What you'll learn:
- How to sell your themes to other webmasters
- Develop a complete theme from scratch using concepts presented in this course
- Know how to set up the exact development environment perfect for theme development.
- Learn how to identify their theme to the WordPress system
- Build important theme features including the header, footer and sidebar
- Add important information to blog posts including permalinks, author information and publish date
- Develop custom templates which include multi-column templates with sidebars and full page templates
- Create a search form and search results page
- Create dedicated categories & tags page and to recognize the difference between both
- Create a tag cloud
- Add theme support for featured images, HTML5, menus and more
- Create menus and theme locations for those menus
- Distribute custom post types
- Work with the WordPress customizer
- Build customizer sections, controls, panels and settings
- Include page builders with the TGM Activation plugin
- Recognize coding best practices and how to use the Theme Check plugin to inspect a theme before submitting to the WP review team
- Build child themes
- Use version control and know the importance of it
- Create special templates
- Use the WP REST API to quickly display posts without loading the web browser.
If you everwanted to build a complete WordPress theme, this course is perfect for you. Not only do we provide over 20 hours of instructionbuildingthemes; we provide advanced topics that will make your theme more popular that also gets approved faster by the WordPress theme review team including:
- Set up your ideal development environment including PHP, MySQL, and more
- Buildsections, panels, and controls for the WordPress customizer
- WordPress coding best practices
- Automatically recommend and/or require page builders with your theme
- Use version control (the basics) to make sure your theme development is a smooth process
- Create a theme that follows coding best practice and standards
- Develop a complete theme from a static responsive theme from scratch
- Make your theme compatible with WooCommerce
- Display posts quickly with the WPRESTAPI
- How to earn revenue from your themes, how much to charge for your themes and which websites are the best marketplaces for your themes.
- Package page builders and other plugins with your theme from WordPress, Guthub or in a separate director
- Version control of your themes using Git and Github
COMINGin MAYANDJUNE 2017:BOOTSTRAP-THEME-MANIA!...We will build a Bootstrap theme as part of all of the concepts taught in this course!
You can already see the Static Bootstrap theme in section 22. We are still creating that brand new theme, you can follow along. We upload videos for this new section a little at a time.