Pro WordPress Theme Development

Pro WordPress Theme Development is a comprehensive guide to creating advanced WordPress themes, for professional web designers and developers who are comfortable with PHP and WordPress. You will learn how to build themes from scratch, and how to monetize the themes you create. WordPress is one of the most successful open source blogging and content management systems available, and theme development has become a major part of the WordPress ecosystem. Learn how to capitalize on this by creating advanced themes for your clients or to sell as premium themes. This book: Builds on your current knowledge of PHP and web development to create a WordPress theme from scratch Uses a real world theme example that you can build, to demonstrate each feature in a practical way Shows you how to take control of WordPress with custom posts types and taxonomies Covers aspects of theme development such as anatomy and hierarchy, use of the loop, hooks, short codes, plug-ins and much more Explains how to make the most out of your new skills to sell premium themes §Pro WordPress Theme Development teaches you how to produce your own WordPress theme from scratch, from the basics of theme anatomy right up to advanced features like custom queries and custom theme options. Using this book you will be able to create themes that are easy to use, secure, and optimised for performance. Start working with WordPress themes like a pro today with Pro WordPress Theme Development.