Widget areas are typically displayed as containers where each widget is its own aside element. Using CSS and media queries, you can create dynamic, responsive web designs that display widgets in a functional and attractive way across all screen widths. In this online video tutorial you learn how to apply CSS to widget areas to style both the overall area and individual widgets.
- [Instructor] WordPress and Underscores…already generates all the HTMl markup we need…for the widgets, so our only focus as theme developers…is to make sure the widgets actually look good…and fit with the overall theme design.…Here we can be as simple or as complicated as we want…so in this first movie, we'll approach it…in the simple way by just styling…all the widgets the exact same way…and in the next movie, I'll show you…how to target individual widgets…and apply custom styles to just those widgets.…In-between the previous movie and this one,…I've added the general styling for all widgets.…
You can find that in the exercise files for this movie.…1003 under sass, site, secondary,…and the file widgets.scss.…As you can see, the styles are really sparse.…All I'm doing here is styling the widget element itself…and a widget title.…Let's look at the HTML structure of widgets…so you can see how you can target it using CSS.…If we inspect the widget here,…you'll see the entire widget area…is wrapped in an aside with the ID secondary…
Author
Morten Rand-Hendriksen
Released
2/6/2017- Setting up a WordPress development environment
- Getting and installing _s
- Automating theme development with Gulp
- The WordPress template hierarchy
- Setting up the basic theme
- Registering and displaying menus
- Applying styles to menus
- Creating conditional layouts
- Working with the comments template
- Working with featured images
- Working with widget areas, or sidebars
- Working with index templates
- Working with static pages
- Adding features to the Customizer
Skill Level Advanced
Duration
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Introduction
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Welcome58s
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1. Set Up a WordPress Development Environment
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Get and install _s3m 48s
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2. The Design to Development Process
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Modular, mobile-first design2m 19s
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Underscores: An overview1m 50s
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3. Set Up the Basic Theme
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Configure the theme info5m 32s
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Create responsive typography6m 19s
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4. Build the Header
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Style the default header8m 3s
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5. Create Menus
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Apply styles to the menu6m 33s
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6. Configure the Single Post Template
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Apply CSS to the post header6m 25s
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Style image galleries1m 56s
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Configure post navigation6m 19s
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7. Create Conditional Layouts
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Planning an unusual layout1m 49s
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8. Work with Comments
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Apply CSS to comments5m 41s
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9. Work with Featured Images
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10. Work with Widget Areas (Sidebars)
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11. Work with Index templates
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Customize the excerpt output3m 51s
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Highlight sticky posts4m 57s
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Customize archive pages5m 51s
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12. Work with Static Pages
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13. Advanced Features
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Add SVG icon functionality9m 16s
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14. Adding Features to the Customizer
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Get to know the Customizer4m 20s
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15. Back-End Customization
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Add a screenshot2m 44s
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Conclusion
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Going further with WordPress2m 15s
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