WordPress Theme Customization 102 - Create a WP Child Theme

Learn to create and customize a WordPress Child Theme with detailed steps. Ideal for beginners and intermediate users looking to enhance their WordPress sites.

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Brief Summary

This course is all about making your WordPress site shine! You'll learn to create and customize a child theme, making your site uniquely yours. Plus, you'll get handy tools and codes to play with. Ready to dive into the world of WordPress?

Key Points

  • Create a WordPress Child Theme
  • Customize a WordPress Child Theme
  • Edit a WordPress Child Theme
  • Use fancybox functions without a plugin
  • Set up lightboxed links for easy viewing

Learning Outcomes

  • Understand when and why to use a child theme
  • Build a WordPress child theme from scratch
  • Customize your child theme like a pro
  • Set up lightboxed links for user-friendly navigation
  • Download tools and code snippets for future projects

About This Course

In this course I show you how to create a custom WordPress site utilizing a child theme, plugins, and more theme edits

WordPress Theme Customization 102 teaches beginner to intermediate Wordpress users, how to create and implement a WordPress Child Theme for any WordPress theme you use or want to use, how to utilize fancybox functions without a plugin, and more!

In this beginners Wordpress theme customization and child theme course I'll show you step by step how to develop a Wordpress child theme by walking you through a real life example of one of my sites which utilizes a child theme.

I show you in easy to understand and follow detailed steps, when you want to use a child theme and why, how to create a WordPress child theme for any Wordpress theme, and then detailed instructions on customizing and even editing the Wordpress child theme you create.

In addition to teaching you in detail how to customize and edit your new child theme, I show you how to setup lightboxed links for things like a privacy policy, so your users can simply view a page within a lightbox.

In addition I give you all the tools and code used in this course to download and use for your own projects!

.I'm happy to bring this and many other top notch training courses to you, please message me if you have any questions!

  • Create a WordPress Child Theme

  • Customize a WordPress Child Theme

  • Edit a WordPress Child Theme

Instructor

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John Westbrook

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...

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4.9 course rating
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Henry
2.5
5 years ago

I’m still waiting for him to get to the point!

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Claudia F.
4.5
5 years ago

I am very fond of John's teachings - very clear and to the point. I got helpful new insights to progress with WordPress. The only thing which I missed were the explanations about building a membership site. In the introduction of the course John mentioned this as part of the course. I think it would be helpful if he either changed the introduction in order not to overpromise or to add the missing content about the membership site. Then I would gladly give five stars for this course.

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Parroche 5.
3.0
6 years ago

The course is very basic. It only shows how to customize one particular theme, and the customizations themselves are not extensive. Many simple concepts are repeated too often whilst others are glossed over far too quickly, or not addressed at all, especially during the later modules. As another student commented, copying and pasting is not teaching. Having said all that, the instructor is very personable, and the example he uses is a real-world web site, and that in itself is a good basis for such a course. The trouble-shooting approach he used was particularly useful. I just feel that if he could get his verbal delivery (script?) tightened up to reduce the over-repetition, this would have freed up time to address some of the many details that were omitted or not dealt with thoroughly enough, and indeed the more general concepts of working with child themes.

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Tom M.
5.0
7 years ago

Clear, concise delivery, well paced and attention grabbing. Great stuff!

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Adamy D.
3.5
8 years ago

Very good information on how to create a child theme, however some of the methods require updating. For example @import is no longer the way to include parent style sheets and they also require their own functions.php. Also, splitting the course took me by surprise.

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Tom B.
5.0
8 years ago

John goes through a straight forward presentation of creating a child theme and explains why. Very easy to listen to an follow.

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Andreja V.
5.0
8 years ago

Very clear and simple instructions from start to finish on how to create a child theme from a parent theme on WP. This is the firs very useful tutorial I have find online. Great job!

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Louis H.
5.0
9 years ago

This is the third class I've taken of John's, and I like the content , pace, and depth of teaching. I find that I know more from his courses than I've gleaned in the last year on my own. This is a great value!

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Rav R.
4.0
9 years ago

Very good course. Would have received 5 stars if John had showed how to integrate social sharing into a site, which is very important these days.

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Elizabeth H.
5.0
9 years ago

The course like John's previous courses, was clear and easy to follow. Thank you, John!

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