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UrbanGiraffe 的 Dissection of a WordPress theme: Part 3 已經推出了，如想知道之前 Part 1 和 Part 2 的連結，大家可以參考之前的文章 UrbanGiraffe - Dissection of a WordPress theme．:)

最近走訪不同的網頁和 blogs，目的是為了找一些 plugins 來修改自己的 blog 去迎合自己所需，無意中看到一個 blog UrbanGiraffe 內有關 WordPress theme 的教學文章，這個系列作者預算用四篇文章的篇幅來完成，到目前為止作者已經完成頭兩篇文章，而第三篇預計會講解 sidebar．

• Dissection of a WordPress theme: Part 1
• Dissection of a WordPress theme: Part 2

以下是 Part 1 的一些節錄．

Despite the availability of hundreds of themes, and the general goodness of the default Kubrick theme, sometimes you just want to give your blog that personal touch, and the only way to do this is by going under the hood and having a look around.

A month in to running a WordPress-based website and I find myself doing the very same thing. None of the themes were exactly what I was looking for, and after investigating the internals of WordPress I realised it was a lot more involved than it initially appeared. I could certainly imagine a beginner being overwhelmed by the mass of acronymns and incongruent technologies.

With this in mind I decided to write a guide that would help not only myself, but might also help others who have been put off trying to experiment with WordPress. I make no claims of being a style guru and will rely on common sense and basic design principles.

In writing this I will assume a rudimentary knowledge of HTML and CSS. I will attempt to annotate all the important parts. The guide will begin slowly, but should speed up once a level of comfort has been reached.

作者採用 WordPress 1.5 的預設 theme Kubrick 作為教學題材，講解 WordPress theme 的構造，再將它的 CSS style 完全刪除開始講起，一步一步加插需要的程式碼，同時講解加插後的效果，我覺得非常適合一些想修改 theme 及想製作個人化 theme 的人作參考．