Tuesday, December 10th

Class hours: 9:40 – 2:05
Mr. Bohmann
wbohmann@ewsd.org

Tumult Tues

Notes

• Week 14 “What is Due” – double check you caught it all
• Game Day – Next Friday- Will you qualify? You need to be complete with all outstanding coursework by Tuesday, December 17th. Otherwise you can sit in Student Services doing your work.
• Quiz – Tuesday, December 20th – Study Guide
• This Week – Marek Bennett will be visiting us on Thursday. He’ll walk us through the process of producing comics, storyboarding and digital content for the web. Be sure to look at his site.
• MMU students will be passing through our classroom this week as part of a recruiting visit. You picked CTE and Cawd for a reason. The best recruitment comes from within, so consider how Cawd has impacted your High School experience. More on this later….

9:40 Attendance & Article

9:45 – 10:45 WordPress, Plugins & Child Themes

In the WordPress world themes control the look and feel of your website. Themes control really big things like the number of columns, size of the header, navigation and footer placement. In addition, themes control default colors and smaller things opacity, shadows and animations.

Plugins are extra value modules / software that can be added to your WordPress installation to extend and add functionality.

All WordPress plugins are written in PHP, so they integrate seemlessly and easily with WordPress. There are tens of thousands of plugins. Some add improvements to the theme, some are for securing your site, some are to help your organize your SEO (search engine opitmization) some just make your galleries look better! Here is the link to the WordPress Plugin Database. Go the database and search for CMS Tree View

Activity: Install CMS Tree Page View from the administration panel in the backend of your WordPress website. Locate one additional plugin – of your choosing – we’ll generate some ideas in class. Install and configure.

Child Themes are themes that inherit the functionality and styling of another theme, called the parent theme. Making child themes are the recommended way of modifying an existing theme.

There are thousands of WordPress themes some are free and some you pay for. Some make good child themes but not all of them.

When a child theme modifies another theme, that theme is called the parent theme. WordPress ships with some built in themes. The most recent is twentytwenty. These built in themes are well coded, reliable and compatible with most plug-ins. They also come with the most support because they have been well tested.

When you make a child theme from a parent, you can modify the CSS. If you make modifications through a child theme, updates to the parent theme will not affect the custom styles you create. However, if you make custom changes to the parent theme, updates made to the parent may affect your changes. That is why it is best practice to use a child theme when customizing your WordPress site.

Today we are going create and activate a Child Theme. We’ll have to do a bit of PHP coding. This will be the most complex part of today’s lesson. So we’ll do it together – it should go smoothly. We’ll be working with ATOM as our code editor.

I’ll provide you with the steps and the code. We’ll use this document from WordPress as our reference point.

Activity. Setting up for a Child Theme. First, we’ll preview all our WordPress files in ATOM and then make a theme folder. Then we’ll make a style.css stylesheet and paste the following code in that file.

/*
 Theme Name:   Twenty Twenty Child
 Theme URI:    http://example.com/twenty-twenty-child/
 Description:  Twenty Twenty Child Theme
 Author:       Your Name
 Author URI:   http://example.com
 Template:     twentytwenty
 Version:      1.0.0
 License:      GNU General Public License v2 or later
 License URI:  http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
 Tags:         light, dark, two-columns, right-sidebar, responsive-layout, accessibility-ready
 Text Domain:  twentytwentychild
*/

You’ll notice from the code I supplied you that there are some prompts we want to fill out. Specifically the theme URI and template names.

Our final step is to enqueue our stylesheet. Enqueue is a really cool way to say that we are going to add our child theme’s stylesheet to our queue of available stylesheets so that when our site loads, it can also load our custom CSS. We’ll do this with a bit of PHP in the functions.php file. Follow along with me.

<?php
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'my_theme_enqueue_styles' );
function my_theme_enqueue_styles() {
 
    $parent_style = 'parent-style'; // This is 'twentytwenty-style' for the Twenty Twenty theme.
 
    wp_enqueue_style( $parent_style, get_template_directory_uri() . '/style.css' );
    wp_enqueue_style( 'child-style',
        get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/style.css',
        array( $parent_style ),
        wp_get_theme()->get('Version')
    );
}

If you navigate to Appearance in your dashboard and refresh the page, you should see your Child Theme listed. Let’s activate our Child Themes and make some changes!

10:45 Break (15 Minutes)

11:00 – 12:10 Physics – Room m117

Class meets in room m117 at 11am. Go to class immediately from break. When class is over, you will head to lunch.

11:50 Lunch (30 Minutes)

12:20 – 12:45 Literacy in Focus

Grab your book and chill. We’ll be reading today. No computers, no talking. Sit on the couch if you like or move your chair.

12:40 Skills USA

No doubt you are familiar with Skills USA Design Competition. As first year Cawd students, you worked through a series of drafts to complete a Vermont themed pin. Second year students are going to tackle the T-shirt competition.

For those students here yesterday, make your decision on the T-shirt design you will move forward with. You may continue analog or go digital during this next design phase.

For those students missing yesterday: You will follow the process below:

Official T-Shirt Contest Rules

Our Production Schedule:

• 4/2/1 Design Packet – today (or tomorrow if here tomorrow)
• 1st Draft of T-Shirt – completed T/W/TH this week
• Presentation to class for constructive criticism – Monday the 16th (or Tuesday if you were not here on Monday)
• Revisions (M/T/W/TH leading up to the break)
• 2nd Presentations to Mr. Bohmann for constructive criticism – the day we return from vacation (Th – 1/2)
• Final T-shirt Designs due Monday January 6th at 1pm.

2:00 Dailies

Link to Dailies and Link to Responses

2:05 Dismissal