Swapping WordPress’ jQuery for Google APIs Version

function jQueryGoogleApiInit()
{
	// Make sure we're loading the Google API version of jQuery. Much faster //
	wp_deregister_script('jquery');
	wp_register_script('jquery', 'http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js');
}
add_action('init', 'jQueryGoogleApiInit');

Adding Theme Feature Support

Support added to functions.php.

Theme-Supported Features

Menu Support

register_nav_menus(array('primary_menu'=>'Primary Navigation Menu', 'footer_menu'=>'Secondary Footer Menu'));

Featured Image / Post Thumbnails Support

add_theme_support('post-thumbnails');

Automatically Add Feed Links To

add_theme_support('automatic-feed-links');

Admin Area Stylesheet

add_editor_style($stylesheet);

$stylesheet is a string path to the stylesheet you wish to add relative to the theme root. Can also be an array of strings.

Custom Backgrounds Support

add_custom_background($header_callback, $admin_header_callback, $admin_image_div_callback);

Custom Image Header Support

add_custom_image_header($header_callback, $admin_header_callback);

Widget Support



// Make Theme Accessible to Widgets //

if(function_exists(‘register_sidebar’))

{
	// Full featured sidebar //
	register_sidebar(array
	(
		‘name’          => sprintf(__(‘Sidebar %d’), $i ),
		‘id’            => ‘sidebar-$i’,
		‘description’   => ‘’,
		‘before_widget’ => ‘‘,
		‘after_widget’  => ‘‘,
		‘before_title’  => ‘‘,
		‘after_title’   => ‘‘
	));

	// Minimal Sidebar //
	register_sidebar(array
	(
        ‘before_widget’ => ‘
‘,
        ‘after_widget’ => ‘‘,
        ‘before_title’ => ‘‘,
        ‘after_title’ => ‘‘,
   	));

}