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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)

Adding the theme header and footer

In the previous section, we went ahead and finished up the HTML template. We're now ready to convert that template into a WordPress theme. Here we have a fresh installation of WordPress:

We'll use this as our starting point. In the editor, open the wpthemes folder as shown in the following screenshot:

Creating a theme inside the wpthemes folder

We'll start with creating a theme inside the themes folder, which is inside the wp-content folder, called photogenik:

Adding a theme

The first thing we will create in the photogenik...