Building a WordPress Theme

In this chapter, we'll jump into more details and get our feet wet. In the previous chapter, we covered the basics, but now we'll use some of the more advanced concepts to build a WordPress theme. Here we will cover the following concepts:

• Custom template pages
• Archived pages
• Post formats
• Custom home pages

Let's take a quick look at the project:

In the preceding image, you can see the WordpressDev home page with some widgets that we'll implement, such as the showcase. You can also see three box widgets.