This site is kind of returning from the dead. I have started digging into php a bit deeper, and with that also decided to take a leap into the modern version of WordPress for theme development.
About a decade ago I submitted a couple WordPress themes to their repository, they remain there but are utterly outdated. I have no desire nor ability to resurrect those (the original image files are lost).
Maybe, just maybe, I’ll end up with something suitable to submit. I am however better at code then at graphics so perhaps not really an option.
This time over I have armed myself with a proper php editor, namely phpStorm from JetBrains, as well as a couple of self learn books for php as a language that I got from Leanpub.
So this will be a journey not only about WordPress themes but about php in general as well.
My first step is taking the latest default theme (twentytwenty) from WordPress and stripping it down to its bare bone. This servers two purposes, one being learning the new stuff that has come along during the years. The other is to have a good base to start from going into the actual development.
On the learning part there’s a fair bit of google involved. Adding suitable comments to the templates to help me understand how they connect.
So far, a few hours into the project I have almost a bare bone skeleton ready. I probably have about 20 reference tabs, two instances of the editor open, and that’s just getting started…