at hand. Building a WordPress theme and
releasing or even selling it is one thing, but
building a fully fledged WordPress-powered site
is something completely different. This chapter is
all about taking that extra step and putting
WordPress to good use. This includes having a
sound theme concept, styling the content the way
you want, adding custom features such as custom
headers and backgrounds, and working with
custom taxonomies when the default categories
and tags won’t cut it. This chapter also covers
adding even more hooks to your theme for easy
inclusion of more features. Yes, there really is a
lot you can do with your WordPress theme, so
why not get to it?TO MOVE BEYOND traditional WordPress
sites, which build on the platform’s blog basics,
you need to be aware of some of the more
advanced features that are available to the theme
developer. Most of these features build on the
template tags and conditional tags that you have
been using thus far, but the usage may differ.
Some techniques, however, will change or add to
the functionality of WordPress from within your
theme, which may not be such a good idea if
you’re looking to release it for general use but
may be a good fit for the project you’re working
on right now.That’s what it all boils down to, really: taking
WordPress and putting it to good use for the taskADVANCED
(^6) THEME USAGE