Hybrid

The basics

Although Hybrid is an advanced parent theme, it’s not really hard to use if you understand the basic philosophy behind how it works.

• Getting started (set up the theme)
• Child themes (customize the smart way)
• Supported plugins

Working with theme settings

Want to know what all those theme checkboxes, input boxes, and select menus are for? Well, check out these tutorials.

• Theme Settings
• Post and page settings
• Settings page meta boxes (how to create them)

Overriding Hybrid’s defaults

Although Hybrid takes care of nearly everything, there are times when you want to change how something works. The theme’s advanced action and filter hooks system makes it highly extensible.

• Hooks (what hooks are and how they work)
  • Action Hooks (reference list)
  • Filter Hooks (reference list)
  • Shortcode-Aware Hooks (using shortcodes with filter hooks)
  • Contextual Hooks (how to use them)
• Modifying text (changing text strings)

Setting up your widgets

Hybrid is packaged with widget areas. They’re all over the place.

• Widget Areas (where widgets go)
• Widgets (using widgets)

Miscellaneous

Great tutorials that I haven’t found a spot for yet.

• Directory structure (how the files and folders are structured)
• Images (how images work)
• Translating (how to translate the theme)

Navigation Menus

Tutorials on how to customize and manipulate your site’s navigation mens.

• Menus (WordPress 3.0+ nav menus)
• Navigation (old menu system)

Design & Style

These tutorials are dedicated to the visual aspects of Hybrid and how you can mold your child theme into something greater.

• Styling Content (semantic classes)
• Visual Overview (theme structure, classes, and IDs)
• Stylesheets (available CSS files)
• Logo (replace the site title in the header)