WordPress 5 Theme Development Academy with Bootstrap v4

by Chris Dixon

Released November 2019

Publisher(s): Packt Publishing

ISBN: 9781839217203

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Video description

WordPress is one of the most popular technologies in the web development domain, but not many people are using it to its full potential. Although there are different pre-built themes available in the market, nothing works better than a custom experience.

This course will equip you with the skills you need to build a fully custom responsive WordPress theme, completely from scratch. You’ll no longer need to search for other themes and try to modify them to suit your project as this course will help you build almost any type of WordPress website.

You’ll begin by building a static version of the ’Tranquil Spa’ project using the popular Bootstrap 4 framework. You’ll also get up to speed with Bootstrap, exploring responsive design, layout, and the grid system, classes, and utilities creating forms, navbars, adding icons using Font Awesome 5 and much more

Once you have the project looking exactly how you want it, you’ll then move on to converting it to WordPress. You will not only perform a basic theme conversion but also cover some of the more challenging concepts and try to make your theme fully customizable by the end-user too.

By the end of this course, you’ll have gained the skills you need to build a WordPress website for your business, family, clients or even for your personal use.

What You Will Learn

Explore the Bootstrap 4 syntax and work with components, the grid system, and utilities
Understand the full conversion process including files and folders, and how to structure your theme
Get up to speed with widgets, forms, advanced custom fields and menus
Learn how to enqueue scripts and styles
Work with the WordPress loop, pages, comments and templates
Get to grips with translating your theme and understand how to make your themes text translation-ready

Audience

This course is for anyone looking to build custom WordPress themes from scratch for their business, personal project, clients, or for sale in marketplaces. Those who find it challenging to make pre-built themes to fit their requirements will also find this course helpful. Some familiarity with coding and PHP is required.

About The Author

Chris Dixon: Chris Dixon is a self-employed web developer teaching others through training courses. Chris offers freelance web development and training workshops on various topics, including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Vue.js, NUXT.js, WordPress (custom theme development), Mongo/Mongoose, PostgreSQL, Express, Firebase, and Supabase. Chris is also involved in building Shopify ecommerce solutions, including custom apps and theme development. Chris has vast experience in GraphQL, Keystone CMS, and many other front-end/full-stack skills. He is additionally a regular Shopify user in creating and managing online stores and editing/creating custom liquid templates.