Lynda - WordPress: Building Themes from Scratch Using Underscores
If you know how to build complex custom WordPress themes using the starter theme known as _s (Underscores), you can create nearly anything you can dream up. In this course, Morten Rand-Hendriksen shows how to build a theme piece-by-piece by breaking it down into sections including the header, menus, images, index pages, and more. Along the way, he covers key development concepts like using Sass and Sass partials to style the theme, using Gulp to process your code, understanding the WordPress template hierarchy, customizing JavaScript to work for your theme, and more. To wrap up, Morten covers the Customizer and focuses on new features like responsive images.
Table of Contents
Introduction1. Set Up a WordPress Development Environment2. The Design to Development Process3. Set Up the Basic Theme4. Build the Header5. Create Menus6. Configure the Single Post Template7. Create Conditional Layouts8. Work with Comments9. Work with Featured Images10. Work with Widget Areas (Sidebars)11. Work with Index templates12. Work with Static Pages13. Advanced Features14. Adding Features to the Customizer15. Back-End CustomizationConclusion