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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)

Single product and single page

Up to this point we've done pretty well. We have our main post page or our homepage done, but if I click on one of these and we go to the single product page, it doesn't look too good. We're also missing a bunch of information.

So we'll now create a new file inside the MyShop theme folder and save it as single.php. After creating this file if we go back to the single view and reload, it'll be blank because it's looking at the single file. So what we'll do is copy everything we have in the index page.

So we'll grab all of it, we'll paste it in, and get rid of the showcase part because we don't want that. We want the showcase on the homepage only. We'll put an hr tag in there.

We'll do the same thing as far as checking for posts and looping through the post even though it's a single post...