
Develop a custom WordPress theme from scratch with Bootstrap 5, featuring dynamic course post types and advanced custom fields. Build a responsive site with a hero image and fast performance.
Explore the learning resources folder to download files for a basic WordPress theme and a Bootstrap version, including plugins like advanced custom fields, to compare your code with mine.
Set up your development environment across Windows, Linux, and Mac by installing xampp to run WordPress locally. Choose free editors like sublime text and registred, avoiding Dreamweaver.
Set up a local WordPress development environment by installing zamp, starting the zamp control panel, creating a localhost database, and configuring site title and admin credentials with wp debug enabled.
Explore how to build a WordPress theme using the official WordPress.org documentation, create a custom theme folder with index and style.css, and configure theme data to activate.
Determine the recommended WordPress theme screenshot size of 1200 by 900 pixels and create a white-background document in photoperiod, center and resize your logo, then export as png.
Outline a simple WordPress theme plan with a container layout, header (logo, search, navigation), a banner slideshow, a content area, a sidebar, and a four-section footer powered by WordPress.
Structure the index page by building a clean container with header, logo, search, navigation, banner, content area, and side blocks for a polished home page.
Learn to add a logo to a WordPress theme, using a static image in an img tag or the custom logo feature in site identity, with size guidance.
Create and integrate a simple HTML5 search form in a WordPress theme, enabling theme support, customizing the search field and placeholder, and ensuring the logo links to the home page.
Add a simple navigation by creating a main menu in a WordPress theme, then add items like home and sample page and publish to see the menu on front page.
Add banner images to a WordPress theme using a widget area and a dynamic sidebar, upload images from the dashboard, and display them in the banner slider.
Display all posts on the front end using the WordPress loop, render each post title and a portion of its content, and link the title to its permalink.
Learn to add a home sidebar to a WordPress theme by creating a widget area, applying a custom class, and integrating archives and metadata.
Create and duplicate a custom widget to add multiple footer widgets in a WordPress theme with Bootstrap 5, register sidebars, and display the power by option.
Register and attach styles and scripts in a WordPress theme via functions.php, ensuring proper title tag and language attributes for localization.
Style the WordPress theme by placing content in a 1000-pixel container with a white background and zero body margin, refreshing to bypass cache and view Bootstrap 5 styling.
Design the header logo by creating a custom logo class, setting a flexible height and padding, and ensuring the logo fits varying sizes without a fixed image height.
Style and position the search bar by adjusting the input and button with CSS, setting 300px width, 5px padding, zero borders, and a green, white-text button in the sidebar.
Develop a WordPress theme navigation bar using Bootstrap 5, adding dummy pages via admin and styling a dropdown menu with bullets removed and hover reveal.
Create a banner slideshow in a WordPress theme using Bootstrap 5, configure image sizing and overflow, and implement a JavaScript slideshow plugin to manage multiple banner images.
Inspect and customize the home page content by styling the content holder and articles, adjusting background color, font, padding, and margins, then refresh to preview updates.
Learn to style a WordPress sidebar by adjusting margins, applying layout rules, and refining widgets with CSS, padding, and hover effects for a clean, responsive layout.
Customize the home page footer by styling floating items, left alignment, margins, padding, font family and size, and adjusting copyright and anchor colors.
Fix dropdown layering in a WordPress theme by increasing the z-index to ensure the dropdown stays in front of a running slideshow.
Split the WordPress theme into reusable parts by moving the header, sidebar, and footer into separate files, and reuse them across all pages to simplify the layout.
Create a universal page template for all pages in a simplified WordPress theme, customize the loop, remove the banner slideshow, and display full content instead of excerpts.
Create a WordPress post page with a featured image, set post thumbnails, and style responsive visuals using Bootstrap 5.
Learn to display post meta in WordPress themes by using the loop to show date, time, category, author, and thumbnail, and to add a comments template.
Build WordPress theme templates by creating category, tag, author, and date archives, and implement a search page. Customize single post templates and the front-page template to tailor the homepage.
Create a simple search results page for a WordPress theme by building a basic template, displaying the search term, and rendering results with the search query.
Learn to set up a Bootstrap 5 based WordPress theme by creating a custom theme folder, configuring styles, activating the theme, and integrating Bootstrap 5 styles.
Use a starter template to integrate Bootstrap 5 into a WordPress theme, clean up the index and header. Register Bootstrap assets, enqueue styles from a CDN, and enable title tag.
Explore integrating a Bootstrap 5 navigation bar into a WordPress theme by moving header elements to a header file, and customize fonts, dropdowns, and homepage links.
In WordPress, replace the navbar brand with a scalable SVG logo that links to home, load it using template_directory_uri, and apply a fixed top bar with a bottom border.
Add dynamic links to a WordPress Bootstrap 5 navbar by pulling menu items from WordPress using a pre-built function and registering the menu in functions.php.
Add a searchable navigation bar in a Bootstrap theme by integrating a search form with an icon, an input type=search, and a submit button, and refine margins and sizing.
Learn to create a WordPress default page featuring the post loop with Bootstrap 5, a configurable sidebar, list group styling, and controlled excerpts with read more links.
Learn to replace the default WordPress excerpt with a custom excerpt, control text length for posts and pages, and enable post type support for excerpts.
Add image support to a WordPress theme by enabling post thumbnails, displaying featured images in the post loop, and defining custom image sizes for consistent layout.
Learn to create and style a WordPress sidebar with Bootstrap 5 widgets, register a default sidebar, customize list groups, and enqueue custom scripts for dynamic widget layouts.
Register a custom WordPress function to automatically inject Bootstrap 5 classes into widgets and the default sidebar, then build and test a Bootstrap 5 sidebar with list items.
Develop and style the site footer in a WordPress Bootstrap 5 theme, adding a footer image, navigation items, padding, borders, and a white-on-dark copyright bar.
Create a front page template and assign it as the static homepage, using get header and get footer to display a Hello world example and preview the front page.
Create a static front page banner in a WordPress theme using Bootstrap 5, with text and image, then migrate to dynamic widgets for future updates.
Develop a call-to-action button with a sign-up modal, featuring a rounded image in the banner and a simple form that collects name and email with required validation, using Bootstrap 5.
Design a static feature set on the front page using bootstrap 5 in a WordPress theme, load images from a features folder, and apply borders, padding, and alignment.
Create a category set for a WordPress custom post type, converting static content to dynamic front page sections with Bootstrap 5 styling and a call-to-action pop-up.
Create static course category cards with images and captions, make them clickable anchors, and style with Bootstrap 5 for clean headings and centered text.
Create the front page main content by adding a content area and a services text block. Refine alignment, spacing, and feature image using existing widgets and a simple content loop.
Create a dynamic popup sign-up form in WordPress using a form plugin to collect name, email, and phone details and save submissions via a shortcode.
Implement a custom WordPress page template to create a dedicated banner section, fetch the page title, excerpt, and featured image, and align content with spacing and typography tweaks.
Learn to build a WordPress page layout with Bootstrap 5, including banner, content area, and optional sidebar, plus full-width templates.
Learn to add a non-intrusive call-to-action section on any page, using a sign-up button or simple form in a services area, so visitors can easily connect without popups.
Learn to simplify WordPress sidebars by turning a sidebar into a reusable widget, then call get_sidebar to display it across index and pages, ensuring a consistent sidebar on all pages.
Test page with various headings and images, apply custom image styles to fit the content area, and verify responsive behavior in bootstrap 5 across mobile views.
Explore styling block quotes in WordPress by creating a custom block code style with CSS, adding padding, background color, and a left border to enhance typography and content presentation.
Apply code styles to a page template by styling a pre tag with padding of 15 pixels, a background color, border, and border radius to display code snippets clearly.
Create a distinct single post template from a page using the WordPress loop and Bootstrap 5 styling, including author, date, category, badges, and a customized comments template.
Create and customize category pages in WordPress by wiring the category template to display name, description, and posts, then style the header and layout using Bootstrap 5.
Create and customize a WordPress tag template to display posts by tag, using taxonomy concepts and the tag template. Build tag archives with titles and descriptions, mirroring the category template.
Create and customize the author page in a WordPress setup by adding author details, bios, and email, update templates, and render the author profile across posts.
Build a date archive page in a WordPress theme using the archive title. Add an archives widget to the sidebar to display posts by year and month.
Create and customize the archive and search pages in a WordPress theme, reuse archive templates, assign search results labels, and implement search query handling to display relevant posts.
Create a custom WordPress 404 page by building a simple template with header inclusion, a centered message, and optional descriptive content.
Launch an about page in WordPress by creating a dedicated about template, adding content and a feature image, and shaping a zigzag front-end layout with Advanced Custom Fields (ACF).
Create an about page with Advanced Custom Fields in WordPress by building a field group, adding text and image fields, and rendering them in a page template.
Master front-end display of acf fields by retrieving image and text for multiple sections using get_field, and structure content with responsive styling for a WordPress theme.
Hey guys welcome, first of all, I would like to thank you guys for choosing my course “WordPress Theme Development with Bootstrap 5 (2023)”. It’s a great pleasure for me to teach this awesome course on how to build WordPress Themes from Scratch.
I have built this course keeping all beginners in mind, which makes this course the most advanced way and the easiest way how you can build fast, secure, and reliable WordPress Themes.
The primary focus of this course is to help you understand how WordPress themes work and to help you build any kind of theme you like.
Before you can enroll in this course, you need to have some prior skills in PHP and MySQL, this will help you to easily build themes. You also need some prior skills in HTML5, CSS, CSS3, and some JavaScript and jQuery.
Throughout the course, we will cover how you can build a simple plan first and get a basic and minimal theme setup. The first part of the course covers the basic stuff.
The second part is where the real fun begins, we will learn how we can create and set up a custom theme that works with Bootstrap 5 (the Latest CSS framework).
We will create default pages, front pages, posts, comments, page templates, and much more. We will also see how we can create a custom Bootstrap 5 Menu that will work flawlessly with our theme.
We will get into adding Advanced custom fields to our Page templates, and posts, and we will also earn how we can create custom post types.
With the help of ACF (Advanced Custom Fields), we will learn how we can add custom fields to our custom post types. We will use all the learning resources we can via the official WordPress website and build the most advanced WordPress theme.
The WordPress Theme which we build is going to be the fastest WordPress theme you have ever seen. I have made sure that we do not use any kind of customization plugins like Page builders and stuff, which will slow down our site. Instead, we will build everything from scratch.
Finally, we will run a simple test via the GT Metrix to test out WordPress Theme, to check how fast can our WordPress Theme loads in Real-Time.
I hope you guys would enjoy the course, as much as I have enjoyed building this course for you. If you do have any questions or queries along with the lessons, you can always post them in the Q and A section of the Course.
I will do my best to resolve any issues you face, or any queries you have as soon as possible. So let’s get started. See you in the course.