WordPress Theme Development

WordPress themes are the visual foundation of any website and the best way to get started in WordPress development. In this online course, learn an original and practical approach to building a theme on WordPress from scratch, working step by step until you’ve created your own blog.

Your guide on this journey is Ignacio Cruz Moreno, a developer specialized in WordPress who also teaches the courses Creation of a Professional Website with WordPress and Introduction to PHP Web Development.

As an introduction to the course, get to know Ignacio, who tells you about his career and some of his work in WordPress. He also shares a few of his influences within the world of web design.

Before getting to work, install a code editor on your computer as well as some other resources that Ignacio provides. Take a brief look at the WordPress database where all the information you write for your web is stored, and install a series of plug-ins to help you debug your code.

Next, learn to identify the key design units of a basic theme and write the code to develop them before focusing on their structure. Begin by developing the homepage’s header and footer, essential parts of any website, and apply several functions to add scripts and styles.

Familiarize yourself with what hooks are⁠—the foundations of WordPress⁠—and how they work. Most importantly, you can use them to extend any part of WordPress without touching the base code, as well as specify what features your theme will support.