Source: Learn WordPress

What is a widget area? Why would you add one to your theme? This lesson demonstrates how to add widget areas to your theme and how to add content to these areas. Objectives After completing this lesson, participants will be able to: Describe the purpose and functions of widget areas Practice the steps of adding…

Templates are the WordPress theme files used to render website pages. Getting acquainted with templates is an important step in learning to build themes for WordPress. This walkthrough will explain what templates are and introduce you to commonly used templates and template tags so you can edit and make your own templates. Objectives At the end…

In this lesson, you will learn how to install WordPress locally on your own computer. Prerequisite Skills Participants will get the most from this lesson if they have familiarity with: Experience downloading and installing programs on their computer. Administrative access to their local machine. Familiarity with the file system of their computer. Objectives After completing this…

In this lesson, you will learn what The Loop is and when to use it? This step-by-step walkthrough will give you an understanding of how to use The Loop to display lists of post titles, links, and other content. Objectives After completing this lesson, you will be able to: Define The Loop. Explain why The Loop…

Making your WordPress theme accessible has multiple benefits. Not only do you make it more friendly to the various devices and environments that people of all abilities use on a daily basis but search engines also reward efforts to make sites accessible. Description In this lesson, we’ll go over a few basic things that can be incorporated…

Menus provide a list of links for website navigation. In this lesson, you’ll learn how to create menus for classic themes with links to pages and other content, how to place menus in various locations, and how to customize and manage menus. Objectives At the end of this lesson, you will be able to do the following with…

Over 60 million people have chosen WordPress to power the place on the web they call “home”. People from all over the world create WordPress sites in different languages. While WordPress has translations for over 162 languages, you will be only able to see languages that are fully translated (62). If you do not see…

In this lesson, you will learn how your readers can communicate through comments and how to manage those comments on your WordPress site.   Objectives After going through this lesson, students will be able to: Locate and change the status of comments left on their site. Prerequisite Skills You will be better equipped to work through…

In this module you’ll learn about the basic troubleshooting steps that can be taken when something goes wrong with your WordPress theme.  The lesson will focus on troubleshooting an existing install of WordPress when activating, changing, or updating a theme. Prerequisite Skills You will be better equipped to work through this lesson if you have…

Description In this module you’ll learn how to add, edit, and remove users within your WordPress website. This module will introduce the user roles that exist within WordPress, but will focus on the how-to of user management, and not the organizational philosophy behind deciding which users are assigned various roles and permissions. Objectives After completing this…