The Complete Guide to Building Premium WordPress Themes

Course Curriculum

Lecture 1: How To Create WordPress Themes – Course Code & Contact Info

Chapter 1: How To Build A Premium WordPress Theme – Setting Up a Local Server and WordPress

Lecture 1: Installing a Local Server

Lecture 2: Installing a New WordPress Website

Lecture 3: First Steps to Creating a Theme

Lecture 4: Quick Note

Lecture 5: Setting Up Development Environment

Chapter 2: Getting Started with WordPress

Lecture 1: Template Files & Template Tags

Lecture 2: Coding the Loop

Lecture 3: Understanding the Loop

Lecture 4: Template Hierarchy

Lecture 5: Functions in WordPress

Lecture 6: Validation, Sanitization & Escaping

Lecture 7: Internationalization & Localization

Chapter 3: Automating Development Workflow with NPM and Gulp

Lecture 1: Introduction to NPM & Gulp

Lecture 2: Setting Up NPM & Gulp

Lecture 3: Development vs Production in Gulp Tasks

Lecture 4: Creating A Gulp Task For Styles

Lecture 5: Creating A Gulp Task For Styles cont.

Lecture 6: Compressing Images & Copying Files

Lecture 7: Cleaning Files & Serializing Tasks

Lecture 8: Webpack Update Note

Lecture 9: Creating A Gulp Task For JavaScript

Lecture 10: Creating A Gulp Task For JavaScript cont.

Lecture 11: Adding JavaScript Plugins The Right Way

Lecture 12: Improving The Tasks With Browsersync

Lecture 13: Bundling Files For Production

Lecture 14: Creating a Replaceable Placeholder Prefix

Chapter 4: Action Hooks, Filter Hooks & Child Themes

Lecture 1: Creating Custom Action Hooks

Lecture 2: WordPress Core Actions

Lecture 3: Core & Custom Filter Hooks

Lecture 4: Creating Child Themes

Chapter 5: Sidebars & Template Parts

Lecture 1: Quick Note

Lecture 2: Adding CSS Stylesheets Using The ITCSS Architecture

Lecture 3: Including The CSS Styles In Our HTML

Lecture 4: Creating Sidebars For Widgets

Lecture 5: Creating Sidebars Dynamically

Lecture 6: Organizing Your Templates With get_template_part()

Lecture 7: Coding The Header & The Search Form

Chapter 6: Navigation Menus

Lecture 1: Registering & Displaying Navigation Menus

Lecture 2: Styling & Filtering The Navigation Menu

Lecture 3: Creating A Mega Menu

Lecture 4: Adding The Markup For Menu Accessibility

Lecture 5: Adding The JavaScript For Menu Accessibility

Lecture 6: Improving Accessibility With Skip Links

Chapter 7: Adding Theme Options Using The Customizer API

Lecture 1: WordPress Customizer Overview

Lecture 2: Creating Our First Theme Option

Lecture 3: Custom Sanitization For Theme Options

Lecture 4: Using postMessage For Better Customizer Updates

Lecture 5: Updating Using Selective Refresh

Lecture 6: Creating An Option For Footer Background

Lecture 7: Creating An Option For Footer Columns

Lecture 8: Creating An Option For The Logo

Lecture 9: Creating A Color Picker Option & Adding Inline CSS In WordPress

Lecture 10: Improving The Accent Colour Preview With JavaScript

Lecture 11: Passing Variables From PHP to JavaScript To Avoid Repetition

Chapter 8: User Roles & capabilities And Nonces For Security

Lecture 1: User Roles & capabilities Overview

Lecture 2: Custom Delete Post Link Only For Permitted Users

Lecture 3: Using Nonces To Verify Users' Intention

Chapter 9: Metadata, Custom Fields & Bundling Plugins With Your Theme

Lecture 1: Introduction To Metadata & Custom Fields

Lecture 2: Adding Metaboxes & Custom Fields

Lecture 3: Securing Metaboxes & Adding More Fields

Lecture 4: Creating A Simple Plugin

Lecture 5: Moving The Metaboxes Code To Our Plugin

Lecture 6: Bundling Plugins With Your Theme Using TGMPA

Lecture 7: Adding A New Gulp Task To Copy Plugins

Chapter 10: Creating The Single Blog Post Template

Lecture 1: Creating The Layout For The Single Blog Post

Lecture 2: Populating The Single Blog Post Content

Lecture 3: Displaying The Post Author Info

Lecture 4: Adding An Option To Show/Hide Author Info

Lecture 5: Adding Posts Navigation To The Single Blog Post

Lecture 6: Unit Tests For Blog Posts

Lecture 7: Note For The Next Lecture

Lecture 8: Tips For Supporting The New Editor "Gutenberg"

Chapter 11: Displaying & Customizing Comments

Lecture 1: Displaying The Comments & Loading Necessary JS Files

Lecture 2: Creating A Custom Comments Template

Lecture 3: Coding A Custom Comment Callback

Lecture 4: Completing The Comment Callback & Unit Testing The Comments

Lecture 5: Making Our Comment Callback Child Theme Friendly

Chapter 12: Creating Required Templates

Lecture 1: Creating A Template For The Author Archive

Lecture 2: The Search & 404 Templates

Lecture 3: Creating A Default Page Template

Lecture 4: Creating Custom Page Templates

Chapter 13: Shortcodes

Lecture 1: Creating A Simple Shortcode

Lecture 2: Enclosing Shortcodes & Filtering Attributes

Lecture 3: Moving Our Shortcodes To A Plugin

Lecture 4: Creating An Image Slider Shortcode

Lecture 5: Creating An Image Slider Shortcode cont.