Building WordPress Themes: The Step-by-Step Guide

In Building WordPress Themes: The Step-by-Step Guide you will learn how to take a static HTML site and convert it into a fully functional WordPress theme and plugin. We'll start with a primer for PHP to understand the underlying language WordPress is written in, as well as explore some tools to help you work. Then, we'll take a look at our static site and convert it! 

By the end of the course you will: 

• Become familiar with Underscores, a popular WordPress Starter Theme
• Know how to create and customize blog posts, pages, and header and footer areas
• Create menus and widget areas
• Build a plugin to help us extend WordPress
• Understand CMB2, a popular WordPress tool for adding custom information to our WordPress site
• Learn best practices for creating WordPress Themes and Plugins

What are we building?

Since it's something we all know and love, we'll create a restaurant website! We'll build basic pages like about and contact, add a blog, and create a nice, interactive menu that's easy to update!