Advanced Wordpress Training - Custom Themes

This 1-day Advanced WordPress training course provides a hands-on guide to creating a custom WordPress theme to make it look exactly how you want.

Learn about WordPress Themes, Template files and creating custom menus.

This is a workshop style Advanced WordPress course – delegates who want to integrate their WordPress blog in to a website are invited to bring their own HTML template and stylesheet as a starting point. Example templates will also be provided.

Delegates new to WordPress should attend our Beginners Wordpress Course

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Advanced WordPress Training Course Objectives

On completion of this Advanced WordPress training course delegates will be able to:

• Customise an existing WordPress Theme to look like their design.
• Create new WordPress templates for Pages or Posts
• Add custom menus to their WordPress Theme.

Advanced WordPress Training Course Prerequisites

• Delegates must be confident in the use of HTML and CSS
• Familiarity with PHP is not essential, but an understanding of how it works is useful

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Read the full Advanced WordPress Training course outline

Advanced WordPress Course Content

Anatomy of a WordPress Theme

• How Themes work
• Template files
• Typical Template files included in a Theme
• The WordPress Loop
• The Functions File 
• Template Tags
• Conditional Tags

Modifying a WordPress Theme: Getting started

• Choosing a WordPress Theme to modify.

Category Templates

• Creating multiple Category Templates
• The Template Hierarchy
• Adding text to Category Pages

Pages

• Creating multiple Page Templates.

Menus

• Creating custom menus.

WordPress Theme Compatibility and Upgrades

• Upgrading a WordPress Theme
• Theme compatibility with WordPress Upgrades
• Theme compatibility with Plugins

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