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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)

Creating a design using HTML and CSS

Let's see how to create our theme, but before we get into WordPress, we'll first map out and just create the design using HTML and CSS.

Usually, when we build a WordPress theme, or a Drupal or Joomla theme, you can usually create the design first using just static HTML and CSS.

Building the HTML body

As you can see in the following screenshot, we have an empty folder called advanced-wp-html, and we'll create a couple of files here. First, we'll create an index.html file, and then we'll create our style sheet, which will just be style.css.

Let's open both the files with Sublime editor. In the index.html file, add in our core html markup, as shown in the following...