Zero to Block Theme Series #5: From Site Editor to Theme

Welcome to the fifth session of Zero to Block Theme: Foundations

What this series is about:

Have you ever wondered how themes are developed?

Or, have you ever ventured into the backend of your WordPress website and wondered just what, exactly, you were looking at?

Finally, have you ever wanted to learn the very basics of WordPress block theme development?

If so, this intermediate learn-up series is for you!

1st Week
Last week’s session covered setting up your first local installation of WordPress, finding your way into WordPress’ actual core files, creating a child theme, and changing a color using theme.json.

2nd Week
Now that you’re able to find all the files that make up a WordPress theme, we’ll discuss at a high level the primary parts of a block theme, including index.php, style.css, functions.php, parts, templates, and, most excitingly, theme.json.

3rd Week
This week continued our exploration of theme.json, specifically its 'Styles' section and how they are influenced by/related to the 'Settings' section.

4th Week
This week, we explored Templates and Template Parts from a developer's perspective and learned how to manipulate these from inside the site editor.

5th Week - This week: Let's learn how to export! This week, we will create the html files that will take the place of the standard hierarchy templates, then take those as the basis for our own theme.

It will also be recorded.

If you were unable to attend the previous sessions #1 (Foundations), #2 (Intro to theme.json), #3 (theme.json - Styles), and/or #4 (templates & template parts) and are new to WordPress development work, we recommend watching the recordings (~1 hour each) before attending this social learning space. For the time being, the recording of last week's session can be found here:

Session 1: https://youtu.be/ntT1GT6Yr3w
Session 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjSZOJZspe0
Session 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxIjfkc9O0Q
Session 4: https://youtu.be/APsu8Jc570A

The sessions build foundational knowledge, so we highly recommend watching both of the previous ones ahead of time.