WordPress: Building Themes from Scratch Using Underscores

6h 36m | Video: h264, yuv420p, 1280x720 | Audio: aac, 44100 Hz, 2 ch | 1.16 GB

Advanced | Jan 13, 2016 | Genre: eLearning | Language: English

Ready for your next WordPress challenge? Learn how to build more complex custom themes using the _s (aka Underscores) starter theme. Morten Rand-Hendriksen takes you from basic layout and customization to enabling advanced responsive design and accessibility features. He reinforces the basics lessons with DRY (don't repeat yourself) development practices and a structured approach that will help you build WordPress themes that meet modern standards. Plus, he explores core concepts like understanding the WordPress template hierarchy and mobile-first design, creating functions, adding custom JavaScript, applying styles, and more. Plus, for 2016, we're including an all-new chapter on the Customizer, which provides controls that allow users of your theme to adjust the colors and layout.

Topics include:

*Installing WordPress, Underscores, plugins, and NetBeans

*Creating a modular, mobile-first WordPress theme

*Setting up the basic theme

*Building a custom header

*Designing responsive, accessible menus

*Configuring the Single Post Template plugin

*Generating featured images

*Styling the comments area, search results, and widget areas

*Working with static pages

*Adding features to the Customizer

*Customizing the backend