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Learn to Create WordPress Themes by Building 5 Projects

By : Eduonix Learning Solutions
Book Image

Learn to Create WordPress Themes by Building 5 Projects

By: Eduonix Learning Solutions

Overview of this book

WordPress has emerged as a powerful, easy-to-use tool to design attractive, engaging websites. Themes play a big role in making WordPress as popular as it is today, and having an eye-catching, fully-functional theme could separate your website from the rest! This book will help you take your first steps in the WordPress theme development process, with 5 different projects centered around creating unique and responsive WordPress themes. Start with creating a simple WordPress theme using HTML5, CSS, and PHP. Then, you will move on to incorporate different APIs, widgets, and tools such as Bootstrap and jQuery to create more dynamic and highly-functional themes. Whether you want to create a photo gallery theme, a highly customizable e-commerce theme, or a theme designed to suit a particular business, this book will teach you everything you need to know. By the end of this highly interactive book, you will have the required mastery to develop WordPress themes from scratch.
Table of Contents (6 chapters)

Building a WordPress Theme

In this chapter, we'll jump into more details and get our feet wet. In the previous chapter, we covered the basics, but now we'll use some of the more advanced concepts to build a WordPress theme. Here we will cover the following concepts:

  • Custom template pages
  • Archived pages
  • Post formats
  • Custom home pages

Let's take a quick look at the project:

In the preceding image, you can see the WordpressDev home page with some widgets that we'll implement, such as the showcase. You can also see three box widgets.