WordPress Responsive Theme Design Essentials

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1785288458 ISBN 13: 9781785288456

Publisher: Packt Publishing - ebooks Account, 2015

Develop and customize your very own responsive WordPress themes quickly and efficiently

About This Book

• Structured learning for new developers and technical consultants to enable you to build responsive WordPress themes
• Concise and easy-to-follow walkthroughs of WordPress, PHP, and CSS code
• Packed with examples and key tips on how to avoid potential pitfalls

Who This Book Is For

If you are a WordPress enthusiast who wants to develop and customize your own responsive WordPress theme, this book is for you. Some experience with WordPress, HTML, PHP, and CSS is expected and highly recommended.

In Detail

WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool, which runs on a web hosting service. It is used to implement responsive themes, to make WordPress sites optimized for mobile devices.

This book will teach you how to design and develop your very own responsive WordPress theme and also submit your theme to the WordPress.org repository. The book starts with an introduction to the Responsive Web Design concepts and techniques. Then, it explains how to set up a local WordPress environment and also helps you understand the structure of the WordPress theme. Finally, we learn to create responsive comments in WordPress and also have a look at static pages and index templates. By the end of this book, you will have a better understanding of responsive theme development in WordPress and a WordPress Codex.

About the Author:

Dejan Markovic

Dejan Markovic is the president of NYTO Group (http://www.nytogroup.com/), a premium web development company with offices conveniently located in both Toronto and New York. He is an experienced web developer with the extensive knowledge of both frontend and backend technologies (PHP, ASP.NET, JavaScript, ColdFusion, HTML5, CSS3, WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, to name just a few). As Dejan strongly believes in returning back to the community, he developed and contributed to 2 free WordPress plugins: Buffer My Post (https://wordpress.org/plugins/buffer-my-post/) and Tweet Old Custom Post (https://wordpress.org/plugins/tweet-old-custom-post/). He is also one of the organizers of WPToronto meetup group and the WordCamp Toronto, an annual WordPress conference. You can always find him on various WordCamps (especially the ones within driving distance from Toronto) or exploring the nature, art & love for food across Canada & US. Should you have any questions, comments, concerns or just want to say hello, you can shoot him an email at dejan@dejanmarkovic.com. He would love to hear your thoughts about this book. Dejan was a technical reviewer of the book Learning Yeoman (http://www.amazon.com/Learning-Yeoman-Jonathan-Spratley/dp/1783981385). This is his first time as an author.