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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 sidebar widget setup

In the last section, we made a custom widget plugin for our showcase area. We'll now implement the sidebar.

We've already done half the work. If we look at functions.php, we already have registered our sidebar area.

So what we need to do now is go to index.php and go down to where we have our sidebar. Before I get rid of this, let's make sure that we create our widgets.

So we already have the Categories one; we don't have to worry too much about that. But let's create the sidebar heading:

OK, so if we go to our backend, we have Categories, we can bring that over to the sidebar at the right, enter the title as Categories and save that. Then we also want the custom text present at the bottom-left of the window; we'll put that right under Categories. Paste in our heading, Sidebar heading, and then our text and the button from...