Knowing how to convert a static HTML template into a dynamic WordPress theme is a high income skill. Businesses constantly need custom WordPress sites, but most developers only know how to install pre made themes. This course teaches you the real workflow. You will take an HTML5 template (like the BBC style site from the instructor's previous course) and convert it step by step into a fully functional, reusable WordPress theme using PHP, CSS, and core WordPress principles.

This Course Offers

• A complete conversion workflow: taking a static HTML/CSS template and breaking it down for WordPress integration.
• Core principles of WordPress theme development including template hierarchy, dynamic content, and the loop.
• Practical skills for building custom themes from scratch, not just modifying child themes.
• A real project outcome that is ready for clients or freelance work.

Why We Love This Course

1. It fills a specific, high value gap. Many developers know HTML and CSS. Many know WordPress basics. Few know how to bridge the two by converting a custom design into a WordPress theme.
2. The course is project based. Nearly 10 hours of video focused on one real conversion. You finish with a tangible, reusable skill.
3. Over 2,800 students have enrolled, and reviews highlight how the course teaches you to move any HTML and CSS website to WordPress easily.
4. The instructor emphasizes that WordPress powers a significant portion of the internet, creating consistent demand for developers with this specific skill.

A note from student feedback: one reviewer wanted more explanation and less "showing." Another reviewer accused that reviewer of not actually watching the course. Many others praise the course highly. If you already know HTML and CSS and want to add custom WordPress development to your freelancing toolkit, this practical conversion course gives you the exact workflow.

• Anyone looking to learn to convert an HTML5 and CSS3 template into a WordPress theme.
• Front end developers who want to add back end WordPress skills to their toolkit.
• Freelancers who want to offer custom WordPress development to clients.
• Web designers who design static sites and want to deliver dynamic, client editable WordPress versions.
• Students who completed the HTML/CSS version of this course and want to take the next step.
• Anyone who has used WordPress page builders and wants to understand how to build without them.

• You should have good knowledge of HTML and CSS.
• A code editor called Brackets (free software) is needed.
• No prior PHP or WordPress development is required, but it is helpful.

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