Web Development
WordPress Theme Development
Build a standards-compliant WordPress theme from an empty folder: the template hierarchy, enqueueing assets properly, and packaging a theme for distribution.
This course takes you from an empty directory to a theme you could hand to a client. It is deliberately unopinionated about page builders and frameworks: everything here is the WordPress API itself, which is what still works after the next major release.
You will need a local WordPress install, a code editor, and some familiarity with HTML, CSS and basic PHP. No build tooling is required at any point.
This is demo content installed by WH LMS. Remove it from WH LMS → Settings once you no longer need it.
Course content
Getting Started 3 items
- Lesson What a WordPress theme actually is Preview 8 min
- Lesson Setting up a local development environment Locked 12 min
- Topic Required files: style.css and index.php Locked 5 min
The Template Hierarchy 2 items
- Lesson How WordPress chooses a template Preview 15 min
- Lesson Template parts and keeping markup DRY Locked 10 min
Theme Functions and Assets 2 items
- Lesson functions.php and enqueueing assets properly Locked 14 min
- Lesson Registering menus, sidebars and image sizes Locked 11 min
Shipping a Theme 2 items
- Lesson Accessibility and performance checks Locked 13 min
- Lesson Packaging and distributing your theme Locked 9 min