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WordPress Complete, Sixth Edition

You're reading from WordPress Complete, Sixth Edition A comprehensive guide to WordPress development from scratch

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787285705

Length 412 pages

Edition 6th Edition

Languages

PHP

Tools

WordPress

Concepts

CMS

Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface

1. Introducing WordPress

2. Getting Started with WordPress FREE CHAPTER

3. Creating Blog Content

4. Pages, Media, and Importing/Exporting Content

5. Plugins - What They Are and Why You Need Them

6. Choosing and Installing Themes

7. Customizing Your Website Appearance/Design

8. Developing Your Own Theme

9. Social Media Integration, Podcasting, and HTTPS

10. Developing Plugins, Widgets, and an Introduction to the REST API

11. Community Blogging

12. Creating a Non-Blog Website Part One - The Basics

13. Creating a Non-Blog Website Part Two - E-Commerce Websites and Custom Content Elements

Developing Your Own Theme

At this point, you know how to find themes on the web and install them for use on your WordPress website. But, there's a lot more that WordPress has to offer, particularly in the theme development department. So, in this chapter, you'll learn how to turn your own design into a fully functional WordPress theme that you'll then be able to use on your site. You'll also learn how to convert your theme folder into a ZIP file that can be shared with other WordPress users on the web.

All you will need before we get started are the following:

Your own design
The ability to slice and dice your design to turn it into HTML

We'll start out with tips on slicing and dicing so that your HTML and CSS files are as WordPress-friendly as possible, and then cover the steps for turning that HTML build into a fully functional theme. Note that I assume...

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