Week 8 Completion Checklist

With this week's lecture, you should be all set for building your assignment in full.

Watch the first video to learn how to install a theme plus a bit of the background behind the themes selected for this assignment. 

The second video gives you a tour of the file structure in WordPress themes (individual files called templates) and how to read these.

The third and fourth videos combine the starting HTML file we created in the Joomla portion of the course with the HTML5Blank theme Links to an external site. to create a customized WP theme.

Underscores

If you are interested in detailed instruction for Underscores, there are two videos that deal with this. Unfortunately, both have the same name (!!!), so read the overviews carefully to make sure you're in the right place with the material you want to use.

First, this video from 2016, which explains Underscores in a basic way:
http://www.lynda.com/WordPress-tutorials/WordPress-Building-Themes-from-Scratch-Using-Underscores/417653-2.html Links to an external site.

Second, this brand new video from 2017, which integrates Gulp and Sass. This might be appropriate if you are in or have taken DGMD E-27, or you are already familiar with Sass:
https://www.lynda.com/WordPress-tutorials/WordPress-Building-Themes-from-Scratch-Using-Underscores/491704-2.html Links to an external site.

www.underscores.me Links to an external site. -- Underscores website

Other Approved Starter Themes

If you want to work with Bootstrap, work with the Sage theme:
https://roots.io/sage/ Links to an external site. Links to an external site.

Combine Underscores and Bootstrap in the _tk theme:
https://github.com/Themekraft/_tk Links to an external site.

Generic, another basic starter: http://generic.tools/ (click on the Generic WordPress Theme link)

A11 Y'All http://www.a11yall.org/allyall-wordpress-theme/ (Links to an external site.) (Accessible starter theme)

If you don't like any of these starter themes and want to work with something else, please see the discussion thread for approval. Note that I'm looking for the most basic themes you can find. If you're asking to use a fully baked theme, your request will not be approved. I want to see that you understand how a WordPress theme is put together and how you can style it accordingly.