WordPress Responsive Theme Design Essentials will teach you how to design and develop your very own responsive WordPress theme and also submit your theme to the [WordPress.org](http://wprdpress.org/) repository. The book starts with an introduction to the Responsive Web Design concepts and techniques. Then, it explains how to set up a local [WordPress](http://wprdpress.org/) environment and also helps you understand the structure of the WordPress theme. Finally, we learn to create responsive comments in WordPress and also have a look at static pages and index templates. By the end of this book, you will have a better understanding of responsive theme development in [WordPress](http://wprdpress.org/) and a WordPress Codex.

## What You Will Learn

- Set up a proper local environment for the theme development on both Windows and Mac, while following the WordPress Codex
- Create the WordPress menu and make it responsive
- Customize post templates to match the theme design and functionality of the theme
- Understand the overall template architecture and the purpose of the template files
- Create, style, and make the widgets responsive
- Work with comments, images, and index templates
- Create, style, and customize templates for static pages
- Discover where to find guidelines, how to test the theme, and how to properly submit the theme to WordPress.org
- Learn more about WordPress template hierarchy and archive pages