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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 Foundation E-Commerce Theme

In this chapter, we'll build an e-commerce theme or an online shop theme. We'll not have full functionality to buy products, but just the theme, and we'll look at how to format it so that the posts look more like product pages.

The following screenshot is of the home page we'll create. We have a header (MyShop), a spot for a custom image (this is going to be available through the theme customizer, so you can upload that), our menu over the top-right corner of the page, a showcase widget (which is the big rectangular space right below the header, MyShop with a heading—Discount Clothing, some texts, and Read more), and we'll see where we can actually edit that content. If we scroll down the page (below the showcase widget rectangle) we have the main post loop, but we have it formatted so that it looks more like an e...