Working With Wordpress Themes

byMariaDale

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Updated 5 years ago

I wanted to create a post that I can use in reference to the WordPress theme courses I am creating.

Each course is created assuming that persons utilizing the course or tutorial, have already completed the EOC training.

If not, then I highly recommend that you complete the OEC training because you will need to already know how to do certain things such as install and activate new themes and plugins, create categories, create menus and use widgets.

All of these things have already been covered in Kyle's training so if you have any questions about these things, I will refer you back to the training that already covers this.

I am also creating these courses assuming that everyone is using the GeneratePress theme, as is recommended in the training, this is also the theme I recommend until you have the recommended minimums I mention below.

I recommend at a minimum that you have these things already setup in place before you attempt to change your site design:

3 Menus:

Main Menu ~ Home Page, About Page, Contact Page

Footer Menu ~ Privacy Policy, Affiliate Disclosure

Top Menu ~ I generally place links to my other sites, as well as my WA affiliate link, in a top menu if the theme has a top menu. Many themes do not have this so it's not a requirement if the theme you are using only has the main and footer menus.

Content:

At least 10 posts of content if it's a simplistic theme you wish to use, up to 25 posts of content if it's a more complex theme.

Categories:

3 or more categories, as some themes have blocks on the main page, where each block displays content from a set category that you specify in the configuration.

Affiliate Banners:

You will want to add any banners for whichever products you are desiring to promote.

I use the Ad Inserter Plugin to manage my affiliate banners, because it makes it very easy to add banners in posts, sidebars & pages quickly and easily.

As I create the courses, I will be writing them assuming that all of these things are already in place, without them being done, it'll be difficult to configure some themes that I will be covering.

I just wanted to share this post to inform everyone who has requested a theme tutorial / course, about what will need to be done in order to prepare your site for the change.

The first course is of course covering the free version of the GeneratePress theme, as this is the theme that starter members use, and also the theme most recommended by Kyle.