WordPress Development - The Mini WordPress Development Course

Overview

Dive into WordPress development with this comprehensive 2-hour 25-minute mini-course. Learn to build custom page templates, write WordPress functions, work with template tags, create custom image sizes, and regenerate thumbnails. Explore core and secondary template files, understand the WordPress template hierarchy, and master the WordPress loop. Gain hands-on experience writing custom loops with WP Query, creating hyperlinks from post titles, and customizing excerpts. Delve into advanced topics like hard cropping images, inserting CSS classes and IDs, and working with CSS. Perfect for aspiring WordPress developers looking to enhance their skills and create custom WordPress themes.

Syllabus

- Generating our demo Theme
- Introduction to Template Files
- The Core Template Files
- Secondary Template Files
- Inspecting a Sample Template File
- The WordPress Template Hierarchy
- The Template Hierarchy in Action
- Creating a Custom Page Template
- Writing a Custom WordPress Function
- The get_template Function
- The WordPress Loop
- Introduction to WordPress Template Tags
- Inside Template Tags
- Introduction to Conditional Tags
- Exercise
- Writing a Custom Loop with WP Query
- Writing a Second Custom Loop
- Writing Multiple Custom Loops
- Creating Hyperlinks from Post Titles
- Customizing the Excerpt
- Creating a Custom Image Size
- Hard Cropping Images
- Regenerating Thumbnails
- Creating a Single Loop
- Inserting Template Tags
- Inserting CSS Classes & IDs
- Working with CSS Part 1
- Working with CSS Part 2
- Conclusion