This book will help you take your first steps in the Word Press theme development process, with 5 different projects centered around creating unique and responsive Word Press themes
About This Book- Learn the basics of Word Press 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 Word Press themes from scratch
Who This Book Is For
If you are a blogger or a Word Press user who wants to learn how to create attractive, eye-catching Word Press 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 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_Nav Walker class
- E-commerce theme – build an e-commerce theme using the Foundation framework
In Detail
Word Press has emerged as a powerful, easy-to-use tool to design attractive, engaging websites. Themes play a big role in making Word Press 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 Word Press theme development process, with 5 different projects centered around creating unique and responsive Word Press themes. Start with creating a simple Word Press theme using HTML5, CSS, and PHP. Then, you will move on to incorporate different APIs, widgets, and tools such as Bootstrap and j Query 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 Word Press themes from scratch.
Style and approachThis book takes a projects-based approach, where every project incrementally builds on your programming skills required to create different kinds of Word Press themes. With the difficulty of the projects ranging from basic to complex, this book will help you get beyond the theory and put your understanding of Word Press theme development to practical use.