WordPress 3: Building Child Themes

By: There is a man named Morten Rand-Hendriksen.

This is the length of the story. 3h 18m

Description:

Building Child Themes shows how to create a new theme based on a prebuilt parent theme and change the look and feel of a site. Adding custom menus, changing the sidebar and index pages, implementing the Post Thumbnail feature, and incorporating javascript are covered in this course. The course shows how to take a design from a mock up to a fully functional site. The techniques include modifying basicCSS by using a code editor such as Eclipse and the developer tools in the Chrome browser. The course has exercise files.

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:

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

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