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Learn how to design and build great WordPress themes
- Learn how to design WordPress themes and build them from scratchli>
- Learn how to create a WordPress theme design using HTML5 and CSS3
- With clear and easy to follow worked examples to help you build your first WordPress theme if youve never done it before
In Detail
If youve been using WordPress to build websites for yourself or clients, youve probably reached a point where you need to build your own theme. Being able to build your own themes means you can build beautiful, bespoke websites using WordPress and means youre not limited to the themes you can download.
WordPress Theme Development Beginners Guide will take you through the process of building your first WordPress theme. It will show you how to write the HTML and CSS your theme will be based on, then convert that code to PHP for use in WordPress. Once youve done that youll learn how to add more features to your theme and make it responsive, accessible and SEO-friendly.
Start by designing your theme using HTML and CSS, then work through the steps to turn this into a fully functioning WordPress theme, including creating template files, adding template tags and PHP to display content, and giving your theme extra goodies like menus, widget areas and more.
Create a gorgeous, responsive and standards-compliant design for your theme using HTML5 and CSS3. Take your HTML and use it to create PHP template files using the WordPress template hierarchy, then add in template tags and the loop to display pages and posts in your theme. Add widget areas, menus and featured images. Learn how to debug your theme and validate it, ensuring its standards-compliant and accessible. Find out what steps you need to take to release your theme to the public, and finally learn some extra tips and tricks such as how to enhance your theme for SEO and how to add support for the WordPress theme customizer.
At the end of WordPress Theme Development Beginners Guide youll have the skills you need to build quality WordPress themes using your own designs. Working through a straightforward worked example, youll learn the steps you need to follow to create a theme from scratch.
What you will learn from this book
- Design a responsive mock-up for your theme using HTML and CSS
- Convert your HTML to PHP files to create a WordPress theme
- Add extra theme files making use of the template hierarchy
- Add template tags and the loop to display content in your theme
- Give your theme extra features like menus, widgets and featured images
- Make your theme SEO-friendly, responsive and accessible
- Debug and validate your theme to ensure its of high quality
- Learn how to release your theme to the public
Approach
A Beginners Guide packed with clear step-by-step instructions to create powerful and professional themes for your WordPress website
Who this book is written for
If youve used WordPress to create self-hosted websites using themes youve downloaded but want to start building your own, this book is for you. You will need an understanding of how to use WordPress and some understanding of HTML and CSS. Simple PHP will be included in the book but you dont need any prior PHP knowledge or experience it will all be explained for you.
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Authors
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Tessa Blakeley Silver
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Rachel McCollin is a web designer and developer specializing in WordPress development. She discovered WordPress when looking for a CMS that made the transition from static HTML relatively straightforward, and hasn't looked back since.
Rachel runs Compass Design, a web design agency based in Birmingham, England, but with clients across the UK and internationally. The agency was established in 2010 and quickly began specializing in building WordPress themes and sites, with a slant towards responsive themes. The agency now has a great team of designers and developers, including some WordPress specialists.
I've learned most of what I know about WordPress from the web design community. I'd like to thank all of the WordPress developers and designers who have inspired and taught me, in particular the organizing team for WordCampUK, without whom I never would have even thought of writing about WordPress.
A number of friends and colleagues have provided support with my writing and have helped me develop my WordPress skills, as well as giving useful feedback for this book. They include Mark Wilkinson, Jon Hickman, Scott Evans, Tammie Lister, Nivi Morales, and Jonny Allbut. Rob Ashton at Emphasis has set me straight on grammar when I've needed it. Kartikey Pandey at Packt Publishing showed the confidence in my work to ask me to take on my second project for Packt PublishingI'm grateful for this, and for his positivity and encouragement. Most importantly, my husband Pete has encouraged and supported me all along, and has spent many Saturdays entertaining our two boys, so that I could get on with the task of writing.
Tessa Blakeley Silver 's background is in print design and traditional illustration. She evolved over the years into web and multi-media development, where she focuses on usability and interface design. Prior to starting her consulting and development company, hyper3media (pronounced hyper-cube media) http://hyper3media.com, Tessa was the VP of Interactive Technologies at eHigherEducation, an online learning and technology company developing compelling multimedia simulations, interactions, and games that met online educational requirements like 508, AICC, and SCORM. She has also worked as a consultant and freelancer for J. Walter Thompson and The Diamond Trading Company (formerly known as DeBeers) and was a Design Specialist and Senior Associate for PricewaterhouseCoopers' East Region Marketing department. Tessa authors several design and web technology blogs. Joomla! Template Design is her first book.
Srikanth is a web developer, passionate about developing and optimizing websites for better user experience, performance, and search engine visibility. He is particularly interested in adapting content management systems for developing structured and scalable websites.
Check out his portfolio at http://srikanth.me.
Steve Graham is a programmer turned web-developer with years of experience, building large-scale databases to run manufacturing control and international banking systems. His experience at the back-end of the IT industry has given him a keen understanding of the needs of the final users and it's this knowledge and expertise that he brings to his work with WordPress. As one half of the Internet Mentor team (www.internet-mentor.co.uk) his passion is developing themes that help to solve some of the most frustrating aspects of marketing online. Focusing on the key business objectives, his aim for all clients is to ensure that they derive measurable and sustainable direct results that drive business growth.
He spends much of his time working on theme development for niche areas. Rather than producing themes that are so generic that the only real reason they appeal to a market is the name of the theme or the type of background image, these themes are designed to provide real solutions and are created with a a knowledge and thorough understanding of the challenges their end users have to overcome.
Steve is also a passionate speaker and networking skills coach, who is able to bring a different perspective to the messages his clients are delivering in the online world. Relationship marketing is key to success in the 21st century and having an understanding of how effective both the on and off-line networks can be, is essential to the success of almost all businesses.
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