are a couple of themes you can choose from.
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In WordPress your visitors have the option to leave comments on your site. This feature creates a dynamic interchange between you and your readers.
Comment options
You have a number of options that you can set for your Comments. They are listed under Settings -> Discussion.
