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GeneratePress Theme — Buildout: WordPress Theme Course

Build a fast magazine and news site with the GeneratePress theme. This Buildout course covers content architecture, archives and speed at scale.

4 lessons
11 min
Included with membership
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The GeneratePress Buildout course puts the theme to work on a busy magazine and news site, the kind that publishes many stories a day and has to stay fast on a phone. You'll plan its content architecture, build the homepage and archives, and set it up for real editorial operations. It's the second half of the GeneratePress series that starts with Foundations.

What you'll learn

A high-volume content site tests a theme in ways a simple brochure never does. This GeneratePress theme tutorial walks you through structuring categories, designing readable archives, and keeping performance solid as the article count grows. You'll finish able to plan and build a publication-style site that readers can navigate by category and that loads quickly even on a slow mobile connection. These are the decisions that separate a site that scales from one that bogs down.

Inside the course

  • Planning the Magazine & Content Architecture
  • The Magazine Homepage & Archives
  • Editorial Operations & Monetization-Ready Bells
  • Scale, Speed & Launch

Who this course is for

This suits intermediate users who've completed GeneratePress Foundations or already know the Customizer and GenerateBlocks. It's planning-heavy and hands-on. If GeneratePress is new to you, take Foundations first.

Frequently asked questions

Do I need to take Foundations first?
It helps a lot. Buildout assumes you can already work in the Customizer and build with GenerateBlocks patterns, which Foundations teaches. If you have that, you're ready for this one.
What type of site does this course build?
A local news and magazine site, high-volume, category-driven, and read on phones. It's a strong test case for content architecture, archives, and performance at scale.
Is this part of the membership?
Yes. GeneratePress Buildout is a paid course included in the WP Tutoring membership, along with the Foundations part and the wider video library.

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