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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)

Adding a search bar and single post page

So let's get started.

Dealing with the search box

Go to our header file and go to the empty form down at the bottom of the file, and we will add some stuff to it. The first thing we'll do is adding a method and the method is going to be get. We can actually change the class from left to right. We also need to add an action. For that, we will use the php tags and add echo esc_url().

This is because we want the URL checked and escaped. We will use home_url with a /:

<form method="get" class="navbar-form navbar-right" 
role="search" action="<?php echo esc_url(home_url('/')); ?>">

Basically, we're just submitting...