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Ryan Grabenstein

Ryan Grabenstein

www.justdreamweaver.com

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Building the new home page layout structure
  3. Creating featured posts in WordPress
  4. Creating a custom featured post loop
Created:
8 September 2009
User Level:
Intermediate
Products:
Dreamweaver

Creating a WordPress theme with Dreamweaver – Part 3: Building a custom home page

This is the final installation of my three-part tutorial series on creating WordPress themes in Adobe Dreamweaver. Part 1 covers the basics of WordPress themes. Part 2 shows how to customize a WordPress theme. This part focuses on creating a custom theme home page in which featured posts are displayed with a post thumbnail image.

Note: To complete the steps in this tutorial you need to have WordPress installed on a live domain. I also assume that you have already uploaded the sample theme into your WordPress blog.

Requirements

In order to make the most of this article, you need the following software and files:

Dreamweaver CS4

WordPress 2.8.4 (or later)

(Optional Windows) XAMPP

(Optional Mac OS X) MAMP

(Optional) Dreamweaver extension

Sample files:

Prerequisite knowledge

Basic working knowledge of Dreamweaver, web standards (for example XHTML and CSS), and PHP.

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About the author

Ryan Grabenstein is a web developer whose projects focus on helping beginner and intermediate web users build better websites using Dreamweaver. He develops and maintains a collection of free Dreamweaver templates and CSS layouts at JustDreamweaver.com and his popular Flexibility series of WordPress themes enables bloggers to customize their sites without having to master HTML, CSS, or PHP.