WordPress Theme Basics March 18th, 2013

• Installing online (via admin interface browsing to a zip file) is the same as uploading the unzipped theme directly
• Theme files can be edited directly within the admin interface
• style.css holds all the meta info the site needs
• functions.php is the heart of the theme
• Link to theme images using PHP to keep everything relative for theme sharing …

  <img src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/images/image.jpg">
  ... or <?php echo get_template_directory_uri(); ?>
  ... images/image.jpg for CSS URL references