This is a guide in features your new WordPress theme needs to make your website successful in the year 2020. The checklist is relevant for webmasters, individuals, but also developers looking to improve their themes. If you are considering picking a new WordPress theme this year, read on! Keep in mind that the type of […]
In this post we’ll look at how to utilize the Gutenberg editor to create great-looking and modern frontpages or landing pages. We will especially look at how you as a developer can adjust your theme code to support this. This guide is perfect for you who want to adjust an older theme to support Gutenberg, […]
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 […]
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 […]