The Essential WordPress Theme Development Course

Name: The Essential WordPress Theme Development Course
Rating: 4.2 (162 reviews)

How to Edit PHP, CSS, and HTML code in Wordpress

Created byOne Month

Last updated 6/2019

English

What you'll learn

Build a custom WordPress theme using only HTML, CSS, and PHP
Download completed code samples
Know more about how WordPress supports a sizable chunk of websites on the Internet

Course content

6 sections • 37 lectures • 3h 30m total length

Intro To Wordpress2:47
By the end of this course, you'll be able to build a WordPress theme from scratch, and be able to customize any WordPress theme to suit exactly your needs.
Who Uses Wordpress?4:57
Explore who uses WordPress. Examine real-world examples from notable sites and learn how plugins, themes, and hosting enable you to start building your own WordPress projects.
Prerequisites6:33
Set Up Your Server6:29
Set up your server and WordPress hosting, using HostGator with a one-cent promo, register or link a domain, and follow email login steps to begin WordPress installation.
Install Wordpress6:53
Use FTP To Connect To WordPress6:12
learn to connect to your WordPress site using FTP with Cyberduck, access the server, and upload a custom theme beyond the built-in appearance options.

Theming Development (& Download Files)4:03
Learn how WordPress theming fits into the server setup, locate the WP content themes folder, and create and upload a custom theme to replace the site, using a downloaded template.
Activate Your Theme8:54
Add The Bloginfo() Template Tags for the CSS5:04
Add Template Tags for Your Images6:25
Add Template Tags for Your Title2:39
Use the blog info template tag to drive the title and fix asset paths, verify images with view source, and upload updates via ftp to keep the WordPress theme dynamic.

Header, Footer, Sidebar9:21
Install The Loop5:41
learn to implement the loop in WordPress, loop through posts on a page, and replace static text with dynamic template tags to pull title, description, and images.
Loop Specific Template Tags7:59
The Author, The Time, and Images7:37
Learn to implement author and time template tags in WordPress, manage dynamic images with add media, and understand how uploads appear in wp-content/uploads.
Full-Size Images and Author Options2:00
Switch to full-size images for better visuals. Use screen options to reveal author settings and update the post author to your full name.
Permalinks6:35
Explain how WordPress permalinks link each post to its own page, edit the permalink, and configure structures for search engine optimization with templates and redirects.
CSS Hacking at Your Theme10:37

Template Hierarchy11:06
Comments3:30
Functions2:42
Create a functions.php file and use it to register sidebars and menus for your WordPress theme. Learn how WordPress core and wp-content relate, and how functions extend the theme.
Register Your Sidebar3:25
Register and customize a WordPress theme sidebar by adding a footer, using register_sidebar in functions.php, and enabling widget areas to manage archives, categories, and other widgets in the dashboard.
Customize the Available Widgets5:19
Create New Widgits11:39
Navigation Menus7:21
Turn a static WordPress navigation into a customizable, dynamic menu by registering a nav menu in the backend and printing it in the header.
Tags and Categories6:39
Category Navigation4:25

Advanced Theming0:45
Edit This Post2:08
Adding Plugins to Your Theme3:50
Set up a custom WordPress theme to support plugins by adding wp_head and wp_footer in the header and footer, enabling plugin code injection and admin bar visibility.
Install Plugins9:20
Install and manage WordPress plugins by using add new or zip upload, activate or deactivate them, and review ratings and updates to balance features with performance.
Plugins You'll Love9:43
Explore essential WordPress plugins for faster, smarter sites: Sumo for email capture and a/b testing; Gravity Forms and WPForms for forms; analytics and speed plugins; Stripe payments.
Post Types2:35
Advanced Custom Fields7:23
Wordpress Themes You'll Love4:02

Requirements

Basic knowledge of HTML & CSS is required
Basic knowledge of the Wordpress admin panel
Fluency in English
Come self-motivated and ready to learn

Description

One Month WordPress is the best way to learn WordPress. I've been developing WordPress themes for over 10 years, and in that time I've created WordPress themes for The Black Eyed Peas, General Assembly, Toyota, Aldo, Agency Sacks, and New York Green Roofs. You’ll get to take advantage of all that expertise to develop a WordPress page that’s perfect for you.

Who is this WordPress course designed for? If you're a freelance designer, I hope that after this course you can start offering custom WordPress blogs services to your clients. If you're a business owner, I hope that you learn enough to build your own blog from scratch. Whatever your goals are, you'll learn enough so that you can tweak an existing WordPress theme design.

In just 4 hours of videos you'll learn how to build custom WordPress themes with:

The Loop
Template tags
The author tag
The date tag
Navigation menus
Comments
Functions
Widgets
WordPress Plugins
Advance Custom Field
The WordPress Codex

As well as how to edit CSS styles on an existing WordPress theme. This covers the most common things you would want to build on a WordPress page.

WordPress powers 28% of the Internet.

That’s because both Fortune 500 Companies, artists, and bloggers all want the same things: a custom theme, good SEO, and an easy way to publish content. I'm very proud of how this course came out - and I hope you'll join me.

Who this course is for:

Anyone who has a WordPress theme already
Entrepreneurs
Freelance developers
Designers

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Course content

Get Set Up With Wordpress6 lectures • 34min

Week 1: Theming5 lectures • 27min

Week 2: In The Loop7 lectures • 50min

Week 3: Functionality9 lectures • 56min

Week 4: Advanced Wordpress8 lectures • 40min

Bonus Videos2 lectures • 4min

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