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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 the layout of the home page in HTML and CSS

Now before we get into building a photo gallery theme for WordPress, we'll create the layout in HTML. As explained in the introduction, we'll use the W3.CSS framework to create this layout. For this, first we'll create a new folder and call it photogenik_html:

Next, inside the folder, we'll create a couple of files and folders. We'll create the index.html, style.css, and single.html files and also have a folder called images:

The single.html file is going to represent the single image. Once we click on one of the images in the gallery, it'll take us into this folder.

Creating the HTML layout

Now, let's open up the index.html file with...