I had a great time putting it together and I hope you have all enjoyed it. Let’s do a review of what we’ve gone through, and what’s to come.
What We’ve Covered
Understanding a Theme’s structure, using a very basic layout.
Setting up WordPress with your Host
Templating with PHP, as PHP is what WordPress runs on
The beginnings of a theme, including the minimum required files and some basic template tags
Creating a Loop in index.php, arguably what makes WordPress as great as it is
Building a posts page (single.php) and introduced WordPress Generated CSS
Making your posts comment friendly
Harnessing WordPress’ built-in, dynamic menus
Widgetizing a theme, in our case, the sidebar
How to implement search
Creating a 404 page, and
Making an Author Archives page
What Happens to the Series
Couch to WP Pro will be updated
With new releases being increasingly frequent, WordPress is constantly evolving, so it’s important we keep up to date with this to stay relevant. It’s likely that there will be a second version of this series released in time, but completed with a very different theme.
Furthering your Learning
Our focus is on helping you build your first theme, so we’re going to keep publishing articles and tutorials to help you on your way. Most relevant will be the category WP Elements, where we’ll cover the various parts of a WordPress theme, footers, widgets, headers, you name it. We’ll also be including tutorials on functions, customizing your themes, and how to add in custom theme options.
Further to this, there’s Tips & Tricks. The objective is to provide ways you can become a faster, more capable developer, through ways to better your coding, and to speed it up without compromising quality.
If you have any suggestions on what you’d like to see, please feel free to contact us, I’d love to hear from you.
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