This is one more episode that has been requested many times. So the goal is to make a page on our backend from which we can control some aspects of our site and our theme. Luckily October CMS already has this functionality out baked in, all you have to do is configure that page and implement the data into your site or your theme.

In this video I'm going to show you how to create theme settings or even site options for your October CMS site.

October CMS - Theme Settings

So controllers are basically buckets in which you can put the business logic for your theme in, and then have access to those functions inside your templates. We want to do this so that our templates stay clean and not polluted with PHP code. If you are using Sage for your WordPress theme developemt I would suggest using controllers whenever possible. It will make your templates so much cleaner.

### Controllers Documentation

[Controllers Documentation](https://github.com/soberwp/controller)

In this episode of Sage is Awesome we are going to take a look at how Controllers can be used to make our WordPress theme development cleaner.

Controllers

In this episode we are going to create a modal system for our WordPress site, and then I'm going to show you how you can use Blade components to make your code nicer to look at, and also make it much more flexible so that our modals can be very easy to use later on.

In this episode of Sage is Awesome we are going to take a look at another Blade feature called components and how it can help you with your WordPress development.

Components

In this episode we are going to install Sage, check out what the theme structure looks like, and what specific files and directories do. And then I'm also going to show you how to make compilation of SCSS a little bit faster. Because Sage is using Webpack for SCSS compilation, and that is unfortunate because Webpack is not very fast when dealing with SCSS.

In this miniseries we are going to take a look at Sage WordPress starter theme, and how it can make our lives as theme developers much  easier.

Install and Overview

We are going to take a just a few minutes to make our October CMS theme look just a bit prettier. I'm going to show you how you can create partials for your theme that are going to serve as header and footer for our theme. Also we are going to be creating main navigation for our site, and you will learn ho to make navigation items active when you are on their respective pages.

In this episode we are going to take a quick brake from the builder plugin and just make our theme a bit prettier. An of course we are going to learn a few things in the process.

Basic Templating

There are two ways in which you can create themes for October, you can do it manually or create a blank theme through the backend of October. In this episode we are going to use the backend way.

We will also create a default layout for our theme and I'm going to explain how you can compile and combine your css and javascript files.

In this episode of Making Websites With October CMS I'm quickly going to show you how you can create your own theme using this CMS.

Tutorials tagged with: themes

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