Learn to customize WordPress themes with our beginner-friendly course. Follow along with real-world examples for basic to advanced customizations.
This course is your chill intro to customizing WordPress themes! It’s super hands-on, guiding you from scratch to a complete site, while covering the essentials of themes, plugins, and responsiveness. Get ready to make your site just how you like it!
Beginner's guide to customizing a WordPress theme for a basic site. Real-world "over my shoulder" Training #1
WordPress Theme Customization 101 is a beginner's course to more advanced WordPress customization and changes.
This is the first of a series of "watch over my shoulder" style advanced WordPress theme customization training courses, where you get to follow along as I walk you through the exact process to perform specific and varied customizations on real-world websites that either I own/have created or have customized for clients.
In this first "101" course, I walk you through a very basic WordPress Theme Customization which involves a website I did for a client.
The first part of this course covers WordPress Theme basics and understandings so you have a good grip on how themes and WordPress work together with content, plugins, etc.
After this basic understanding foundation is laid, I walk through the entire process, from a fresh install of WordPress with no customizations, to a finished site...covering everything along the way from identifying what we wanted the site to look like, functionality desired, etc...all the way through to a finished site that accomplishes the goals and made my client very happy.
Besides the built-in theme customization changes we walk through, I also cover very simple and basic Theme editing, plugin usage, management, and content layout fixes/functionality...as well as making the site "beyond responsive" where it is able to detect the type of device accessing it and deliver customized content.
Again, this is the 101 course, the very first in a series of more advanced WordPress training courses aimed at the Beginner to Intermediate WordPress user.
I ease you into the advanced customization so you're not overwhelmed and can easily get a grasp of each new lesson, theory, principle and step we are performing along the way.
My goal is to help you achieve a comfortable understanding of customizing WordPress themes to your liking and needs, so you can easily setup and customize your WordPress site to look, function, and perform exactly according to your desires, goals and needs.
Customize any WordPress Theme
Have a basic understanding of themes and how they interact with WordPress
Understand how to find a "starter" theme to use in your site and customization
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I'm a poet and a writer, and truly an artist at heart. I've always had a knack for figuring out technical things however, and have held several jobs as a technology consultant.Since 2009 I've run a consulting firm in Chattanooga TN helping small businesses implement and leverage technology and the web. In 2005 I became involved in Internet Marketing, successfully...
This course and first course "WordPress for Beginners" helped me to fast understand how WordPress works.
Great explanations and very easy to follow. I think that a basic understanding of CSS and HTML is necessary to get the most out of the course. But if you have those, this course provides a good bridge to achieve a higher level. I liked in particular the sections about the chrome developer tool and the possibilities to change files. Thanks you very much John for this course.
So far so good!
There were times when the content you were working with was actually off the screen and couldn't be seen. Otherwise, a pretty good course John - Thanks.
It is a good match for what I am looking for
Great
Overall a good basic course. The CSS lost me because I have no knowledge of the language. Other than that the course was very helpful.
Teaching is at a good pace and well thought out.
I think that the lecture is going fast in the sense that some steps and customization procedures are not explained very well.
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Lynn N.
Intros are too long, better to just jump in with a demo and then explain