Course Details

WordPress Theme Development course overview

This advanced WordPress Theme design course will take you from beginner theme developer to master level. On completion of this advanced WordPress course you will be able to:

• Create themes for WordPress sites
• Apply your bespoke themes
• Customise existing themes
• Create & manage templates
• Best practices for WordPress Theme Development.

The complete course is hands-on based. A practical WordPress project at the end of the course will ensure that you can practically create WordPress themes for your own projects. This short WordPress theme development course is hands-on, instructor-led and classroom based. This training can be taken as a part-time evening course or even on the weekends.

Who is WordPress Theme Development training for?

This training is for you if you are interested in mastering WordPress theme edition or creation. You may (or may not) have already used WordPress themes before. If you are interested in programming WordPress modules, consider our WordPress programming course.

Prerequisites for WordPress Theme Development course

• You should have a good understanding of WordPress management, installation and plugins etc. You can learn how to use WordPress in our beginners WordPress course and Advanced WordPress course.
• You should have practical experience of HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript and Jquery. You can learn HTML and CSS in Training Dragon's web design course, HTML5 & CSS3 in HTML5 training, PHP in our PHP training and JavaScript in our JavaScript course.
• It is not necessary to have knowledge of responsive web design before you start this WordPress theme development course however if you plan to create mobile friendly and responsive wordpress themes then you should first consider our Mobile web design course.

WordPress Theme Development Course Contents

WordPress Layout and Theming

• Theme installation
• Use of HTML, CSS and PHP
• Modify existing theme
• Change the look of sections
• Create a custom WordPress theme
• Best practices for theming.
• Theming Engines
• Default theme functions
• Overriding theme function in a theme
• PHP Template
• Tpl Files
• Variables
• Theme Function