How to Build a Wordpress Theme & Free Snippets PDF

I've had an interest in learning how to build wordpress themes from scratch for a long time. Along the way I've picked up pieces of information, I suppose just as many of you guys have and learned how to hack my way through a wordpress theme. I even learned how to take an Xsitepro Template and turn it into a wordpress blog with the help of XsiteprotoWordpress which is a comprehensive tutorial taking you step by step through the process of turning a xsite pro template into a wordpress blog. Although there are plenty of youtube videos and other free tutorials, I find that organized compiled courses that offer a class in an ebook format and/or screen capture videos to be most helpful.

You can find plenty of tutorials on how to build a wordpress theme that are free by just doing a google search on "how to build awordpress theme" you'll find some old stuff and you'll find some very complicated material but if you keep at it you can learn how to build your own wordpress theme.

I found a pdf that includes all the code snippets you need for creating a wordpress theme, you might find it helpful to print this out and keep it at your side while working on your wordpress theme, here are the wp code snippets.....they're free :)

If you're really motivated and want to jump start the process I suggest the book "How to be a Rockstart Wordpress Designer", an excellent resource for anyone with some knowledge of html and css, you'll learn how to confidently and quickly how to build a wordpress theme! The book is a pdf, so you can instantly download and start learning how to create a wordpress them....I like to print out my books and bind them....I take them wherever I go!

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Xsitepro version 2 Review Do You Really Need It

thexsiteproguide.com - RSS feed XSitePro 2 Review-Do You Really Need It? Have you ever tried to make a website? Is a WordPress template the best you can hope for? Do you have enough trouble with English, let alone an entirely new computer language? Do you have any clue what a CSS stylesheet is? Don't worry, it is about to get simple. Ok, I have to tell you something. I have built over 100 websites, and I no very little code. Yes using blogs and free WYSIWYG editors (That's what you see is what you get) I have had to learn some HTML. When I started using Frontpage and Dreamweaver I had to learn a lot more. I knew I would forever be using junk templates that I could not change forever. So I struggled putting up my first 10 sites. They all sucked, are still up and barely pay for the hosting and domain names. I knew to make real money online, I had to find a solution, and fast. I was reading through a free bonus report on web marketing and the author mentioned a product I had never heard of, XSitePro. I surfed around read some reviews, and thought it might be the answer I was desperately seeking, so I bought it and tried it. WOW, it was almost as easy to put up a professional looking site as a hub page! I began churning out web sites. I could put out and publish a well optimized compliant high ranking site as quick as an article. I was in heaven, my sites would HTML validate and I did not have to worry about the search engines, due to the built in SEO components of the software. I could keep using XSitePro for two more years if I had to, but there were limitations. Web 2.0. Video, adsense, music, dynamic pages, interaction. Make no mistake, I make a great living online, and do not have a clue how to do any of these, but I know that is what the future will demand. In steps XSitePro 2. If you name any feature you would want a piece of web design software to do. It does it. I don't know if I will ever use half of what is available. What I do know is XSitePro 2 is cutting edge. With all the monetizing features it comes with, I am sure I will be able to double the number of sites I have making me money in six months. If you are just beginning with website design, or you are a seasoned pro and want to spend more time doing what you enjoy than building websites, XSitePro 2 is exactly what the doctor ordered. Build two sites and call me in the morning! Get free articles in various topic for your website or blog content as much as you want at Article Directory: http://www.articlecompilation.com For more information on XSitePro 2click here. To order XSitePro 2 Click Here!

Article Stalker Testimonial

Thought I'd post my personal testimonial for Article Stalker.

Article Stalker is a script that collects reprint articles from article directories and is the brain child of Ed Chaisson.

Here's the big benefit of Article Stalker. Everyone knows that blogs need constant fresh content, that can be repurposed content in any form and reprint articles are perfect for this. You can keep a blog fresh with the feed from Article Stalker or you can create an entirely new blog with Article Stalker and Slick WP Autoposter ...... the reason you would want to use Slick WP Autoposter is because of the fact that you can create as many rss feeds as you want and mix them together, simply set the time of posting as the same time and the articles, blog posts, or snippets will intermix creating a truly unique blog!

That last sentence could be worth $1000's of dollars to you if you follow my advice..... but be happy because most will read it ..... maybe file it away or completely dismiss the strategy :)

Anyway, here's my testimonial for ARticle Stalker spoken from the heart.

Hi Ed

I wanted to give you a testimonial for Article Stalker....and I really hate those hypey, over-the-top, hard sell type testimonials....but I'm really having a hard time keeping myself low keyed about this!

First, your videos and pdf instructional guides were top notch. I created the database and installed in less than 5 minutes!

I fired up Article Stalker for the first time and grabbed around 5000 articles about Website Design....unbelievable. Next I downloaded the .xml file (rss feed) and fired up Slick WP Autoposter with the new rss feed.

That's it...the pressure is off, I don't have to worry about posting to one of my WP blogs because Article Stalker is on the job :)

Reprint Articles Rock....especially since the masses have literally forgotten about them.

With a little research one can figure out how to use the RSS feed to autopost to Blogger Blogs, wordpress.com blogs, Xsitepro sites and standard html sites. In other words the content could be used over and over.

Here's a little secret strategy. Embed an "Ad" in the body of the article or before or after the article. Great way to advertise affiliate programs or get links back to specific blogs or sites. It takes a little work but with the "search" feature in a notepad editor you can edit a 200 article rss feed in 15 minutes, 30 at the most.

Great job on Article Stalker, this will be one of those tools I'll use forever....I don't think RSS feeds will every go away :)

Thanks for your efforts,

Scott Parat

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