Ready for your next WordPress challenge? Learn how to build more complex custom themes using the _s (aka Underscores) starter theme. Morten Rand-Hendriksen takes you from basic layout and customization to enabling advanced responsive design and accessibility features. He reinforces the basics lessons with DRY (don't repeat yourself) development practices and a structured approach that will help you build WordPress themes that meet modern standards. Plus, he'll explore core concepts like understanding the WordPress template hierarchy, creating functions, adding custom javascript, applying styles, and more.

Topics include:

• Installing WordPress, Underscores, plugins, and NetBeans
• Designing for mobile, content, and style
• Setting up the basic theme
• Building a custom header
• Designing responsive, accessible menus
• Adding a custom search form
• Using and styling widgets
• Adjusting the Single Post Template
• Working with comments, featured images, index templates, and static pages
• Adding editor styles to match front-end styles