WordPress: Create a Professional Website from Scratch
Custom menus, widgets and CSS
A course by Anyssa Ferreira , Designer and Web Developer
About the video: Custom menus, widgets and CSS
Overview
“Continuing with the customization of the theme, I will explain how the menus in WordPress work: how to create internal and external links, order items and how to assign a menu to a position in the theme. Then, I will introduce the widgets, and how we can use this feature and add them to the sidebars to display blocks of dynamic information in different areas in the theme. Finally, let's look at the custom CSS option. In this option, we can write CSS styles that will be applied to the theme, if necessary. ”
In this video lesson Anyssa Ferreira addresses the topic: Custom menus, widgets and CSS, which is part of the Domestika online course: WordPress: Create a Professional Website from Scratch. Discover the entire process for easily publishing a custom web page.
Partial transcription of the video
“Custom menus, widgets and CSS In this lesson, you’ll create the site’s navigation menus, find out what widgets are and know the custom CSS. Laura’s website is already getting its own identity, so now it's time to create a menu. The menu will serve as the main navigation of users on the site. For that, we need to add some links here. So, let's go to Customize. As we've seen, some of these options are specific to this theme. We will find the menu option in Customize, which is standard WordPress. In WordPress, a Menu is a set of links. In order for it to appear on your site, themes offer Menu ...”
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Course summary for: WordPress: Create a Professional Website from Scratch
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Digital Product Design, No-Code Development, Web Design, Web Development

Anyssa Ferreira
A course by Anyssa Ferreira
Anyssa Ferreira is a graphic design graduate and has worked as a web developer for over ten years. She won the first Kim Parsell Scholarship in 2015 from the WordPress foundation. She is an organizer for the WordPress community in Sao Paulo.
As co-founder of the studio Haste, she specializes in developing websites, systems, and plugins. She has collaborated on projects for major companies like Totvs, Companhia das Letras, Elo7, and Knewin. She also speaks at international conferences for web developers like WorldCamp Europe 2020.
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