▶Book Description
WordPress has emerged as a powerful, easy-to-use tool to design attractive, engaging websites. Themes play a big role in making WordPress as popular as it is today, and having an eye-catching, fully-functional theme could separate your website from the rest!
This book will help you take your first steps in the WordPress theme development process, with 5 different projects centered around creating unique and responsive WordPress themes. Start with creating a simple WordPress theme using HTML5, CSS, and PHP. Then, you will move on to incorporate different APIs, widgets, and tools such as Bootstrap and jQuery to create more dynamic and highly-functional themes. Whether you want to create a photo gallery theme, a highly customizable e-commerce theme, or a theme designed to suit a particular business, this book will teach you everything you need to know.
By the end of this highly interactive book, you will have the required mastery to develop WordPress themes from scratch.
▶What You Will Learn
⦁ Simple and advanced themes - covers basic syntax and files along with archives and search pages
⦁ Photo Gallery - add simple animation and use the W3.CSS framework to design a photo gallery theme
⦁ Wordstrap - incorporate Twitter Bootstrap into the theme and use the WP_NavWalker class
⦁ E-commerce theme - build an e-commerce theme using the Foundation framework
▶Key Features
⦁ Learn the basics of WordPress theme development in a step by step manner
⦁ Make your themes more dynamic by integrating components of Bootstrap and JQuery
⦁ 5 carefully-selected projects to help you get beyond the theory and create highly marketable WordPress themes from scratch
▶Who This Book Is For
If you are a blogger or a WordPress user who wants to learn how to create attractive, eye-catching WordPress themes, this book is for you. A basic understanding of HTML5, CSS, PHP, and some creativity is all you need to get started with this book.
▶What this book covers
⦁ Chapter 1, Creating a Simple Theme with WordPress, is an introductory project chapter. We'll discuss about the files which we need to create for our theme, the syntax, and the dynamic snippets.
⦁ Chapter 2, Building a WordPress Theme, is a project chapter that goes in depth and uses advanced concepts to build a WordPress theme, including custom template and home pages, archived pages, and post formats.
⦁ Chapter 3, Building a WordPress Theme for Photo Gallery, is about a project to build a WordPress theme for a photo gallery. We're going to use the w3.CSS framework and also some simple animations to build the theme.
⦁ Chapter 4, Building a Twitter Bootstrap WordPress Theme, is a project chapter that explains integration of Bootstrap with WordPress. This is going to be our chapter to use Wordstrap for our Twitter Bootstrap to implement our WordPress theme. We are also going to use WP nav walker, which is a class we can have for drop-down menus.
⦁ Chapter 5, The Foundation E-Commerce Theme, is about building an e-commerce theme using the foundation framework, which is similar to the Bootstrap framework.
