“Hello World” of WordPress Theming: An Introduction to WordPress Theme Building

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A beginners guide to creating a custom theme, aimed at users who have used WordPress mostly with other people’s themes, and are ready to dive into creating their own theme from scratch. Will include the following content: principles of theming, theme essentials (styles.css, index.php), theme includes (sidebar.php, header.php, footer.php), theme settings (functions.php), assets (/css, /js, /img, /fonts), first-plugin.php (a simple plugin for changing excerpt length). A starter theme including the code provided in the slides will be provided. The rest of the workshop myself and other volunteers would help people customize their themes.

Prerequisites:
For Beginner to Intermediate WordPress users. Excellent for first time theme creators or people who have just started making themes. Attendees should have basic knowledge of php, html, css and javascript. Attendees should know how to install and run a WordPress installation on their local computers. Attendees should have a working installation of WordPress on their computers to build the theme with. These include having:

  • A fresh install of WordPress running on your local machine.
  • A code editor installed (Sublime Text, Notepad++, PHPStorm, Webstorm, etc)
  • A basic understanding of HTML, CSS and PHP.

This is a hands-on workshop. A special ticket to this event is required. Space is limited.

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