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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)

E-commerce HTML template – Part B

We have the HTML done, but we need to do the CSS bit. Let's go ahead and open up app.css and if we take a look at the template, we'll have to start with the core styles.

Now we will notice that by default, the buttons and the links are blue. We actually want to change that to red. We'll put a tag, let's write color and that's going to be a value of ec2c2f, which will give it the red color. Now we also want the buttons to have a background color of red. Let's say, we also want to give the buttons a little border at the bottom. So, we'll use border-bottom: 3px #333solid;.

Now when we hover over the buttons, you'll see it turns blue, same thing with the links:

To fix this, let's use the following code:

a{
color: #ec2c2f;
}

a:hover{
color: #333;
}

.button{
background:#ec2c2f;
border-bottom...