Chris Davis has two more articles in his Secrets of WP Theming Series.

Secrets of WP Theming: Part 2 concentrates on building templates for your categories.

Deep within the recesses of the WordPress code base lies dormant the power to create custom templates for each of your categories, what is even more astounding is how easy it is to pull off. This sleeping giant merely awaits the correct file names and it will wake unleashing untold shininess and spiffiness upon your visitors heads!Chris Davis

Secrets of WP Theming: Part 3 talks about setting up a Home Template.

So as you remember we talked about the different files that WordPress is hard-coded to recognize. One of these that we have not talked about yet is home.php. This template file is only used when index.php is called without any arguments passed to it.Chris Davis

A usefull series for those wanting to get more out of WordPress.

Chris Davis has a good article on WP Themes

Check it out

Urban Giraffe has a new article on installing a local copy of WordPress on your own computer.

Nothing new – I use EasyPHP while he uses WAMP for the local server and I believe Podz uses Xampp.

Urban Giraffe has posted the 4th and final installment of his series Dissection of a WordPress theme

Scott McDaniel has a very good article on Manipulating Definition Lists for Fun and Profit

Have you ever wished you had more options or flexibility when it came to marking up WordPress Link Lists? I wanted a WP link list that could display in multiple columns with varying amounts of text, have the text below the image/link, a groovy background, and basically look nothing like your typical list.

Check it out!

Urban Giraffe has published part 3 of his tutorial Dissection of a Theme

Douglas Clifton at Digital Web Magazine has written an article describing how to generate your CSS styles using PHP. Looking for new skills to try out, then check it out.

Update: see the entry on this tutorial. by Root

Urban Giraffe has published part two of his tutorial

The focus will be on finalising the basic layout from part one, and then finishing the header and footer sections. Both of these are important as they stylistically define a blog and act as visual focal points –

Check it out: Dissection of a WordPress theme: Part 2

Just read through this excellent explanation of the WordPress template system.

This is just what users need – a clear concise break-down of the template and how it works

Matt’s Googly Site – WordPress is not PHP

Thanks PhotoMatt for the tip

Nice Tutorial on styling the comment.php template.

WP Comment Template Deconstructed: Ever wonder how ColdForged does their cool comment templating or how the comment template in WordPress works? This might be the tutorial you are looking for. Check the blog for other parts in this series.

Thanks Web Tools Collection for pointing this out.

View the tutorial WordPress comment template deconstructed part-1