Lynda.com : Wordpress 3 Building Child Themes

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Author: Morten Rand-Hendriksen
Released: 6/23/2011 Duration: 03h 17m Level: Intermediate
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Course name:
WordPress 3: Building Child Themes

Author:
Morten Rand-Hendriksen

Duration:
03h 17m

Released on:
6/23/2011

Course Description:
WordPress 3: Building Child Themes shows how to create a new theme based on a prebuilt parent theme in WordPress, and change the functionality, presentation, or styling of a site. In this course, Morten Rand-Hendriksen covers importing parent themes, adding custom menus, restyling the header image, customizing the sidebar and index pages, implementing the Post Thumbnail feature, and incorporating javascript. The course also shows how to establish a quick and efficient theme restyling workflow, taking a design from mockup to fully functional site. Workflow techniques including modifying basic CSS by using a code editor such as Eclipse, 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
Creating a functions file and 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 (date, author, category, etc.)
Excluding categories from the front page with custom queries
Adding additional options to the user profile
Including functions from external files
Identifying and fixing common mistakes

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