You have now crossed to the other side of the WordPress themes world—you have learned how to make your own theme. With just basic HTML and CSS code, you can create a design and turn it into a fully functional WordPress theme.
In this chapter, we looked at how to turn your HTML build into a basic theme, creating WordPress templates to influence the display of a variety of views on your site, creating custom templates to be applied to pages within your site, making your new theme widget-ready, creating a child theme, making a theme compatible with the WordPress Customizer, and share your theme with everyone in the WordPress community.
In the next chapter, we'll discuss social media integration, podcasting, and HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure). This information will allow you to expand your blogging habits, and make your work more diverse and more noticeable...