If you are writing object-oriented code an autoloader is a must-have. Without an autoloader you would need to add a line with including the class file, before you can initialize it. It can quickly be cumbersome when you work with a lot of classes. An autoloader is a function that triggers everytime a new class […]
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. What we have created Let’s take a quick recap of what we have learned and actually created in this […]
This is a tutorial in how to create a custom post type and a custom taxonomy in WordPress by code. We’ll look at common pitfalls and which arguments to use for minimum but sufficient creation. Full example included at the end. Where to add the code Creation of custom post types (CPTs) and custom taxonomies […]
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. What we will make in this lesson is a related posts query in […]
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. What are […]
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. But before we start adding more template files we need to know why we should bother with template […]
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. The keen of you might have […]
In this lesson we learn about how translation (or otherwise known as i18n) in WordPress works and how to make the necessary adjustments in our templates. We will also learn how to set up PoEdit properly to create a translation file for our theme, ready to be translated into different languages. Why bother with adding […]
This lesson of the WordPress theme tutorial for beginners continues by adding the basic, required code for theme setup. We learn to add theme supports, and as a result of that WordPress’ featured image functionality gets activated. In this lesson we’ll also fix the frontpage title by applying our first filter. We will work mostly […]
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. A theme’s functions.php file A theme needs somewhere to place code that is not […]