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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)

Summary

In this chapter, we worked on the project to create a WordPress theme for a photo gallery. We created the HTML and CSS for our home page. Next, we have implemented the animation using the built-in W3.CSS-animation.

After this, we have templated the HTML into a WordPress theme, created header and footer files separately, and included them in the index.php file. Next, we have worked on the main post area and added if and while loops for the different post formats. Then, we have worked on the content pages, both the regular and gallery post content. Once this was done, we worked on the categories widget. Last, we worked on the theme of the single page.

In the next chapter, we will build a Twitter Bootstrap WordPress theme.