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• WordPress 3: Building Child ThemesBy: Morten Rand-HendriksenDuration: 3h 18mDescription:WordPress 3: Building Child Themes shows how to create a new theme based on a prebuilt parent theme in WordPress, and change the functionality, presentation, or styling of a site.
• In this course, Morten Rand-Hendriksen covers importing parent themes, adding custom menus, restyling the header image, customizing the sidebar and index pages, implementing the Post Thumbnail feature, and incorporating javascript.
• The course also shows how to establish a quick and efficient theme restyling workflow, taking a design from mockup to fully functional site.
• Workflow techniques including modifying basic CSS by using a code editor such as Eclipse, the developer tools in the Chrome browser, and WordPress.
• Exercise files are included with the course.Topics include:Picking a parent themeCreating and activating a basic WordPress child themeUsing the developer toolsCreating a functions file and changing the header image sizeUsing conditional statements for customized effectsAdding custom menus to the child theme and/or a templateChanging the default footer contentAdding featured images to postsChanging the display of meta content (date, author, category, etc.)Excluding categories from the front page with custom queriesAdding additional options to the user profileIncluding functions from external filesIdentifying and fixing common mistakesAbout author:Morten Rand-Hendriksen is a web designer and developer with a passion for clean design, standards-based code, and open-source software.