Complete Customizer Development For WordPress Themes/Plugins

Use best practices and coding standards with the Theme Customizer to create theme options for any WordPress theme/plugin

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Udemy

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English

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Web Development

What you will learn

Add modern theme options to any WordPress theme

Program WordPress with the Theme Customizer

Develop in WordPress using the Theme Customization and the Theme Modification APIs

Add special color picker controls, image uploaders, ranges, radio buttons, select menus, text areas, and more

Create menus in the theme customizer for current posts, pages, custom fields and more.

Build your own custom controls using PHP and HTML

Add any custom CSS into your controls

Build a social media section where users can input Facebook, Twitter, and other social network profiles

The different customizer transports including "refresh" and "postMessage"

Add upload controls for media including audio and images

Why take this course?

Take Your WordPress theme or plugin to the very next level!

Learn how to program the WordPress theme customizer for any modern theme or plugin. Create theme options the modern way as requested by the WordPress theme review team.

The theme customizer is one of the most exciting features of themes and plugins in WordPress and theme options. They allow your theme or plugin to stand out and give the user many options to add all types of data from:

text controls
dates
color controls
image uploaders
textareas
URLs and emails
number range sliders
media controls including audio
and more

Why Should Theme Developers Take This Course?

The problem with most theme options is that they do not follow the coding standards or best practices only confusing web designers who use them.

The Theme Customizer is the best way to create a consistent look and feel between themes while following best practices and allows the user to customize your theme in a more comfortable editing environment.

In this course, I teach you to take your theme development to the very next level by not only teaching you how to add theme options using the customizer, but also how to tap into WordPress posts, pages, custom fields and more to help users make the changes all in one place.

Code samples are available with most videos in this course!

I also give you the code after each video to help you program the different features and sections. Several assignments and quizzes to test your knowledge.

Free Customizer Sections With Code To Plug Right Into Your Theme

We are building completely, usable code sections and panels that you will be able to add to your theme as you see fit. The sections will allow your theme user to do all of the following:

select a post title from a drop down menu
change custom fields
change colors of background with the color selector
add social media profiles including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and more.
create a select menu of all WordPress posts and pages

Learn Code Tricks With Your Customizer

Learn code tricks such as: