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WordPress: Building Child Themes

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Overview

Learn how to customize your WordPress site with child themes.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Level up to WordPress developer
  • What you need to know
  • Using the exercise files
1. Building on a Solid Foundation
  • Set up a local development environment
  • Set up a code editor
  • Use real content
2. Creating a Child Theme
  • What is a child theme?
  • Picking a parent theme
  • Creating and activating a child theme
  • Including stylesheets
  • Best practices for including stylesheets
3. Child Themes and CSS
  • Employing the laziness principle
  • Designing in the browser
  • Modify existing styles
  • Add new styles
  • Challenge: Add flair
  • Solution: Add flair
4. Working with Function Files
  • Understanding functions.php
  • Finding functions in the parent theme
  • Modify a pluggable function
  • Hooks, filters, and action
  • Filter a function
  • Hooking functions
  • Challenge: Change posted by
  • Solution: Change posted by
5. Working with Template Files
  • Template hierarchy in WordPress
  • Changing an existing template
  • Add new template files
  • Managing backward compatibility
  • Challenge: Custom 404 page
  • Solution: Custom 404 page
6. Add New Functionality
  • Finding existing functionality
  • Add a menu
  • Change menu output with properties
  • Style new menu with CSS
  • Challenge: Conditional widgetized area
  • Solution: Conditional widgetized area
7. Wrapping Up
  • Shiny new web fonts
  • Adding a screenshot
  • Migrating files to your live site
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Patrick Rauland

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