WordPress Theme Customization 101 (for beginners)

Beginner's guide to customizing a WordPress theme for a basic site. Real-world "over my shoulder" Training #1

3.75 (85 reviews)

Udemy

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English

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Web Development

What you will learn

Customize any WordPress Theme

Have a basic understanding of themes and how they interact with WordPress

Understand how to find a "starter" theme to use in your site and customization

Easily perform basic WordPress Theme customizations

Easily identify what elements of a theme need to be tweaked or customized

Have a basic understanding of how to perform simple Theme edits on any WordPress Theme, beyond the customization section

Perform basic changes and tweaks to any WordPress Theme's files or CSS file

Perform basic updates or changes to any visual element of a WordPress Theme

Why take this course?

WordPress Theme Customization 101 is a beginner's course to more advanced WordPress customization and changes.

This is the first of a series of "watch over my shoulder" style advanced WordPress theme customization training courses, where you get to follow along as I walk you through the exact process to perform specific and varied customizations on real-world websites that either I own/have created or have customized for clients.

In this first "101" course, I walk you through a very basic WordPress Theme Customization which involves a website I did for a client.

The first part of this course covers WordPress Theme basics and understandings so you have a good grip on how themes and WordPress work together with content, plugins, etc.

After this basic understanding foundation is laid, I walk through the entire process, from a fresh install of WordPress with no customizations, to a finished site...covering everything along the way from identifying what we wanted the site to look like, functionality desired, etc...all the way through to a finished site that accomplishes the goals and made my client very happy.

Besides the built-in theme customization changes we walk through, I also cover very simple and basic Theme editing, plugin usage, management, and content layout fixes/functionality...as well as making the site "beyond responsive" where it is able to detect the type of device accessing it and deliver customized content.

Again, this is the 101 course, the very first in a series of more advanced WordPress training courses aimed at the Beginner to Intermediate WordPress user.

I ease you into the advanced customization so you're not overwhelmed and can easily get a grasp of each new lesson, theory, principle and step we are performing along the way.

My goal is to help you achieve a comfortable understanding of customizing WordPress themes to your liking and needs, so you can easily setup and customize your WordPress site to look, function, and perform exactly according to your desires, goals and needs.

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Reviews

Petr

March 17, 2020

This course and first course "WordPress for Beginners" helped me to fast understand how WordPress works.

Jim

October 13, 2019

There were times when the content you were working with was actually off the screen and couldn't be seen. Otherwise, a pretty good course John - Thanks.

Wilton

August 12, 2018

Overall a good basic course. The CSS lost me because I have no knowledge of the language. Other than that the course was very helpful.

Friedrich

November 22, 2017

I think that the lecture is going fast in the sense that some steps and customization procedures are not explained very well.

Mary

June 21, 2016

I love John's pace and he keeps it simple and clear. At times he catches himself saying a word that sounds scary to a beginner. He quickly catches that and explains it.

Teri

May 21, 2016

Explanations are so clear! The pace is good for beginners and he takes time to clarify terms used for coding that would be a complete mystery otherwise.

Louis

May 18, 2016

This builds upon the prior course, so I think I'll learn a lot more because I have some foundation to build upon. John is effective in his delivery.

Kelli

April 11, 2016

Gives very clear explanations for us beginners. Thanks for breaking it down. Wordpress doesn't seem quite so overwhelming now.

Joju

March 30, 2016

I am removing a star because there is no Lecture-9 and therefore, the course remains incomplete in my records.

Craig

December 25, 2015

I've taken a couple of your courses and you're the best instructor. Everything is step by step, you speak clearly, and you make it fun. Thank You

Cathy

October 15, 2015

Thank you John. I have taken several classes web design but none so far that walked me through the steps with a live demo/site build. It makes all the difference in the world for someone very new to the web buidling game.

Paul

August 28, 2015

This course is excellent for an absolute beginner. The instructor is very detailed, patient and doesn't assume things about what you know, or might not know. I'm way beyond this level, and so wish I hadn't bought (my fault, not the instructor's). However, if you're new to Wordpress, web development and customizing WP themes, this is a good place to start. If you're already doing customizations and looking to get even better, then you should skip this course and opt for a more advanced course. The teacher is excellent however.

Rachel

July 20, 2015

This is a very good course for beginners to WordPress customization. I can't wait to take the next one!

Florence

July 18, 2015

This course was very helpful and cleared up a few things I've been struggling with. I appreciate that there's a bit of everything for different learning styles: theory, explanation, visual. The process of actually going through a site and working through it from beginning to end is perfect. Raising both hands to continue with progressively advanced courses!! Highly recommend.

Mohammad

June 17, 2015

I really enjoyed the course and expecting more advance courses in future. Only the thin I want to add i.e. if you can just provide the source materials like images and others for our practice and go at same pace with you. Thanks.

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