WordPress 3: Building Child Themes [repost]

Create a child theme based on an existing parent theme in WordPress and change the functionality, presentation, or styling of your website. In this course, author Morten Rand-Hendriksen shows how to use the default WordPress theme, Twenty Twelve, as a basis for a new child theme and add custom menus; new headers, sidebars, and footers; and index pages with widgets and pagination to your site. The course also demonstrates how to add a responsive welcome message to your front page using PHP and jQuery, and how to edit the many templates found in a WordPress theme. Morten explains how to perform these changes using any code editor, the developer tools in the Chrome browser, and WordPress.

Topics include:
Picking a parent theme
Creating and activating a basic WordPress child theme
Using the developer tools
Changing the header image size
Using conditional statements for customized effects
Adding custom menus to the child theme and/or a template
Changing the default footer content
Adding featured images to posts
Changing the display of meta content (such as date, author, category, etc.)
Excluding categories from the front page with custom queries
Including functions from external files
Identifying and fixing common mistakes

Introduction 6m 59s
Welcome 1m 6s
Using the exercise files 1m 34s
What you need to know before watching this course 1m 29s
Getting the right tools for theme creation 2m 50s

1. Creating a Child Theme from Scratch 17m 2s
What is a WordPress child theme and when should you use it? 2m 38s
Picking a parent theme 3m 55s
Making sure you have the Twenty Twelve parent theme 1m 50s
Creating and activiating a basic child theme 4m 20s
Importing parent theme styles 4m 19s

2. Modifying and Adding Styles 16m 2s
Using the developer tools 3m 53s
Modifying existing styles 4m 24s
Adding space between paragraphs 4m 7s
Changing font family styles 3m 38s

3. Modifying and Adding Templates 31m 47s
Understanding the WordPress template hierarchy 3m 12s
Modifying existing templates 2m 33s
Moving the header image 4m 29s
Adding Related Posts feature to posts 6m 26s
Creating custom page templates 5m 43s
Using conditional statements for customized effects 5m 41s
Creating custom header, footer, and sidebar templates 3m 43s

4. Customizing the Index Pages 17m 5s
Understanding the different index pages and what they do 4m 6s
Adding author, date, and time information to the index loop 7m 15s
Changing the appearance of category index pages 5m 44s

5. Modifying and Adding Functions 43m 5s
Introducing functions.php 3m 24s
Overriding existing functions 3m 23s
Adding pagination to index pages 5m 49s
Adding to existing functions 3m 21s
Adding a new footer menu to Twenty Twelve 6m 24s
Adding a new widgetized area to pages 4m 9s
Adding static content to the sidebar 7m 44s
Replacing existing functions 2m 36s
Adding a Google font through a function 6m 15s

6. Working with Featured Images 10m 24s
Adding new featured image sizes 5m 41s
Adding featured images to posts and pages 4m 43s

7. Beyond the Basics 31m 1s
Adding a welcome message to the front page 1m 22s
Displaying page content in an index page 7m 42s
Hooking in a featured image 4m 34s
Making the welcome message responsive 6m 27s
Restricting content to the first page of the blog 4m 22s
Adding a jQuery function to show or hide the welcome message 6m 34s

8. Adding Finishing Touches 10m 23s
Adding a custom favicon 3m 58s
Adding a custom screenshot 2m 29s
Adding footer information 3m 56s

9. Troubleshooting Child Themes 7m 14s
What to do when a child theme crashes your website 4m 38s
Updating parent and child themes 2m 36s