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Building WordPress Themes: The Step-by-Step Guide

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Building WordPress Themes: The Step-by-Step Guide, available at $44.99, has an average rating of 4.35, with 48 lectures, based on 127 reviews, and has 828 subscribers.

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You will learn about Convert static HTML pages to a fully functional WordPress Theme Develop a simple plugin for adding new content types to WordPress Use Underscores as a starting point for WordPress Theming This course is ideal for individuals who are This course is ideal for web designers who want to make WordPress Themes. or If you are a WordPress Site Builder, you will appreciate learning how to modify themes yourself and not rely on a 3rd party plugin. You'll also be able to tweak ready-made themes to your liking. or You know how to make static sites and you're ready to do the custom work that's needed to be a full WordPress service shop It is particularly useful for This course is ideal for web designers who want to make WordPress Themes. or If you are a WordPress Site Builder, you will appreciate learning how to modify themes yourself and not rely on a 3rd party plugin. You'll also be able to tweak ready-made themes to your liking. or You know how to make static sites and you're ready to do the custom work that's needed to be a full WordPress service shop.

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Summary

Title: Building WordPress Themes: The Step-by-Step Guide

Price: $44.99

Average Rating: 4.35

Number of Lectures: 48

Number of Published Lectures: 47

Number of Curriculum Items: 48

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 47

Original Price: $139.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

  • Convert static HTML pages to a fully functional WordPress Theme
  • Develop a simple plugin for adding new content types to WordPress
  • Use Underscores as a starting point for WordPress Theming

Who Should Attend

  • This course is ideal for web designers who want to make WordPress Themes.
  • If you are a WordPress Site Builder, you will appreciate learning how to modify themes yourself and not rely on a 3rd party plugin. You'll also be able to tweak ready-made themes to your liking.
  • You know how to make static sites and you're ready to do the custom work that's needed to be a full WordPress service shop

Target Audiences

  • This course is ideal for web designers who want to make WordPress Themes.
  • If you are a WordPress Site Builder, you will appreciate learning how to modify themes yourself and not rely on a 3rd party plugin. You'll also be able to tweak ready-made themes to your liking.
  • You know how to make static sites and you're ready to do the custom work that's needed to be a full WordPress service shop

In Building WordPress Themes: The Step-by-Step Guideyou will learn how to take a static HTML site and convert it into a fully functional WordPress theme and plugin. We’ll start with a primer for PHP to understand the underlying language WordPress is written in, as well as explore some tools to help you work. Then, we’ll take a look at our static site and convert it!

By the end of the course you will:

  • Become familiar with Underscores, a popular WordPress Starter Theme
  • Know how to create and customize blog posts, pages, and header and footer areas
  • Create menus and widget areas
  • Build a plugin to help us extend WordPress
  • Understand CMB2, a popular WordPress tool for adding custom information to our WordPress site
  • Learn best practices for creating WordPress Themes and Plugins

What are we building?

Since it’s something we all know and love, we’ll create a restaurant website! We’ll build basic pages like about and contact, add a blog, and create a nice, interactive menu that’s easy to update!

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: PHP: A Primer

Lecture 1: Working with PHP

Lecture 2: All About PHP Variables

Lecture 3: A Deep Dive into Arrays

Lecture 4: Your Turn! Write a Hello World Program

Lecture 5: Math! A Look at Arithmetic Operators

Lecture 6: Determining the Truth with Logical Operators

Lecture 7: Controlling the Program's Flow: If Statements

Lecture 8: Controlling the Program's Flow: Loops

Lecture 9: Reusing Code with Functions

Lecture 10: Your Turn! Write a Program that Compares 2 Numbers

Chapter 3: Your Local Development Environment

Lecture 1: Why You Should have a Local Environment

Lecture 2: Installing Local by Flywheel

Lecture 3: Installing WordPress using Local

Chapter 4: An Introduction to Our Tools

Lecture 1: An Introduction to Our Website

Lecture 2: A Look Under the Hood: Reviewing the HTML

Lecture 3: What is Underscores and How can it Help Us?

Lecture 4: Extending WordPress with CMB2: Installing the Plugin

Lecture 5: A Quick Note About extras.php

Lecture 6: Extending WordPress with CMB2: Writing a Demo

Chapter 5: The Anatomy of WordPress

Lecture 1: A Walk Through WordPress Core and /wp-content/

Lecture 2: Understanding the WordPress Template Hierarchy

Chapter 6: Converting Our HTML Templates

Lecture 1: Copying the CSS

Lecture 2: Adding the Header

Lecture 3: Coding the Footer

Lecture 4: Creating the Index/News Archive Page

Lecture 5: Making the Post Template Part

Lecture 6: Modifying the Single Template

Lecture 7: Creating the Default Page Template

Lecture 8: Preparing header.php for our Home Page

Lecture 9: Adding Content to Our Home Page

Lecture 10: Using CMB2 to create a Custom Content Area for the Home Page

Lecture 11: Your Turn! Modify the Home Page

Chapter 7: Auxiliary WordPress Areas

Lecture 1: Navigation Menus

Lecture 2: Custom Content through the WordPress Customizer

Lecture 3: Adding Customizer Fields on the Front End

Chapter 8: WordPress Development Concepts

Lecture 1: WordPress Hooks: Actions & Filters

Lecture 2: Data Validation on Input and Output

Lecture 3: Internationalization and Localization

Lecture 4: Your Turn! Fix this File

Chapter 9: Creating Our Food Menu Plugin

Lecture 1: Setting Up Our Plugin

Lecture 2: Creating a Custom Post Type

Lecture 3: Registering a Custom Taxonomy

Chapter 10: Adding the Custom Post Type to Our Theme

Lecture 1: Creating the Food Menu Archive Template

Lecture 2: Creating the Food Menu Single Template

Lecture 3: Your Turn! Build the Contact Page

Lecture 4: Cleaning Up our Theme and Review

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  • 2 stars: 3 votes
  • 3 stars: 13 votes
  • 4 stars: 50 votes
  • 5 stars: 58 votes

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