WordPress 3: Building Child Themes – Morten Rand–Hendriksen

By: Morten Rand-Hendriksen

Duration: 3h 18m

Description:

WordPress 3: Building Child Themes shows how to create a new theme based on a prebuilt parent theme in WordPress, and change the functionality, presentation, or styling of a site. In this course, Morten Rand-Hendriksen covers importing parent themes, adding custom menus, restyling the header image, customizing the sidebar and index pages, implementing the Post Thumbnail feature, and incorporating javascript. The course also shows how to establish a quick and efficient theme restyling workflow, taking a design from mockup to fully functional site. Workflow techniques including modifying basic CSS by using a code editor such as Eclipse, the developer tools in the Chrome browser, and WordPress. Exercise files are included with the course.

Topics include:

• Picking a parent theme
• Creating and activating a basic WordPress child theme
• Using the developer tools
• Creating a functions file and changing the header image size
• Using conditional statements for customized effects
• Adding custom menus to the child theme and/or a template
• Changing the default footer content
• Adding featured images to posts
• Changing the display of meta content (date, author, category, etc.)
• Excluding categories from the front page with custom queries
• Adding additional options to the user profile
• Including functions from external files
• Identifying and fixing common mistakes

About author:

Morten Rand-Hendriksen is a web designer and developer with a passion for clean design, standards-based code, and open-source software. He has published several books, articles, and videos on these topics and is a popular speaker at conferences. Running a small boutique-style digital media company, he divides his time evenly between building web solutions and teaching others how to do things right and get the most out of the web.