WordPress Theme Development

Learn to create and modify WordPress themes from WordPress developers in a classroom based training course in London

15 %
Discount

when you buy 3 or more courses

The discount will be automatically
applied at the checkout
Looking for a
2-12 months
training?
Choose Web Developer
Career Programme

Looking for a 2-12 months training?

Choose

Web Developer career programme

Upcoming dates

There are no open public schedule dates for WordPress Theme Development course. We can offer you a private training or arrange a public course for you. Contact us here and we can make arrangements for your course.

Delivery Formats

This course can be attended face to face in an open classrooms, live online virtual classroom remotely from home or office, private one-to-one and on-site for your team at your office.


Course Outline

WordPress Theme Development course overview

This advanced WordPress Theme design course will take you from beginner theme developer to master level. On completion of this advanced WordPress course you will be able to:

  • Create themes for WordPress sites
  • Apply your bespoke themes
  • Customise existing themes
  • Create & manage templates
  • Best practices for WordPress Theme Development.

The complete course is hands-on based. A practical WordPress project at the end of the course will ensure that you can practically create WordPress themes for your own projects. This short WordPress theme development course is hands-on, instructor-led and classroom based. This training can be taken as a part-time evening course or even on the weekends.


Who is WordPress Theme Development training for?

This training is for you if you are interested in mastering WordPress theme edition or creation. You may (or may not) have already used WordPress themes before. If you are interested in programming WordPress modules, consider our WordPress programming course.


Prerequisites for WordPress Theme Development course

  • You should have a good understanding of WordPress management, installation and plugins etc. You can learn how to use WordPress in our beginners WordPress course and Advanced WordPress course.
  • You should have practical experience of HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript and Jquery. You can learn HTML and CSS in Training Dragon's web design course, HTML5 & CSS3 in HTML5 training, PHP in our PHP training and JavaScript in our JavaScript course.
  • It is not necessary to have knowledge of responsive web design before you start this WordPress theme development course however if you plan to create mobile friendly and responsive wordpress themes then you should first consider our Mobile web design course.


What will I get?

  • Training from professional WordPress developers:

    Training Dragon consultants have been implementing professional WordPress solutions across a range of websites for many years. Those consultants write and teach our WordPress training courses, so their experience directly informs course content.

  • Real-time Practice and Projects:

    Our WordPress theme design courses are designed to get you started in WordPress theme designing. We work on industry related projects in this WordPress theming course.

  • Course Material:

    WordPress theme design electronic notes are included in this course.

  • Course Completion Certificate:

    After completing this training your will receive a WordPress themes design course completion certificate.

  • Support and Careers Advice:

    After the course if you have any problems or questions regarding WordPress theme design do not hesitate to contact us. Training Dragon’s trainers are expert in their fields and if you need any help with you career choice, please speak to one of our trainers.


WordPress Theme Development Course Contents

WordPress Layout and Theming

  • Theme installation
  • Use of HTML, CSS and PHP
  • Modify existing theme
  • Change the look of sections
  • Create a custom WordPress theme
  • Best practices for theming.
  • Theming Engines
  • Default theme functions
  • Overriding theme function in a theme
  • PHP Template
  • Tpl Files
  • Variables
  • Theme Function

Project: Create a WordPress Theme

Using the skills obtained from our WordPress course, we will build a complete WordPress theme and apply it on a WordPress website. This theme will work on computers, laptops, phones and tablets. This project involves many stages from planning, team work, installation, module management, testing and launching your WordPress theme online.

View Complete Course outline

Daily schedule

The scheme below shows what a typical day at Training Dragon looks like.

10:00 11:30 11:45 13:00 14:00 15:30 15:45
Classroom Activity
This course explains how to create web pages from scratch using different techniques, such as
Tea
Break
Classroom Activity
This course explains how to create web pages from scratch using different techniques, such as
Lunch
Break
Classroom Activity
This course explains how to create web pages from scratch using different techniques, such as
Tea
Break
Classroom Activity
This course explains how to create web pages from scratch using different techniques, such as
Video Placeholder

Looking for a
2-12 months
training?

Choose

Web Developer career programme

Our Trainers

Emiliano
Emiliano
Leads our teaching team with many years of experience in teaching web development.
Ross
Ross
Brings many years of Python and Java software development experience to classrooms.
Olu
Olu
Microsoft and Oracle certified developer with years teaching experience in Android, .NET and databases.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many maximum people are on my course? 

?
To make sure that personal attention is provided to everyone in the class, we keep our classroom size very small. There are maximum 8 delegates in all our classrooms.
More questions?
We are here to answer them