WP Devs – Custom WordPress Theme
This is a Custom WordPress theme, completed for educational purposes as part of the Udemy Course WordPress Theme Development from Scratch 2.0.
This course included:
- Custom header and footer
- Custom page templates for index.php, page.php, page-home.php, single.php, search.php, archive.php and 404.php
- Theme Support for page headers, post thumbnails and custom logos
- Creation of two widgets, the sidebar widget and a services widget for the homepage
- How to integrate comments into posts and pages
- A custom search bar
- Both default and numeric pagination
- WordPress theming requirements including HTML5, integrating RSS feeds and WordPress Core CSS
- Using the Theme Customizer to create sections for copyright, the homepage Hero and the blog
- The hero section included an image, H1 title, subtitle, button text and a button link
- Internationalization using Poedit
- WordPress security including validation, sanitation and escaping
- How to use Elementor page builder for theming
- How to integrate Gutenblocks into a custom WordPress theme including using theme support, adding custom styles and the use of theme.json