WordPress Theme Customization 101 (for beginners)

Beginner’s guide to customizing a WordPress theme for a basic site. Real-world “over my shoulder” Training #1

WordPress Theme Customization 101 is a beginner’s course to more advanced WordPress customization and changes.

This is the first of a series of “watch over my shoulder” style advanced WordPress theme customization training courses, where you get to follow along as I walk you through the exact process to perform specific and varied customizations on real-world websites that either I own/have created or have customized for clients.

In this first “101” course, I walk you through a very basic WordPress Theme Customization which involves a website I did for a client.

The first part of this course covers WordPress Theme basics and understandings so you have a good grip on how themes and WordPress work together with content, plugins, etc.

After this basic understanding foundation is laid, I walk through the entire process, from a fresh install of WordPress with no customizations, to a finished site…covering everything along the way from identifying what we wanted the site to look like, functionality desired, etc…all the way through to a finished site that accomplishes the goals and made my client very happy.