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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)

The post loop

In the previous section, we created the header and footer files and included them in the index.php file. In this section, we will work on the main post area. So far, we have a bunch of static HTML which we need to change. We will have two types of posts:

  • Regular post: This will be a standard blog post with a title and paragraph
  • Gallery post: This will have the image with the description underneath

We will add support for content or post formats. So what we need to do is create a functions.php file inside our photogenik theme.

Adding the theme support function

We will create a function to set up certain support for our theme. For instance, to be able to use the featured image or thumbnails. In function.php,...