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CancelWordPress Basics: Customize Your Front Page With a Template
Introduction
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WordPress themes are a great way to give your site a polished look and feel. There are lots of pre-built themes to choose from on WordPress.org or ThemeForest. But what if you want to customize your front page further?
In this Coffee Break Course, instructor Rachel McCollin will show you step by step how to create a front-page template to customize your theme. You'll see how to create a child theme with the new template and how to customize it to tweak the front page. This template will work whether your front page is a static page or a list of posts.
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1.WordPress Basics: Customize Your Front Page With a Template2 lessons, 08:57
2 lessons, 08:57
1.1Introduction00:34
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Introduction
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1.2WordPress Basics: Customize Your Front Page With a Template08:23
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WordPress Basics: Customize Your Front Page With a Template
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Rachel McCollin is a WordPress developer who writes books, articles and tutorials about web design and development, with a focus on WordPress and on responsive and mobile development. She runs a web design agency in Birmingham, UK and has published three books on WordPress, including WordPress: Pushing the Limits, an advanced resource for WordPress developers. She's currently writing her fourth book.