You have now crossed to the other side of the WordPress themes world--you have learned how to make your own theme. With just basic HTML and CSS abilities, you can create a design and turn it into a fully functional WordPress theme.
In this chapter, we saw how to turn your HTML build into a basic theme, create WordPress templates to influence the display of a variety of views on your site, create custom templates to be applied to pages within your site, make your new theme widget-ready, create a child theme, make the theme compatible with the WordPress Customizer, and share your theme with everyone in the WordPress community.
In the next chapter, we'll discuss the topics of social media integration, podcasting, and HTTPS. This information will allow you to expand your blogging habits and make your work more diverse and more noticeable on the web.
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