Live Coding WordPress Theme from Scratch | 50 min | 2024

In this WordPress tutorial I am showing you how I setup and build my WordPress themes from scratch, as a 13+ year experience #wordpress developer.

This live coding tutorial is useful for WordPress beginners, but also for more advanced developers, because I explain the use of functionalities like Tailwind CSS and Composer.

In this video:
- My local dev setup: Visual Studio Code and LocalWP
- Setting up a basic WordPress theme
- Adding a stylesheet (with Tailwind CSS)
- WordPress templates
- WordPress action hooks & filter hooks
- Object oriented WordPress
- Wordpress directory structure
- Loading classes with Composer

[yasenkov]

This is exactly what I was looking for!
I liked how you used tailwindcss. That significantly improves styling vs elementor and other plugins. Also you dont need to worry about mobile adaptation.
Awesome content! Thanks a lot!

[gospher]

Really nice and practical video, I love this style of showcasing the tecnology, please keep them coming. Great work!

[CNR]

thank you man i love the way you made that video feels like a friend showing me his way of doing things

[jaapmeijer]

perfect Robbert! Thank you so much a lot of value!

[Offical_reactor]

Hi Robert! Just wanted to say keep up the good work you’ve helped me so much since I started so thank you so much🎉

[marzio.a.bonfanti]

Amazing tutorial, thank you!
I have a question concerning the use of the singleton class for scripts and styles enqueuing: in WordPress, if I want to use specific scripts or styles only on specific page templates or post type, I will only register the script/style, then use a WordPress native conditional (is_home, is_page_template, is_single...).
How do I do it in the singleton class? Do i put the registration and conditional are all in the "enqueue" method, or...?
Thank you very much!

[kennethisaac]

I'm here for Reddit. I actually like the zoom. Awesome content. Thanks.

[denisk]

Thanks for the video. Could you make a similar video on creating a custom WooCommerce theme from scratch? Maybe something that covers functionality like product filters by attributes and categories, as well as changing the design of the archive-product layout.

[colxer]

What about coding block theme? Could you please make a video of that? Wordpress is coming this way (like it says and like it is visible in theme docummentation).

[stealurcookies]

Okay, I learned a lot. Thank you. I still have some kinks in the pipe that need to get worked on. Do you do private lessons too? 😇😘

[jubbytechmedia]

The screen movement couldn’t allow me follow your tutorial, perhaps I would have grab one or two from it.
But I just can't deal with the whole cursor, and screen movement of a thing. 😔😔

[mohammedsaqlainshaikh]

Really Great Explaination sir but are you looking for a video editor?

[shankarsaud]

Hi Robert, can you provide us source code please?

[davidessien]

Thank you Robbert. This helped. I just want to point out that moving the screen around too often and too fast is disturbing to the eye and making it really tedious to follow you.

[ivan.jeremic]

That's not a modern way of building right? I mean FSE is the future.