Complete Customizer Development For WordPress Themes/Plugins
What you'll learn
- Add modern theme options to any WordPress theme
- Program WordPress with the Theme Customizer
- Develop in WordPress using the Theme Customization and the Theme Modification APIs
- Add special color picker controls, image uploaders, ranges, radio buttons, select menus, text areas, and more
- Create menus in the theme customizer for current posts, pages, custom fields and more.
- Build your own custom controls using PHP and HTML
- Add any custom CSS into your controls
- Build a social media section where users can input Facebook, Twitter, and other social network profiles
- The different customizer transports including "refresh" and "postMessage"
- Add upload controls for media including audio and images
Requirements
- You should have at least a basic understanding of PHP development
- Basic knowledge of WordPress theme development experience
- Basic understanding of Javascript
Description
Take Your WordPress theme or plugin to the very next level!
Learn how to program the WordPress theme customizer for any modern theme or plugin. Create theme options the modern way as requested by the WordPress theme review team.
The theme customizer is one of the most exciting features of themes and plugins in WordPress and theme options. They allow your theme or plugin to stand out and give the user many options to add all types of data from:
- text controls
- dates
- color controls
- image uploaders
- textareas
- URLs and emails
- number range sliders
- media controls including audio
- and more
Why Should Theme Developers Take This Course?
The problem with most theme options is that they do not follow the coding standards or best practices only confusing web designers who use them.
The Theme Customizer is the best way to create a consistent look and feel between themes while following best practices and allows the user to customize your theme in a more comfortable editing environment.
In this course, I teach you to take your theme development to the very next level by not only teaching you how to add theme options using the customizer, but also how to tap into WordPress posts, pages, custom fields and more to help users make the changes all in one place.
Code samples are available with most videos in this course!
I also give you the code after each video to help you program the different features and sections. Several assignments and quizzes to test your knowledge.
Free Customizer Sections With Code To Plug Right Into Your Theme
We are building completely, usable code sections and panels that you will be able to add to your theme as you see fit. The sections will allow your theme user to do all of the following:
- select a post title from a drop down menu
- change custom fields
- change colors of background with the color selector
- add social media profiles including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and more.
- create a select menu of all WordPress posts and pages
Learn Code Tricks With Your Customizer
Learn code tricks such as:
- adding multiple controls with just a few lines of text
- hook in any CSS file
- sanitize input
- hook in any WordPress function
- move sections between panels
- move controls between sections
- hook in any AJAX using jQuery to automatically display changes on the theme
- and more
Who this course is for:
- Intermediate or advanced WordPress or PHP programming
Instructor
- 4.1 Instructor Rating
- 637 Reviews
- 36,093 Students
- 8 Courses
I am the first official web design coach mentoring over 5,000 web designers and developers. I have designed and developed over 1,000 websites in the past 20 years for companies of all sizes from small businesses to major Fortune 500 corporations. Being the owner of a prestigious online mall for web developers, I have programmed everything from WordPress to Drupal to Joomla to simple HTML5.
Involved in the WordPress Community. I am also a speaker at WordCamps (worldwide WordPress conferences) in the United States.
The Music, The Songwriting
I love writing, recording, and producing music, mainly my own originals. I play sax and piano and have over 150 songs. Yes, I should have gone for that record deal, but I still enjoy the process of making music!