WordPress Workshop: Customizing themes, October 26, 2013

You will need a laptop, and a local web server installed on your laptop so you can easily work on websites.  You could also work on a hosted site, but working live on a site often disrupts it and it’s better and faster to work on a local server.  We’ll add notes on how to setup a local server soon.

This a rough plan right now…

 

Intro Tentative Agenda:

9:00 – Opening remarks, and complete setup of local servers on laptops

9:20 – Tactics for picking themes

9:40 – Theme settings in the admin

10:00 – Workshop – Theme settings

10:20 – What is a child theme and creating child themes

10:40 – Workshop – Creating your own child theme

11:00 – Intro to HTML & CSS with workshop

12:00 – Lunch

1:00 – Intro to PHP and the WordPress Loop – Part 1

1:20 – Workshop – Intro to PHP and the WordPress Loop

1:40 – Intro to PHP and the WordPress Loop – Part 2

2:00 – Workshop – Intro to PHP and the WordPress Loop

2:30 – Open workshop – Work on your theme with some help.

Advanced

10-15 min lighting talks with discussion periods on advanced topics like SAAS, icon fonts, enqueuing scripts and styles.