I got a multiple page html theme and I wanted to convert it to a wordpress theme without changing the layout or color scheme of it. can anyone give me a good tutorial with the specific code references and a tutorial on explaining how can i go about achieving this? i know wordpress uses one page.php file which says what all pages look like but is there a way to use multiple pages?
Wordpress’s Codex provides a lot of useful information on developing themes. Don’t make the process too complicated. I used to copy all of the files for Wordpress’s default theme and just edit them to include my design.
that didn’t really answer my question…i cannot find <link rel=“stylesheet” href=“<?php bloginfo(‘stylesheet_url’); ?>” type=“text/css” media=“screen” /> really in codex nor how to reference the css styles.
Not sure what you mean by reference the .css styles? That is looking for the style sheet in the themes folder within the wp-content/themes/theme directory. There is nothing you need to do to that line.
As far as different layouts for different pages go. You can create page templates for each different style you need. Then when creating a page you can select the template for that particular page: http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Page_Templates
well in regular html i say which stylesheets i use and were they are located, Wordpress doesn’t need to be told that? If it does which file and how do I declare them?
That line is looking in the /wp-content/themes/active_theme_folder for a file called style.css. This file is required for a theme to function properly in the admin area.
If you want to add additional style sheets to the theme you can add more by duplicating this line and changing the path to point to the new file(s)
ok i see, is it possible to create multiple different page layouts? for example on my site i have a page for the index which I will keep index.php but then i got a regular page layout then I got the blog layout. how can i establish those two different layouts?