Why Setting Up Themes is a Niche in Itself, What to Know

To setup and configure many of the popular and powerful WordPress themes today can often require a solid grasp of working with custom post types and fields, design customization options, custom templates, shortcodes, admin settings and various other nuances of working with and tweaking WordPress. Different themes also take wildly different approaches to building admin settings areas and providing access to custom content, so it means you likely have to do something different to setup each theme you work with.

Learning how to get comfortable setting up WordPress themes has a huge payoff. You can make amazing looking websites and charge wage earning prices without having to become a full WordPress theme developer.

This talk covers the essential skills and common scenarios you will come across when getting into the niche field of setting up and customizing awesome WordPress themes for yourself and others.