WordPress Themes

General

• Official WordPress Theme Developer Handbook. wordpress.org.
• Rachel McCollin. The Ultimate Guide to Theme Template Files in WordPress. wpmudev, 2018.
• Rachel McCollin. WordPress Development for Intermediate Users: Theme Development in Detail. wpmudev, 2017.
• B.J. Keeton. How to Make Sure Your WordPress Theme Meets Official Standards. elegant themes, 2018.
• Nick Schaferhoff. How to Make Any WordPress Theme Responsive. Torque, 2016.
• Nick Schaferhoff. Best Practices for WordPress Theme Development. Torque, 2014.
• Siobhan McKeown. How To Improve and Refine Your WordPress Theme Development Process. Smashing Magazine, 2013.
• Joost de Valk. WordPress Theme – The Anatomy, an Infographic. Yoast, 2011.

Tutorials

• Steve Polito. Modern WordPress Theme Development in 2019. 2019.
• Tonino Jankov. How to Build a WordPress Theme From Scratch. 2018.
  • First Steps.
  • Basics.
  • Final Steps.
• Tom McFarlin. WordPress Templates for Beginners Series. 2017.
  • Overall this series was a bit underwhelming, but may be helpful to beginners.
  • Part 1: How It Is
    • Brief introduction to how templates are generally built.
  • Part 2: HTML Calling PHP
    • Discusses the advantages/disadvantages/balance of calling PHP from HTML vs creating HTML from PHP.
  • Part 3: What’s Templating, Anyway?
    • Provides a basic definition of templating, notes a couple different options that can be used with WP.
  • Part 4: Timber
    • Really basic getting started guide for Timber templating.
• Rachel McCollin. Creating a WordPress Theme From Static HTML Series. envatotuts, 2013-2014.
  • Preparing the Markup
  • Creating Template Files
  • Uploading Your Theme to WordPress
  • Adding a Loop
  • Setting Up the Header
  • Adding Featured Images.
  • Releasing Your Theme.
• Brandon Yanofsky. I Built a WordPress Theme From Scratch (and you can too). Torque, 2015.
• Baris Unver. Making the Perfect WordPress Theme. envatotuts, 2013.
  • Introduction.
  • The Very Basics.
  • How to Code Well.
  • Bad Practices.
  • Maintenance, Compatibility & Support.
  • Wrapping Everything Up.
• Tom McFarlin. Writing Maintainable WordPress Themes Series. tutsplus, 2014.
  • Part 1: Directories.
  • Part 2: Naming Conventions.
  • Part 3: Tools.

Cheat Sheets

• WordPress V5.0+ Template Tag Reference Guide as of 5.2. DBS Interactive.
• Default WordPress Generated CSS Cheat Sheet for Beginners. BeginnerWP, 2015.
• Visualize the WordPress Template Hierarchy.

Page Templates

• Rachel McCollin. The Ultimate Guide to WordPress Page Templates. wpmudev, 2018.
• Daniel Pataki. Creating Custom Page Templates in WordPress. wpmudev, 2018.
• Baris Unver. Using Page Templates in Your WordPress Theme. envatotuts, 2015.
• Nick Schaferhoff. A Detailed Guide To Custom WordPress Page Templates. Smashing Magazine, 2015.
• Fred Meyer. Building Client Reports with WordPress Custom Page Templates. wpshout, 2015.
• David Hayes. What You Need to Know About WordPress Custom Page Templates. wpshout, 2014.

Child Themes

• Daniel Pataki. How to Create a WordPress Child Theme. wpmudev, 2018.
• Rachel McCollin. How to Create a Child Theme in WordPress (Extended Guide). kinsta, 2019.
• Jon Penland. How to Automatically Create Child Themes in WordPress. wpmudev, 2016.
• Nick Schaferhoff. How to Create and Customize a WordPress Child Theme. Smashing Magazine, 2016.

Bootstrap

• Understrap – Bootstrap 4 theme.