3. Today's Plan
● "Theme Anatomy"
● Publishing your site
● The review game!
Goals
● You will know how to use your child theme to override the parent
theme.
● You will know more about FTP and publishing your site.
● You will have fun playing the review game!
4. !! TOOLKIT ALERT !!
● If you want to play with publishing today, be sure you have...
FileZilla, KomodoEdit/text editor, and FTP login info
5. Child Theme Review
If file exists, use it. If not...
CHILD
PARENT
Go get it from the parent
6. Exercise: Leveraging Your Child Theme
Complete/Answer the following:
● Create a 404 template.
○ Start by copying the code from the parent as an example
into your text editor
○ Edit it
○ Save as 404.php in your child theme
○ Go to a page that does not exist to test
Gold Star! [Extra Credit]
● Customize the archive or loop templates, such as
making the title a different HTML tag ... get
creative!
● Can you figure out what "The Loop" is? (see
archive.php & content.php in twentyeleven)
7. Publishing: 3 Steps
1. Setup your base (WordPress)
2. Install your theme and plugins
3. Transfer your data
8. Publishing: 3 Steps
1. Setup your base (WordPress)
Host can take care of this (usually)
2. Install your theme and plugins
FTP!
3. Transfer your data
WordPress Export/Import
