For this exercise, I want you to follow along with an extended video series on how to write WordPress themes. This series will take you through a lot, so don’t start one day before it’s due or you won’t finish it.
First, please download these files (updated Feb 08, 2022).
This is a Duplicator archive for you to install in your development environment.
What you will hand in: the completed theme that you will build by following along through all the videos. For this project, do not hand in a Duplicator package.
Loom Videos for the Exercise
The series is broken into three parts. Each part has from 3 to 10 videos.
- Intro to WP Theming 1: Template Tags, Functions (10 videos)
- Intro to WP Theming 2: Menus, Icons, Navigation (9 videos)
- Intro to WordPress Theming 3: CSS Cardio (3 videos)
When you have finished the exercise, please do the following:
- duplicate the theme folder (it’s inside wp-content) and copy that new theme to your desktop.
If on Mac, make sure to copy rather than drag, so it doesn’t just make a shortcut to your theme rather than a copy. - rename that folder lastname_firstname_bootcamp
- open that folder in Visual Studio Code
- edit the file style.css
- change the theme name and textdomain values in style.css to firstname_bootcamp (for example: kevin_bootcamp) using lower case and no spaces.
- make sure that the theme author is your first and last name (ie Kevin McMillan)
When done, please double check the naming: it helps my marking if everything is named in this way.
Then zip this copied and renamed theme folder, and hand it in.
Have fun.