Checklist: 12 Things You Need to Check When Choosing a WordPress Theme
April 15, 2020
This is a checklist of 12 minimum features your new WordPress theme needs to have, to make your website successful in the year 2020.
Developer Guide: Using WordPress Gutenberg for Frontpage and Landing Pages
February 26, 2020
This guide goes into detail how to code in your theme and use WordPress Gutenberg editor to create great-looking and modern frontpages or landing pages.
WordPress Theme Tutorial for Beginners – Conclusion and Next Steps
August 27, 2019
We conclude this WordPress theme tutorial for beginners by taking a quick recap of what we have learned. And look into what you can do next and how to improve yourself as a WordPress Theme developer.
WordPress Theme Tutorial for Beginners – Part 12: Custom Post Query
August 26, 2019
In this final lesson we learn how to write your own query of posts and loop through them without interrupting the parent loop in the template. We'll make a template part for single posts that shows related posts in the same category.
WordPress Theme Tutorial for Beginners – Part 11: Custom Page Templates
August 25, 2019
In this lesson of WordPress theme tutorial for beginners we learn about page templates, what they are, how to create them and best practices. We'll make a fullwidth template as an example. Along the way we also add a class to body by asking if the page is using a specific page template.
WordPress Theme Tutorial for Beginners – Part 10: Adding More Templates
August 25, 2019
In this lesson of the WordPress theme tutorial for beginners we will dive more into templates. We'll learn about template parts and implement it for reusability. And we'll add more of WordPress' default templates to our theme.
WordPress Theme Tutorial for Beginners – Part 9: Menus and Widget Areas
August 22, 2019
This lesson covers how to add two core WordPress features to our theme; menus and widget areas. We learn how to register a location for a site main navigation menu and output the menu in our templates, as well as allowing adding widgets in our sidebar and footer area.
WordPress Theme Tutorial for Beginners – Part 8: Translation
August 21, 2019
We learn about how translation (or i18n) in WordPress works and how to make texts translatable. Also includes a guide in using PoEdit to generate .po files.
WordPress Theme Tutorial for Beginners – Part 7: Theme Setup and Featured Images
August 19, 2019
This lesson continues by adding the basic, required code for setting up a WordPress theme. We learn to add theme supports and filter the frontpage title.
WordPress Theme Tutorial for Beginners – Part 6: A Theme’s Functions.php
August 18, 2019
Today we will learn where and how to add code outside the templates in our theme. We do this by adding the theme's functions.php file. Along the way we'll also learn how to add your stylesheets and scripts the proper way.
