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WordPress Academy

Using WordPress Themes

Choose, install and customise WordPress themes like a pro — the Customizer, Site Editor, block themes, menus, widgets and child themes.

Beginner 1 students 0 rating English
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Taught by
Ama Owusu

About this course

Your theme decides the entire look, layout and feel of a WordPress site. This course turns you into a confident theme user — knowing what makes a good theme, installing and updating them safely, customising colours, fonts, menus and widgets, working with the modern Site Editor and block themes, and going beyond the defaults with child themes and CSS.\n\nYou will follow along in your own WordPress install and end with a fully customised, professional-looking site.

What you'll learn

Understand how WordPress themes work under the hood\n- Tell the difference between classic and block themes\n- Choose the right free or premium theme\n- Install, activate, preview and update themes safely\n- Customise with the Customizer and Site Editor\n- Set up menus, widgets and global styles\n- Use full site editing and block themes confidently\n- Work with child themes and add custom CSS\n- Avoid the common theme mistakes beginners make\n- Download a PDF guide with every lesson

Course curriculum

4 modules · 16 lessons · around 131 min of video

Theme Basics 4 lessons
Installing & Managing Themes 4 lessons
The Site Editor & Full Site Editing 4 lessons
Going Beyond the Defaults 4 lessons

Requirements

A WordPress site you can experiment on (local XAMPP or a host)\n- Basic familiarity with the WordPress admin panel\n- No coding required — CSS is optional

Instructor

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Ama Owusu
Instructor