The Complete Guide To Building Premium WordPress Themes

The Complete Guide To Building Premium WordPress Themes

Get approved on themeforest by coding WordPress themes with best practices, coding standards and advanced workflows.

What Will I Learn?

Learn how to code premium WordPress themes that pass the themeforest review.
Use NPM/Yarn and Gulp to create a workflow for an efficient and a reusable theme.
Discover all core aspects for creating a WordPress theme.
Learn how to create a secure and translation ready WordPress theme.
Learn How to make your theme customizable with WordPress's Customizer API.
Write javascript using the latest ES6+ versions.
Create custom WordPress widgets and integrate them with Customizer.
Create custom post types and custom taxonomies.
Learn about shortcodes and how to create them.
Learn how your WordPress website can be more accessible.
Create basic plugins and learn how to properly include them in your theme.
Make your theme modifiable with child themes.
Understand how things work in WordPress in a deeper way by digging into the source code.
Create themes that are compatible with the new editor 'Gutenberg'

Requirements

You should have a good understanding of general programming concepts.
You should be familiar with HTML, CSS (SASS), javascript and PHP basics.
Any code editor you are comfortable with, I will use VS Code in this code.
A local server like MAMP, WAMP, XAMPP, Laragon or any other software you are familiar with. I will use MAMP through out this course.
NodeJS and NPM or Yarn installed on your machine.

Description

In this course, you will learn everything you will need to code premium WordPress themes that are guaranteed to get accepted on marketplaces like themeforest.

Become a WordPress themes expert and make money online by publishing your themes!

Understand WordPress concepts in more depth and learn how things work behind the scenes.

Create a secure theme that is guaranteed to pass themeforest's security review.

Learn how to make your theme translatable.

Explore some advanced javascript workflows that will help you automate regular tasks like minifying CSS.

Understand WordPress's actions and filters.

Make your themes modifiable by understanding child themes.

Add powerful options to your theme using the powerful WordPress Customizer API.

Make your theme compatible with the new WordPress editor 'Gutenberg'

Explore web accessibility and get some tips on how to make your theme more accessible.

Create WordPress plugins that will supplement your theme.

Learn everything about WordPress functionalities like: sidebars, navigation menus, custom fields, shortcodes, post formats, custom post types, custom taxonomies, custom widgets and more.

Take your WordPress knowledge to the next level

Are you looking to code premium WordPress themes that will pass the coding standards review on websites like themeforest?

Do you have great designs or you work with a designer and you have HTML/CSS/JS/PHP knowledge and you want to convert your designs into great WordPress themes?

Do you have some WordPress knowledge and you want to expand your knowledge and get deeper into the word of WordPress and be able to sell themes online?

Then this course is for you!

This course is the essence of my experience with submitting themes to themeforest. In these lectures, I will share everything I know about creating WordPress themes. After completing the course you will be able to create themes coded to match WordPress's and Themeforest's coding and security standards. You should have no problems passing themeforest's code review as long as you have a great design!

This is not a Design/CSS/HTML/PHP course!!! If you are looking for that, I am sure you will find a lot of other resources. In this course I will just focus on WordPress functionality. I will load some prewritten basic CSS I did for the theme that we will create, the goal is just to create WordPress functionality and understand WordPress in more depth. I will however teach you how to organize your CSS, compile SASS and minify your files automatically. Also you should have some basic PHP knowledge. I will not teach you PHP from scratch here, so if you are interested in taking this course, I suggest taking a beginners PHP course first!

Who is the target audience?

Developers who have HTML/CSS/JS/PHP knowledge and wish to create professional WordPress themes from scratch.
WordPress developers who want to take their WordPress knowledge to the next level.
WordPress developers looking to create premium themes that get approved on websites like themeforest.
Anyone interested in learning advanced WordPress and javascript concepts.