Building WordPress Themes: The Step-by-Step Guide

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5.5 hours on-demand video
$ 12.99

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Convert HTML into WordPress themes and plugins using PHP with this step-by-step guide

Description

In Building WordPress Themes: The Step-by-Step Guide you will learn how to take a static HTML site and convert it into a fully functional WordPress theme and plugin. We'll start with a primer for PHP to understand the underlying language WordPress is written in, as well as explore some tools to help you work. Then, we'll take a look at our static site and convert it! 

By the end of the course you will: 

  • Become familiar with Underscores, a popular WordPress Starter Theme
  • Know how to create and customize blog posts, pages, and header and footer areas
  • Create menus and widget areas
  • Build a plugin to help us extend WordPress
  • Understand CMB2, a popular WordPress tool for adding custom information to our WordPress site
  • Learn best practices for creating WordPress Themes and Plugins

What are we building?

Since it's something we all know and love, we'll create a restaurant website! We'll build basic pages like about and contact, add a blog, and create a nice, interactive menu that's easy to update!

Requirements

  • Requirements
  • Basic knowledge of HTML & CSS. If you know that HTML provides the structure and CSS is for adding design, you are ready to learn WordPress Theming.
  • Some fundamental PHP: variables, data types, functions and scope. Bonus if you know about classes and objects.
  • How to use WordPress. Perhaps you've never created your own theme or plugin, but you definitely know your way around the admin. You know how to add content and widgets, install themes and plugins, and modify menus.
$ 12.99
English
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5.5 hours on-demand video
Joe Casabona
Udemy

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Joe Casabona

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