MODULE ACTIVITY: Your First Theme
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Description
Details
- Content type (Online Workshop, Lesson, Course, Tutorial, or Lesson Plan): Module Activity
- Content title: Your First Theme
- Topic description: Getting started with WordPress block theme development culminating activity
- Audience (User, Developer, Designer, Contributor, etc.): Developer
- Experience Level (Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, Any): Beginner
Lessons Covered
- #2082
- #2085
- #2086
- #2087
- #2090
- #2197
Learning Objectives
Learners will be able to:
- add the templates folder, style.css, and index.html to the theme's root directory
- add the main stylesheet's file header
- add the optional theme thumbnail
- activate the new theme
- create the basic layout of the index.html template
- add theme.json with schema and version keys
- add the following settings: remove custom color picker, remove default color palette, add custom color palette
- add the content and wide layout width sizes
- apply a custom color to the body text element
- install the Create Block Theme plugin
Related Resources and Other Notes
Learning Pathway: Beginner Developer - An introduction to developing WordPress themes
Automation Code
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
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