Create a WordPress theme completely from scratch using very little PHP and your own hand-rolled HTML template.

WordPress is the most popular blogging platform on the internet today, however, it can also be used as a powerful Content Management System. In this course we will use it as a CMS to build a client website.

In this course you will learn to convert an HTML page into a WordPress theme. Actually it’s a lot simpler than you may think. I will provide you with a link to a free HTML5 template page and together we will walk through the steps to convert it into a theme.

First we will spend a couple of minutes reviewing the essential features of a mobile first, responsive, HTML web template page that uses a CSS Preprocessor. hopefully this is a review of what you already know but you may also learn something new.

Next you will learn to build a WordPress theme from scratch. In each video we cover the essential code necessary for the 5 basic php files we will create. I call this the ugly theme as it is fully functional but lacking any design.