Complete Wordpress Theme Developer Course With Bootstrap

Build fully functioning modern WordPress themes including page builders, responsive and the WordPress REST API.

What you'll learn
How to sell your themes to other webmasters
Develop a complete theme from scratch using concepts presented in this course
Know how to set up the exact development environment perfect for theme development.
Learn how to identify their theme to the WordPress system
Build important theme features including the header, footer and sidebar
Add important information to blog posts including permalinks, author information and publish date
Develop custom templates which include multi-column templates with sidebars and full page templates
Create a search form and search results page
Create dedicated categories & tags page and to recognize the difference between both
Create a tag cloud
Add theme support for featured images, HTML5, menus and more
Create menus and theme locations for those menus
Distribute custom post types
Work with the WordPress customizer
Build customizer sections, controls, panels and settings
Include page builders with the TGM Activation plugin
Recognize coding best practices and how to use the Theme Check plugin to inspect a theme before submitting to the WP review team
Build child themes
Use version control and know the importance of it
Create special templates
Use the WP REST API to quickly display posts without loading the web browser.
Requirements
Basics of PHP
A basic working knowledge of WordPress
Comfort of working with text editors
Description
If you ever wanted to build a complete WordPress theme, this course is perfect for you. Not only  do we provide over 20 hours of instruction building themes; we provide advanced topics that will make your theme more popular that also gets approved faster by the WordPress theme review team including:
Set up your ideal development environment including PHP, MySQL, and moreBuild sections, panels, and controls for the WordPress customizerWordPress coding best practicesAutomatically recommend and/or require page builders with your themeUse version control (the basics) to make sure your theme development is a smooth processCreate a theme that follows coding best practice and standardsDevelop a complete theme from a static responsive theme from scratchMake your theme compatible with WooCommerceDisplay posts quickly with the WP REST APIHow to earn revenue from your themes, how much to charge for your themes and which websites are the best marketplaces for your themes.Package page builders and other plugins with your theme from WordPress, Guthub or in a separate directorVersion control of your themes using Git and Github

COMING in MAY AND JUNE 2017: BOOTSTRAP-THEME-MANIA!…We will build a Bootstrap theme as part of all of the concepts taught in this course!
You can already see the Static Bootstrap theme in section 22. We are still creating that brand new theme, you can follow along. We upload videos for this new section a little at a time.


Overview

Section 1: An Overview of the Entire Course from Start To Finish

Lecture 1 Introduction: 2 Different Themes: Which one should YOU develop first?

Section 2: Setting Up Our Development Environment

Lecture 2 Tools

Lecture 3 Downloading and Installing WordPress Onto Our Local Server

Lecture 4 Setting up our PHP Environment

Lecture 5 Creating a blank MySQL database

Lecture 6 Getting Dummy Content To Shape Our Theme

Lecture 7 Project: Create 3 posts and pages with Dummy Content

Lecture 8 One Additional Plugin for Dummy Content

Section 3: Identifying Our Theme To WordPress

Lecture 9 Creating a Name and Description

Lecture 10 Creating Our Theme Folder

Lecture 11 Creating our First Theme File

Lecture 12 Creating Our Theme's Screenshot

Lecture 13 Review of the Category Hierarchy Structure

Section 4: Building Our Theme Including a Zip File Of Our Completed Theme

Lecture 14 Starting our WordPress theme with Simple HTML5 and Starting Index.html File

Lecture 15 Introducing Bloginfo()

Lecture 16 Creating Our Header

Lecture 17 Creating Our Footer

Lecture 18 Creating Our Sidebar

Lecture 19 Creating Custom Template Tags

Lecture 20 Review of the Sections That Help Build Our Theme

Section 5: Displaying Post and Pages

Lecture 21 Displaying Posts

Lecture 22 Displaying Pages

Lecture 23 Two Options On Creating A Custom Post Type For The Next Video

Lecture 24 Adding Permalinks and Publish Dates

Lecture 25 Display Random Posts

Lecture 26 Review Plus Ordering Posts in Ascending and Descending Order

Section 6: Building Our Theme's Inner Pages

Lecture 27 Developing Our Posts Template (Part 1 of 3)

Lecture 28 Developing Our Posts Template (Part 2 of 3)

Lecture 29 Alternative Way Of Displaying Post Content

Lecture 30 Developing Our Posts Template (Part 3 of 3)

Lecture 31 Developing Our Default Page Template

Lecture 32 Developing Variant Page Templates

Lecture 33 Developing Our Comments Template

Lecture 34 Review

Section 7: Search Forms and Search Results

Lecture 35 Displaying WordPress' Default Search Form

Lecture 36 Customizing Our Search Form

Lecture 37 Starting Our Search Results Template

Lecture 38 Adding Our Search Results Loop

Lecture 39 Add Featured Images To Search Results

Lecture 40 Adding Authors To Search Results

Section 8: Category and Tag Pages

Lecture 41 Developing Our Initial Category Template

Lecture 42 Review of the Category Hierarchy Structure

Lecture 43 Adding The Conditional Category Tag

Lecture 44 Developing Our Initial Tag Template

Lecture 45 Creating a Tag Cloud

Section 9: Adding Theme Support

Lecture 46 What Is Theme Support

Lecture 47 Overview of add_theme_support()

Lecture 48 Adding HTML 5 Markup Support

Lecture 49 Theme Support Only For The Admin

Section 10: Menus and Theme Locations

Lecture 50 What Are Theme Locations?

Lecture 51 Creating Our First Theme Location

Lecture 52 Displaying Our Menu

Lecture 53 Adding Our Other Menus

Lecture 54 Menu Placeholders

Lecture 55 Submenus and Menu Depth

Section 11: Custom Post Types

Lecture 56 Creating A Post Type

Lecture 57 Adding Taxonomies

Lecture 58 Adding Custom Field Support

Lecture 59 Supporting Featured Images

Lecture 60 Displaying Custom Post Types

Section 12: Theme Customizer

Lecture 61 Introducing the Theme Customizer

Lecture 62 Customizer Sections & Controls

Lecture 63 Displaying Customizer Data (Part 1)

Lecture 64 Displaying Customizer Data (Part 2)

Lecture 65 Colors From 3 Different Controls

Lecture 66 Project: Restaurant Menu

Lecture 67 Project: Restaurant Google Map

Lecture 68 Project: Restaurant Hours of Operations (Part 1)

Lecture 69 Project: Restaurant Hours of Operations (Part 2)

Lecture 70 Panels

Lecture 71 Active Callback (Part 1)

Lecture 72 Active Callback (Part 2)

Lecture 73 Image Uploads

Lecture 74 Conclusion & Project

Section 13: Page Builders

Lecture 75 Intro to Page Builders

Lecture 76 TGM Plugin Activation

Lecture 77 Adding Our Plugins

Lecture 78 Project: Find Page Builders

Lecture 79 Pre-packaging Page Builders

Section 14: Coding Best Practices

Lecture 80 WordPress Coding Standards

Lecture 81 Project: Best Practices

Lecture 82 Theme Check

Section 15: Child Themes

Lecture 83 Starting Our Child

Lecture 84 Giving Birth To Our Child Theme and Modifying It

Lecture 85 Project: Fun With The Child

Lecture 86 Conclusion

Section 16: Version Control

Lecture 87 Git

Lecture 88 Version Control Plugins

Lecture 89 Conclusion

Section 17: Special Templates

Lecture 90 Woocommerce Template

Lecture 91 Front Page Template

Lecture 92 Front Page and Customizer

Lecture 93 Front Page Template Tags

Lecture 94 Page ID Templates

Lecture 95 Conditional Template Tags

Lecture 96 Conclusion

Section 18: Building a Theme From Static HTML

Lecture 97 Start Our Theme

Lecture 98 Adding Our Header and Footer

Lecture 99 Customizing the Blurb

Lecture 100 Looping in our Posts and a Coding Project Part 1

Lecture 101 Looping in our Posts and a Coding Project Part 2

Lecture 102 Single Blog Post Template

Lecture 103 Single Blog Post Template (Part 2)

Lecture 104 Subsequent Post Links

Lecture 105 Page Template (Part 1)

Lecture 106 Page Template (Part 2)

Lecture 107 Categories and Tags

Lecture 108 Adding Our Sidebar

Lecture 109 Hard Code Cleanup: Footer Sidebars

Lecture 110 Hard Code Cleanup: Logo

Lecture 111 Hard Code Cleanup: Rest of Theme

Lecture 112 Creating Our Child Theme

Lecture 113 Hard Code Cleanup: Learn More Button

Lecture 114 Hard Code Cleanup: Social Media Icons

Lecture 115 Adding Inner Page Sidebar

Lecture 116 Project: Find a New Static Theme

Lecture 117 Adding Our Header Background

Section 19: Answers to Popular Theme Development Questions

Lecture 118 Should my theme include a "Theme Options" section or the "Customizer"?

Lecture 119 How many sidebars can my theme include?

Lecture 120 How much CSS should my child theme's style.css include?

Lecture 121 Do I really have to use version control for my themes?

Lecture 122 What effect does theme support have on my theme's popularity?

Section 20: Displaying Posts Using the WordPress Rest API (WP REST API)

Lecture 123 Quick Intro to the WP REST API and how to get it up on your WordPress website.

Lecture 124 Testing That Your WordPress site Supports The API

Lecture 125 Writing Our Javascript Code to Display Our Posts

Lecture 126 Writing HTML and Minimal PHP to Change Our Posts Without Additional Page Loading

Lecture 127 Using Postman to Test URLS in WP REST API

Lecture 128 Project: Create a Search Engine Using the WordPress REST API

Section 21: How to Make Money With Your WordPress Themes

Lecture 129 Introduction to Making Money With WordPress Themes: Strategies for Charging

Lecture 130 Where to Sell Your Themes Online

Lecture 131 How much to charge

Lecture 132 NPM - Node Package Manager Website Perhaps? Just a simple untested suggestion…

Section 22: Develop a Wordpress Theme From a Static Bootstrap Theme

Lecture 133 Downloading our Static Bootstrap Theme

Lecture 134 Examining Your Static Bootstrap Files

Lecture 135 Creating the prep files to identify your theme to WordPress.

Lecture 136 Adding BlogInfo to make our theme come alive

Lecture 137 Adding the WordPress site title to your theme

Lecture 138 Adding our header to the theme

Lecture 139 Adding our footer file to the theme

Lecture 140 Adding our first section with the Theme Customization API

Lecture 141 Exercise: Adding the second Home Page section with the Theme Customizer API

Lecture 142 Double Checking Your Work From The Previous Exercise

Lecture 143 Adding the Green Boxes in our Bootstrap Theme to the Customizer

Lecture 144 Exercise Review: Adding the other 3 green boxes and a Learn More button

Lecture 145 Organizing your sections into Panels

Lecture 146 Changing the logo using the Customizer

Lecture 147 PROJECT: Making the Static Banners and their Headings Dynamic In the Customizer

Lecture 148 Adding the Black Bar for Admin Users

Lecture 149 Adding the Icons Above Our Green Boxes

Lecture 150 Adding our Logo Bar With the Logos Custom Post Type

Lecture 151 Adding the Logo Bar Title In The Customizer

Lecture 152 Converting our Static Inner Pages from HTML to WordPress templates in PHP

Lecture 153 Checking the Results of Our Exercise Where We Converted the Other 3 Static Pages

Lecture 154 Creating Our Default Page Template

Lecture 155 Adding our Header Menu and Relocating our Menu Code

Lecture 156 Cleaning Up Our Default Template with the page.php file.

Lecture 157 Cleaning up our About Us Template

Lecture 158 Fill in the Missing Code for the Four Remaining Templates

Lecture 159 Coding the Page Title and Content for the Remaining Inner Pages

Lecture 160 Adding Custom Fields to Our Pricing Table Page Template

Lecture 161 Creating a Custom Field Out Of the Pricing Button

Lecture 162 Starting Our First Two Footer Sidebars

Lecture 163 Finishing Our Last Two Footer Sidebars

Lecture 164 Adding a Customizer Section for the Footer Copyright Line

Lecture 165 Demonstrating Our Footer Line With the Customizer

Lecture 166 Adding Alt Tags To The Logo Bar

Lecture 167 Removing The Rest Of The Hard-Coding Our Inner Page Templates and Finishing Them

Lecture 168 Our Theme is Complete! One more small change is required.

This course is perfect for PHP developers interested in developing WordPress plugins