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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)

Different post formats

Let's take a look at a few different things now. We'll look at post types or post formats. Right now, if we look at our theme, we have just basically one kind of post, and it's just a standard blog post. We can also have things, such as galleries, links, images, and quotes status updates, and we can format these different types of posts in different ways. We will now see how to do that, how to add these to our theme. Also, we'll look at a function called get_ template_part(), which allows us to stop repeating ourselves. For instance, if we look at our index page, we have while (have_posts()), and then we're just outputting our post. We observe the same thing in the archive, in search.php, and so on. So we want something that's going to stop us from repeating ourselves over and over. I know that each of these files have minor...