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 […]
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 […]
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 […]