First please download the files and graphics you will need for this exercise: Inside the first ZIP archive you downloaded, you will find a duplicator package (an installer.php file and another zip archive with a long name). Install the site in a new testing environment. As part of the Duplicator installation process, make yourself a […]
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WordPress Lab Exercise 3
NOTE: in this exercise, do not edit any theme template files (ie don’t use Appearance > Theme Editor) or install any plugins other than those used in the assignment. The Duplicator plugin is included in the files you will download below. Any CSS changes you make in your site should go in the Customizer. Task […]
Hummus Recipe ( HTML semantics ) HTML Paths Exercise ( HTML Paths based on GuitarMania site, also FTP if at Langara ) Fela Kuti Markup & Styling Exercise ( Markup, Images, CSS: b0rders, fonts, gradients, bg-image, text-transform, letter-spacing. Has screenshot. Can be simple or complex. Early in the course, this would take a couple classes. Sublime Formatting […]
The Main Layouts Edit the _posts-and-pages file inside site/primary.
Now let’s do some styling of our content. Enqueue the Google Font First, let’s enqueue our site-title font: google’s smokum. Open functions.php and duplicate the line that enqueues the main stylesheet. It should be somewhere near line 120. Then in the duplicated line, change the “handle” (the first argument passed to the function). In order […]
Now let’s add a couple more modifications to the content.php template part. The Meta Data If we look at the screenshots of the front page and the single view, we see that the meta information (date and author) is not needed. However, for the Opinions section of the home page, the author name and gravatar […]
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We ended the previous article having generated the main content for the home page of the site. However, if we inspect the code with browser developer tools, we’ll see that there’s just a ton of articles inside the .site-content MAIN element. Our next step, therefore, should be to introduce some sectioning HTML to our loop […]
This page presents a solution for WordPress Theme Exercise: Metonymic. If you want to try building the site without following step-by-step directions, consult that document. If going through these instructions, please first review the original instructions at that link. Content Generation Let’s start with the biggest task: the generation of content for the front page. […]
In this exercise, you will build two significant parts of a WordPress theme: the home page and the single post view. You may use your notes or the Internet. If this is a test, talking to anyone will result in a zero grade. Initial Setup First, please download the following: the duplicator package the screenshots […]