Over the last several months, I have customized a bunch of WordPress Themes. I found the free themes with the cleanest code, and therefore the easiest to customize were Chris Pearson's: Copyblogger, Cutline and NeoClassical to name a few.
Anyway, I figured I owed Chris one, so I purchased a developer license for his premium theme, Thesis. I know there are several agents now using Thesis and loving it.
But, did you know that if you want to hack Thesis, you need to learn WordPress Hooks? Heck, I wouldn't know a Hook if it walked up and kissed me.
This Hook Tutorial for Dummies seems like a good place to start.
Just what I needed. Something new to learn.
I think I'm kinda sorta grasping the concept as:
All the little code tweaks you make to customize a theme ... the "old way" is you put some tweaks in the header.php file, some in the sidebar.php, maybe even some in the index.php file. The HOOK way, you put all those little tweak snippets in the custom_function.php file. The tweak itself is still whatever code snippet you wrote ... the HOOK is what tells Thesis where to put your snippet.
And then again, I could be all wet. :-)



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