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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)

Pages, custom templates, and sub navigation

Now we'll move from the posts to pages. If we visit the About page, you can see that it's formatted just like a post, which is definitely not what we want.

We just want the pages to have the title, we don't want metadata, Read More, and stuff like that. So to change all that, we have to create a new file and save it as page.php.

Now if I go back to that page and reload, it's just a blank white page. It's looking to this file to parse it.

Just to start with, I'll grab what we have in the index page, paste it in page.php, and just change some stuff. We want the while loop, we'll not use get_template_part(), so we can get rid of that. We want an <article> tag, and let's give this a class of page. Let's also put in an <h2> tag. This is where the title will go, so we'll say &lt...