About this course
This course is for any Wordpress user or web developer who would like to learn how to create powerful Wordpress themes and add development skills to their resume.
If you already have basic WordPress skills and wanted to know how themes are developed, then this is the perfect course for you. This course will super-size your WP skills and make you a powerful theme developer.
Become a confident WordPress theme developer and learn real WordPress theme coding here! This course contains no outside links to coding sites. All the code you need to learn is in this course. The instructor uses this code with every WordPress theme and has built over 300 WordPress themes for clients and employers.
BONUS: FREE CODE TO FULLY FUNCTIONAL 2 WORDPRESS THEMES:
All students get two themes to customize with the code from this course:
1. plain vanilla WordPress theme
2. Twitter Bootstrap WordPress theme
This course delves more into these theme development concepts with all the code you need to download and make it your own:
- Creating your own template tags and calling them in your theme PHP files
- Shortcodes
- Page Templates
- Displaying custom field data in your templates
- Child themes
- Adding Theme Support including custom headers, backgrounds, post formats, HTML title tags and more
- Developing your own template tags
- Creating your own API hooks and calling them in any PHP file of your theme.
- Registering and calling dynamic sidebars
- Detailed menus and their menu locations
- The 2 WordPress Theme APIs: The "Customizer" (Theme Customization API) and the Theme Modification API
An entire section of lectures showing how to display posts and pages of various combinations.
This course offers an entire section teaching how to displaying posts and pages in any combination including, but not limited to:
- post status (published, private, revision, etc)
- by author
- password protected
- by custom post type
- by a specific modified or published date
- list of featured images from posts
- cutting off the list of posts and pages by a certain number
- Displaying posts and pages in a specific order by any field
Bonus Lectures With Examples
I offer code samples from popular post lists including:
- latest blog posts
- most recent pages
- today's posts
- random lists of posts
- posts and pages by all authors
- posts and pages by a specific post type
Materials in this Course:
This course includes videos with example code as well as additional code files to download the code so students can concentrate using the code in their WordPress theme files, but the videos will show how to modify the code to create the final Wordpress website.
Course Structure:
This course offers videos with the instructor explaining how to use and change the code as needed.
What are the requirements?
- Students who know HTML and CSS
- Basic understanding of WordPress
- Basic knowledge of PHP or a desire to learn basic PHP coding
What am I going to get from this course?
- Over 91 lectures and 8 hours of content!
- Create powerful Wordpress themes using modern Wordpress development methodologies.
- Learn the Wordpress API hooks that helps your theme offer more features and benefits to Wordpress users and administrators.
- Create themes that offer theme support for custom headers, backgrounds, post formats, title tags and more.
- Add sections, textboxes, color pickers, file uploads and more programming the WordPress customizer.
- Create a fully functional WordPress theme from scratch.
- Transform a static Twitter Bootstrap website into a dynamic WordPress theme.
What is the target audience?
- This is not a HTML or CSS course, but does include some HTML and CSS as needed to create themes, but the student will already have a knowledge of these technologies.
- This course is for any web developer who has a basic knowledge of PHP and HTML, but who would like to learn how to create powerful Wordpress themes.
- For web designers who know Twitter Bootstrap and would like to take that knowledge and add WordPress themes to their skill set.
