Building a WordPress Theme from Scratch
Building a WordPress Theme from Scratch
A Step-By-Step Guide to Getting Your Design into WordPress
About the Book
Quickly learn WordPress Theme development with this easy to follow, step-by-step guide.
Does working in technology ever feel like you've been dropped into the middle of the forest with no map, no signposts and no help and told to "just figure it out"? Ever wonder where you should begin to get up and running as quickly as possible? Does it feel like the natives aren't really interested in helping you as you're just starting out?
When travelling to a new country, learning to cook or even learning a new language, you don't need an encyclopedia, you need a good guidebook. When learning a new technology, it's also important to have a step-by-step guide to show you were to begin, that can show you the most needed tasks, required concepts and a breakdown that simply explains how it all works. While anyone could "figure it out", usually that's not the most efficient way to learn a new skill or get started building something real.
Your guide book is here.
With Building a WordPress Theme from Scratch, you'll learn:
- How to get your designs and functionality into WordPress
- An understanding how WordPress themes work so you can edit existing themes to your liking
- How to use the latest WordPress features in getting everything to work perfectly
- That you don't have to "just figure it out" and you can save time by getting right to the "Ah-Ha" moments
This book is a step-by-step guide to building a theme from the ground up with the latest WordPress version. We will be starting at nothing and I'll show you line by line how to build in everything you need to make a fully functional and usable WordPress theme from scratch. Whether you're looking to sell the theme or use it for client work, you'll be learning important concepts like:
- What files are required in your theme and which should be!
- How to best segment your design for ease and reuse
- How to get data from WordPress and into your theme
- Gotchas around how WordPress builds HTML pages from your theme and how to work around them
- Understanding how to get control over WordPress to make your designs look and work great
You must already know HTML and CSS but, this book is written for someone with zero WordPress and PHP knowledge. If you're a designer that wants to use the power of WordPress for your websites or a developer that has a HTML and CSS design that you need to skin WordPress with, this book will get you started and finished with as little confusion as possible.
This is a Beta Book
This book is under heavy development and the price is lower than it will be once it's complete. Please feel free to buy it now and let me know how it can be improved. Once it's finished, you'll get all changes and additions absolutly free. I thank you so much for supporting me so early in the process.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
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WordPress Data
- Template Tags
- Information About the Website
- Information About the Page
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Beginnings of a Theme
- Required Files
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Filling Out Our Theme
- Language Attributes
- Meta Tags
- Adding WordPress Classes to Your Theme
- Linking Posts
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Adding Specialized Templates to Our Theme
- Headers and Footers
- Default Template
- Adding a Post Template
- Adding an Archive Template
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Navigation
- Functions.php
- Navigation
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Widget Areas
- Widget Philosophy
- Defining Widget Areas
- Showing Widget Areas
- Widgets
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Comments
- Displaying Comments
- Other Comment Options
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Cleaning Up
- The Recap
- Small Additions
- More to Come
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