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Build Your First WordPress Theme

Build Your First WordPress Theme

Build a Basic WordPress Theme From Scratch


Course details

4.7∙29 Ratings21 reviews

Published
May 2017
Videos
5
Duration
30m
Happy students
1848

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About the course

In this mini course, you'll learn the basics of WordPress theme development. You’ll start by creating a very minimalist theme and child theme before moving on to adding more functionality to the themes through template files, widgets and customization options. Once you’ve completed this series, you can definitely say that you've taken the first steps in developing your first bare-bones WordPress theme. To take your WordPress theme development to the next level and produce a theme worthy of WordPress theme markets, take our 5-star rated course WordPress Theme Development.

Course Instructor

Ashraff Hathibelagal

Ashraff Hathibelagal

Ashraff is a blogger and freelance programmer, who loves tinkering with new frameworks, SDKs and devices. He has been building enterprise applications for various multinational organizations using HTML, PHP and Java for over a decade now, something he still enjoys. Lately, Ashraff has become obsessed with newer languages such as Ruby and Kotlin, never missing a chance to use them in his projects.

Course Outline

Lesson 1: WordPress Theme
  • Free
    Create a Bare-bones WordPress Theme From Scratch
    5:16
  • Locked
    Developing a Child-theme from a Parent Theme
    5:04
  • Locked
    Creating a New Template File for a WordPress Theme
    4:54
  • Locked
    Create a Simple Widget for Your WordPress Theme
    8:08
  • Locked
    Making Your WordPress Theme Customizable
    7:24

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Course details

4.7∙29 Ratings21 reviews

Published
May 2017
Videos
5
Duration
30m
Happy students
1848

Take this course
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