
Learn to convert a Bootstrap template into a fully functional WordPress theme for ThemeForest using Elementor, building custom widgets, enqueuing styles and scripts, and integrating with ACF Pro and Gutenberg.
Install and configure Visual Studio Code on Windows 11 for WordPress theme development, then set up essential extensions for PHP, code intelligence, doc blocks, and Git workflow.
Navigate the WordPress admin panel, customize themes, manage posts, media, pages, and plugins, and configure appearance, widgets, menus, and the theme editor for a Themeforest-ready site with Elementor.
Learn to build custom Elementor widgets and add-ons for WordPress by setting up WordPress 6.0, installing Elementor, and creating a sample add-on with two widgets, guided by developer docs.
Create a new Elementor widget by defining a class, registering controls, and rendering the output with get_settings_for_display in a WordPress theme development workflow.
Create a custom Elementor widget category by editing code, uncommenting the add category function, and registering the new category in your plugin; test to see it appear.
Explore elemental controls in WordPress widget development, including hide and switch popover, select and select2 options, data controls, and rendering settings in the render function.
Explore data controls in the elemental widget, covering text, number, text area, wysiwyg (WordPress rich text editor), and code inputs with practical examples for description, price, and formatting.
Build and test color, font, and date controls in the Elemental WordPress plugin, implement the choose control as icon button groups, adjust selectors, and render live previews.
Learn to build WordPress theme components with Elementor by configuring gallery and repeater controls, selecting multiple media from the WordPress library, and rendering repeatable blocks with PHP.
Master entrance, exit, and hover animations using data controls for WordPress with Elementor. Implement entry effects, exit fade-outs, and hover interactions by editing render functions and settings in code editor.
Explore WordPress multi value controls for theme options, including url media, open in new tab and nofollow settings, and integrate media library images with url and alt attributes.
Explore icon controls, text shadow, and box shadow using multi-value controls in Elementor; copy and paste the controllers, adjust horizontal and vertical shadows, blur, and color to update the page.
Explore elemental unit controls with the slider and dimension controls to set font size and dimensions, including padding and margin, using range values and pixel units.
Learn about UI controls in editor workflows, including hidden panels, HTML content, panel buttons, dividers, deprecated notes, and how headings, raw HTML, and widgets trigger events and updates.
Master typography and shadow effects in Elementor by configuring font size, family, weight, transform, style, line height, and letter spacing, and applying text and box shadows to theme elements.
Convert an HTML template into a functional WordPress theme using Elementor add-ons and widgets, starting from the underscores starter theme, installing WordPress locally, then uploading and configuring the theme.
Learn to enqueue styles the right way in WordPress theme development, including assets, bootstrap, font awesome, and style.css to ensure proper styling and script loading.
Learn to enqueue scripts the right way in a WordPress theme by editing functions and organizing scripts such as jquery migrate, bootstrap, easing, and waypoint.
Learn practical WordPress theme customization by styling the menu and footer css, inspecting elements, updating classes, and applying flex and center alignment for the cloud theme.
Learn to build a slider widget for Elementor addons in WordPress by installing Elementor, configuring addon files, renaming folders, and preparing a custom widget extension.
Configure the Clark slider widget for WordPress using Elementor, covering naming, category setup, and icon selection, with guidance on enqueueing styles and scripts.
Learn to enqueue styles and scripts for a WordPress slider widget using a theme's assets, PHP functions, and Elementor integration to ensure proper loading and display.
Learn to add and register controls for a widget slider in WordPress theme development with Elementor, using repeaters, title and subtitle fields, media, and render logic.
Deploy and render a slider widget inside a WordPress theme using Elementor, organizing code, configuring slider elements (title, subtitle, image, links), and updating settings for a live display.
Learn to render and customize a WordPress image slider widget for Elementor, editing styles, inserting PHP slider code, and configuring images and options for a polished slider.
Learn Clark slider widget options in Elementor for WordPress theme development, including loop, autoplay, animations, and navigation, through code-driven configuration.
Explore Clark style slider widget options in WordPress themes, learning to modify typography, colors, borders, and button styles through the element control manager and live code edits.
Fix and refine a Clark style slider widget in WordPress theme development with Elementor by editing controls, CSS, and style sections, then update and refresh to see changes.
Learn to customize the Clark style slider widget’s dots navigation and arrows in wordpress theme development with elementor, editing controllers and css for active states, colors, and backgrounds.
Note: this is a backend PHP course for WordPress
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Welcome to WordPress Theme Development with Elementor: For Themeforest. This course is very special, it allows you to know the secrets of WordPress Theming. Especially if you plan to sell on markets like ThemeForest or WordPress's official website.
So in this course, I will help you Be a professional WordPress theme developer. We will convert by the end of this course a full HTML CSS bootstrap template into a functional WordPress theme with the standards of Themeforest.
So after completing this course, you will be able to convert any bootstrap template to a fully functional WordPress theme using various technologies such as Custom post types, and you will be able to build Your Widgets of Elementor page Builder.
What we will cover in this course?
Firstly, we will be covering for the first sections how to deal with Elementor developers' documentation and their philosophy to see things of the MVC model. So we will see Multiples controllers, and we will see how to render them step by step.
So we will be getting familiar with Elementor widgets development, we will see how to create a new widget of Elementor, and see how to create custom widget categories.
We will manipulate each and every control type of Elementor controller, how to render them the right way.
The second part of the course will be a practical example, Clark's One-page theme creation from scratch.
So we will see how to do the right installation of underscores basic theme, and how to enqueue styles and scripts of theme the right way, and believe this is not always easy and trivial. We will be adding menu support …
After that, we have a crucial step which is Elementor add-on creation and the code behind widgets configurations .also, we will enqueue styles and JS for widgets this time .and after that we will be creating Clark-slider widget; so we will be adding controls and making the render of our widget step by step, adding multiple options also to make our widget professional .making the styling functions of our widget .in order to allow our users the modifications of colors and typography, etc.
Moreover, we will be creating several widgets almost twelve widgets including the Clark slider; we will list Heading, about, Resume, services, skills, projects, price, blog, counter, hire, contact, etc … and we will add controllers for each and every widget created, render them step by step, the style most of them…
Into the final chapters, we will be creating and rendering the footer with the ACF pro plugin and using native widgets of WordPress Gutenberg, last but not least we will create a small plugin in order to bundle our custom post type of projects, we will make the
implementation of TGM functionality to deliver all our plugins when we install our theme. We will make integration as usual of one click demo importer plugin the right way with the right implementations.
In the end, we will have almost a ready theme for ThemeForest, and you will be able to develop your own themes
What exactly are you going to learn?
We will start with the basics. You'll learn how to install WordPress the right way. And that's something not everyone knows how to do (trust me!). And, step by step, we will dive into more interesting topics.
You'll learn things like:
How to integrate the theme with Bootstrap—any version
Inner template files and essential WordPress pages
Native functions and tools that bring the entire mechanism of the theme to life
How to read Elementor developers' documentation to convert any Bootstrap template with the Creation of your widgets.
And much more… You'll also learn how to handle some specialized tools and APIs, like:
ACF and custom post types in general, you will create your CPT and make them editable with advanced custom fields ACF and ACF pro. And that for the Footer section.
The powerful TGM Plugin Activation library. If you intend to redistribute your work, TGM will help you package all your plugins with the theme.
And finally, you'll also learn how to make one demo importer and a simple plugin for all your CPT “custom post types”
We will provide the initial HTML and CSS template that we will convert step by step and of course the final project or theme in the resources.
How is the course different?
The course’s uniqueness is its versatility in its benefits. It offers a comprehensive 65 lectures, carefully classified into sections, leaving no topic untouched. More than 20 Hours.
The best part is my eagerness to assist you 24/7. Solving your query sooner than possible is my priority. The excellent response time allows you to follow your own pace in your project.
So join me right now. I can promise you this will be a journey that will change your professional career for good!