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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 WordPress theme

Now we'll convert our HTML template into a WordPress theme. I have a fresh install of WordPress here with just the default twentysixteen theme. We will go to the WordPress folder, wp-content and then in the themes folder, we will create a new folder and name it advanced-wp.

Here we will create a style.css file and also an index.php file.

Now let's open the style sheet. Here we will put our declaration first, so that WordPress can see the theme. We will set Theme Name as Advanced WP and enter a value for Author. Next we will add Author URI, a description, and a version:

/*
Theme Name: Advanced WP
Author: Brad Traversy
Author URI: http://eduonix.com
Description: Advanced Wordpress Theme
Version: 1.0
*/

Now we do have a screenshot as well in our project files, so we will add that.

Let's go to C:. Since I'm using AMPPS,...