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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)

Working with Theme Widgets

In this section, we'll take a look at widgets.

Right now, we have a sidebar, but this is just static content in our php file. So we want this to come from the widget system. Also, we should be able to add multiple widgets in the sidebar. Now, on the blog page, and on any other page, this is going to be the only widget aside from a custom Home page that we'll create later on. However, we will add those positions in our functions file.

So, let's open up functions.php, and go right under the after_theme_setup action; this will be to set up widget locations. We'll create a function, call it init_widgets() and it will take an id; then, we'll say register_sidebar. Now, even though this is called register_sidebar, this is used with all widget positions, not just a sidebar. It takes in an array and it's going to take a name; this...