![Exercise: Plugins
Complete/Answer the following:
● Toggle the activation of the Hello Dolly plugin. What
does it do?
● Delete the Hello Dolly plugin. What are the two
components of deletion you're warned about?
● Go to Featured plugins and install and activate the
Theme Check plugin.
Gold Star! [Extra Credit]
● Add the Hello Dolly plugin back. You miss it.
● How can you find the lines that Hello Dolly
choses lyrics from?
● Search and add the WP PHP widget to your
site. Activate. [You'll have more to play with
in the Widgets exercise!]](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/sundayslides-120930114411-phpapp01/85/WordPress-101-Sunday-Session-5-320.jpg)
![Exercise: Widgets
Complete/Answer the following:
● Use a widget in your site's theme
● How can you remove a widget but keep its settings?
● Can you use a widget more than once?
Gold Star! [Extra Credit]
● If you installed the PHP widget, play with
running "Hello World" PHP code in a widget
area
● Does the PHP widget support HTML?
● Change themes - did widget support change?
Widgets.](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/sundayslides-120930114411-phpapp01/85/WordPress-101-Sunday-Session-7-320.jpg)
![Exercise: Child Themes
Make a Child Theme.
Gold Star! [Extra Credit]
● PLAY
(start customizing the theme!)](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/sundayslides-120930114411-phpapp01/85/WordPress-101-Sunday-Session-13-320.jpg)
![Exercise: Leveraging Your Child Theme
Complete/Answer the following:
● Create a 404 template.
○ Start by copying the code from the parent as an
example into your text editor
○ Edit it
○ Save as 404.php in your child theme
○ Go to a page that does not exist to test
Gold Star! [Extra Credit]
● Customize the archive or loop templates,
such as making the title a different HTML tag
... get creative!
● Can you figure out what "The Loop" is? (see
archive.php & content.php in twentyeleven)
Ask a TA to see how you did](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/sundayslides-120930114411-phpapp01/85/WordPress-101-Sunday-Session-14-320.jpg)
WordPress 101 Sunday Session
- 1. Sunday Funday: Plugins, Widgets, Customizing Themes, Publishing
- 2. Today's Plan ● Plugins ● Widgets ● Themes and extension - "child themes" ● Review Goals ● You will understand what widgets are and how to use them ● You will know the 'definition' of a plugin ● You'll have the basics of child themes down, and might have one of your own! ● If we have time, we have a review game to solidify concepts, or we can workshop
- 3. Plugins extend the functionality of WordPress.
- 5. Exercise: Plugins Complete/Answer the following: ● Toggle the activation of the Hello Dolly plugin. What does it do? ● Delete the Hello Dolly plugin. What are the two components of deletion you're warned about? ● Go to Featured plugins and install and activate the Theme Check plugin. Gold Star! [Extra Credit] ● Add the Hello Dolly plugin back. You miss it. ● How can you find the lines that Hello Dolly choses lyrics from? ● Search and add the WP PHP widget to your site. Activate. [You'll have more to play with in the Widgets exercise!]
- 6. Widgets are a form of plugin that can add functionality to different areas of your site, without needing to code.
- 7. Exercise: Widgets Complete/Answer the following: ● Use a widget in your site's theme ● How can you remove a widget but keep its settings? ● Can you use a widget more than once? Gold Star! [Extra Credit] ● If you installed the PHP widget, play with running "Hello World" PHP code in a widget area ● Does the PHP widget support HTML? ● Change themes - did widget support change? Widgets.
- 8. Lessons Learned Can you ... ● Define what plugins (and widgets) do? Are you ... ● Able to install and activate plugins? Are you ... ● Able to customize your site with widgets?
- 9. Customizing Themes, Publishing, & Review
- 10. Customizing with Child Themes ● A Child Theme is a theme based on another theme (the parent) ● It uses all components of the parent theme unless you specify otherwise ● http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy ^ This is very useful
- 11. Two Steps to a Child Theme A folder and a style.css file
- 12. Child Theme Review If file exists, use it. If not... CHILD PARENT Go get it from the parent
- 13. Exercise: Child Themes Make a Child Theme. Gold Star! [Extra Credit] ● PLAY (start customizing the theme!)
- 14. Exercise: Leveraging Your Child Theme Complete/Answer the following: ● Create a 404 template. ○ Start by copying the code from the parent as an example into your text editor ○ Edit it ○ Save as 404.php in your child theme ○ Go to a page that does not exist to test Gold Star! [Extra Credit] ● Customize the archive or loop templates, such as making the title a different HTML tag ... get creative! ● Can you figure out what "The Loop" is? (see archive.php & content.php in twentyeleven) Ask a TA to see how you did
- 15. Publishing Your Site in 3 Steps 1. Setup your base (WordPress) 2. Install your theme and plugins 3. Transfer your data
- 16. Publishing: 3 Steps 1. Setup your base (WordPress) Host can take care of this (usually) 2. Install your theme and plugins FTP! 3. Transfer your data WordPress Export/Import
- 21. Help us make things better! http://tinyurl.com/gdiseptwp
- 22. First WordPress, next , the world! (THANKS, EVERYBODY!)