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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 comment functionality

The last thing we need to do is add some comment functionality to our single post page:

  1. Let's go into single.php and go down. What we want to do is still within the panel body so that ends where it is shown.
  2. Let's create a comment template and add comments_template():
         <?php endif; ?>
<?php comments_template(); ?>
</div>
  1. We'll save that and create a new file. We'll save it as comments.php.

That needs to be in your theme folder, and then if we go ahead and type something in here, we'll say TEST.

  1. If we save and reload, and you can see we're getting TEST:

Now let's create a div with a class of comments and add <?php if(have_comments); ?>.

  1. We also add heading <h3> with class of comments_title. We will add if(get_comments_number() == 1). We are doing this because...