Twenty Twelve Theme Reference Post provides with more information on how to further customize Twenty Twelve theme and more.
Last Updated: December 18, 2023
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In this post you will find more information about customizing Twenty Twelve theme. There are many great tutorials online and I decided to list in this post the ones I like. Some tutorials might be out of date, if that is the case I will provide more information if needed later on. The reason why some tutorials might be out of date is because of the changes made to Twenty Twelve theme structure over the years since it was released in 2012.
The purpose of these tutorials is to help you design a modern site using the customizer, functions.php, css and other files. This gives you full control of your themes layout. The base structure will always be managed by WordPress community.
It is important that you have some knowledge of PHP, CSS and maybe Javascript coding. However some tutorials have been written in a friendly and easy to follow set of instructions.
Note: Make sure you always have a back up before you do any work.
Twenty Twelve Tutorials:
- Customize Twenty Twelve WordPress Theme
- Add Copyright Notice
- Full Width Visual Editor
- Change Theme Width
- Display Featured Image
Twenty Twelve Theme Reference Post
The following is a list of tutorials I found online that are great reference for customizing Twenty Twelve theme.
Twenty Twelve Online Tutorial List
- Adding-extra-widget-area
- Add-functions-to-your-wordpress-child-theme
- Custom-page-templates
- Customizer-settings-wordpress-theme
- Add-social-media-icons-in-menu-bar
- Fancy-site-navigation-with-the_posts_pagination
- Make-full-width-header-and-footer
WordPress Developer Guide
WordPress Customizer
- Themefoundation wordpress-theme-customizer
- Theme Customization API
- The WordPress customizer a developers guide part 1
- WordPress Theme Customizer Guide
- Paulund using-wordpress-new-theme-customiser
- Customizer-tutorials-and-documentation
- Smashingmagazine the-wordpress-theme-customizer-a-developers-guide
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That is how simple it is to add more customization to Polished child theme.
If you have any questions please let me know. I will be updating this tutorial from time to time.
Enjoy.
I have been working in IT since 1999 and I enjoy the challenges it brings me. I love developing websites with WordPress. I spend a lot of time helping out in wordpress.org forums. I have been writing tutorials since 2011. Now I am learning how to manage my own VPS "Virtual Private Server.