This tutorial is a continuation of the Porting your website design into a WordPress theme, if you haven’t already read that post, or isn’t looking for specifically the things we will include in this post (listed below), we strongly recommend to check out that post first.
Today, we are going to talk about:

• Single.php
• Category.php
• Comments.php
• And other tips when you design.

We have already handled the four most important flies in the previous article, and so today’s tutorial is going to be relatively easier =)

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I was just looking at varoius websites created by my freinds. For some of them, I found it slow to load, and the sourcecode sometimes can be messy. It came to my mind that I should write an article on how to make your codes look nicer, and of course how to make your website faster to load.

Usually, there is an universal rule that we all abide to: The website, including all images (excluding contents), should not be over 200Kb. It might be hard for some people to achieve that, and so we are going to tell you how =)

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Recently when Jonathan and I designed this theme, I was in charge of porting it over to make it work on Wordpress. (Yes, that means Jonathan did everything else.. Kudos to him =P) It was not totally painful with the great amount of help i can get from Wordpress Codex and other websites, but I felt it would be more convenient to compile all of them together into a simple guide.

This tutorial is going to teach you how to port your [finished] website design to a WordPress theme. It sounds hard, but it is actually not. =) So, let us begin…

Please note that the finished work of this tutorial will not have WP 2.7(or up) features (nested comments, etc.)

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