WordPress Theme Tutorial for Beginners
This is a tutorial series covering the basics of developing a WordPress theme from scratch. It’s for you who have
WordPress Theme Tutorial for Beginners – Part 0.5: Setting up Local WordPress Development
This lesson will quickly go through how to set up a local development environment and install WordPress on it, so
WordPress Theme Tutorial for Beginners – Part 1: Introduction
In this lesson you will start learning how WordPress loads content depending on which page you’re at, and the hierarchy
WordPress Theme Tutorial for Beginners – Part 2: Templates
This lesson of the WordPress theme tutorial for beginners will teach you how to structure the main building blocks of
WordPress Theme Tutorial for Beginners – Part 3: Dynamic Content
In this lesson of the WordPress theme tutorial for beginners we will learn about hooks in WordPress and add a
WordPress Theme Tutorial for Beginners – Part 4: The Post Loop
In this lesson of the WordPress theme tutorial for beginners we will go into detail about the “post loop” in
WordPress Theme Tutorial for Beginners – Part 5: Accessing Post Information
This lesson of the WordPress theme tutorial for beginners will be all about how we can access and output information
WordPress Theme Tutorial for Beginners – Part 6: A Theme’s Functions.php
Today we will learn where and how to add code outside the templates in our theme. We do this by
WordPress Theme Tutorial for Beginners – Part 7: Theme Setup and Featured Images
This lesson of the WordPress theme tutorial for beginners continues by adding the basic, required code for theme setup. We
WordPress Theme Tutorial for Beginners – Part 8: Translation
In this lesson we learn about how translation (or otherwise known as i18n) in WordPress works and how to make
WordPress Theme Tutorial for Beginners – Part 9: Menus and Widget Areas
This lesson covers how to add two core WordPress features to our theme; menus and widget areas. We learn how
WordPress Theme Tutorial for Beginners – Part 10: Adding More Templates
In this lesson of the WordPress theme tutorial for beginners we will dive more into templates. We’ll learn about template
WordPress Theme Tutorial for Beginners – Part 11: Custom Page Templates
In this lesson of WordPress theme tutorial for beginners we learn about page templates, what they are, how to create
WordPress Theme Tutorial for Beginners – Part 12: Custom Post Query
In this final lesson we learn how to write your own query of posts and loop through them without interrupting
WordPress Theme Tutorial for Beginners – Conclusion and Next Steps
We conclude this WordPress theme tutorial for beginners by taking a quick recap of what we have learned. And look