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 […]
In some cases you might need to modify the global post query WordPress is performing on any page you are visiting – both admin and frontend. In this guide we will look at which hook to use, and how to change the query arguments to your liking. Which hook to use First you need to […]
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 […]
This lesson of the WordPress theme tutorial for beginners will be all about how we can access and output information such as its link, title, and more from each post when inside the post loop. We do this with template tags. In the process we will also add the single view templates to our theme. […]
In this lesson of the WordPress theme tutorial for beginners we will go into detail about the “post loop” in WordPress; what it is, how it looks like, why we use it and how to access posts. We will then go about implementing the loop in our theme. The post loop If you are familiar […]
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 […]