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Building an Advanced Theme: Creatif Portfolio
The Plan of Attack So here’s how we’re going to approach the build: 1. First we’ll set up our WordPress installation with categories and some sample Portfolio and Blog posts. Finally, we’ll duplicate the blog theme and install it. 2. Then we’ll edit our single.php file to style up the new portfolio items as well as blog posts depending on what category a Post is in. 3. Then we’ll edit our homepage to match the Creatif Portfolio style. 4. Then we’ll use the archive.php to cleverly make a central Portfolio and Blog listing 5. And finally we’ll tidy up any remaining pages to get it all finished!
Setting up WordPress Because we are no longer building sites the way WordPress expects us to by default, it is first necessary to set up WordPress with the relevant content and settings, then when we do our theming we’ll be able to see the fruits of our labour. So grab a fresh copy of WordPress, or wipe the Posts and categories out of a previous one, and follow these steps: