In this lesson of the WordPress theme tutorial for beginners we will learn about hooks in WordPress and add a few hooks in our theme that is required for a theme to work properly with WordPress and plugins. We will also start accessing dynamic content from WordPress in our header, such as automatically getting the […]
What methods are available for making a custom post query, and when are they best to use? This post aims to establish a solid understanding of two methods of querying posts, how to access the results, how to build arguments, and finally how to clean up after it. The two methods we’ll look at are […]
This lesson of the WordPress theme tutorial for beginners will teach you how to structure the main building blocks of a theme and start creating templates. We will start creating some HTML output and how to include the building blocks in our theme’s templates. In the previous step we set up the bare minimum of […]
WordPress offers multiple methods to add styles and scripts for frontend and admin, both for adding files and straight out outputting variables/output. This post goes into detail with code examples of how to add scripts and styles to WordPress the correct way. Scripts and styles can be registered and enqueued by defining unique handles (slug-like […]
In this lesson you will start learning how WordPress loads content depending on which page you’re at, and the hierarchy of theme template files. You will also learn what’s needed for a valid theme. And at the end we will finally create our theme and activate it. Theme template files Behind the hood, WordPress figures […]
This lesson will quickly go through how to set up a local development environment and install WordPress on it, so that we can start developing our theme. It’s for you who have never set up a development environment or installed WordPress locally for testing or development purposes. If you already have everything ready, skip ahead […]
This is a tutorial series covering the basics of developing a WordPress theme from scratch. It’s for you who have dabbled a bit in changing other themes, wishing you knew enough to create your own, or tried making your own theme from scratch, but had a hard time understanding the basics of what a theme […]
Ever been told the solution to your problem is that you need to “hook onto” something to do your thing or used add_filter without really understanding why it messes stuff up? Hooks make up the foundation of WordPress and provides themes and plugins a way to interact or modify code. In this post we’ll break […]