
This is the first lesson and here you gonna know what we need for this course and what you will learn.
So I wish you a great coding time my friend
Welcome to the second lesson of our course! And here in this lesson we gonna learn the structure of the typical WordPress theme. But also we gonna create a folder with our theme and we gonna create main files of the theme.
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In this lesson, are we gonna create the header and footer for our theme
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Here, in this lesson, I'm gonna show you how you can import your own CSS/JS files into your WordPress theme by using the WordPress hook and functions.php file.
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Now that you know how you can import your CSS/JS files to your theme, it's time to create a first-page template - where you can add your own content.
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Blog it's one of the main parts of WordPress websites, and in this lesson, you gonna learn how you can build your own simple blog and which functionality is responsible for it.
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When you created your Blog page - now it's time to create a template for the single post. This is important because you need to have a template where you gonna show all information of the current single post.
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Now when we have a template for single posts, it's time to create a page for the single category - where we gonna show posts of the current category.
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In this lesson, we gonna talk about Custom Post Types (CPT) in WordPress and how we can create our own CPT. Custom Post Types in WordPress - it's like posts, but, this is your own essence that you create. For example,
you can create a new post type that gonna be named books, and in this post type you gonna save
information about some books.
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What if we want to customize a page that has not found an error (404 code)? Here we need to use special templates for error codes :)
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You know WordPress has a feature to create and edit menus from the admin panel, and in this lesson, I'm gonna show how you can implement this feature in your theme.
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Many WordPress websites have search form to search for some posts or pages on the website. In this video, we gonna add a search form to the blog page and also build a simple template to show the results of the search.
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Imagine that you need to get some special posts/custom post type and sort it. So if you want to do that - you need to use WP_Query class, which is used to make queries.
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In this lesson, I'm gonna show you how you can work with your media files in your theme, and how you can work with a WordPress media library.
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In this lesson, I'm gonna show you how you can create a template for the taxonomy.
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Hi, and I’m happy to welcome you to my own simple WordPress course, which will be a great start to start development of WordPress themes. This is a really simple course with short videos where I show you how WordPress uses templates and how you can create themes. And yes, in this course we gonna use a Bootstrap library only for building grids for templates.
The focus of this course
The main focus of this course - is to teach you the basics of building WordPress themes. Here we will not talk about design or something like this.
Who is this course for?
If you are an absolute zero in WordPress theme creation - this course will be a great start for you. But if you already know how to create the main templates, and how to work with custom post types, taxonomies, and others - I think that you need to find a more advanced course.
What you will learn in this course?
So as I said, in this course, you gonna learn the basics of WordPress theme creation. You will learn how to create the main template files of the theme, how to create custom post types, error pages, taxonomies, and many other things.
What do you need to know before starting this course?
You will need to know the basics of PHP development, the basics of WordPress, and also about using the HTML markup language.