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Introduction
If you want to leave your mark in the wonderful world of WordPress, then continue reading. This book will teach you how to develop and customize your very own responsive theme in WordPress. The added benefits for you are that you will get a lot of useful tips and tricks throughout the book intended to make your life easier. We will provide you with the essentials in the development of the responsive theme in WordPress and the rest is up to you and your imagination!
What this book covers
Chapter 1, Responsive Web Design with WordPress, introduces you to the concepts and techniques of responsive web design and walks you through the process of setting up a WordPress environment.
Chapter 2, Understanding the WordPress Theme Structure, teaches you about the WordPress theme architecture and the purpose of the most important template files.
Chapter 3, Getting Started with Responsive Layout, starts your development journey where you will learn how to choose the right tool for your project (text editor or IDE), how to set up functions.php and styles.css, set fonts and font-icons, add morenizr.js and respond.js essential scripts, and how to add media queries.
Chapter 4, Learn How to Create the Header and Navigation, teaches you about the most important component of any website—navigation!
Chapter 5, Customizing Single Post Templates, focuses on the post templates and their components: title, meta, and navigation. In this chapter, we are setting up a basic layout that we will later expand with the index templates and static pages.
Chapter 6, Responsive Widgets, Footer, and Comments, introduces you to the magic world of widgets, footer, sidebar, and comments with a lot of useful tips and tricks.
Chapter 7, Working with Images and Videos, starts with something fun and, as some might say, the most interesting components of any website—images and videos. In this chapter, you will learn about featured images, image captions, image galleries, and how to work with videos.
Chapter 8, Working with Template Files, focuses on the most important files for the WordPress themes. In this chapter, you will understand the WordPress template hierarchy, understand the functionality of archive pages and you will find excerpts on how to customize the paging navigation, style and sticky post, and also how to modify archive.php, 404.php, and search.php.
Chapter 9, Working with Static Pages and Adding the Extra Functionality with Plugins, wraps up the development part of our book. In this chapter, you will learn about static pages, sliders, shortcodes, how to make your home page responsive, and how to make the contact us page.
Chapter 10, Submitting Your Theme to WordPress.org, covers how to test your theme and polish your code before the submission, and helps you learn how to submit your theme to the WordPress.org repository
What you need for this book
The software applications that are recommended for this project are XAMPP, WAMP, and MAMP please choose one that fits your needs. Also, it would be beneficial to have the WordPress installed locally or on the hosted environment.
Who this book is for
This book is intended for all of you WordPress enthusiasts who want to develop and customize your very own WordPress responsive theme. Some knowledge of WordPress, PHP, MySQL, HTML, and CSS is expected from you.
